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Is smurfing in clash bannable?

Bábe·8/28/2019, 5:27:40 AM·2 votes·5,435 views

i have hard evidence one of my old irl friends who we since had a falling out with had his friend buy a account to smurf...

pretty much this guy is as boosted as it gets is a chally 3v3 player and gets diamonds to carry him in solo que in reward he plays 3's with them... his account is even boosted im willing to bet. the final straw for this scum is the fact thier all diamond and mid plat team went from going 0-2 first day to winning next day with a fresh lvl 30 on their team with 5wins 3 losses.... with 0 match history other than the solo games.. it's obvious he bought this account and used it for clash. im just wondering if i send a ticket is it bannable as i would love to see them banned for account sharing for one and breaking tos in clash...

also would be icing on the cake as he is nothing but toxic to anyone below diamond and we were irl friends until he got d4 in solo and then i was trash to him lol.

also side note im not going to expose names of players, i will leave that to riot when it comes time.

13 Comments

ChrisBrownze8/28/2019, 5:32:30 AM2 votes

Smurfing in ranked should also be bannable. It ruins the purpose of matchmaking, since any game with a smurf is inherently unfair, while matchmaking is supposed to be making fair matches.

Demon King Maou8/28/2019, 5:54:16 AM1 votes

They'd lose a majority of the playerbase if they did this sooooooo... Or atleast just the streamers like NB who creates new acc's and plays them ranked all the time.

Probably not a pro gamer move.

Demon King Maou8/28/2019, 6:00:52 AM1 votes

Tbh, In clash's case the system hasn't been out for long enough to draw conclusions on "Smurfing" IMO i think the matchmaking system needs a rework before we point fingers at "Smurfs" in general and not just clash. You see this being the case in high mmr streams constantly where someone who should NEVER have been placed in a high elo que seems to get matched and feeds.

TURB0FIST SMURF8/28/2019, 6:47:41 AM1 votes

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The Kombinator8/28/2019, 7:18:38 AM1 votes

The primary problem is, that the reason of smurfing may, or may not justified, and detecting it is not exactly easy.

Justified reasons: transfer from another server. Mostly Eune, and Euw affected, because anyone in Central Europe can easily play on either of it. Banned, or extremely punished main account. Friend had a 700 game chat ban, and simply made a new acc..

Detecting it also difficult since people might simply get lucky, and play many games in a row. Or have experience from similar games during leveling. I'm quite damn sure, that someone from DOTA, or HoS can play better on first try, than a brand new player to the genre. Which would result a similar to smurf effect during the leveling phase.

Dynikus8/28/2019, 10:21:52 AM1 votes

Riot said if a player on your team was found to be smurfing, they would be banned from playing clash again, and the whole team would lose rewards.

They realistically won't do anything though, so the diamond player that made a smurf just for clash that I played against who's also boosting his friends in flex won't get any kind of punishment :^)

Surely they weren't actually a smurf though, the level 35 silver 4 player with only lux games in ranked just decided to play adc in clash, and happens to share almost the same name and play with the same group as a vayne main with a 96% winrate in plat flex.

ModPeriscope8/28/2019, 4:18:17 PM1 votes

It is bannable, if you're playing on an account that's more than 2 ranks lower than your main.

https://support.riotgames.com/hc/en-us/articles/360001259787

SSz Seagun11212/8/2019, 7:05:51 PM1 votes

on 8/12 we played against VKS and they openly confessed to have main accounts, does smurfing not destroy the entire point of scouting if you cant even see what people are playing?