Valorant has been having an intense issue with Smurf accounts on their servers for a while now. And while Vanguard has been able to keep most of the cheaters in check, the smurfing issue shows that Riot Games still needs a viable solution.
Smurf accounts are destroying the competitive integrity of the game in more ways than one. However, what bothers the Valorant community is the incredible loss in LP they get when they get lost by a smurf.
Valorant's LP loss/gain or up and down arrow feature displayed after every competitive match is not fixed for every game. Unlike Riot's other game, League of Legends , where the LP gain and loss figure is constant at each tier , Valorant looks at who's playing how well .
In a recent Reddit post, Valorant player HanzoOneTrick shared some insights into how the disparity in smurfs and LP loss and wins between matches degrades the shooter's competitive integrity.
The post received a tremendous amount of support in the Valorant subreddit, and it seems that a large part of the community is not happy with the current LP loss/gain system in the game.
In Valorant, Smurfing mainly affected lower tiers, and thus the inconsistent LP system most affects Silver, Bronze, and Iron rank.
HanzoOneTrick wrote:
"I know the higher ranks of the community will say that the smurfing problem isn't that big, and we lower ranks are accusing every 20+ murders of smurfing, which is absolutely not true, that's the point."
The expressions might sound a little confusing, so let's break it down:
Valorant's current LP system in competitive matchmaking takes individual performances into account during both wins and losses. While the system is built to help players gain the rank their skill level deserves, the smurfing issue completely ruins it.
Stay tuned for more details.
