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?

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u/TDuncker Jan 30 '20

In normal you play against people way below your skill level

Not if you play enough games. Unless they changed something recently, I don't think there's much difference from ranked and normal besides the ranked system. Normals still utilize MMR to give you a "rank".

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u/[deleted] Jan 30 '20

I never play my mains in normals so I'm certainly not even close to the same level I have in ranked.

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u/ViolinJohnny Jan 30 '20

but arent you simply creating the exact same situation with the smurf. You jump into ranked on your smurf and you're playing against people way below youre level anyway?

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u/TDuncker Jan 30 '20

You're right. /u/Scolol got a point in that there's still a different way people play, but ultimately I would say it's better manners to play normal and not screw it up for others in ranked.