I am a Silver player and have been playing for several weeks now. While I enjoy the game, I have noticed that in around two out of three of my competitive matches, I end up facing a clear smurf. Since I queue solo most of the time, facing them is even harder.

It's really difficult to enjoy a competitive match when there's always one player in the other team with four times the number of kills than the rest of their teammates. What's even worse is that I keep seeing famous content creators making multiple videos with the theme "from iron to radiant" or similar. As I see it, this just makes smurfing even more normalized than it already is.

I really wish that smurfing was punished more severely. I don't mind losing games and rank, but I really want to do it against people of a similar skill level to mine.