Today Hiko on his stream was playing comp on a smurf account that is plat. Hiko is a pro player, with a main that is in the top 100 of Radiant players in NA. He was playing on this account because he wanted to play with Pokimane. He was playing at a Radiant level in the game, and wasn't trying any less then he does on his main. The game ended with 13-2 with Hiko as match MVP (went 26 and 7). This is just straight up smurfing. The other team most likely had a terrible experience getting shit on by a pro and their elo got taken. If Hiko wants to play with Poki, they should play unrated. Any other person would be heavily frowned upon for even banned for this, so why is it ok for Hiko to?

Edit 2: The issue is not just with Hiko, its with all pros and high level players that smurf to play with friends, other streamers etc. I just saw Hiko doing it today, which is why he is my example, but as many have pointed out in the comments, there are many other pros and streamers who do the exact same thing. Smurfing is wrong.

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This article has many quotes from Hiko's stream where he says "if you’re going to smurf there is definitely a place you can go where you can play as a smurf, and it’s called Unrated.” And a lot of other very hypocritical things.