Is duoing with a plat smurf not boosting?
Say a silver player duo'd with a plat smurf and they played games til the silver was in gold, is that not considered boosting?
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I could be wrong, but I think I read that as long as the plat smurf created the account and was the sole player getting it to level 30, then it is not considered boosting.
If the silver player were to, say, create an account and level it to 30 then ask a plat player to duo-queue with him until he was gold by using that account, then that would be boosting and against the rules.
I think the logic being you can't prove anything in the former (just a good new player with a friend who isn't as good? ) and also the smurfs mmr may rise faster since he's new to ranked, creating matches that are above the silvers abilities.
If you're playing on your own account it's not boosting, in the strictest sense of the word.
Boosting is when someone plays your account for you to get it to a higher rank. Duoing with a smurf is just a way to abuse the system, but it's not really against the rules.
I just have plat friends who invite me to duo with them on their smurf accounts and I kinda am afraid to duo with them if it means getting banned.
According to Riot's comments, duoing with a smurf is permitted so long as the smurf account legitimately earned that rank. Throwing matches, dodging (albeit it doesn't hurt MMR), etc. on the smurf account violate that. That said, a smurf that is put in bronze or low silver while the main is in plat or higher looks pretty fishy.
Its 100% boosting and not even needed to be discussed. I actually emailed riot a ticket on the matter about several summon like sevinbit anaroo and bunch others who are diamond players playing on smurf acct's claiming to be just playing with there bronze friends but dramatically increasing there rank in process. Riots response was thorough and said they would be doing an investigation on the matter and that they take the matter seriously!
My hopes is to spread the word because this is becoming a serious problem in solo que nowadays especially since the adapatation of dynamic que. Riot also discussed in previous post that dynamic que is more of a test then a permanent thing and that if it continues to be abused that it would meet changes in the furure.