When it comes to community opinions, many players feel that smurfing is almost as bad as hacking, especially when it comes to ruining the gameplay experience of other players.
In a recent Reddit post, a Valorant player, who goes by the handle of QuanTheHole, talked about the elephant in the room, “Smurfing vs Hacking”.
The Redditor talked about one of Hiko’s recent streams and how the 100Thieves pro went into a lot of detail on smurfing.
The Redditor said:
He then addressed the fact that Riot Games are aware of the smurfing problem as in their recent Ask Valorant #10, the devs went into some detail about how they will be countering smurfs.
QuanTheHole wrote:
From a developer’s point of view, there really can be no permanent fix to the smurfing problem, and it’s the Valorant community that needs to play a more active role in discouraging it.
Hiko, in his latest stream, shares much of this same sentiment.
Hiko addresses Valorant’s smurfing issues
In one of our previous discussions, we had addressed the issues that come with professional Valorant players smurfing in lower-ranked tiers. The insanely long matchmaking queue times in Radiant often force Valorant’s elite to create a secondary account and style on the more inexperienced players.
100Thieves’ Hiko was no stranger to this fact and in his latest stream, he talked about how he did smurf in Valorant but found it to be incredibly boring.
Hiko addressed the smurfing problem midway into his stream and explained how big of an issue it is becoming in Valorant.
He said:
Hiko explained that high-tier players should avoid queuing up for Valorant’s competitive matchmaking as that ruins the gameplay experience for other players.
He continued:
Hiko doesn’t discourage anyone from playing with their friends, who are less experienced than them in Valorant.
He said:
When asked if he has smurfed in Valorant, the 100Thieves pro said that he did. He, however, added that as a Radiant player, he found it to be one of the most boring experiences in the game.
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