If you agree to boost people...

Hot Belly Dancer·9/8/2016, 6:27:29 PM·25 votes·1,697 views

You're as bad as them, no integrity and no consideration for others. i would never boost someone whether they are my friend or sibling, as it would end up screwing some other honest people. and as a player i would never want someone to boost me, as i have some pride and love the feeling of achievement, reaching my goal. i have no idea how Dynamic queue got approved, but one thing ill say, whoever created that crap system must have been stuck at bronze 5 0 lp for so long, that he got fed up and used the excuse of 'pleyin wid frinds' so he could get himself out of that shithole.

38 Comments

Leonerdo9/8/2016, 9:36:30 PM13 votes

Sigh... I was with you until you mentioned Dynamic Queue. Boosting is not a DQ problem. It is a smurf problem and an account sharing problem. If someone goes up in rank by playing with their friends (no smurfs involved), then it is because they fucking played the team game better than the opposing team and they deserve the wins. And there IS a MMR modifier that compensates for eaiser communication among premades; so if premades want to climb they have to communicate better than the average premade.

TNHA Baritone9/8/2016, 11:42:01 PM4 votes

I mean....

I have boosted people but afterwards or during, I coach them on how to play so that they can keep the rank. But it's not really boosting if they're in the game too since they have to pull their own weight.

Itankyou9/8/2016, 6:32:26 PM3 votes

I boost people all the time by accident, this is the nature of dynamic que. Sorry bro.

There is no way to show who is and isn't 'boosting' per say and it has been available since solo que days too (duo que boosting). Anyway, if they bring back solo que we will get ranked integrity back in a flash.

Livin like Riven9/9/2016, 6:21:20 PM2 votes

I boost people all the time with Lulu W and Zilean E, and there's nothing you can do to stop me.

Hot Belly Dancer9/8/2016, 6:35:56 PM2 votes

@ itankyou ,accidentally getting matched with a boosted player and win is ok, as you didn t choose to get mached and play with him! but voluntarily boosting someone is scummy!

Swiftstrike49/8/2016, 11:14:31 PM2 votes

Boosting is a problem with very good players creating new accounts and playing ranked. Or really good players, logging into another person's account and playing on it. That's not really related to dynamic queue or the potential problem it causes or if it has compromised ranked integrity. Smurfing and booting was a problem before dynamic queue was implemented.

I don't think dynamic queue has really exacerbated the problem much. Unless the player is Diamond plus boosting Silvers to Gold for rewards. This does happen, but I think it is less prevalent than you think.

I don't know about how other upper elo players feel about DQ and their experiences, but I am Gold I and I can't single handedly carry my silver friends in ranked games.

I am not that good, and they are pretty bad. Meaning, I can't consistently win games for them to boost them to Gold. I am sure a lot of Plat players can't boost Gold players to Plat easily, and as a higher Elo player, playing with silver and bronze players can be frustrating sometimes.

They are my friends and I enjoy playing with them. But because they lack skill in the game we can't win as often as you would think just because I am Gold I player playing on a Silver account.

The people that think boosting is prevalent because of dynamic queue are the same people that just can't win games as often as they would like to get them out of whatever Elo they are currently in. They think they are better than their rank.

Hourly people create threads on this forum claiming that they hate dynamic queue and that they played against a 5 man premade and lost because of it. Then they go on about how dynamic queue is ruining their ranked experience.

Occasionally when I see these threads, I look up the game they referenced and the match history of their opponents. About 70% of the time their opponents have no history of playing together, in previous or the next game. 30% of the time they are simply duos or trios.

Still they lost the game, think it is due to a 5 man premade, blame dynamic queue because they already do not like dynamic queue, and it reaffirms their existing predisposition on DQ.

The reality is that they are not very good, the opponents are not a premade very often, and just because an opposing team appeared coordinated does mean they were a premade.

Their lost had little to due with DQ, and probably had less to do with boosting and more to due with smurfing.

Bad players play the blame game a lot:

They blame teammates
They blame the queue system
They blame the opponent's coordination
They blame boosting

They almost never recognize that they themselves are not that good and could work on their game. They simply think that something else is contributing to their inability to win games.

Eunson9/9/2016, 12:27:02 AM1 votes

People pay 100$ US for silver 1- gold v... It takes like 7 games which is like 3 hours of "work"

Mokkun9/9/2016, 1:47:43 AM1 votes

Dynamic queue and boosting are completely different problems. Boosting could happen in a purely solo queue.

As to why dynamic queue exists, it exists because a vocal part of the playerbase begged and pleaded with Riot for years to create it, because "how does this game rank me fairly if I'm stuck solo with other people. It's all a bunch of random's fault for my losses. There's no way it can be accurate." Along with just the people who wanted to play with a set of friends, at rates other than 1 or 4. Granted, there was another vocal group that begged for purely solo queue because blaming duo queues was easier than admitting their own mistakes too.

Also, 1 report counts much less than 9 reports, but it can count as much or more than 4 reports from the same premade. (It's premade's who's reporting doesn't stack. The game weights your enemies the same as solos on your team, unless they too are a premade.) And all of it is dependent upon the report weight of the individuals reporting. If your report weight is zero, it doesn't matter what you say.

Pika Fox9/9/2016, 1:30:43 PM1 votes

Clearly you dont know how the game works. Just by playing with or against players far better than you you will advance as a player more rapidly than you would playing against someone equal or worse than you skill wise. (Players at your skill level are just as dumb as you, people worse than you are even dumber) All you really need to be willing to do is learn instead of crying about how dynamic queue showed you you arent as good as youd like to think in your head.

The only boosting problem LoL has is when someone hands their account to someone else to play the game for them. So long as you are actively participating in the match, your win was deserved. No matter what you might think to claim, unless the person is D2 or above they will not be able to solo carry someone that much higher than their skill level, simply because they will become dead weight unless they learn rapidly. Which you can see above.

Irelio9/9/2016, 8:36:19 PM1 votes

Quit crying,

Smurfs exist, and not everyone you meet is not exactly boosting. I have a Bronze 3 account I choose to keep at that elo cause I enjoy watching typical mistakes that people don't learn from. Then you've got the people who claim "I don't belong here." when you clearly do. If you have over 100 games and you're still Bronze you clearly aren't learning and need more practice. I personally enjoy laning against smurfs cause you get a brief observation of what it'll be like if you somehow manage to climb and you get to reflect on the gameplay and find out where you messed up. Think of it as a lesson rather then a punishment.

Dragfin9/8/2016, 6:36:19 PM1 votes

Yeah well, that's the type of society we have today. Most children are raised entitled and therefore pride and a sense of accomplishment don't figure into their daily lives. This has been going on for the past 20-30 years and it really shows when you have to deal with those people in real life. It's going to get worse before it gets better.

Sukishoo9/10/2016, 1:21:33 AM1 votes

DQ isn't boosting. Boosting is when you have someone else play on your account for you. DQ is someone just carrying other people which has happened beforehand with the SQ cause you could still Duo.

DrProfVibeCheck9/8/2016, 8:24:24 PM1 votes

Me and my friends are all in Silver, but I'm in silver 1 while all everyone else is silver 4-3. Sometimes, when I duo with one of them, I like to joke around that I'm boostin their ass.

AwesomeChad9/8/2016, 6:35:47 PM1 votes

I know so many diamond boosted players who are on my friends list. I know one person who was 5-man boosted to diamond 2 but shes demoted to diamond 5 since they put restrictions on premades. Shes sporting the solo queue emblem but thats just a sham because if you look at the games she played to get to diamond 2, they were all premade. Also, recently, shes been duoing alot more often probably because shes frustrated. I know another person who abused dynamic queue premade to get to diamond 5. She made a video on "tip to get to diamond" which makes NO sense because she did not get there with her own skill and the fact that this is the 1st season she got diamond and her only account in diamond doesn't mean she actually knows what shes doing.