I know it's really frowned upon in the valorant community to smurf, but since the 3 skill level differential update, I can't play with my friends anymore, so I did what I had to do.

Beyond just the smurfs, literally in the 3 games we played that day in silver-gold lobbies, all of them had one of these types of people:

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• The deranker

This guy literally waited for everyone to lock in their agents, then goes "Hey guys deranking so not gonna try, sorry boys".

This guy had to say it after every single round to remind us how good he was and that hes actually wayyyy higher of a rank then he actually is. Like nobody on this earth cares bro, we get it, you should be playing with wardell or something. What's the point of saying that you're throwing while solo queuing, just stfu and do what u gotta do and stop announcing it like anyone actually gives a damn.

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• The act 2 plat triangle

So damn toxic, thinks because they were in plat before and is playing in silver/gold that they automatically become the IGL, and has the highest IQ.

In our second game, this guy complained about every single play, complained about slow rotations, complained that we have no game sense, by round 4 he said "gg". Started throwing, no comms, not buying with the team, trying to use his util to make us lose rounds.

^those are the reasons why you're stuck in silver/gold. Why do you give up on round 4 and waste your own time? I really dont understand that.

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• smurf who is clearly smurfing but is unbearable to play with

We played with a smurf who was like "omgg so this is what silver-gold elo is like omgggg"

patronizing and is very condescending, acts so much holier than thou. Knows everything, tells you what you should have done after you make a play and it isnt executed well (btw anyone can do that, its not some above average IQ that you have to be able to analyze what should have been done after dying).

If you ever try to say anything back, like me and my friends did during that game, anything you say is automatically inferior because you are in silver/gold. "shUt uP tHiS iS wHY yOuR sTuCK iN gOLd LoL"

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It's legitimately awful what these players are doing, tilting actual silver/gold players who are trying to rank up and pretty much giving them no reason to continue playing, if I had to deal with this every time I played the game I would have just quit entirely. Honestly smurfs are a problem, no doubt, but these types of players are the absolute worst and we got them back-to-back in our games.

Absolutely ridiculous and Im genuinely sorry for anyone who has to deal with these players.