cheating the hextech system

so I realized something while playing with a friend the other day: you can only get 1 box per champion. you can get boxes when somebody you queue with gets s rank. when you get a box from friends it doesn't count whether you have a box from that champion or not. therefore, you can get an unlimited number of boxes from your friends if they play well. (presumably up to the limit of boxes you can get per week or month or whatever. this can be easily farmed by certain champs like playing mid zilean, or a damage based thresh build thanks to the way the system evaluates s ranks.

edit: I swear guys I got 2 chests from the same guy playing thresh in one sitting. I assumed it was just a feature to get people to play together, my bad. Riot's been really into the whole getting people to team up thing lately.

also, you're right, cheating is the wrong word. gaming the system maybe? regardless these remain valid champs to play if you want to get easy chests once a month. I got my first chest because I played zilean mid, went 7-4, and got an s-