@Riot. Please Look Into Making Smurf Accounts Against ToS

I do not know if they currently are, but I would heavily recommend and plead for the creation of "smurf" accounts to be against the ToS. In the years I've been playing this game, I've seen a large number of "smurf" account, as well as had a few of my own every so often. In my experience the only reason people play smurf accounts, is to play with people of a lower skill level. Whether their intentions are malicious or benevolent, it creates a nearly unplayable environment for those who are actually at that lower skill level.

A few examples from real games:

• An entire team does their best and gets completely crushed by a single player who should clearly not be in their MMR range. -Granted sometimes a snowballing champion gets ahead in items or creep farm and someone of the same skill could realistically do that in a game at any rank.

• A player who is on a "smurf" account blames their poor play entirely on the fact that they are "not trying" or "just playing around" -In normal games it is still frustrating, but even more-so in a Ranked game. Players are putting in their all. Having a member of your team figuratively spit on your efforts because of your rank, and then either not try or literally leave the game, is soul crushing.

• A Smurf player intentionally dies to the enemy team, or tries ridiculous untested builds for either amusement or "Because its a smurf account" -These players often don't care at all about being reported and often just blatantly state they are on a smurf account, so they can do whatever they want. So there are literally no repercussions for their actions.

I know this is a tough problem, because players with good intentions players can play from the same connection or even the same computer as malicious players. There has to be some way of preventing this sort of behavior.

At the very least, I request that if an account is claimed to be a smurf, they are banned from Ranked. It won't affect their main account, but it will at least prevent them from ruining further games on that account. Its as easy as adding an option into the report list, I'd recommend between Verbal Abuse and Intentional Feeding, that can be checked if they claim such as an excuse. Of course the tribunal users will still need to check the chat logs to confirm and make the final decision.

I am sorry if this sort of this is already being addressed else-where, but the posts I had found on the subject were majority either archived or written purely from a standpoint of anger.

Thank you for taking the time to read this, have a great day.

Sincerely, Gotlyfe

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