Smurf accounts need to be addressed

HackProof·6/23/2016, 6:15:40 PM·11 votes·1,767 views

Smurfers who play ranked are terribly annoying.

Obvious reason why smurfing sucks:

  1. They pub stomp people at the elo they're smurfing at, until we're a pool of Vladimir
  2. They generally do not care about the match, so they'll play something they never did, just to try it out in ranked.

Meeting a smurf makes the game terribly un-enjoyable. Why is this allowed?

Side note: I find that people who generally love and care about this game, get the most emotional about it.

I think its the worst when you have a player who could not care less about the game and just does rando things all game. Be it norms or ranked, this ruins player experience for everyone BUT the player who is trolling.

Is there anything to be done about smurfing?

31 Comments

420 grams6/23/2016, 6:53:41 PM4 votes

It's just annoying because at some point, they had to start at level 1. Imagine being new to league, fresh out of bot games, just got ignite at level 10, ready to try your luck against people and getting penta killed by a Lee sin at 15:00 minutes. Should that happen 2 or 3 times, it makes people uninstall league when they never had a chance to even play evenly.

bulldoggamer6/23/2016, 7:24:49 PM2 votes

So if i made a smurf to teach my little brother the game and play with him so that it will still be fair to him when we play together, do you consider that a problem?

Bard in a Diaper6/23/2016, 7:11:29 PM2 votes

fix queue times and I won't smurf

ShinkoMinori6/23/2016, 6:17:58 PM2 votes

Smurfing is legal and its the only thing that makes Dynamic Queue enjoyable. Its also one of the tips on this guide:

http://boards.na.leagueoflegends.com/en/c/gameplay-balance/qix4hawM-how-to-reach-gold-in-dynamic-queue-dynamic-queue-survival-guide

Schàdenfreude6/23/2016, 8:24:49 PM1 votes

So basically you don't want us to have second accounts? LOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOL

Telephone Booth6/23/2016, 9:50:15 PM1 votes

Not all smurfing is done maliciously. I'm leveling up a smurf account so I can play with my low silver and bronze friends who lose all the damn time. I'm only silver 3... but I always seem to rank up on weekdays and then play with them on the weekend and get demoted lol. I'm not that much better than them but we always friggin lose for some reason and I'm sick of tanking my LP on my main just to play with real life friends who are really fun to play with. I also mainly play support, so it'd not like I'll be crushing bronzies when I'm just a lowly silver anyways.

And I've only played a couple pvp matches on it and pretty much everyone on my team is smurfing and says their main accounts are silver and bronze mostly. If you do good, your mmr will go up and you'll be placed against good mmr opponents too. If you crush bronzies you will stop being placed against bronzies no matter what level or rank you are.

EndlessSorcerer6/23/2016, 11:25:22 PM1 votes
  1. They pub stomp people at the elo they're smurfing at, until we're a pool of Vladimir
  1. They generally do not care about the match, so they'll play something they never did, just to try it out in ranked.

I'm pretty sure I did both of those last season. I'd played for about 2.5 years at that point but I had never bothered with ranked games before.

Considering I was being matched with Platinum and Diamond players in normals almost exclusively at that point, Silver games were typically a stomp if I played a champion I was even vaguely familiar with (and sometimes I didn't even need that).

Then again, this was on my main (and only) account and I had to start ranked games somewhere.

Man In Sky6/24/2016, 12:05:27 AM1 votes

What do you want done exactly on this topic? If Riot allows smurfs, what exactly are you trying to get at?

Maximum Morde6/24/2016, 12:34:12 AM1 votes

I smurf so I can ignore dodge penalties. Dodging toxic players should not be penalized.

Malfini6/24/2016, 3:30:04 AM1 votes

Smurfs are okay. Trolls are not.

When a smurf tries to ruin a game, then that becomes a troll.

Trolls are the problem; not smurfs.

Jeanne fan club6/23/2016, 7:28:20 PM1 votes

Its allowed because you can't stop it. 1 account per email account. It can't track household or computer because that would cause people who share a computer to not be able to play the game. I do agree that its awful when they fk around in ranked, but what can be done about it other than reporting them for unsportsmanlike conduct? Also those queue times the further up the ladder you get... up to 30 minutes for a game man. It really sucks.

Lirik6/23/2016, 7:38:17 PM1 votes

yeah tehy could put the soloQ back that would help less smurfs would be seen

shyv6/23/2016, 8:11:47 PM1 votes

bring back solo queue and i'll stop dynamic boosting then lol