I think the biggest thing that so many people fail to realize is that RARELY will anyone above master Smurf. High elo isn’t RIDDLED with people trying to smash lower players. It’s usually people under emerald or diamond making accounts to “Smurf” against silver/gold.

So often it’s also INCREDIBLY hard stuck 5-6 season players that think they should be able to stomp any other rank below theirs and they find themselves frustrated when the team doesn’t just “play for them.”

I know you’ve all seen the “just don’t die I’ll carry,” messages or the classic “just shield me and we win.” It’s quite a bit easier to “carry” if youre receiving all the resources from everyone and these players think they’re entitled to it.

It’s a lot harder to stomp silver gold or plat players as a plat player on a gold account than it is as a grandmaster on a gold account. Most of my friends and I play high elo and none of us have ever really though to make another account to Smurf on silver.

Also, a quick reminder that there are so many false negatives when it comes to smurfing. People that have a good 4-5 game win streak and some good games will all-chat that they’re smurfing or that they’re on a friend’s account boosting. It’s never that. Guaranteed there are more people talking about Smurfs than there are people playing on Smurfs.