am I boosted?

Nami no Dewae·9/12/2016, 8:34:39 PM·5 votes·1,913 views

Am i boosted? I am a support main who duos with an adc. Met the adc in silver 3, played with him casually til one day we decided to be regular duo partners. Now we play 90+% our games together. i climbed from low silver to g1. While he climbed slower from g2 to plat 4. I am sad because i notice i lose more games when i dont play with him. A mid laner who i had some beef with in my last game looked me up and called me a "girl who got carried by an adc" How does he know im a girl? And am i rlly boosted??? Just bc i play with one person

19 Comments

EtyrnaI9/12/2016, 8:37:28 PM2 votes

Haters gonna hate.

LitAF9/12/2016, 8:38:22 PM2 votes

All support mains are boosted...jkjk

Ruin Lance9/12/2016, 8:41:13 PM2 votes

i wouldn't say boosted but playing supports like Janna Karma Sona don't take nearly as much skill as it does for a lot of other champions.

by the way, the guy who called you boosted was obviously just salty. don't worry about those kinds of people though

DraygenBiscuit9/12/2016, 8:42:16 PM2 votes

OK as a support, you are used to playing with that ADC and that ADC is in turn used to playing with you. You synergize well together so you do well. If I had to guess I would say your ADC friend most likely would have the same issue in allot of cases. One of the easiest ways to lose bot lane is for you and your adc to not be on the same page... I have seen lots of Ezerals jump into combat and die because, A: the support didn't back them up, or B: the Ezreal was stupid and the support was in no position to back him up. Boosted is honestly more of an opinion than a fact in most cases. If you play with the same people often, you will work well with them and win more games. Some call that boosted, but it is really just teamwork. However playing with the same people doesn't teach you flexibility. You need to learn how to go with the flow of your adc for the most part. Unless your ADC is stupid, then just play it safe and protect your lane and help the Jungler when he ganks. He most likely called you a girl because your name is PicksieDust, and that kind of does have a girly flair to it. Not many guys would choose that for a user name. All in all you are not boosted, just inexperienced.

Serevas9/12/2016, 8:43:15 PM2 votes

Well your name is PiksieDust, I'm assuming it was a complete guess.

As to the boosted comment, no, not really, you did nothing that hasn't been available for quite some time. Even before dynamic queue came out there was still duo queue available. As to the comment of getting carried by the ADC, maybe I don't know the answer to that, but there's not really anything wrong with it if that's the case. From time to time everyone gets carried through games. You might lane against against people dramatically beyond your skill level and get crushed, only to have your team win the game for you, it happens. You also may crush your lane and carry your team, it's not very common for every person on your team to do well, typically at least one person gets carried by their team in each game.

Edit: Boosting refers to the act of paying for a much higher skilled person to bring your account up to an elo that you don't belong in. For example Person A pays person B to play on their account and rank them up to platinum instead of being in bronze.

YSeT9iEzJK9/12/2016, 8:43:28 PM1 votes

yes

SP Dodgecity9/12/2016, 9:07:51 PM1 votes

I'd say no. I noticed when I played in Bronze (now silver so really still bronze XD) But I noticed when I played matches with my friends who were Plat, the games were more competitive and it was easier to win because you didn't have to worry about someone not knowing how to zone, farm, push a lane or freeze it, map awareness, etc.

Everyone at that level has that general understanding and a mentality that we have to work together to win. I'm sure there are still trolls or scrubs there but its a lot less common.

Crushed lil kid9/12/2016, 9:29:06 PM1 votes

You aren't boosted. I've played with plenty of boosted idiots who abused the dynamic queue system and literally get carried every single game all the way up because they pay others who are way better to queue as 4-5 players or even give their accounts to others and have the better players win every game for them.

the weeaboo9/12/2016, 9:36:42 PM1 votes

Lmao boosted as hell but don't feel bad

Nami no Dewae9/16/2016, 1:12:45 PM1 votes

YEEEAA! I AM NOT BOOSTED!!

DeathBurst9/16/2016, 2:21:08 PM1 votes

It's a cliché that girls play support to play with their ADC boyfriend, and with Pixie in your pseudo, that was just an easy guess for him, even if it was actually just a coincidence in this case.

As for wether you're boosted or not, no one even used this word in season 5 and it was already allowed to go Duo in Ranked. Just ignore the SoloQQ'ers... You got your rank playing by the rule, you deserve it, period.

Now, beyond the matter of being boosted or not, just for the issue of self-improvement, you have to be honest with yourself: if you play almost all your games with the same person, you won't be able to deliver the same level of performance with a stranger. So is your Solo performance worth your G1 Rank? Can you reliably and consistently play in G1 without your usual Duo? Probably not. Is that a problem? Well, it's up to you to decide, and depends on what is your personal objective with this game.