Boosted players just make playing this game unfun...
It really makes you reconsider why you bother playing this game, when your diamond 4 jungler (in solo ranked jungle) falls 3+ levels behind the enemy jungler and gets caught overextended (against enemy inhibitor / baron) 5 separate times in the same match and makes it impossible for you to carry them.
This player is clearly boosted. A diamond player on his main can have a bad game even in high gold flex, but a diamond player definitely would not get caught like this player was getting caught. This player was clearly Bronze - possibly even Iron (and possibly low silver). She put our top lane in an impossible lane feeding double buffs to his lane opponent at level 3, and another kill before 6. And that was after wasting a full minute bot lane ganking them as Eve at level 2.
Why am I bothering to get any better at this game and try to climb when:
- Even at higher ranks (such as low - mid diamond) there will still be players with absolutely 0 game-sense that cost you games (still won't get consistently high quality games) and
- Your rank is absolutely meaningless to your skill level because anyone could have been boosted to your rank
I don't understand how this isn't seen as a bigger problem and actively stopped. Why hasn't duo queue been removed entirely? Why haven't known boosters been banned from the game via their streams/videos? Why aren't accounts that are being boosted banned during the boost (it should be fairly clear when someone suddenly switches roles and plays entirely new champions and gets KDA's of like 24/4/6 for the first 10 games in a row on first-time champions that there's a boost going on).