User blog comment:Beatnik Doctor/Smurfing in MOBAs and how it affects beginners/@comment-3450702-20111126141804

I can't say I completely agree. Yes, smurfing is bad. If you have any dignity or skill, you should be playing your "main" account, get it up to level 30, play ranked and see how good you really are. However, I smurf actively, for 3 reasons: 1. The first reason was a while ago, when I got a retarded team 5 times in a row, always picking a champion for the team and never working out. I said screw it, made a noob account and finally played for myself and my team. And don't forget, with so many leavers in level 1, smurfing is not an insta-win, just as fighting one is not a loss. 2. Server stability issues, also while back - before the split, EU was unplayable at peaks, so I'd just go play NA rather than waiting in queue for 5 hours to find that session closed. Lots of NA people have been doing this in the past weeks, probably NA was having some issues then (SEA server maybe?). I think this is completely understandable. 3. I'm level 30 now, and my friends started playing as noobs. I'm naturally not going to have level 1s face level 20s while I chill on my slightly better runed main account. So, also legitimized. I'll stop as they get to around level 20 or so.