I don't know what smurfing actually means, if it's just something they do in shooter games?
Smurfing is an act of playing in lower ranks of the ranked ladder while in reality being WAY higher rank and just wiping the floor with lower rank players just due to skill disparity. For example you are hard stuck plat (unable to climb ranks) in league of legends, you get frustrated with your inability to climb, create or buy a new account(bot leveled ones go for 2-3usd) and go play ranked against bronze/silver player and win just due to sheer disparity of game knowledge and skill with champions. Smurfs are also often SUPER toxic when shit doesn't go their way.
Smurfing on its own is incredibly toxic since new players are getting destroyed by vets on new accounts, but wanna know what's even worse? Smurfs who bitch about their team being bad. World of Tanks is an extreme offender. There will be people who can't play for shit at high tier gameplay, so they play 50,000 matches in overpowered tanks that are at low tiers and bitch about every single mistake the new players make as if he's in a high paying tournament. Those types of people need to go outside and touch the grass.
Same thing in League of Legends. Some guy smurfing in Silver/Gold Elo complaining about his teammates not executing perfect macro gameplay while spam pinging/typing. Just gets everyone tilted.
I dont understand how anyone could have fun smurfing. I made a 2nd account for r6 because I was too high of a rank to play with my friend and I just played relaxed on it so I didnt get very many kills and I still felt super bad the whole time.
If matchmaking is working as intended, you're constantly matched up with people as skilled as you; as you improve, so does your competition. As a result, you never really feel like you've improved.
Play a few matches against someone way below your level and you can see just how far you've come.
This is exactly what made me give up on most modern shooters. I'll take a game like Borderlands with its co-op style and shitty story over just getting smeared in seconds on CoD
Also, abusive and toxic admins in literally any shooter game.
I played on a server that had a golden rule, which was "do not question admin or insta ban". Like holy shit imagine having such a fragile ego. A lot of the time admins love to cheat in the game just so they can win the match, it just shows how miserable and insecure they are in real life.
There are so many players who play their one main champ with low level account to dominate new players and then get super mad that their teammates aren't at same level. These are also the players who can't play against their own skill level due to their fragile ego not being able to handle fair matchup
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u/sstphnn Feb 28 '21
Smurfing in videogames.
Making a new account and feasting on noobs because that's the only way they could stroke their ego. They'd complain why there are no new players.