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Riot please take a look at your new-player unfriendly environment!

Rrank Five·12/3/2019, 9:33:12 AM·4 votes·3,428 views

Feel free to look me up. I joined league recently, feeling fresh to play some norms straight out from the bots. However, everyone was doing good except me, and I just kept getting killed and dived due to my lack of knowledge. I asked my brother and he demonstrated some games for me, and came to a conclusion that the people I was playing with are "smurfs." Then, I got a notification that I got banned, a fourteen day suspension for "intentional feeding." I'm really really angry because I know I'm new and not skilled enough to join the rift yet, however, I played norm expecting to face players that have similar skill level as me so I can learn and grow in the process. Does getting smashed and killed over and over again one-sided by those so called high level "smurfs" a reason to ban me for "intentionally feeding?" I know I'm not good enough and I'm trying to improve, but this environment is seriously not healthy. Instead of advising me, my entire team was flaming me and even giving me death threats in some games. What do those high elo "smurfs" expect from a low level game that was supposed to be designed to be an improving space for new players? This seriously broke my heart. I didn't die intentionally, I admit I'm outskilled. But riot, when was "unskilled player" a reason for a "fourteen day suspension?" Please have a nicer attitude towards new player in the future.

14 Comments

zPOOPz12/3/2019, 9:48:57 AM4 votes

I see your brother played on your account the 2nd game of Normal you played. 215 cs in a 24 minutes game is fairly obvious not a brand new player playing that game. From my understanding of how Rito set up new account matchmaking, your brother may had screwed your account for you. Because he played for you and with such skill (8.96 cs per minutes) your very first couple of Normal games, matchmaking may had thought you are a smurf and put you with other smurfs for the rest of the games.

My suggestion is to create a brand new account and do not allow your brother to play on it. Hopefully matchmaking will not think you are a smurf and not put you with too many other smurfs.

Account sharing is a perma-bannable offense so probably a good idea to not use this account anymore anyway.

TheUrbanKitsune12/3/2019, 9:39:54 AM1 votes

I’m sorry that this has been your experience. :(

Honestly, League as a game excluding the community is very unfriendly to new players. Put the toxic community on top of that and it gets really difficult to break into this game as someone who’s never played before.

League just has so many complex parts that aren’t taught to you by tutorials. Things like what every champion does, champion matchups, how to last-hit minions and mechanics really only come with game knowledge and time. Things like what items to build, wave management, and macro are all skills that you usually have to learn by observing other players who are better than you. Of course there’s a lot more than that, but it was just to illustrate the point that getting into League is extremely difficult and the tutorial prepares you for almost none of that.

You can try to appeal your ban to Riot Support, but otherwise if you have friends I’d suggest learning League as a premade group. It cuts out the potential for toxic teammates, and makes learning the game a lot more fun.