What is elo boosting?

JerrBear7·Oct 6, 2015·1 votes·340 views

I know someone who has a smurf which is also someone else's account and he plays with me sometimes on that smurf/friend account since he doesn't want to put me against too difficult people (though we are eligible to duo). Is what he's doing allowed and what I'm doing allowed? (I don't own any of those accounts, I just sometimes duo with him playing on his smurf/friend's account). Please be kind an issue a warning or something I just want to clarify so neither of us breaks the rules.

He's not doing it to boost his smurf's elo.

6 Comments

BeatzBoyFTWOct 6, 20151 votes

Elo boosting can mean either of the two:

a certain someone who buys a boosting thingy at a certain website, increasing his elo(eg. Bronze to Diamond) just by paying without having to play a single rank game.
when a Challenger player helps a Bronze player by playing his account to a higher elo, which does not show any originality from the Bronze player himself.

And yes, any of the two will involve getting a straight permaban.

SukishooOct 6, 20151 votes

I wouldn't say Challenger necessarily, it's usually more so anyone Plat+ that has been caught for doing those kind of things.

And no, it's a not a permaban. They just lose all their ranked rewards and are barred from earning anything that season.

hh the thinkerOct 6, 20151 votes

it's breaking the rules to play on someone else's account, no matter the reason. elo boosting is when you play on someone else's account and bring them up in ranked. smurfing is allowed is it's his own account.

JerrBear7Oct 6, 20151 votes

Well he's "smurfing" by logging in to someone elses account. A friend of his. He does this only to play with me so I don't have a hard time, it's for a good intention I promise.

Since I duo'ed with him will I be fine?

hh the thinkerOct 6, 20151 votes

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Well he's "smurfing" by logging in to someone elses account. A friend of his. He does this only to play with me so I don't have a hard time, it's for a good intention I promise.

Since I duo'ed with him will I be fine?

he is breaking the rules from this. you aren't likely to get in trouble though, but i'm not 100% on that. it's a rule riot has and does inforce when they can. if he wants to smurf without getting into any possible trouble, he would have to level a new account.

JerrBear7Oct 6, 20152 votes

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he is breaking the rules from this. you aren't likely to get in trouble though, but i'm not 100% on that. it's a rule riot has and does inforce when they can. if he wants to smurf without getting into any possible trouble, he would have to level a new account.

Ok, I will stop Duoing with him...

I'm gonna save this link so Riot can see if anything happens (knock on wood).