How to get out of bronze when its full of trolls and smurfs?

[lolojenkins-11431]

@RobotWizard-116887

ok, so, the quick guide to get out of bronze in less than 24 hours.

Step one, find a smurf. This is NOT hard in bronze as I am sure you know.

Step two, ask them “how many hours did you put in to get so damn good?”

Step three, once they have answered, ask if you can ask them some questions, since you want to get better. Tell them you can support for them.

Step four, now you are on the team with the smurf on his way up before he starts to throw (they are usually polite and won’t throw while you are teamed up with them, since they have an audience to show how damn good they are). Try to run support for them, do ask them questions about the hero they are running - hell, you may learn a thing or two.

Once they are done with playing, find your next smurf.

Soon you will end up in high silver, where the number of smurfs / throwers / trolls drop DRASTICALLY.

Play your best, You will finally get fair games, and learn a lot quickly. You will either sink or swim.

If you sink, repeat the process.

Except this is against the rules. Papa Jeff explicitly said:

@JeffreyKaplan

Starting a new account is not against the rules. Boosting or throwing is against the rules.

(You can find the entire post @ Serious question: Is smurfing cheating? - #5 by JeffreyKaplan)

So I see how your suggestion could be feasible, but what you are describing is essentially “boosting” (even though the intent is truly to learn and get better) so you can get out of bronze into silver where there are less trolls/throwers/leavers.

I’m not saying you have a bad suggestion, I’m just saying I wish players didn’t have to resort to coming up with things like this just to avoid playing with trolls.