it’s legit crazy how many times i see fresh accounts, and 70% of the time these players behind these “low level” accounts are just perma griefers. either they are just trolling, or they managed to get elo inflated so hard that now they just run it down every single game going 10+deaths because they don’t belong in x Elo. And today i played 7games in master, and in 3 of these games there was one guy intentionally ruining the game, every single player was a Low level account and they build the dumbest items possible for their champions they play. 1 guy goes janna statik shiv toplane, the other one went evenshroud fiddlesticks support, another one went NIGHT HARVESTER on Janna support. Like it’s unreal i swear. I saw a lv 37 nunu just perma snowballing it down mid going 15deaths today, these players are not real humans and i swear Solo q quality is suffering so much from these low level account invaders across all Elos
For those of you who don’t understand why fresh accounts start with inflated mmr, I’m not justifying the reasoning but Riot needs a way to sandbag bad players spamming new accounts to feel better and actual Smurfs. A low elo player will destroy the mmr of the account pretty quickly, even with inflated LP they’ll get stuck somewhere in gold or plat, only “ruining” 5-10 games. On the other side, if youre snuffing through a new account youll win most of your games, pushing through plat pretty quickly and be in emerald with diamond+ mmr, and then youll again only “ruin” 5-10 games but on the winning team. Instead of starting Smurfs off in bronze and having them ruin like 40-50 games grinding through silver gold plat and emerald. That way also people who are gold-plat-emerald cant do the same thing and ruin 50-100 games in Lower elo as it’ll take them longer.
It’s a semi-workaround to make sure fewer games are ruined and everyone can get back to their deserved rank fairly quickly.