LoL players are fed up with Clash’s smurfs. “Will Riot finally do something about it?”
The League of Legends community offers several solutions to make it harder for smurfs to enter Clash.
Smurfs, i.e. people who play at a much lower level than their skills, are common in all games with a ranking system. So it’s hardly surprising that there are so many of them in League of Legends.
Although the developers try to eliminate this phenomenon through a special “SmurfQ” queue, it is definitely more difficult on Clash. Players come up with new ways to be able to play tournaments at their own level.
Smurfs on Clash
In League of Legends, in low-skill matches, it’s not that hard to meet someone who is better than the others and you can clearly see that they are smurfing. Riot has introduced a system to regular Ranked matches to catch most of these players and put them in one game.
Although it may seem like a good solution, it does not work completely and even people returning to ranked games after a long break go there. You can read more about it in this article – CLICK.
The Clash tournament system itself also has protection against other smurf accounts. You have to get to level 30 and play 10 placement matches and confirm them with your phone number. However, this is not a big obstacle as many people have multiple numbers or may ask someone from their family to do so.
So there are such situations as presented by Redditor with the nickname Ir0nstag. His opponent has played enough games to be able to play Clash. He points out that this is not the first time in his tournament he has faced someone who plays the hero for the first time and gets 20+ K/D/A.
The commentators found several solutions. One of them suggested that with each new Clash the entry-level would increase by 5 levels and start from 50. This means that the first in a given week would be available from 50, and a month later from 55, if the player had participated earlier. This solution has its drawbacks.
One of them is that the price for illegally botted accounts would just increase a bit and you could still buy a ready-to-go account. Additionally, normal players would suffer too, as unlocking the 5 levels is not that easy and you need to spend some time on it.
Another idea is to check the IP. If it leads to a place other than “normal”, such an account could be blocked. Including others belonging to the same person. Here, again, there are big downsides. If someone moves and first plays from home, and then from a trip to another country, it may end his adventure with League.
It’s really hard to find the perfect solution to this problem. Especially since each one given by the community has its drawbacks. Perhaps Riot will come up with a golden mean, but at the moment it does not look like it will happen.
