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New player experience must be miserable....

RAINBOW GUMDROPS··4 votes·4,040 views

So I made a new account because I got suspended, and wanted to play in the mean time. The account is now level 7, and I've been playing Blind pick ( as it's all that is available ) I'm noticing that every single game, I get a team of new players to league, and then me. Game starts and within 5 minutes or so, and 8 deaths from my team later, the other team admits to being plat/diamond smurfs, and my team get's absolutely obliterated. Now, I personally don't care, because it isn't my main account, but my teammates on the other hand, are miserable. They end up saying 'screw this' and quitting the game. I feel like the new player experience for someone brand new to League is extremely off putting. Just my two cents.

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R107 Games4 votes

New player experience is something riot needs to improve

AeroWaffle1 votes

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R107 Games1 votes

You should delete your comment,because i edited mine. I changed my mind

MrMaqpie2 votes

I mean this isn’t a riot problem this is the player base problem only way to solve this is make it so people can’t make smurf which probably isn’t going to happen

Doge20201 votes

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I mean this isn’t a riot problem this is the player base problem only way to solve this is make it so people can’t make smurf which probably isn’t going to happen

Or maybe make some way so riot can know if somebody is smurfing (and what elo their main is from) so they aren’t put in with new/unranked players and ruin the game.

CharDeeMcDenniz1 votes

the matchmaking algorithm can very quickly tell if a new account is a smurf and puts them with similar players before long

MrMaqpie1 votes

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Or maybe make some way so riot can know if somebody is smurfing (and what elo their main is from) so they aren’t put in with new/unranked players and ruin the game.

Okay but how is that going to work in ranked their d5 on main so they would auto get d5 on smurf account so they can sell them to people but I do agree the new player experience is definitely not fun with all the smurfing going on

A Fish With Legs2 votes

Yeah, I agree that the "New Player Experience" is definitely something that needs to be looked over and worked on. The game itself already has a pretty big learning curve compared to other games, but the icing on the cake that turns off new players, from what I've seen, heard, and experienced is that the community itself.

The community is easily the main culprit for why the "New Player Experience" sucks in League, with the game's mechanics being the secondary reason. The League of Legends community has a reputation of being the most toxic gaming community in all of gaming. It's filled with people who are ready and able to insult others for not playing the way they want the other player to play (even in ARAM), there are people who are ready to tell others to kill themselves in the game for making one bad player, etc.

Riot should really take a more critical stand on their community to ensure that the community is open to everyone, especially new players. They've already done a somewhat okay job at the tutorial and trying to ease new players into the game, but the one thing that they barely put any effort into improving is improving the community's behavior.

The League community has earned the reputation of being the most toxic gaming community ever, and they will always retain that reputation. From what I've seen on these forums, people who get permanently banned have very little to no resistance in making a new account, and if they dumped time and money into their permanently banned account, they probably don't care if the new account gets banned because they don't have an intimate connection with the account, they can just make another one and continue being toxic.

The New Player Experience will never get any better until the community's attitude improves.

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