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Plat and boosters

The Öutcast··10 votes·776 views

So I play up through silver (no boosted accounts, obviously), into gold (no boosted accounts, because gold isn't good enough for boosting), into plat, up a few wins and then all of the sudden it's attack of the boosted accounts as soon as I get close to promo to plat 4. Oh how I missed the 3/15 yasuo players, or the 0/9/0 gang planks who blame the jungler, etc.

Why is platinum the dumping ground for these players? I don't get it. Why would you waste money and then intentionally piss people off with bad play resulting in getting your account banned?

What is the appeal?

As a support main, I rely on my other teammates to have half a brain, especially the adc, so when the adc is the one who is boosted I'm at a total loss of what I should do. I can't reform their play in any way, but I can't just simply let them die stupidly. Dynamic queue, while it has the benefits of allowing you to choose your role, results in the people who are too lazy to actually practice and as a result get a position they can't play because they don't want to wait 10 minutes.

I really do believe that if riot called off the plague of "HERE, CARRY THESE BOOSTED ACCOUNTS!" I could actually proceed up the ladder. I also believe that there are many other people out there who experience this exact same issue, and it's utterly aggravating.

If Riot really is trying to crack down against this, why am I not able to see it, or rather, why is it even worse than last year? Why are they so pervasive that I get 5 in a row?

5 Comments

Ben Sharpio1 votes

The odds of you getting one are equal to the enemy team getting one. What's the issue? You're not special, Riot doesn't purposely put them in your game, it's a naturally reoccurring phenomenon that you will never get past.

GuiltyGecko1 votes

Most boosted players are gold+ since they just wanted end of season rewards. As a Plat I/Diamond V player myself, I rarely see legit boosted players. It's usually just people having bad games. I could probably count on my hands the number of times I've actually had a boosted player on my team.

YumaS2Astral1 votes

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Most boosted players are gold+ since they just wanted end of season rewards. As a Plat I/Diamond V player myself, I rarely see legit boosted players. It's usually just people having bad games. I could probably count on my hands the number of times I've actually had a boosted player on my team.

Platinum gives you the impression of having so many boosted players because platinum players are generally too selfish to admit that they can also make mistakes. When they make to Platinum, they think they are gods that deserve challenger, while they do in fact still have a lot to learn.

However, generally one mistake is enough to make an entire team on platinum tilt. And that's why there is the general impression that platinum has too many boosted players.

Also, there is also the fact that on higher elos, they generally have the knowledge needed to not only stomp the other team early, but take advantage of being ahead to finish off the game quickly.

The Öutcast1 votes

{quoted}

Platinum gives you the impression of having so many boosted players because platinum players are generally too selfish to admit that they can also make mistakes. When they make to Platinum, they think they are gods that deserve challenger, while they do in fact still have a lot to learn.

However, generally one mistake is enough to make an entire team on platinum tilt. And that's why there is the general impression that platinum has too many boosted players.

Also, there is also the fact that on higher elos, they generally have the knowledge needed to not only stomp the other team early, but take advantage of being ahead to finish off the game quickly.

Extreme feeding scores as well as really stupid play leads me to believe that their accounts are boosted and they were stupid enough to try to play ranked. I can tell the difference between a bad game, and getting smashed because a player doesn't belong in the elo. Like a 3/15 yasuo who tries to windwall gangplank barrels repeatedly even though it doesn't work. A leblanc that feeds 5 kills in 4 minutes because they don't know how to actually play leblanc vs an ahri, or how about that 0/10/0 cho gath who went mid vs a corki and tried to tower dive 3 minutes in and then continued to try to do the same thing until he was 0/7, when corki decided to leave lane, or maybe it's the 0/9 ryze who doesn't understand that if you over extend, you're more likely to get ganked, especially if you don't ward, or the 2/12 kindred, where after dropping ult, walks out of the ult because it's not safe there.

If you want to tell me these people aren't boosted, when they have judgement problems and horrific scores as bad as what I stated (which I'm not even making up), then you're deluding yourself. I am incapable of getting past plat 5 because of these players.

The Öutcast1 votes

Hey look, another boosted account, 3/16/2 tristana, who only wants to farm but complains when she tower dives against a lucian that has bf sword to her pickaxe saying that I didn't follow up a perfectly good setup as well as facechecks all brush instead of warding ahead like I know at least silver players do.

surprise surprise

boosted accounts

yay

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