Players that purposely 'Derank' themselves need to be banned

D3MOR4KK

First game into my placement games this season and I had an instalock viper. Okay yeah fair, some people really like to play the same champion so whatever, but then the game starts and this viper doesn't move, what's going on we think, round ends, we lost the first round, no afk message nothing, we try to remake due to an afker but we can't. Finally after some small waiting and watching, we can see this viper has a macro or something similar that is keeping this player from being afk kicked. We realise there's nothing we can do and attempt to play the rest of the match 4v5 in which we lost, we didn't win a single round.

Something needs to be done here, why cant we as players block another account so we don't match with them. This behaviour happens all too much and another question I have is that surely this person has a ton of reports, why doesn't the algorithm pick up on these things and just permaban the account.

BoD

When the game overestimate someone, has a garbage macthmaking balancement, and this someone gets in lobbies where he's prevented from playing that's kinda the consequence.

y844kst

This happens in League as well, they do it so they can "sell" the account for money. Because people like buying low tier accounts to complete challenges.

supanova

Sometimes I check people I have played with or against in tracker.gg just to see if they are smurfing or if they just had a one off lucky game. The previous act... two different people who just destroyed the other team in two seperate games.. had the exact same thing going on. They lost 5 placement games like 0-13 or 1-13, 2-13, etc.. and their k/d in all of them was like 0-15 for example. Then in the games they are with me they are dropping 40 kills. So these are 100% smurf accounts, where they threw the placement games to rank as low as possible. This sort of thing makes me sick, and RIOT does nothing about it. It's clear as day these two people are deranking so they can smurf on bronze/silvers or whatever, and nothing is done about it.

FXtrt

I came from ow to valorant and have a lot of experience being smurfed on and smurfing by myself. Before that, I've played dotA and cs 1.6/csgo as well. All those games that have matchmaker are the same. If you have problems with smurfs, you need to learn to play and climb out of smurfing elo. Because low ranks are designed for smurfing in any game with matchmaker. Smurfing is a legit way to play for fun. If you want to play casually like ppl in low ranks do, you need to smurf there. Because your entertainment is at stake you have to invest more time and effort to fight for your right to enjoy your gaming session. You cant play in let's say gold or iron being gold or iron. You can not play low elo forever, it is a pathway from point A to point B, and the point B should be as higher as possible. If you play the game with a different mindset, then you just waste your time.