So I just made my first smurf account and I figured the best way to go about things would be to spend 35$ + 400 rp and get a 7 day IP boost, a 7 day XP boost, the rune page bundle, and 2 975 champions on sale. I figured this is a great set up because I would have more than enough IP by the time I am 30 to buy all of the runes I need and enough to get enough champions for ranked. Opinions?
Drunk Rummate1 votesRunes are actually damn expensive. I'm not sure you'd be able to fill out 4 pages by the time you're level 30 unless you buy no champions at all. Kind of depends on how well you use your IP boost.
Makheira1 votes[deleted]
rth22 votesThere are a few reasons people make smurfs.
If their friends are new to the game, it is incredibly hard to find matches outside of bot games. When the friends are ready to pvp it is much easier to have a same level account that you have played next to them so that 1) you don't have to wait a long time for LoL to try and match make this odd pairing of levels and MMR and 2) your friend will not be against a team of 5 players who are higher leveled. While this may seem unfair because "Hey! You are higher leveled!" you can control your reactions, not be a jerk, and try to be helpful and informative to both teams and they most likely have new players on them. If you bring a level 5 into a game with 8 other level 20 players they will most likely flame the level 5. Ie it is easier to control yourself and not ruin 8 new players experience rather than hope 8 other players do no ruin your friends experience.
Some players with level 30 friends cannot play with them on their main in ranked. Either because of a skill difference (more than 1 tier ahead) or because they like to only play ranked Solo on that particular account. So they may make an account that they Duo with instead of Solo.
Some players also make accounts so they can play with lower level friends and carry them into higher tiers. This isn't really good as it inflates your friends mmr and ranking (they would not be able to maintain that without you) but it does happen.
To learn different roles. I made a smurf partly because I wanted to Solo on my main, was outranking the friends I liked to Duo with, and because I wanted to learn roles besides my main (kind of maining fill and see where I could get). The problem with just swapping to a different role while on your main is that you are likely not as strong at that role and do not play it to that competitive level. If you have a smurf you can just start that smurf's ranked career maining that role and see how far you can advance that way. This can help you really learn a new role without getting stomped in your mains rank as you don't actually play the new role to that level.
They have to. Some players get banned. It happens. They may be banned for a variety of reasons, ( toxicity, having somebody boost their account, anything breaking the summoners code / terms of agreement )but still want to play the game so they need to start over from scratch. Also some players may be suspended, so they cannot currently play on their main but still want to play the game before their suspension lifts. It is also worth noting that many players who have been banned have also changed their ways / fixed the issue that got them banned. One of the popular examples of this is IWDominate ( I Will Dominate) who plays on Team Liquid (formerly Team Curse) in the LCS. He had his accounts permanently banned and was banned from competitive play for (I believe) a full season. He has since done interviews where he commented on how getting banned (especially from competitve play) really made him focus on his tendency to rage (especially in chat) and work to keep that under control. So players who have earned bans can still turn it around.
To be jerks. Some people honestly make smurfs to be jerks to other players. This may be an account to blow off steam, intentionally troll, or dominate new players to make themselves feel proficient at the game. There could be other reasons here too, whatever makes people feel like they should go on a low level account and ruin the game for other players. It isn't nice but it does happen. However, there are a few things to know about these accounts. 1) most people who are just trying to noob stomp get bored easily or as they increase in levels. This could be because of #2) Most smurfs will play pvp to stomp new players. However, as they win games their normals MMR goes up, which means they get matched more frequently against other players who win a lot of games, who may also be smurfs, so they are back in the boat where they can't win on their main and now start having troubles as they play against other smurfs. So they generally get bored/frustrated and may start a new account.
I hope this helps. Not all people who smurf are out there to "n00b st0mp". Those are just the negative people who tend to ruin games and stick in memory longer.
Sirsir1 votesHow much do you play? If you don't play a few games every day you would be better off not getting the 1 week boost. I personally would probably buy a few 3 day boosts for the weekends, or use win boosts and never play a bot game.
Also I wouldn't buy xp boosts, that will just put you behind in runes and/or champs compared to your level... the grind for IP is so much worse than the grind for levels
rth21 votesSo I have a smurf (SirCriesHard) and this is kinda my view on a few of those things.
XP/IP boosts. I believe somebody pointed it out but the day long boosts really are not worth it unless you are playing almost constantly. Especially for a week long boost, you need to have a lot of available time to play.
Games. I found that ARAM's, as soon as you can play them, seem like a good way to level your account. It may not be the most grind efficient method but bot games can be very dull and don't give a lot of XP. However, unless you are smurfing with friends and you can churn games out, normal games at low level can take a really long time. ARAM's give an amount of XP between the two and generally do not take incredibly long. Twisted Treeline normals is also an option if you can finish those out before too long. ( I hear that 3v3 bot games with push comps all in one lane is the fastest way to grind, but this takes a team of 3 people doing the same thing over and over, and that just sounds really boring to me.)
If you have extra RP, I would just pick up champs you like as they go on sale. If you are making a smurf to learn a particular role, I would pick up champs in that role as they go on sale, and when you do get to level 30 buy the champs that made you want to learn that role in the first place. Have versatility picks / backups for other roles, even if they are not orthodox. If you are good with that champion you can fill there just fine (in most cases).
Runes. I would not worry about getting to level 30 too fast and not having enough runes. You don't really need a bunch of rune pages to move up in ranked. I don't have optimal rune pages on my smurf. I have a non optimal ad page, and a half and half ryze / mage/ non ad page. The smurf is SirCriesHard and was s4 plat after playing games with friends and then just playing solo-fill.
QuantumLight1 votesspend that money on your main account.
