I've seen a lot of posts/videos on what Smurfing is and how it's affecting the game from a long time. I'm just giving my unbiased thoughts on that.

FYI: This will be a long post. Please be advised.

I started playing Valorant around Aug 2020 with 5-6 of my friends. We played together from starting, some of us were playing for fun, some were serious.

So we started with Iron, then bronze, then silver, reached Gold 1 but got demoted instantly. So you could say we're Silver 3/Gold 1 players.

In our team itself, 1 guy pops off, 2 stay in between ( Me), and 2 are always bottom fragging ( No matter what ). In starting it was fun, but now it's frustrating to see that:

Top Fragger: Aim of Plat, Game sense of Diamond. Me & 1 other: Aim of Gold, Game sense of Plat/Diamond. Other 2 friends: Aim of Silver, Game sense of Bronze.

So this literally means that our top Fragger is stuck in gold & SMURFING because of us. And we're BOOSTING our 2 bottom fraggers who should be in bronze/silver 1.

We can't stop playing with each other as we have created such a bond while playing, that it's simply tilts everyone doing solo queue. I'm tired of making our bottom fraggers understand game sense ( still they do same mistake again & again ) or practice a bit of aim, but they just don't have enough time to do these things.

In b/w friends, No 2 person can have same game sense/aim. And basically it's a team game & we should play this for fun (right?), but sometimes when a game seems an easy win, but we still loose because of some silly mistakes (throw), that is when I get these questions:

1. Should I just keep playing with them? as it's always fun,
2. Or find a new team/players & maybe get synchronized with them ( Trust me I've tried and failed multiple times ).
3. If not, then I'm stuck at solo queue and that experience we don't want to talk about.

P.S. For them who read till now, would love to hear your thoughts :)