Was gaming the other day with a five stack, all close irl friends. It's a good feeling to get all the guys together to game, and it's rare that everyone's schedule lines up. We queued into this five stack, which has pretty average legend account ranks, aside from one uncalibrated account. The uncalibrated account absolutely shredded us. The guy played TA hc and absolutely went berserk. At 18 minutes he had blink, bkb, deso, and two wraith bands, full boots and almost a shadowblade. Needless to say it was over quick.
We had fun losing though, made jokes, tried to do stupid things. But the whole enemy stack aside from the smurf was roasting the fuck out of us… calling us bad, excessively tipping us. It just felt so bad. And when we pointed out that they had a smurf on the team it was instant denial and reverting it back to how bad we were.
After the game was over I added the smurf and we talked for a long time. Told him that it's rare my friends and I actually find time during a week to set up a five stack, and get to play together (all of us work fulltime jobs in different timezones). Then I explained how bad it felt, that not only he shredded us, that we got to sit there and listen to his buddies just roast us. And I said these things to him, over and over, but in a way that was actually said with human decency.
At the end of our 20 minute conversation he was profusely apologizing. Claiming there's no other way to play with his friends elsewise. And then he offered to carry me to Divine 5 (currently D1) lol. I mean regardless fuck this guy, but I knew he felt bad.
Not really sure where I was going with this, but I recommend that if you get smurfed on, add the player, talk with them (with human decency) and let them know how it personally ruined your game/night/weekend. I've done this multiple times and have seen some success. Just wanted to share 🙂
Source: https://www.reddit.com/r/DotA2/comments/ukewr3/my_little_bit_on_smurfs/
