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I just had a player tell me he would risk being banned if i eloboosted him to gold...

AbstracT Theory·12/23/2015, 12:37:44 AM·22 votes·2,150 views

The desperate attempts to be lazy and ask somebody else to do your work for you is pretty pathetic. Eloboosting is bad in way more ways than you might recognize as an average player.

Here is why;

  1. You dont get the feel good experience when somebody elses hard work pays off
  2. You risk a ban (riot can see your ip when you play, when you randomly swap ips across a country they know something is wrong)
  3. What do you think happens when you get boosted? You obviously arent good enough for that rank and you start to fall anyways.
  4. You go into a gold game as a silver or bronze player, you will be abused and you will probably feed. This not only wastes your time but also wastes the time of your 4 team mates who actually did the work to climb to that rank.

Seriously, don't boost. Its not worth it and i know from experience when a player has been boosted, it sucks to play with or even against.

37 Comments

Kerchner1212/23/2015, 5:18:26 AM4 votes

I feel you just made this up for upvotes. Why would someone want to get boosted in pre-season? lmao

barbarianskull12/23/2015, 4:24:29 PM2 votes

What is elo boosting? sorry I'm kind of a noob

dEAdbUs12/23/2015, 2:33:21 AM1 votes

Same can happen even with real player: your mains reworked or nerfed, your counters buffed. You're feeding and falling.

Boosting is not a root of evil. Give other divisions feeling that they're good too. Give them unique rewards too.

Ice Weasel X12/23/2015, 4:40:03 AM1 votes

When he said he was fine with the risk of being banned, did he casually fail to acknowledge that you'd be at risk of being banned too? I hope you squinted at him disapprovingly. If he's not a RL contact and you were only discussing online, then toss in a scrunched up nose wriggle in the direction of your monitor for extra disapproval.

gg wp lol12/23/2015, 5:18:17 AM1 votes

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Sinister Anubis12/23/2015, 5:20:14 AM1 votes

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The desperate attempts to be lazy and ask somebody else to do your work for you is pretty pathetic. Eloboosting is bad in way more ways than you might recognize as an average player.

Here is why;

  1. You dont get the feel good experience when somebody elses hard work pays off
  2. You risk a ban (riot can see your ip when you play, when you randomly swap ips across a country they know something is wrong)
  3. What do you think happens when you get boosted? You obviously arent good enough for that rank and you start to fall anyways.
  4. You go into a gold game as a silver or bronze player, you will be abused and you will probably feed. This not only wastes your time but also wastes the time of your 4 team mates who actually did the work to climb to that rank.

Seriously, don't boost. Its not worth it and i know from experience when a player has been boosted, it sucks to play with or even against.

not to mention you will be banned for boosting him as well.

LF Annie12/23/2015, 5:52:09 AM1 votes

i also dont get feels-good exp from 4 seasons of not having the collectible skin because im just not good enough, and i wont ever have the chance to get them either.

Dukues12/23/2015, 4:13:25 PM1 votes

Whats up with the accounts that seem legit (have a lot of normal wins and ranked games played) but were plat and now drop to gold or silver? In my mind there is no way in hell that player did not script or get elo boosted. I had an Ashe on my team last night (different account) who had like 1900 normal wins, 850 ranked wins. The player had a plat border so Plat at end of season 5 (nov 11?). Now the player is playing with my account (silver 2) and is currently sitting with hardly any LP in gold 5. Like... there is no way in hell that player intentionally tried to drop elo that much is there? Like the Ashe sucked ass and was playing at maybe a silver 3 or 4 level. I reported them after the game for cheating saying they had to be elo boosted or scripted to originally climb to Plat. There is no way someone can throw that hard for that many games. And if it is a legit account then how the fuck are they not banned for intentionally ruining that many ranked games? I mean... we ended up winning but it had nothing to do with our Ashe.

Just curious as I have seen these players a lot over the last 3 years. Most commonly I see a recent plat player playing in silver at the start of a new season. I realize some people intentionally do bad in promos to drop and climb again but honestly most of those players suck as well. I feel like I have to assume most of them got elo boosted and now are just getting wrecked because they actually suck.

junglerboy1612/23/2015, 8:13:31 PM1 votes

Not only that, but after you get boosted, you either need to keep getting boosted to stay where you are or you fall back to your previous rank, meaning either way you're risking a ban for no reward. If you actually stay at the new rank, then you've wasted your money and risk a ban getting yourself boosted since you would have gotten there anyway.

Myz12/23/2015, 1:11:14 AM1 votes

Against is good, its freelo game :)

LadyRenly12/24/2015, 12:52:50 AM1 votes

The only reason people eloboost is for season rewards like the Victorious skins, you're supposed to sit at gold and never rank again

Bossyfins12/23/2015, 2:20:51 AM1 votes

Amen