Why Smurfing CANNOT be fixed

League of Documentary

An in-depth look at why we have smurfs, how the smurfing market works and what reasons people smurf for.

0:00 | Introduction
0:42 | Part 1 - Ego smurfing vs Dad smurfing
5:10 | Part 2 - How the Smurfing market works
9:30 | Part 3 - Smurfing Illuminati
14:43 | Part 4 - What Riot's doing about smurfing

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[DTperiodDT]

5 kids and still waking up deciding to play league is biblical level martyrdom

[sheepisfortheweak]

You know, I always knew that league players have inflated egos and a twisted sense of pride, especially smurfs, but for some reason I never expected one to admit to it so truthfully and blatantly.

[SomniaCE]

I love that first guy being in total denial about having actual anger issues lmao

[deejayf]

"If you quit the game, that's like our peak happiness" this quote says it all

[acraze]

smurfs just have egos, which is super cringe, when in reality no one cares about some random plat 4 playing in a silver game.

[DongHuaPan]

This video is NOT sponsored by Turbosmurfs.

Hi everyone, so some people were upset that I was promoting a smurf seller in my last short. I wanted to address some of the criticisms and concerns.

1- This is a video that I’ve been working on since December of last year. It’s really hard to get a trusted Smurf vendor to go on record and be transparent. Astro and Flow was a pleasure to work within that regard. I made this video because it was something that had been requested a lot and because it was something that I had found interesting myself.

2- You’ll notice that there have not been any sponsors on my last two videos, this is because I recently left my agency. I put a Bitly link because I know from experience that whenever I even mention someone in one of my videos, their business or stream can grow anywhere from 10-500%. This info is valuable to me as a creator since I have to now negotiate with brands myself.

3- Because we know that this video will help TBS they have agreed to donate a portion of their profits to the NAMI Foundation, a charity for mental health. Although smurfing does have a pretty toxic side to it, I do actually think that TBS makes it a little less so with their policies.

If you have any questions about the video feel free to join my discord, I’ll be doing Q and A after every upload on the server from now on for the 1st few days of the upload.

[crashbandicooch]

My favorite is when a “jerk off smurf” is getting smashed in his lane 1v1 and starts flaming the absolute fuck out of his team for it because his ego is getting even more bruised than it already was, and he can’t accept the fact that he’s still getting shit on even in two ranks below his own.

[MrDonJuanquis]

Imagine wasting $5 or more just to be able to type shit, run it down and ruin somebody else's experience in a videogame just because you aren't able to find joy in anything else in life

That's just sad...

[VarsVerum]

As someone who has multiple smurfs I don't think the existence of smurfs is objectively a bad thing. What I DO think is bad is the ridiculously overinflated ego smurfs have. The whole "Lul trash hardstuck plat my main is GM 500 LP" If you're smurfing, you need to understand that you can't expect the same things out of a gold/plat/diamond player as you would a master/grandmaster/challenger player. Yet they do, which is why they're so needlessly toxic.

That's like a high school AP calculus student expecting middle schoolers to know calculus then getting mad that they don't when they haven't even gotten to that point yet.

[jeluenhayo]

Dong, you discuss your topics so thoroughly within 1 video each that I fear you'll have no content to rely on soon :D Other youtubers would've milked each of those topics for 10+ vids each, but you're the Man of this platform. Thank you.

[SondaroSasuke]

Defending smurfing is like defending a pro soccer player going into playgrounds with kids to play with them. It poses a moral dilemma that is impossible to break out from:
If you pull your punches, you probably won't be having fun and the enemy team will still have a ridiculous hard time trying to win because of how much you know about the game that they don't.
If you don't pull your punches, you are essentially beating up kids and removing any chance of them winning.

Most people defeding smurfing do it from the smurf mentality: It's just one game in an ocean of thousands of games, it won't matter in your gaming year in the long run. Well, guess what, some of us can't play more than one game per day, maybe even one game per week, and having that single moment of "escaping reality" ruined by "010938xFioramaster18gg" really sucks.

Nobody wants in on a game that says "hey, there is a chance that you can't win this round". If you were to offer anyone the chance to play a game they can't win from the get go, nobody would do it.

[matthew]

Jesus, that first guy gave me chills. He gets off on causing suffering. Imagine how he acts in real life when he is around weak and helpless people.

[MrReese]

The fact that you made a mental health fundraiser in conjunction with this video is pure gold :D. Those are some seriously sick dudes, and not in a good way.

[MatthewReardon]

ive recognized long ago that theres not competitive integrity in many video games given smurfing, flaming, inters, boosters, wintraders, etc..
so at this point the more important thing to do is to maximize the amount of fun you can have in these games, seeing as there will always be someone that wont be the same skill as you and trying their best

[johnathanflannagan]

I played one game of ranked and wanted to quit immediately because of the flame. It's incredible how people act.

[darrenzou]

Just a theory but these bot accounts contribute Massively to on paper player growth which looks really good on paper which is why riot isnt trying to hard to clear them.
For example if the bot accounts make, say 1 million bot accounts a month, thats a million extra accounts on paper that the company to show to the higher ups.

[sol-hunter]

I recently made a new account on league, and I was honestly shocked how the skill of players I was going up against, majority were a lot better than me, and they were some difficult games. I can only imagine what it is like to be genuinely new to the game.

[JustUselesssTrash]

I once encountered a smurf, back when I made a new account to help a friend, and he was flaming our team hard saying "jg why cant you gank you ****!!!" "what are you doing here adc" (spamming question mark ping) and when I tried to help, he spammed and then flamed us all, I went in and told him "chill and that everyone is new here" somehow he didn't realize that, continued the behavior, so I went to all chat and turns out all of them were smurfs, but surprisingly enough they were all chill none of them were sweating probably, and they helped report, but I yet to receive the notification that he has been banned.

[LightKing]

You know whats even sadder when you think about it?
it makes sense why a smurf gets over offended when you call them out on there ego. What else do some of them have? Not all smurfs but some genuinely dont have anything but league of legends to look forward to in there life. No family, no irl friends, no relationship. All they have is league.

[WNPass]

I was hoping to get a better understanding of smurfs and maybe have some empathy. Instead, it actually doubled down my belief that the vast majority of them are just sad, sad, sad individuals. Most of the people interviewed are extremely delusional and too far gone to be reasoned with. They feel justified in their actions and "them" smurfing isn't really a problem, it's "everyone else" smurfing who is the problem, failing to realize they are part of the larger problem. This includes the so called "dad" smurfers who justify ruining other people's times because their life is just "oh so busy". That fails to acknowledge that the vast majority of players whose games they are ruining also have busy personal lives and just want to enjoy a game for the limited time that they have. I now have even less sympathy for smurfers and have an even poorer opinion of them.