Smurfs in Low Elo

0PRAISETHESUN0·Apr 27, 2019·1 votes·4,310 views

I'm silver rank, I don't play the game religiously but it makes up a solid chunk of my freetime and I WANT to get better. But I've ran into an epidemic. Level 30, level 31 accounts, normally a top laner or jungler that for some reason play like a seasoned pro at this game. When on my team, it's entertaining enough but upsetting. On the enemy team it's just downright angering. I have ran into so many smurfs and I've finally had enough as a level 30 account Renek just tore apart my entire team in my Silver III promos. This is ridiculous. Are smurfs reportable? Can I do anything against this? Or is RIOT just rolling over and deciding "Meh! Who cares about our new and low tier playerbase!" Because I'm angry and I don't know what to do besides post this and pray that someday something can be done.

6 Comments

DynikusApr 27, 20191 votes

can you think of a plausible solution, or are you just asking them to "do something"?

0PRAISETHESUN0Apr 27, 20191 votes

I can't think of anything but try my hardest and generally lose anyway so I suppose I'm asking for something to be done.

DynikusApr 27, 20191 votes

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I can't think of anything but try my hardest and generally lose anyway so I suppose I'm asking for something to be done.

okay, but what? There's really nothing they can do to prevent someone from making another account.

GatekeeperTDSApr 28, 20191 votes

What's your solution? Come on, you brought the rant here, surely you must be able to think of something.

Here's the thing - people who start new accounts will quickly place in the rank they belong if they play ranked. A diamond player isn't going to be in silver for very long.

AffableVirginApr 28, 20191 votes

I used to be a hardstuck silver player and had the same complaints -- there's too many new player who are just beyond garbage starting ranked here and it is also unavoidable for a smurf to play through this elo if he wants another account.

I recently requested in a survey by Riot that they make accounts require a SSN like they do in Korea. Then limit each player to like 4-5 accounts max. This would cut down on boosting, banned players endlessly making new accounts, and so many smurfs in low elo.

I mean in the long run the smurfs and boosters arent limiting you because if you deserve to rank up you eventually will win enough to do it. There arent smurfs in every game and sometimes they are on your team as well. But it is frustrating to play with unevenly matched teams. It's actually a worse problem around low diamond and high plat btw.

IFeltLikeAGringoMay 15, 20191 votes

Meh... cant be sure it was some high level smurf. Ive crushed silver/bronze games as a silver, going 23-5 anivia, or 17-1 urgot before. Renekton is a strong ass champ like urgot, so he's very capable of tearing through teams with silver-level mechanics. Just a matter of getting fed off of slightly worse bronzes/silvers. The skill level disparity in low elo is pretty big between players of near-equal mmr. Also, he couldve just been a normally-gold player who hasnt climbed yet, and is queuing with a bronze friend.