User blog comment:Ysana/Lv 6 Duo Que, Now Harder Than 1.45k ELO Ranked Solo Que/@comment-4434378-20121011184916

Matchmaker actually does a pretty decent job of finding smurfs. Had a friend start playing, and so I made up a new account to play with him. I had only played like 3 games on the account before every game was vs. smurfs. And I watch him play now and its rare for me to see someone obviously smurfing, its typically just normal players playing pubstompers like Twitch.

And the lack of runes/masteries is big. I try doing FotW vs. intermediate bots on my smurf and it is HARD. I'm not the best player, but I have pretty good expierience Annie bot and I can say it is so much harder to win since you can't just murder them early and snowball before they get BVeils.