You know there was a "good old time".. right? When Riot made this game? Where core elements like "ranked integrity" still meant something. You realize that this game core element was the idea of "two even sides". A core element that is shattered each time a cheating smurf enters.. cause the whole idea is a joke then. Whats the difference between a ranked game and an unranked game? Nothing.. anymore.

No choice? You have a possibility to play unranked if you dont like what ranked is..

Look.. another smurf that ruins game in ranked!

No. i dont say they shouldnt be played anywhere.. hell, play Fiddle ADC if u can. There is a very clear difference however, between choosing to play something, and being forced. Brand, is a good but sad example of a mid laner that were more or less forced to supp lane instead. Riot dosent get it how they should balance the champ, and instead of making the challenge and figure it out, they make they easy way and "demote" the champ to supp status, cause its easier. VelKoz is currently a very effective midlaner, designed for midlaner, and are balanced around being a mid laner. That he works as a supp, is just a bonus. Riot aint forcing him to be a supp by balancing his stats to that area. See the difference here?

He shouldnt be a support, he aint designed to be support, he is designed to be a jungler. Its a token of incompetence of Riot to "devaluate" special champs they cant handle to be "supps", cause they cant figure you what to do.

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So a bad cheat is not a cheat then? Thats exactly how it works. and your example.. has to be the worst reasoning ive ever seen. Getting drunk aint an excuse for anything, not IRL, not online. Fact is, your so called friend dosent have any need to play ranked at all.. drunk or not. And if he chooses to do so, drunk, then his ELO will go down.

A smurf is a secondary account used to play in levels far below your main account. And you call med a baboon?

And you really think a new player in silver 1 will be able to finish with such scores? WTF are you thinking? Someone claimed he was challenger, he then responded "Plat2". So yeah, i know he is a smurf. I dont want to be the best one. I want to fight in this game like this game was made for. THE SOLE REASON THE MATCHMAKING SYSTEM EXISTS! to have EQUAL opponents! How is this so #%!"%!" hard to grasp. Dumpster region..

im fuuuked too

'just like half the champion pool can interrupt my drain while infuenced by fear, cause they clicked the button fast enough to register their aa or ability. Its just poor coding.

oooh shit. my mistake then. I thought it increased AD in addition to health xD

yeah, and an indefinite supply of more smurfs climbing the ropes after that..

occacional? thats a naive and romantic thought..

This has to be the first Riot post ive seen in a century.

You give examples, as it would proove anything, but it dosent. Single examples will always exist. When you look at the big picture, the OP is absolutley right. Its also so visible, how Riot has shifted its attention from the many millions of players making this game into what it is, into the pro-scene and social playing. Remember season 6, when Riot forced social gaming on us? How being with friends gave you an advantage? Remember how last season, they pretended to "roll back" and give us soloQ? well guess what, now they have sneaked in the advantages of social gaming anyway. They have prioritized flashy assasin plays. They have increased damage with the new power runes because this are supposed to draw more crowds spectating the pros. It might enhance the strategic aspect of the pro-scene, but it obliterates tactical and strategic depth in the one Q that makes this game, SoloQ.

First shot will have first kill, which will win late game. Riot, hear this guy out you igonrant "¤"!%!..

i voiced the same concerns for 2 years now, but all the forums say are "look, fiddle has 50% win so he is cool" and "fiddle are so n00b" and other intelligent things. I used to have a 70% win with him, but after 14 conceutive nerfs .. he aint viable anymore.

verification prevents smurfing - which in turn prevents people with high skill to mask as mdeiocre players and use mediocre players in silver/gold as cannonfodder. This isnt hard to grasp m8.

eeh.. I dont want to be rude.. but there always was a questionmark in the end of my sentence =)

If you dont understand the reasoning above, there is nothing more that can be done to help you until you graduate preschool.

It was not a statement, it was a question wether you believe that could be the case...

Yeah, its easy to buy drugs in my country too. But since laws make it illegal, use of it are far less widespread than if the goverment would sanction it. Just take a look at alcohol, its a sanctioned for of drug, but its legal and easy to obtain. Thus use is widespread. You do nothing more than underline my point, which is that you can kill smurfing, but you can reduce its use severly.

You dont think that those 2 things can happen at the same time? Im not saying smurfs want to destroy games, Im saying thats what happens when smurfs play, regardless of their intentions.

If they can prohibit smurfing in clash, they can do it in ranked. Its just a question of will.

Banks have imlemented personalia verification ages ago. Banks with online services are not only using phone validation, but instant double authentication process involving encrypted codes each time you make a transaction or login. So I guess it makes sense for Riot to at least verify 1 human individual to each account. Now, since you didnt understand this, it makes sense you dont understand why smurfing destroys ranked integrity, so Im gonna go by it step by step. 1: Riots (and all MOBAS) are built on the principle on equality. Equal sides, equal starting points, equal everything. When you start a match, the optimal starting point is 10 completly equal players on a an equal map with equal possibilites. Why? Cause then its down to the combined skill of the team who determine the winner of that match. 2: To determine a players skill, Riot has developed an algorythm, on a popular term called ELO, which is an integer\number on how good you are. Winning increases this number, and winning against better players will increase it more than if playing versus lesser players. 3: This number is one of the main factors the matchmaking system will look for when determining teams. It will always try to match up people in the same skill level. 4: When you reach an ELO (division) where you are roughly winning\loosing 50% times, you are seen as belonging in that ELO. **_NOW, the complicated part is, that your skill is not constant. It fluctuates based on hundreds of factors, including age, stress, mood, time of day, time of year etc etc. So while you in certain period average Platinum5, you can somehwere in the future, perhaps belong truly in Silver1. _** 5: SMURFS! When a high tier player, which are placed in ELO around Diamond, he will have an ELO of around 2500. A silver/gold player will have an ELO of around 1500. When the high tier player enters a ranked Q with a smurf, the matchmaking system will believe he is as skilled as a silver player, and match him vs silver players. What happens when a pro meets an amateur? He will own the game of course, making it pointless for 9 other players to play. They dont stand a chance. And that is what we mean by "destroying ranked integrity". Fooling the matchmaking system is gaining an unfair advantage, and SHOULD in any SERIOUS MOBA GAME be concidered cheating!

If the playerbase goes down that much, is just beacuse Riot are including smurfaccounts in their total player number value they brag about ever year. Time to clean up the filth.

and u can pay a random teenager 10 bucks to borrow his for 3 secs. Smurfs are like bad drugs. You cant eliminate it, but you can reduce its damaging effects.

Smurfing is offending, and its also destroying the fun for those playing ranked against smurfs. So if its offending and destroys the fun for others.. its breaking those rules.

And you are sure most of those 10% werent smurf accounts not being used anymore? ;)

eerm.. arent the purpose of a ban, to exclude the player from playing for a while?

I dont. I have 1 account, and there just isnt any valid need at all for more than 1 account. If you want to practice, go normals, or create a custom. Tired of long waiting Qs? Well, accept that your high skill level has less players around, and if u are in a hurry, play customs or normals. If you for some reason must have a second account, dont play ranked at it. play normals ffs.

You are spot on. Riots desire for flashy assasin play has led to a downsize in the "common sense" department. Where Riot 3 seasons ago took steps to avoid snowballing, they have now in the eyes of pro sports dumped all reason.

So... using gold as their private training ground, pissing on all true gold players. Get the f*** out.

Give me one good reason to not "warm up" in a NORMAL mode game.

Im not talking about any of theese. Im talking about the stomping smurfs do in Gold. Gold is the prime smurf division, as this is the division everyone needs to fully go through. With the increased damage levels and the following hard snowball effect this season, playing higher skill levels in lower elos gives way more advantage than earlier, and you can really really feel it.