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What is defined as boosted or boosting?

MyLittleWindmill·11/2/2016, 2:27:17 AM·1 votes·1,026 views

I don't play Ranked, and don't know if I ever will anytime soon, so I don't know a whole ton about it and therefore boosting doesn't really concern me, however I'm very curious as to what is counted as boosting or being boosted. It's bothered and confused me for a while.

So, there are two things I currently understand as boosting and if these are wrong, please tell me so I can have some piece of mind.

One, paying someone or asking someone to play your account to raise your rank, or queuing up with a pre-made of higher-leveled players.

The second one, grouping with higher levels is the one that causes me most confusion. Let's say someone is relatively new to League, and, naturally is in Bronze, yet their friends that convinced them to download the game have been playing for a while are in Diamond or something. If they were to play together, I imagine the Bronze player would likely end up getting carried and probably end up in or around Diamond, from my understanding of the Ranked system.

So, my question is, would those friends be considered 'boosters'? Could they be banned? Does that mean that if someone had higher ranked friends, they would not be allowed to play Ranked together?

I understand the reasoning behind that- afterall, they can always play Normals together since Ranked is meant to test individual skill, but I was just curious if people like those friends in the example could be banned for boosting even if that wasn't necessarily the intention.

This has been bothering me forever, lol. Thanks for any answer.

5 Comments

XinCrin11/2/2016, 2:52:52 AM1 votes

Boost: To raise someones account to an elo they did not get themselves. Boosted: A person at a high elo who does not belong there.

They kind of mean the same thing.

Curious Kat11/2/2016, 3:06:56 AM1 votes

There is 2 kinds of boosting in this game.

You pay for, and either very good players will group up with you, OR they will even log onto your account and rank you up to whatever rank you want with a varying price. This is of course VERY bannable. And you risk losing your account. Funny thing is, Iv'e seen some streams where very high elo people get whispered by someone saying, "the account is ready for you". And they quickly hide it. Yet, don't get punished for it. Something like that means they themselves are logging onto others accounts after being payed to boost said account.
Abusing Dynamic Queue. This means that you just group up with friends or just higher ranked people in general, and have them carry you match after match after match until you rank up. This completely fucks up all solo queue players experience that end up on the enemy team, because clearly a team of friends on voice communication will have a huge advantage, especially when a couple plats are trying to boost their bronze friend. Those plats will destroy anybody they get matched against more times than not. You ever see a plat go against a bronze? It's not pretty.

Boosting is basically just getting help from other people to get you to higher rank, no matter how you do it, boosting is boosting, and is the cheapest exploit in the game as of right now thanks to DQ.

You ever see a silver/gold/plat player playing like they belong in bronze? And feeding non stop? That's a boosted player. They very clearly did not earn their rank by them selves, and had assistance to get to where they are.

Sadly it is not against the rules to group up with friends, regardless of their levels. It is even encouraged with IP party boosts and stuff like that. So if you just group up with friends that happen to be higher rank, and you end up ranking up a bit, it is not bannable.

What is bannable is if you share your account, or buy a boosted account, or pay someone to rank your account up themselves.

Hopefully this helps a bit.

Xikini11/2/2016, 3:41:21 AM1 votes

As others have said, a boosted player is someone who is deemed to be at a rank they do not deserve and/or did not achieve on their own.

It's not always cookie cutter clear though.

Often a player has played a single champion and mastered it to get to high gold/plat, and then want to try another champion. It often turns into a massacre. (Escpecially if their team tilts them into becoming angry, these player will sometimes turn into a feeder/rager/afk/toxic)

In this case, the player does deserve their current rank, just not with the champion they are currently playing.

On Hindsight, if a player has been playing with 4 of their friends, in a team composition, they technically do deserve the rank they are while in the team composition.

When they venture out on their own, they are no longer in their preferred environment, and will likely perform worse then their current ranking.

So while there are legitimate reasons for a player to perform below their ranking, a boosted player is usually quite a bit more obvious.

Never placing wards, face checking bushes, diving towers, unable to flash properly, taking skills out of sequence, very poor positioning, terrible item choices, et cetera. Combine all of it together, and you can quite clearly find a legitimately boosted player.