Just gained maximum respect for you. I CLAWED my way out of the lower ranks after 1000+ hours, this being my first fps, and am now ascendant 2, but smurfing is an absolute disease in lower ranks. There has been a rise of content creators smurfing lately and I make sure to unsubscribe from whoever I see doing it as it's just an awful thing to do. Not only does it waste the 30 minutes - 1 hour of everyone else but the smurfs are often times extremely hateful and just outright bully people in their games, not to mention the pain of carrying several games just to have all the elo taken away by one or two smurfs who think it's funny. Really hope your channel blows up man.
But as others have said though, riot just straight up doesn't care, as the smurfing content videos are wildly popular and the smurfs almost always dump money into skins on their mains and sometimes buy skins on smurf accounts. It's unfortunate but as long as it keeps making them $ they won't do anything.
I come from league and its surprises me that a coach even has this point of view. Watching smurfs in any game has always been highly educational for me. Not only that but versing smurfs has always been more valuable for me because it really makes me understand the mistakes I was making and I adapt. I think players need to stop thinking they are entitled to some rank or some number and just focus on themselves instead of crying about how much it hurts their fragile ego to get shit on.
I just started watching a guy who hit ascendant with a classic and his community is the most positive I have ever seen on valorant. If you truly value your time my first question is why are you playing valorant? My second question is why are you playing ranked to get a fair playing experience? Its already a hell hole no matter the rank. Just play custom games and play with a team and put yourself to the test and improve instead of complaining about if we should ban smurfs :/
Lastly its pretty cheap to think good players shouldn’t make a couple bucks making content for their community. Its what people want to see and it helps new players find the game. I also don’t understand how you can sit here and complain about how better players are allowed to be better than you? Its funny that he mentioned Magnus Carlson when he loves smurfing with random challenges like getting drunk or doing horrible openings and hes made tons of alt accounts on chess websites. Pretty much every competitive game has smurfs so if you really dont like people being better than you, “get good” or id suggest a new hobby.
A great example of alternatives is eggwick which often posts community games; which hold similar challenges (ie. what happens if I put a diamond into a silver lobby, shotgun only but its all silvers and other content of that sort in a controlled custom game environment where they can simulate the ranked experience with only consenting players who wont have their rr or elo ruined)
@@Woohoojin Woohoojin, I have a question. With the classic to immortal challenges, and similar, do you think it is ok to 'smurf' if your skill level isn't as high because you are using a classic. Provided that you do placements, and don't start from Iron.
Coach woohoojin thank you from the bottom of my heart! As someone who is not skilled at video games specifically valorant. I cannot explain the amount of times I have been on my rank up games only to run into smurfs who go 40-4 and waste hours worth of grinding elo.
1. It's super easy to do for them. 2. Riot doesn't do anything about it. 3. They don't give a shit about the experiences they're ruining. I don't think they will ever stop. They will give every excuse under the sun as to why its okay for them to do it. I'm being this doubtful because people will only stop if the big guys are being outspoken against smurfing but its mostly the big guys that're doing it. Sadge.
@@sahilkhan2034 my logic makes sense to me. It’s a video game, not real life, nothing matters in a video game unless you do it for a profession. And if ur playing a game as your job, you are probably too good to get smurfed on
the part about riot not doing anything about it is too true. in one of my plat games, there was this jett who was 36 and 4, and openly admitted to being an asc 3 smurf. reported him and nothing has been done. i will never get that 36 minutes of my life back. this really needs to stop.
Your way of Thinking is what this community needs...You earned my RESPECT As a low lvl player its frustrating to play against smurfs and it makes the game so depressing for me...THANK YOU from bottom of my heart ❤️
I can't even count the amount of times I have rage quit for the night because I'll lose multiple games in a row from smurfs. Thank you for taking a stand against it
The thought of LeBron James crushing teenagers in basketball is kinda hilarious though. Like he absolutely sweats and try-hards the entire time just to humiliate them lmao.
I stumbled upon one of your coaching videos randomly and I honestly believe that you are one of the best coaches that I've ever seen, your explanations are so clear and easy to understand as well as keeping the videos reasonable length. I think you will be my go to valorant help channel from now on, keep up the good work glasses banana dude
100% agree. It's tough to naturally get better in a game like Valorant when in Plat-Diamond is primarily smurf accounts boosting their friends, running it down everywhere. If you miss a single shot, you're instantly dead from a running counter-strafe 1 tap. In no way is it making the person smurfing better either. It's just stroking their fragile ego. You earned a sub from this vid.
Well said, smurfs ruin us players trying to learn and improve at Valorant. It’s a shame the powers that be don’t have the same opinion. Great video and well spoken for us lower elo players.
"guys its okay its only one game you can get it back" that 1 game takes 40 minutes and then the next 1or 2 games to get the RR back also takes 40-80 minutes
Finally. All other things aside, imagine coming back from work, exhausted, when u dont even have energy to overthink about life or question your close future. You load Val, warm-up(because there is no fun just to play for me) and there is huuuuge chance that it will be AFK game or Smurf game. Worst thing is that no-one fcking cares about others time. Content creators sitting all day in front of pc and they are soooo lazy and shallow that they dont even bother to come with some creative idea, to make some fun comp or anything. Thats frustrating, not loosing fair game. I dont really give a fuck its a game ofc but people behind that game drive me crazy sometimes. Biiig shoutout for this vid!
On a placement match i got an enemy reyna who played whole match using sheriff only taping every one he got like 40 kills he/she ended the suffering quickly on a 13-3 score line. Edit : and yeah hes rank was bronze 3
It's amazing that Skillcapped has videos and even courses where they demonstrate how to win in low elo by letting their coaches go into low ranked accounts and try to "win not just with aim" but it's nice to have radiant/IM aim too I guess. It's still smurfing and it's weird how the community sees it as something good even if they do this for educational purposes
I will say, the one exception to this from what I've seen is the guy who did the sheriff to immortal series because he explicitly told his teammates in pre round and started on an account that had ascendant mmr so it was an actual challenge for him as a (iirc) low-mid radiant peak as he was truly disadvantaged in a lot of fights
man i got smurfed on once by a crazy player and i just got tilted and lost every game that day, and rn im still stuck at bronze 3 and i encounter smurfs ever 2-3 games, its just not fun for us.
this is honestly gonna have as much as an effect as people signing a petition to stop the war in ukraine, but maybe someone will take it seriously, and I damn well hope they do as a silver player
Just got to silver for the first time and my rankup game was just an enemy cypher sabotaging his team and acing after they all died, then killing himself. Took all the joy out of reaching a new rank.
So ive seen COUNTLESS Coaching Videos on UA-cam and everyone just gives the same basic advice and is 0% Situational. Because he gives Situational Advice alone,(and im not just talking about maps or Agents, but also about ranks, playstyles etc.) this guy makes by far the best (Free) coaching Content out there. But having a Mindset like this gives him the ultimate edge over all those YT coaches who think only using a classic while smurfing proofs that you dont need aim to rank up.
@@sethikablip8607 he’s still marketing himself as a radiant coach. This man struggles in low ascendant and he still markets himself as a radiant coach, can you really trust all the things he has taught. Personally, the only coach i watched was him but i feel so betrayed and hurt, i’m moving on to other content now, i’ll watch royalg and charla7an instead, this is the end of my hooj viewership
@@BreadBreadLoveBreadatop crying about this tbh Ita cringe Yeah he lied and he I apologize for that He is immo and trying to be radiant And much coaches are not even radiant u dont have to be Messi to coach him and his team..
if they actually played unrated until lvl20 with their restrictions like sheriff only for exemple, when they get placed they would actually be placed on their sheriff only ranking, but they usually get an account that gets placed silver or gold because they didn't actually play on it
When I Smurf I just sandbag since I’m diamond and all my friends are bronze/silver. So I don’t really try to frag out. It has made me a shittier player. I regret smurfing
I just escaped the hardstuck cycle and reached Iron1 s3 in 3 weeks but suddenly am seeing these smurfs popping A LOT in this silver lobby and openly admitting to it like in just my previous game enemy jett was like "nah I'm not hacking, just playing on friend's account to help him rank up. Oh, what is my actual rank? it's immo2." In another game enemy reyna was shooting headshots without even looking at us, I told my team to report but they refused, now you can't tell me that a pro player can shoot you while facing the opposite direction. I just feel like after watching all of your vids and other content creators' vids, all of my time and effort just went to waste.
Well, every content creator likely has. I personally have never even considered smurfing. It's a thing shit human beings do. It's selfish, hypocritical, and not to mention pointless. I'm Ascendant and somehow haven't adopted the attitude of "oh it's okay if I smurf now because I'm good at the game"... Instead, my attitude is "Riot owes the playerbase too much RR to be able to compensate everyone at this point", because ultimately it's Riot's fault for not giving a fxck. I stay in my own ranks, because I'm not a fucking crybaby when my games become unbelievably difficult, and decide to take it out on players of lesser skill. I embrace the challenge, and if I don't feel like playing against literal demons, I hop over to ESCALATION, or literally any other casual gamemode in which I can perform as well/shit as I want, and NOBODY will care! What!!!!??? I can enjoy the game AND not ruin anyone's night???? Crazy...
I have played video games for years and been saying this for YEARS, I recently found your content and have been diving big time into learning more Valorant, and this video makes me love your content so much more, like do people not see that it doesn't matter if these players are worse than you, THEY ARE PEOPLE. Like that silver player might have had one game that day, maybe after school, or lets go more dramatic, maybe they're a single parent who just spent their whole day working their but off at their job, taking care of their child etc. and they sit down for for that OONE game, and you ruin it, they have a whole day to go through for that chance at fun again. It's so fucked, I'll always be a smurf hater.
I used to play this game with my friends but now all of them stop playing because of smurf and now I am playing alone. So basically smurf ruined this game and my game life. So anyone who is smurfing think about what you are doing...🥺
1:11 Absolutely true. Anyone with a modicum of popularity and influence needs to understand this. Responsibility comes with the territory, especially when your audience consists of young people. The idea of, instead of doing an x to y smurf video, coaching someone at a rank is a great idea. It helps the person being coached, moves attention away from the idea of smurfing, and gives viewers around the skill level of the person being coached's levels actionable things to do/avoid. Back when I played Overwatch, there was, and I'm sure is, a problem with smurfing videos. It exploits people who don't know better and are probably trying to have fun/get better. It sets a bad precedent for the viewers, which actually helps make the community worse. At the end of the day though, smurfing videos are kind of like clickbait. Clickbait works so well that once a single content creator did it and saw success, every other one is pressured into doing it. Unfortunately, ethics comes second to views, and that's part of a much deeper issue than Valorant videos.
I think you're right abt everything, I myself am also guilty of boosting in LoL, it was just an easy way to make money and it was somewhat fun for myself as well but in retrospective I had to realize that it was straight up wrong. There's only one scenario where I think "smurfing" is somewhat fine and thats when you are a e.g. Radiant Yoru onetrick and want to learn smokes and then get a smurf where you play yourself up into Immortal to learn those agents.
I just started watching prolly 2 weeks ago. Im a LoL player and wanted to switch up games. Your vids help me a lot I mean tons! I hope other players would do the same with you. Thank you for standing up
I feel this as a silver player stuck for a year. I got a immo smurf on the enemy team and it was gruesome, and a waste of time and just a free win for the enemies.
I'm bronze and i can personally say, the amounts of smurfs and people who just throw are unreal, like 2-3 people every game. Riot seriously needs to fix this.
Tips against smurfs: 1- Use shotguns! I see so many people playing normally against them and it doesnt work. 2- Dont go in an aim fight with them.3- Utilty dump on them they cant do sht if you keep stunning and flashing them 4- stay in random ass corners they dont check corners very often.5- tilt them say things like: bro I am not tryna make fun of you but Are you sure you are a smurf? This will tilt the sht out of them.
I dont get many smurfs in ranked but unrated is a different story. Almost every lobby there is a smurf. Its so annoying. I mostly only play unrated in order to play with my friends who are bronze while im gold. Now some people might have a problem with me playign with bronze people while im gold. I wouldnt consider it an issue since valorant match makes us according to get relatively fair games. The problem is when there is a bronze on the other team, who very clearly is not bronze on their main, and they roll us. If they were on their main they would have gotten a better team to play with but instead they have us.
The one good (evil) thing about smurfing is that it actually damages the smurf in the end, because he gets worse. But, unfortunately a lot of smurfing is done as the 'exit scam'. Someone got to high rank, got bored and wanted to stroke his ego and leave
i remember watchin C9 keoh smurfing all the time and told him in a live stream why are u smurfing and he replied with it was "educational purposes only"
When timmy was asked that he was like "technically i'm not even a radiant smurf, actually i've only been radiant once" and when he got banned for smurfing a riot dev unbanned him 2 mins later. so unfun
Finally a content creator with some influence said it. It makes my blood boil seeing radiant/immo streamers and youtubers literally profitting from other peoples misery - yes, getting PAID to wreck players that they know aren't as good as them. That's like a bully getting paid for bullying students, it sounds fucking ridiculous because it is. It inflates their ego, depresses the people who actually are that rank and promotes toxic behaviour onto others because 'it's fun' when you really have a think about it, is it really that fun getting 40 kills in a gold lobby when you know you're supposed to and probably will? it's not good for your own skill level either because you'll get sloppy and complacent.
I've thought about it and I really don't see what the big problem with smurfing is. People get stomped in games against people the same rank as them all the time and if someone loses they are most likely going to have a bad impression of that game, just because playing against a smurf will be a worse experience because you lose harder doesn't mean its unethical, especially since the games you have with and against a smurf will pretty much even out. The only real issue I see is if the problem with smurfing somehow becomes so bad that people are getting smurfs ever game so it becomes impossible for lower ranked players to rank up but that is extremely unlikely to happen, and if you think it is already happening youre coping.
I hate smurfs so much. I actually had a stretch of 5 games in a row recently where the enemy team clearly had a smurf and three of them just outright admitted they're smurfing simply because nothing happens to them. This is on riot. If someone just clearly outperforms everyone on their elo they should be boosted like 6 ranks (2 full ranks) after a few games.
I used to get tilted at smurfs and potential cheaters and all the bullshit that goes along with it but I just stopped caring about valorant as a competitive game. It has zero competitive integrity so I don't give a shit about ranking up. I just play it when I wanna have some fun, I no longer care about the jpeg next to my name and I honestly prefer to frag out individually and still lose the game because that means I derank and it's not as difficult. When cs source 2 comes out, that will be my competitive game, valorant just aint it, too flawed.
I've only played around 20 ish games of ranked in my whole experience in Valo,. Of the games I've played I've won 4. I'm Iron 3 and it feels like every game I get there's either a smurf on either my team, the enemy or both. When they're on the enemy team they're outclassing everyone and if they're on mine they are throwing, I had a Yoru the previous night AFK most of the game and when he was actually playing he was very clearly better then our opponents. It just makes me not want to play ranked, let alone the game anymore, playing unrated can only you improve so much, I want to get better but when the game makes me want to rip my hair out it just isn't worth it
What I don’t understand is why they always feel the need to do it in ranked. Like, I’m silver, and I would 100% be fine with it if they stuck to stuff like replication, spike rush, stuff like that. Even unrated, which is still annoying, would be better than ranked. But idk gotta get that rank up dopamine hit ig
@@fortniteenjoyer2829 all I’m saying is that playing any other game mode than ranked would massively reduce the annoyance of smurfing, but yeah you’re right
@@encampedmars627 There is no plot in Spikerush and other gamemodes because theyre just casual time spending. In Ranked there is something to compete for, which is way more cloutdragging
@@fortniteenjoyer2829 you could play unrated and use Valorant tracker to to gauge the ranks of the people you’re playing with. Again, not the entire same, but it would massively benefit all the people who’s games are being ruined, and you could basically keep the same clickbait titles, eg “I GOT TO RADIANT ELO WHILE UNRANKED” or something like that. But either way, the smurfs have shown they really don’t give a shit so whatever
People that complain about smurfing are just bad in general, I don't mind someone smurfing on enemy team I learn their movement, positioning, playstyle, and as a result I get better. I get better faster when I play with better people. Also winning against a smurf is possible I remember a game it was either a smurf or someone on a extremely good day, they were dropping lots of frags but we ended up winning rounds.
the only time i tried to get boosted they banned me and now i dont like boosting anymore (didnt even get boosted that much, just went from plat 2 50 points to plat 3 20 points)
i was hardstuck iron for 1 year because no matter what i did i would get one tapped by someone who openly admitted to being diamond or higher on their main and it sucked n when i would report them riot would do absolutely nothing
As a gold who constantly runs into smurfs, I appreciate videos like this. And hey, you want to watch “smurfing” content? Go watch something like Valorant Curios instead. Now that’s an ethical way of putting together disparity in ranks.
lmaoo this is so true lol, sentinel to radiant, duelist to radiant series are supposed be educational and I was excited when Jollz started his controller to radiant, only to watch an omen knifing the lobby lol
I wish you were just forced to watch this video when you load up Valorant. You are great at explaning things (probably why you are a coach) and had literally the best comparisons ever
val is the first fps game i have played i enjoy playing it i would consider myself a solid player most of my games are played against a smurf which sucks i cant count how many times ive deranked due to a smurf and even if i can play against a smurf it doesnt mean my 4 teammates can. the strange part is 80 percent of the time i see a smurf theyre on the enemy team
I wish more people agreed with this. Its so frustrating since people laugh at you when you speak against it. The fact that someone has to ruin 9 people's games just because of an inflated ego or content baffles me. (yes also the teammates because it's super boring hearing your teammate kill 3-5 enemies at the start at the round 5-9 times in a row until the enemy gives up and you go into your next match)
My issue is that my main account got hacked, that was Plat 2. I made a new account and got it to Diamond 3 and the reset happened. I had reset to Plat 3 and was only playing against people who were Ascendent 3 or immortal last act until i lost 10 games in a row. I got mad and mad a new account and got to gold 3 in my placement matches and went 34-17 in a lobby with Diamonds and Plat 3 players. So I can say that I "smurfed" and I do feel bad but my smurf accounts are somehow getting at least plat or diamond in like 3 to 5 games. I do think it is wrong and i only justify my account after getting hacked but if you want to get a higher rank than you even have before, i suggest making a new account because the hidden MMR on your first account holds back the progression severely, at least in my case. (I do not condone smurfing tho, if you do make a new account try to get it right off the bat to a higher rank to not make gold and silver players lives worse. I used to be hardstuck silver for 100 days total on my main account before i got plat 2. It makes the game feel awful knowing you literally are playing against someone who is just way better than you.)
I once had a instalock duelist that was sherrif only, he was g1, and g3 on main. We lost that game pretty close, if he had a decent weapon he could've clutched a few times.
Overwatch 2 stopped this stuff by detecting and boosting smurfs. A fresh account will be in GM within less than a dozen games these days. I imagine AI smurf detection would be even more powerful in Valorant since players have far more agency and carry potential. I suspect Riot is resistant to it because it removes some of the grind from ranking, which they want.
In rocket league theres a guy called lethamyr and he smurfs but its educational and he plays like he belongs in the rank hes smurfing in. He rarely pushes and all and lets his tm8 do most things
I have this friend. We're both Diamond. BUT! He loves nothing more than joining Iron lobbies and either dropping 50, or absolutely throwing. But it's funny cause they're Iron, right? I keep telling him it's a scummy thing to do and he keeps giving me this bullshit cope and I don't know how to get him to stop ruining the game for other people.
Bro I didn’t understand how many smurfs were actually in this game, and I’ve only been playing this game for 2 weeks, I’ve gotten kinda better but seeing a level 1 Jett defeat a bunch of of players with a ghost is kinda sad.
is it smurfing if you create a 2 account where you have Xbox game pass. And use that account for learning other agents and going the same elo. But then trying that as a Education perspective. I am really asking these because in my main i don,t have all agents. And what build my game sense.
I think people like seeing smurfing content because of how radiants can do anything and get away with a 3k, 4k or even an ace almost every round. And i don't blame the viewers, for then, it is fun to see radiants getting aces every round, maybe because they're new to the game and like seeing someone hitting crazy clips every round If content creators used unrated instead of ranked to farm clips, i think it would be good for everyone, the cc farm clips and get more views, and the players won't lose elo, because it's just unrated Rawzu already does this and his numbers are pretty good, because he hits absurd clips every video
Possibly the most based gaming content I've seen in decades. You know what happens when you smurf? People don't want to play that game any more. It's not fun to get carried, it's not fun to get ship on by someone who's so much better than you they seem like a hacker. People will quit the game and your game will die.
I think that they should be able to do these challenges but they shouldn’t purposely start in Iron. They should just be in whatever rank they deserve so it’s not smurfing
You know, the fact that those words are coming from a radiant player and not from low ELO ones which are those effectively damaged by smurfing, shows that, example of extraordinary people are still populating the Valorant playerbase. Therefore there is still hope🙂
Just gained maximum respect for you. I CLAWED my way out of the lower ranks after 1000+ hours, this being my first fps, and am now ascendant 2, but smurfing is an absolute disease in lower ranks. There has been a rise of content creators smurfing lately and I make sure to unsubscribe from whoever I see doing it as it's just an awful thing to do. Not only does it waste the 30 minutes - 1 hour of everyone else but the smurfs are often times extremely hateful and just outright bully people in their games, not to mention the pain of carrying several games just to have all the elo taken away by one or two smurfs who think it's funny. Really hope your channel blows up man.
But as others have said though, riot just straight up doesn't care, as the smurfing content videos are wildly popular and the smurfs almost always dump money into skins on their mains and sometimes buy skins on smurf accounts. It's unfortunate but as long as it keeps making them $ they won't do anything.
I come from league and its surprises me that a coach even has this point of view. Watching smurfs in any game has always been highly educational for me. Not only that but versing smurfs has always been more valuable for me because it really makes me understand the mistakes I was making and I adapt. I think players need to stop thinking they are entitled to some rank or some number and just focus on themselves instead of crying about how much it hurts their fragile ego to get shit on.
I just started watching a guy who hit ascendant with a classic and his community is the most positive I have ever seen on valorant. If you truly value your time my first question is why are you playing valorant? My second question is why are you playing ranked to get a fair playing experience? Its already a hell hole no matter the rank. Just play custom games and play with a team and put yourself to the test and improve instead of complaining about if we should ban smurfs :/
Lastly its pretty cheap to think good players shouldn’t make a couple bucks making content for their community. Its what people want to see and it helps new players find the game. I also don’t understand how you can sit here and complain about how better players are allowed to be better than you? Its funny that he mentioned Magnus Carlson when he loves smurfing with random challenges like getting drunk or doing horrible openings and hes made tons of alt accounts on chess websites. Pretty much every competitive game has smurfs so if you really dont like people being better than you, “get good” or id suggest a new hobby.
@@drowsy5879 🤓
A great example of alternatives is eggwick which often posts community games; which hold similar challenges (ie. what happens if I put a diamond into a silver lobby, shotgun only but its all silvers and other content of that sort in a controlled custom game environment where they can simulate the ranked experience with only consenting players who wont have their rr or elo ruined)
Customs will never feel the same as ranked
@@StenchRadiantDemonGoatReal what about money
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Stop talking bro
@@girizu "ermmmm.... stop talking bro!" nerd
Me sitting in Gold 3 with 62 subscribers:
"Hmm yes... I hear you. We've gotta put an end to this. It's up to us..."
Yes! Even you!
you don't smurf in bronze.
🤣i used to..but i just double ranked up to gold.. and im gold😅 its really quick..then i get bullied by smurfs and the chain goes on
also me on bronze with 8 subscribers lol
@@Woohoojin
Woohoojin, I have a question. With the classic to immortal challenges, and similar, do you think it is ok to 'smurf' if your skill level isn't as high because you are using a classic. Provided that you do placements, and don't start from Iron.
Valorant community needed that video
Coach woohoojin thank you from the bottom of my heart! As someone who is not skilled at video games specifically valorant. I cannot explain the amount of times I have been on my rank up games only to run into smurfs who go 40-4 and waste hours worth of grinding elo.
1. It's super easy to do for them.
2. Riot doesn't do anything about it.
3. They don't give a shit about the experiences they're ruining.
I don't think they will ever stop. They will give every excuse under the sun as to why its okay for them to do it. I'm being this doubtful because people will only stop if the big guys are being outspoken against smurfing but its mostly the big guys that're doing it. Sadge.
the only big flaw that I see in his argument is asking if it's ethical, when you are quite literally talking about a video game.
@@narenmahadevan7605 You are still playing with 9 other people in said video game. It's not ethical even if its a video game.
@@roger3681 yeah I understand what ur saying, imma just stick to what ok saying. Cuz it makes sense to me
@@narenmahadevan7605 what the hell you mean cuz it make sense to me like what?
@@sahilkhan2034 my logic makes sense to me. It’s a video game, not real life, nothing matters in a video game unless you do it for a profession. And if ur playing a game as your job, you are probably too good to get smurfed on
the part about riot not doing anything about it is too true. in one of my plat games, there was this jett who was 36 and 4, and openly admitted to being an asc 3 smurf. reported him and nothing has been done. i will never get that 36 minutes of my life back. this really needs to stop.
Your way of Thinking is what this community needs...You earned my RESPECT
As a low lvl player its frustrating to play against smurfs and it makes the game so depressing for me...THANK YOU from bottom of my heart ❤️
I can't even count the amount of times I have rage quit for the night because I'll lose multiple games in a row from smurfs. Thank you for taking a stand against it
The thought of LeBron James crushing teenagers in basketball is kinda hilarious though. Like he absolutely sweats and try-hards the entire time just to humiliate them lmao.
I stumbled upon one of your coaching videos randomly and I honestly believe that you are one of the best coaches that I've ever seen, your explanations are so clear and easy to understand as well as keeping the videos reasonable length. I think you will be my go to valorant help channel from now on, keep up the good work glasses banana dude
100% agree. It's tough to naturally get better in a game like Valorant when in Plat-Diamond is primarily smurf accounts boosting their friends, running it down everywhere. If you miss a single shot, you're instantly dead from a running counter-strafe 1 tap. In no way is it making the person smurfing better either. It's just stroking their fragile ego.
You earned a sub from this vid.
Thank you for addressing this. I hope Riot does something about it as it has probably impacted more than 95% of the player base.
I hereby as a small content creator promise to not smurf anymore. I make this pledge here as to be seen for people to know how I feel about this.
Well said, smurfs ruin us players trying to learn and improve at Valorant. It’s a shame the powers that be don’t have the same opinion. Great video and well spoken for us lower elo players.
This video hits different now
"guys its okay its only one game you can get it back"
that 1 game takes 40 minutes and then the next 1or 2 games to get the RR back also takes 40-80 minutes
Combined with the fact every couple of games there's a smurf in it... You can see a problem start building huh
Finally. All other things aside, imagine coming back from work, exhausted, when u dont even have energy to overthink about life or question your close future. You load Val, warm-up(because there is no fun just to play for me) and there is huuuuge chance that it will be AFK game or Smurf game. Worst thing is that no-one fcking cares about others time. Content creators sitting all day in front of pc and they are soooo lazy and shallow that they dont even bother to come with some creative idea, to make some fun comp or anything. Thats frustrating, not loosing fair game. I dont really give a fuck its a game ofc but people behind that game drive me crazy sometimes. Biiig shoutout for this vid!
On a placement match i got an enemy reyna who played whole match using sheriff only taping every one he got like 40 kills he/she ended the suffering quickly on a 13-3 score line.
Edit : and yeah hes rank was bronze 3
This just made you my most favorite content creator. Mad respect. Subbed
It's amazing that Skillcapped has videos and even courses where they demonstrate how to win in low elo by letting their coaches go into low ranked accounts and try to "win not just with aim" but it's nice to have radiant/IM aim too I guess. It's still smurfing and it's weird how the community sees it as something good even if they do this for educational purposes
I will say, the one exception to this from what I've seen is the guy who did the sheriff to immortal series because he explicitly told his teammates in pre round and started on an account that had ascendant mmr so it was an actual challenge for him as a (iirc) low-mid radiant peak as he was truly disadvantaged in a lot of fights
man i got smurfed on once by a crazy player and i just got tilted and lost every game that day, and rn im still stuck at bronze 3 and i encounter smurfs ever 2-3 games, its just not fun for us.
this is honestly gonna have as much as an effect as people signing a petition to stop the war in ukraine, but maybe someone will take it seriously, and I damn well hope they do as a silver player
reminds me of the time when i made a "smurf" account when i was silver so that i could stomp on irons, but got sent to a gold lobby instead
It makes them money.
It makes Riot money
And they normalize smurfing.
This is not ok.
Just got to silver for the first time and my rankup game was just an enemy cypher sabotaging his team and acing after they all died, then killing himself. Took all the joy out of reaching a new rank.
So ive seen COUNTLESS Coaching Videos on UA-cam and everyone just gives the same basic advice and is 0% Situational. Because he gives Situational Advice alone,(and im not just talking about maps or Agents, but also about ranks, playstyles etc.) this guy makes by far the best (Free) coaching Content out there. But having a Mindset like this gives him the ultimate edge over all those YT coaches who think only using a classic while smurfing proofs that you dont need aim to rank up.
I just started watching you but you have my utmost respect from this one video.
I hereby declare I will stop smurfing.
Thank you for this video.
I trusted you, hooj, i never expected to be betrayed like this, why did you do all this man…
He litteraly said that it was a thing in the past and it was 2 years ago and he now stopped.
@@sethikablip8607 he’s still marketing himself as a radiant coach. This man struggles in low ascendant and he still markets himself as a radiant coach, can you really trust all the things he has taught. Personally, the only coach i watched was him but i feel so betrayed and hurt, i’m moving on to other content now, i’ll watch royalg and charla7an instead, this is the end of my hooj viewership
@@BreadBreadLoveBreadatop crying about this tbh
Ita cringe
Yeah he lied and he I apologize for that
He is immo and trying to be radiant
And much coaches are not even radiant u dont have to be Messi to coach him and his team..
if they actually played unrated until lvl20 with their restrictions like sheriff only for exemple, when they get placed they would actually be placed on their sheriff only ranking, but they usually get an account that gets placed silver or gold because they didn't actually play on it
Came here after i heard he also ruined games being boosted in radiant, not just smurfing in bronze 3.
even worse is when there is no handicap lol, like when tarik was just straight up boosting ludwig in gold
When I Smurf I just sandbag since I’m diamond and all my friends are bronze/silver. So I don’t really try to frag out. It has made me a shittier player. I regret smurfing
Finally some fucking Integrity!!! This is a rarity. Proud of you good sir. 🎉
I just got kaemi in my ascendant 1 game, my derank game. He used stinger only but still gapped us hard. Game is frustrating to play.
By far the best coaching channel on youtube.
I just escaped the hardstuck cycle and reached Iron1 s3 in 3 weeks but suddenly am seeing these smurfs popping A LOT in this silver lobby and openly admitting to it like in just my previous game enemy jett was like "nah I'm not hacking, just playing on friend's account to help him rank up. Oh, what is my actual rank? it's immo2." In another game enemy reyna was shooting headshots without even looking at us, I told my team to report but they refused, now you can't tell me that a pro player can shoot you while facing the opposite direction.
I just feel like after watching all of your vids and other content creators' vids, all of my time and effort just went to waste.
Appreciate the honesty here aswell, everyone’s done it. It’s just something as a community that we have to try to stop.
Well, every content creator likely has. I personally have never even considered smurfing.
It's a thing shit human beings do. It's selfish, hypocritical, and not to mention pointless.
I'm Ascendant and somehow haven't adopted the attitude of "oh it's okay if I smurf now because I'm good at the game"...
Instead, my attitude is "Riot owes the playerbase too much RR to be able to compensate everyone at this point", because ultimately it's Riot's fault for not giving a fxck.
I stay in my own ranks, because I'm not a fucking crybaby when my games become unbelievably difficult, and decide to take it out on players of lesser skill.
I embrace the challenge, and if I don't feel like playing against literal demons, I hop over to ESCALATION, or literally any other casual gamemode in which I can perform as well/shit as I want, and NOBODY will care!
What!!!!??? I can enjoy the game AND not ruin anyone's night???? Crazy...
Smurfing is just bullying.
I have played video games for years and been saying this for YEARS, I recently found your content and have been diving big time into learning more Valorant, and this video makes me love your content so much more, like do people not see that it doesn't matter if these players are worse than you, THEY ARE PEOPLE. Like that silver player might have had one game that day, maybe after school, or lets go more dramatic, maybe they're a single parent who just spent their whole day working their but off at their job, taking care of their child etc. and they sit down for for that OONE game, and you ruin it, they have a whole day to go through for that chance at fun again. It's so fucked, I'll always be a smurf hater.
I used to play this game with my friends but now all of them stop playing because of smurf and now I am playing alone. So basically smurf ruined this game and my game life. So anyone who is smurfing think about what you are doing...🥺
1:11 Absolutely true. Anyone with a modicum of popularity and influence needs to understand this. Responsibility comes with the territory, especially when your audience consists of young people.
The idea of, instead of doing an x to y smurf video, coaching someone at a rank is a great idea. It helps the person being coached, moves attention away from the idea of smurfing, and gives viewers around the skill level of the person being coached's levels actionable things to do/avoid.
Back when I played Overwatch, there was, and I'm sure is, a problem with smurfing videos. It exploits people who don't know better and are probably trying to have fun/get better. It sets a bad precedent for the viewers, which actually helps make the community worse.
At the end of the day though, smurfing videos are kind of like clickbait. Clickbait works so well that once a single content creator did it and saw success, every other one is pressured into doing it. Unfortunately, ethics comes second to views, and that's part of a much deeper issue than Valorant videos.
I think you're right abt everything, I myself am also guilty of boosting in LoL, it was just an easy way to make money and it was somewhat fun for myself as well but in retrospective I had to realize that it was straight up wrong. There's only one scenario where I think "smurfing" is somewhat fine and thats when you are a e.g. Radiant Yoru onetrick and want to learn smokes and then get a smurf where you play yourself up into Immortal to learn those agents.
This is a good point but I want to see LeBron do a road to NBA series.
I just started watching prolly 2 weeks ago. Im a LoL player and wanted to switch up games. Your vids help me a lot I mean tons! I hope other players would do the same with you. Thank you for standing up
I feel this as a silver player stuck for a year. I got a immo smurf on the enemy team and it was gruesome, and a waste of time and just a free win for the enemies.
I'm bronze and i can personally say, the amounts of smurfs and people who just throw are unreal, like 2-3 people every game. Riot seriously needs to fix this.
Tips against smurfs: 1- Use shotguns! I see so many people playing normally against them and it doesnt work. 2- Dont go in an aim fight with them.3- Utilty dump on them they cant do sht if you keep stunning and flashing them 4- stay in random ass corners they dont check corners very often.5- tilt them say things like: bro I am not tryna make fun of you but Are you sure you are a smurf? This will tilt the sht out of them.
I dont get many smurfs in ranked but unrated is a different story. Almost every lobby there is a smurf. Its so annoying. I mostly only play unrated in order to play with my friends who are bronze while im gold. Now some people might have a problem with me playign with bronze people while im gold. I wouldnt consider it an issue since valorant match makes us according to get relatively fair games. The problem is when there is a bronze on the other team, who very clearly is not bronze on their main, and they roll us. If they were on their main they would have gotten a better team to play with but instead they have us.
Thank you for making this video! So many people do it and don't care how morally wrong it is actually.
woohoojin without smurfing is not the woohoojin I once knew... but maybe this heralds better times.. a new man..
I love you, nobody gets this. Smurf content is as sincere as people recording themselves supposedly being good people.
The Valorant community needed this video
The one good (evil) thing about smurfing is that it actually damages the smurf in the end, because he gets worse.
But, unfortunately a lot of smurfing is done as the 'exit scam'. Someone got to high rank, got bored and wanted to stroke his ego and leave
i remember watchin C9 keoh smurfing all the time and told him in a live stream why are u smurfing and he replied with it was "educational purposes only"
It’s always bs answers. Any big creator can find tons of willing lower rated players to play with consensually.
When timmy was asked that he was like "technically i'm not even a radiant smurf, actually i've only been radiant once" and when he got banned for smurfing a riot dev unbanned him 2 mins later. so unfun
You earned my sub by standing up for this.
Finally a content creator with some influence said it. It makes my blood boil seeing radiant/immo streamers and youtubers literally profitting from other peoples misery - yes, getting PAID to wreck players that they know aren't as good as them. That's like a bully getting paid for bullying students, it sounds fucking ridiculous because it is. It inflates their ego, depresses the people who actually are that rank and promotes toxic behaviour onto others because 'it's fun' when you really have a think about it, is it really that fun getting 40 kills in a gold lobby when you know you're supposed to and probably will? it's not good for your own skill level either because you'll get sloppy and complacent.
I've thought about it and I really don't see what the big problem with smurfing is. People get stomped in games against people the same rank as them all the time and if someone loses they are most likely going to have a bad impression of that game, just because playing against a smurf will be a worse experience because you lose harder doesn't mean its unethical, especially since the games you have with and against a smurf will pretty much even out. The only real issue I see is if the problem with smurfing somehow becomes so bad that people are getting smurfs ever game so it becomes impossible for lower ranked players to rank up but that is extremely unlikely to happen, and if you think it is already happening youre coping.
I hate smurfs so much. I actually had a stretch of 5 games in a row recently where the enemy team clearly had a smurf and three of them just outright admitted they're smurfing simply because nothing happens to them. This is on riot. If someone just clearly outperforms everyone on their elo they should be boosted like 6 ranks (2 full ranks) after a few games.
My respect for you just shot though the roof. Bravo. Hope they listen.
W take, clearly this man is getting proper potassium intake daily
I used to get tilted at smurfs and potential cheaters and all the bullshit that goes along with it but I just stopped caring about valorant as a competitive game. It has zero competitive integrity so I don't give a shit about ranking up. I just play it when I wanna have some fun, I no longer care about the jpeg next to my name and I honestly prefer to frag out individually and still lose the game because that means I derank and it's not as difficult. When cs source 2 comes out, that will be my competitive game, valorant just aint it, too flawed.
Appreciate your take on this, and also your coaching content/style. I'm excited to watch more of your videos!!!
Thank you :D
Smurfing should be treated like cheating
I've only played around 20 ish games of ranked in my whole experience in Valo,. Of the games I've played I've won 4. I'm Iron 3 and it feels like every game I get there's either a smurf on either my team, the enemy or both. When they're on the enemy team they're outclassing everyone and if they're on mine they are throwing, I had a Yoru the previous night AFK most of the game and when he was actually playing he was very clearly better then our opponents. It just makes me not want to play ranked, let alone the game anymore, playing unrated can only you improve so much, I want to get better but when the game makes me want to rip my hair out it just isn't worth it
What I don’t understand is why they always feel the need to do it in ranked. Like, I’m silver, and I would 100% be fine with it if they stuck to stuff like replication, spike rush, stuff like that. Even unrated, which is still annoying, would be better than ranked. But idk gotta get that rank up dopamine hit ig
How do you rank up in a gamemode with no ranks? Also ROAD TO RADIANT is way more appealing than WINNING 100 SPIKE RUSH MATCHES or something like that.
@@fortniteenjoyer2829 all I’m saying is that playing any other game mode than ranked would massively reduce the annoyance of smurfing, but yeah you’re right
@@encampedmars627 There is no plot in Spikerush and other gamemodes because theyre just casual time spending. In Ranked there is something to compete for, which is way more cloutdragging
@@fortniteenjoyer2829 you could play unrated and use Valorant tracker to to gauge the ranks of the people you’re playing with. Again, not the entire same, but it would massively benefit all the people who’s games are being ruined, and you could basically keep the same clickbait titles, eg “I GOT TO RADIANT ELO WHILE UNRANKED” or something like that. But either way, the smurfs have shown they really don’t give a shit so whatever
People that complain about smurfing are just bad in general, I don't mind someone smurfing on enemy team I learn their movement, positioning, playstyle, and as a result I get better. I get better faster when I play with better people. Also winning against a smurf is possible I remember a game it was either a smurf or someone on a extremely good day, they were dropping lots of frags but we ended up winning rounds.
I still don’t understand the rank system. Do they put you in matches by your rank or by your skill level?
Meh if riot sees that you are in a win streak they will put bad teammates and good enemies. Valorant matchmaking sucks.
@@zilverman7820you need to play bad and win somehow, lol
Interesting…
the only time i tried to get boosted they banned me and now i dont like boosting anymore (didnt even get boosted that much, just went from plat 2 50 points to plat 3 20 points)
i was hardstuck iron for 1 year because no matter what i did i would get one tapped by someone who openly admitted to being diamond or higher on their main and it sucked n when i would report them riot would do absolutely nothing
Im currently plat 1 and i do get smurfs however not too much anymore that its a problem, however i do remember in iron-silver it was hell lmao
As a gold who constantly runs into smurfs, I appreciate videos like this. And hey, you want to watch “smurfing” content? Go watch something like Valorant Curios instead. Now that’s an ethical way of putting together disparity in ranks.
lmaoo this is so true lol, sentinel to radiant, duelist to radiant series are supposed be educational and I was excited when Jollz started his controller to radiant, only to watch an omen knifing the lobby lol
You tell them banana, thats why he is the smartest banana on this platform
Aged like milk
I wish you were just forced to watch this video when you load up Valorant. You are great at explaning things (probably why you are a coach) and had literally the best comparisons ever
val is the first fps game i have played i enjoy playing it i would consider myself a solid player most of my games are played against a smurf which sucks i cant count how many times ive deranked due to a smurf and even if i can play against a smurf it doesnt mean my 4 teammates can. the strange part is 80 percent of the time i see a smurf theyre on the enemy team
Damn bro, you made smurfing look like an addiction.
THANK YOU FOR MAKING THIS VIDEO
Tnx for making this video man 😌 much appreciated
most influential video ever
I wish more people agreed with this. Its so frustrating since people laugh at you when you speak against it. The fact that someone has to ruin 9 people's games just because of an inflated ego or content baffles me. (yes also the teammates because it's super boring hearing your teammate kill 3-5 enemies at the start at the round 5-9 times in a row until the enemy gives up and you go into your next match)
My issue is that my main account got hacked, that was Plat 2. I made a new account and got it to Diamond 3 and the reset happened. I had reset to Plat 3 and was only playing against people who were Ascendent 3 or immortal last act until i lost 10 games in a row. I got mad and mad a new account and got to gold 3 in my placement matches and went 34-17 in a lobby with Diamonds and Plat 3 players. So I can say that I "smurfed" and I do feel bad but my smurf accounts are somehow getting at least plat or diamond in like 3 to 5 games. I do think it is wrong and i only justify my account after getting hacked but if you want to get a higher rank than you even have before, i suggest making a new account because the hidden MMR on your first account holds back the progression severely, at least in my case.
(I do not condone smurfing tho, if you do make a new account try to get it right off the bat to a higher rank to not make gold and silver players lives worse. I used to be hardstuck silver for 100 days total on my main account before i got plat 2. It makes the game feel awful knowing you literally are playing against someone who is just way better than you.)
I once had a instalock duelist that was sherrif only, he was g1, and g3 on main. We lost that game pretty close, if he had a decent weapon he could've clutched a few times.
Overwatch 2 stopped this stuff by detecting and boosting smurfs. A fresh account will be in GM within less than a dozen games these days. I imagine AI smurf detection would be even more powerful in Valorant since players have far more agency and carry potential. I suspect Riot is resistant to it because it removes some of the grind from ranking, which they want.
In rocket league theres a guy called lethamyr and he smurfs but its educational and he plays like he belongs in the rank hes smurfing in. He rarely pushes and all and lets his tm8 do most things
I hope this vid blows up
The smurfing problem is so terrible that after being hardstuck in silver 3 for 4 months before ranking up to diamond in one week
Lol
I have this friend. We're both Diamond. BUT! He loves nothing more than joining Iron lobbies and either dropping 50, or absolutely throwing. But it's funny cause they're Iron, right? I keep telling him it's a scummy thing to do and he keeps giving me this bullshit cope and I don't know how to get him to stop ruining the game for other people.
That chess comparison reminded me of Hikaru's bongcloud speedruns...
I don't smurfs really change much, the people being smurfed on are still gonna rank up if they are good enough, it doesn't really affect anyone.
Bro I didn’t understand how many smurfs were actually in this game, and I’ve only been playing this game for 2 weeks, I’ve gotten kinda better but seeing a level 1 Jett defeat a bunch of of players with a ghost is kinda sad.
is it smurfing if you create a 2 account where you have Xbox game pass.
And use that account for learning other agents and going the same elo.
But then trying that as a Education perspective.
I am really asking these because in my main i don,t have all agents.
And what build my game sense.
I think people like seeing smurfing content because of how radiants can do anything and get away with a 3k, 4k or even an ace almost every round.
And i don't blame the viewers, for then, it is fun to see radiants getting aces every round, maybe because they're new to the game and like seeing someone hitting crazy clips every round
If content creators used unrated instead of ranked to farm clips, i think it would be good for everyone, the cc farm clips and get more views, and the players won't lose elo, because it's just unrated Rawzu already does this and his numbers are pretty good, because he hits absurd clips every video
Possibly the most based gaming content I've seen in decades.
You know what happens when you smurf? People don't want to play that game any more.
It's not fun to get carried, it's not fun to get ship on by someone who's so much better than you they seem like a hacker.
People will quit the game and your game will die.
ngl i think most lower rated chess players would be bery happy if magnus carlsen showed up at an over the boat tournament and crushed them
yup. in chess it's considered an honor to face a higher ranked opponent.
I think that they should be able to do these challenges but they shouldn’t purposely start in Iron. They should just be in whatever rank they deserve so it’s not smurfing
You know, the fact that those words are coming from a radiant player and not from low ELO ones which are those effectively damaged by smurfing, shows that, example of extraordinary people are still populating the Valorant playerbase. Therefore there is still hope🙂