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What should I do?

Rebellions·10/6/2016, 1:35:18 AM·2 votes·1,214 views

Hey, so as of a few minutes ago I found one of my friends is currently getting boosted as I write this out (Not gonna name and shame) I have the entire conversation up on a PM because the guy doing it told me he was doing it. I was speccing one of his games and it was weird to me because he was playing a role that just yesterday he told me he hated playing, on a champion I've only seen him use like 3 times total. I didn't think anything of it until I called him by his accounts old name because I got used to calling him that before he changed it's name and told me "I'm not that guy" he let me in on the whole thing. Apparently this guy had been on hiatus from league for a couple months and my friend was letting him use his account to fight against weaker opponents so he could 'warm up' (again I have the entire conversation up)

Ok so that's not a big deal, if it wasn't for the fact that he's doing it in Ranked. On an account, that is not his own.

Yeah, now I see a bit of a problem.

Now they swear that this is only to get my friend out of bronze and into silver, but I still see a serious problem with it. I mean on the one hand, 'Oh no he boosted him from bronze 2 to silver 5, whats the big deal?' But on the other hand, while its true there may not be a big difference between bronze and silver, there is still a difference. It's those differences that matter because I know he doesn't understand them.

So why the board post?

Well because as the title indicates, I actually don't know what I should do with this information. Should I let it slide? Should I report it to Riot? If so, I don't even know how to do that in the first place because I've never been in a situation like that before. I have more than just accusation of it since they confirmed it and I have the information in a PM on my client but I don't know how I would send a message to Riot, or even if I should in the first place. So I wanted a second opinion, which brings us to where we are now.

So just to bring it up again in case the answer of the community is going to be what I suspect it will be, how do I go about sending the information I have for Riot to look into it? Again it might be a weird question but I've never had to do this before, and still don't know if I necessarily have to do anything. I'm not okay with boosting, but if you guys don't think its a big deal I suppose I could just leave it alone. Again I don't know what to do

27 Comments

Troll Armada10/6/2016, 2:11:02 AM2 votes

Is this a real friend or a league friend?

what part of the country/world do you live in.... like for instance:

In Chicago, you could tell your friend you're turning him in and that he's a dirty little cheat, get him banned, and you two would still be friends.

In NY, no way. and you might get punched.

In LA, they would seem to be fine with it, and even apologize, but then murder you when you two are alone and make it look like suicide.

So it all depends on your situation.

Rebellions10/6/2016, 1:40:50 AM1 votes

Just as a post-edit because I forgot to mention why this is kind of difficult for me, (but if I go to edit the post directly I get these weird @&' markings everywhere I put an apostrophe for some reason) I know this player in real life, and he is a very good friend so maybe i'm making a huge deal out of nothing but that is why I am uncertain as to what action I should take, if any.

ModPrandine10/6/2016, 1:54:29 AM1 votes

Yes, I would most definitely report them for that if you know for sure that they are elo boosting.

Best Kog NA10/6/2016, 1:39:43 AM1 votes

I've been in the same situation you're in. Riot wont do anything even if you report your friend. You can provide them all the in game logs you want. Unless it affects them they don't care about it.

Hell Week10/6/2016, 3:32:36 AM1 votes

Leo bro youre a snitch how do you feel about yourself? where im from being a snitch is pure disrespect the lowest of the low. i know this guy is cheating but thats his life its not your place. is he affecting u in any way? No not really, let riot do their job if he is boosting. youre nobody bro you just feel like its unfair to you and others when in reality another players status shouldnt have to worry u.

wow dude and hes youre irl friend, you cant be trusted.

magic pole10/6/2016, 6:27:36 AM1 votes

I mean on the one hand, 'Oh no he boosted him from bronze 2 to silver 5, whats the big deal?'

seems unfair for the actual high bronze players legitimately trying to get silver that lost to a player much higher rank than them. Idk what rank the player using his account was, but anything gold or higher really smashes actual bronzes...so it would be unfair for them to be in the same ranked game

So i guess it depends on how strongly you feel about your values, such as fairness. On the other hand, friendship can be a good value too, so maybe confront your friend about it, and ask that they play in normals?

ultimately it really doesn't matter, bronzes will get silver if they work hard enough for it. But I think this is an ethical dilemma so I actually think coming to your own conclusion for be important for personal growth

good luck

Branagen10/6/2016, 5:45:39 PM1 votes

Getting "boosted" to silver isn't even really boosted and doesn't really mean anything. He'll play 1 game after getting the boost and realize he wasted his money. Bronze and Silver contain somewhere around 95% of all LoL players, so the two divisions are honestly just like one big garbage dump division (No offence, I'm silver af) So really in the grand scheme of things it's not any kind of a big deal.

Even people getting boosted way up the ladder to say, Plat, will be so out of their league it won't take long for them to plummet back into the depths of elo hell. Getting a quick boost up may get you higher rank, but your hidden MMR increases much slower, so your losses will be worth a lot more then your wins after a boost.