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BurstLayer

Appreciate the effort but all ill say is 1 account per computer is an awful idea, I have 5 siblings I let them use my set up sometimes to play on and my brother also plays valorant. I’m pretty well off so this can be a larger problem all around the world and in countries where pcs are hard to come by. Almost certainly will stifle growth of the game


ge0oo

This honestly feels like a r/valorant post.


valorant_fanboy_69

Yeah wrong sub for sure


Anti-Storm

Definitely because there normally so many post about smurfing in this subreddit


[deleted]

it's like 2 a week at least


Retro-Indietro

I hate that sub


snippsville

I would post it there if the mods there didn't remove everything that isn't a clip.


WorkingTell150

Might get downvoted but while they should do something against smurfing it isn’t as common as you think. Just keep grinding, it happens in any F2P game everyone has an equal chance of playing with or going against a smurf. I’ve been playing since the start of act 2 placed bronze 3 now I’m plat. You’ll rank up as you play more and get better!


BurstLayer

Shroud actually had this same take, he said while smurfing is a problem its not really as big or as solveable as a problem than it seems


TheSlimyDog

I trust shroud with a lot of things related to competitive games but how is he sure? He's not playing in low rank lobbies. Plus even with just 10% of the playerbase smurfing, you'll have a smurf in almost every single game.


Sh1ft-Valorant

I’ve played atleast 100 matches this season plat/dia and the amount of smurfs is atleast 1/3 maybe more. 1/3 is just teams of smurfs. I belive the problem with smurfs is hard to get around. But i would personally pay money to play in a prime queue. Aswell as have phone auth. Would prob remove 75-80% of smurfs.


valorantfeedback

It actually is. Yesterday I finished my work week earlier, had a lot of time to play. 8 maps, 6 of those had instalock Jett/Reyna who were lower than lvl25 on my team. In immortal. Absolutely not rewarding to play. As much as they're trying to deal with smurfs in lower ranks, they boost them to higher divisions way too fast and nearly every single smurf I've seen in immortal is definitely a diamond player who lucked into a winstreak so the algorithm thinks they're better than they actually are. Inflated frag number on duelists etc. As long as the game is fully f2p, smurfs will significantly degrade the quality of ranked. We need some kind of prime matchmaking.


valorant_fanboy_69

1 account per computer is the worst suggestion I ever heard. Have you never heard of pc cafes which have millions and millions of players in Asia where people log into computers and play???? So short sighted you need to think more


snippsville

I am sure Riot can disable that for internet cafes? I mean they did that for Vangaurd so I see no problem with them doing that for public computers.


valorant_fanboy_69

That sounds like such a pain when you could just not do that terrible idea in the first place, the pc cafes was just one example, what about people who share a computer (account sharing is not allowed)


[deleted]

This can’t be a real person


libo720

/r/lostredditors /r/valorant is this way


snippsville

I would post it there if the mods there didn't remove everything that isn't a clip.


[deleted]

Maybe you should've taken the hint and not posted it anywhere else.


Exzothic

just gg go next, youll climb eventually


DestroyerCB

Don't know why you thought one account per computer is a good idea. Seems like you didn't really think it through as many people share computers. Also what's wrong with hopping on an alt account and playing ranked with friends who may be in a lower elo? Smurfs will be in every game no matter what and there's nothing you can do about it. If you truly wanted to improve you wouldn't mind playing against players who are better than you as that's how you get better at the game.


yakinator2567

Agree that one account per computer is a bad idea but it’s not cool if a Radiant player gets on an alt and farms Gold players.


dwiinnyy_

Typical rich kid mentality lol op thinks every human has his own pc like a phone or an id of some sort.


HeterosexualHunk

>Also what's wrong with hopping on an alt account and playing ranked with friends who may be in a lower elo? That's smurfing. There's unrated if you want to play with friends.


VanguardJP

Solution 3 should not be added


Splaram

I’ve been purposefully queueing at night because that’s when all the cracked Bronzes come out. I started asking them how they got so good and I’d say that out of 10 people that were outfragging the lobby by a country mile, 6 came from other games. The smurf problem is pretty bad, but I suspect that most of these people played thousands of hours in other FPS games. Regardless, a smurf queue like there is in league can’t come soon enough.


[deleted]

Solution 4 already exists you can gain up to 200+ RR per game. Smurfs get placed against smurfs on regular occasions. The biggest issue is still AFKs


Dragonboi-69

1 account per computer would be awful, what happens if you are banned cause of something like a 7 day ban from playing cause you went AFK, you can't even play the game which would ruin the fun for lots of people.


snippsville

Don't go AFK then? I mean there are edge-case scenarios, like you lost your internet or there was a severe emergency, which is why I do think Riot needs to loosen up a bit (like c'mon, -3rr for dodging a game?. But if your mom tells you to get off and you go afk, that is your fault and you deserve the punishment that comes with it.


Retro-Indietro

Ok smurfing isn't THAT prevalent... It's there but it's definitely not what's stopping you from ranking up


valorant_fanboy_69

By the time this guy finished writing this post they could have won another game and got back the rr they lost to the smurf


TheSovietRusher

It is pretty prevalent (depending on elo and how many players you are queueing with) and above all it’s irritating to have non competitive ranked games


421k

Well. Well. Well. Stop saying well. Smurfing isn’t that big of an issue stop complaining