Just wondering.I've met a lot of smurfs this week who were obviously high plat-diamond skilled,made themselves a smurf just so they can flame/troll in games.They even admit it usually since there is nothing they will lose.Their main account stays untouched which is sad.
They ban the account, and then they just make a new one. Nothing they can 100% do to stop it, except maybe to cap the number of accounts you can make per IP address.
I've (kinda) done this. I didn't act toxic, actually the opposite, but I made a fresh account to see what it was like. My normals MMR is ~1850, so it was a huge change.
It's eerily silent. Most of the games lvls 1-20 are half people grinding for a lvl 30 account, a quarter bots, and a quarter new players. Most of the smurfs just don't say anything, they are on autopilot just winning games to level the account. Bots will occasionally say things like "wtf" or "no/yes", but obviously don't talk much.
What amazed me is newer players don't say anything either. I have to start the conversation if I'm trying to help someone out. Like, really simple stuff like running back to base instead of hitting B or not realizing how an item works. They will just keep going until someone notices and tries to help.
It's almost creepy.
Rolling Bronzies is fun, and no they won't be taking it out of the game, lol.
If you don't like getting rolled defend yourself.
its not against the rules. and if it was how would you possibly prove it? just ban everyone who is better than you?
Nothing they can do that will stop the behavior from continuing. Currently they can only remove the account, but it's the player that can remake and troll that's the problem.
Here is hoping that the new client will be able to ban not only the account, but also lock out the user from logging in for the next 1-2 hours.
That way it does't matter if they other accounts, if they are caught and banned, the client is disabled for awhile. allowing 1-3 games of peace without them.
but I don't work for Riot so I don't know XD
While smurfing just to win is bad I personally admit to smurfing when trying to teach a new player or a friend the game. The main reason I do it on another account is that it would be less fair having my runes and mysteries at a low level with a friend and it's hard to teach them about things like warding and the effects in a bot game when trying to go into detail bot games can only teach so much.
Plus when someone is new they enjoy playing with their friends obliviously I don't look at smurfing as a whole to be a bad thing but doing so to just screw with other players is.
There are many reasons players smurf aside the reason I stated previously, I mostly just bring friends into arams as it's the least toxic mode and the mode I personally have the most fun in. But they don't really unlock that until level 6.
I have known people who have made new accounts simply to learn a new roll such as creating and account on only going support or jungle/etc. to learn a roll without getting snowballed by players at their own level and learning nothing.
There are many ways to look at smurfing but I can tell you there is a large amount of players that do it for no other reason but to feel good about beating lower level players or to just piss people off on another account.
I'm not sure what you would do as far as punishment for this because you would also have to punish those who do so for none toxic reasons. If they player isn't in chat being a jerk etc. It's rather hard to tell why they are doing it in the first place.
I will end on this note while not in league specifically I have tried playing other games and had a hard time learning because other players would make new accounts just to make it harder for newer players on purpose.
smurfing - buy XP boost, IP boost -> revenue .
a smurf just so they can flame/troll in games.They even admit it usually since there is nothing they will lose.Their main account stays untouched which is sad.
for this toxic player, smurf or no , report them, move on . helping riot getting another revenue (they not gonna stop make another account)- smurf --> win ->trigger fun + lower queue time.
from my knowledge. toxic exist in all tier,--> challenger have it, famous one getting banned , and we all knew it.
Unless they make a rule that says flat out "no creating alternate accounts," this will be impossible. Hell... Even if they made that rule, it wouldn't stop anyone.
