Smurfing exist in all fps games, notably CSGO. I been a csgo player since 2014 and it never went away. Similar to csgo, smurfing won’t go away in valorant.

Phone verification won’t work CAUSE NOT EVERYONE HAS A PHONE, some players are young/without phones. Steam tried to do email verification, but that just means setting up a burner email and takes 5 more seconds to login, that’s it. Now as a for profit corporation would you do that to lower your player base?

The rank comp queue restrictions of 3 ranks, self explanatory, people want to play with friends. This could be tweek, but how?

Lastly, this game is free to play for Christ’s sake, it takes 3 minutes to make an account. You are lucky riot imposed the 20 unranked games requirement, I bet this already deters people from having multiple smurfs. Unless you want to pay 10 bucks for the “prime” status like in csgo, even then you will still very often find smurfs.

In this imperfect world, you just need to adapt and adjust. Most of the post I see here are about smurfs, but truth is, smurf has exist long before valorant and it won’t go away. Hey, maybe they are just having a good day?

Do want to hear your suggestion about how to further deter smurfs, I’ll be the devil’s advocate.