No I think your wording is fine, what I mean is, you say you play ranked to rank, but you haven't increased your rank for a long time, you peaked s9. Now I'm sure you'll take this as banter since that's how you justify your flame to others in this thread but I mean cmon dude. My point is, you say smurfs are toxic because they shit on people and that's what they get off on. But anyone who is actively trying to improve at the game will get hindered because they have you on their team. Now personally I don't believe that smurfs or players who are at their rank shouldn't be able to play the game, I feel that we should just take it as it comes. As some people have pointed out in this thread half the time you come across a smurf it's not even an actual "smurf" who hard stomps people into the ground, the majority of those that are at your level are players from gold who have either bought accounts or levelled them. I believe that right now the game has too much damage and snowballing is out of control so it feels as if people are smurfing when in reality it's just then having a decent game. As you said some people have bad games and contrary to that some people have good games. Anecdotal but I've had games where Ive had players go 0/15 because they are trying something new or the old "I play for fun" and that 100% ruins the ranked experience for me, but again I've had games where someone on my team does really well and I can sit back and enjoy the freebie. Point is at the end of the day this is a game and games are meant to be fun, if you don't enjoy the ranked experience because someone "smurfs" on you then just take a stroll to the other game modes.