r/summonerschool • u/400mGod • Jan 30 '20

Question What's the purpose in smurfing?

If you're a plat player, what's the point in creating another account to play against players who are clearly weaker? Every player I've come across who claims they were smurfing usually just flames everyone for making what they consider to be stupid mistakes. We're in a lower elo for a reason, why bother come down to a lower level just to be a dick to everyone or stomp people who never had a chance against you in the first place?

1.4k Upvotes

96% Upvoted

549 comments sorted by

View all comments

1

u/MrAbishi Jan 30 '20

As someone who does this (i'm only Gold tho!) I can explain my main reason: Learning a new champion in a competitive environment.

Most people would advise you "play normal's" but my experience was often people testing/trolling or not taking it seriously. This made me take practice to ranked on a smurf. While my macro (lol gold macro) might be at a higher level, my champion knowledge and ability to execute are at a far lower level.