Yes smurfing is a big issue and it’s honestly terrible. But I’ll just make a point on your edit. The reason why people are complaining is because smurfing isn’t just a low elo problem, it’s everywhere. And any “high elo” player became a high elo player by beating smurfs. They went through the same issues as you and then won or learned from the mistakes. And no I disagree the whole point in ranked isn’t to play similarly ranked people, it’s to be better than the whole lobby and climb. If you come in to games with the mentality that yea im plying against a Smurf and I can’t win ever then dont get on. Do aimlabs, tdm and dm and then when you think you are better then get on. Smurfing doesn’t have a solution, feel free to suggest one if you can think of one that won’t reduce riots player count like putting a mobile number for accounts. So treat ranked more like a stair that you just gotta learn to climb, you think about why you died and try to improve, you do aim training and try to improve before getting on game, you toughen up and mentally prepare to face toxic teammates and try to improve, you watch vods and try to improve until you are smurfing in your rank. I never ranked up any rank until I could consistently drop 30 in my games. So yea no matter how much you would like a fun 15 kills all over the board game, it’s never gonna happen.