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Does Riot Ever Ban Boosted Players?

o Eon O·4/5/2017, 9:14:10 PM·3 votes·22,798 views

I just played against a guy (didn't lane against him but he was on the enemy team) and he actually 1 vs 9'd the match as mid Fizz. Everyone on my team was a bit better than his teammates, aside from our mid of course and we ended up losing with that Fizz going 18/4/x.

I checked his op.gg and the guy never got past gold for the last 3 seasons, never having great win rates or kda's either. This season he is solo carrying 1 vs 9 mid plat matches with ease (70 percent win rate over his last 20 matches), putting up extremely good win rates and kda's on most of the champs he's playing.

It got me wondering if Riot actually punishes people that get their account boosted or if they just let it slide.

Repost since I had it in the wrong section at first

Edit: I also added the guy and he pretty much implied he was boosting the account without full out saying it. Not looking to get him punished, just really curious how they handle situations of boosting

23 Comments

Riotcluvie4/5/2017, 11:38:27 PM7 votes

Yes, we do. It's not always immediate, but we are working on that. Every season, we work to improve and iterate on detection as well. You will see a lot of QQ towards the end of the season as the rewards are stripped from the account and punishments begin rolling out. You can find a breakdown of the levels of punishments here. If you are curious about the detection method itself, we've shared what we can on this page.

Deep Terror Nami4/5/2017, 9:27:54 PM4 votes

Account sharing is against the terms of use, and MMR Boosting will result in a 14 day account ban and loss of all Ranked rewards the first time, and a permaban the second.

Kaioko4/5/2017, 9:29:28 PM2 votes

The issue is proving it - while the sudden increase in % rate is suspicious; that alone isn't enough. He could've kept his rank low last season by trying different champions or even because he wanted to play with his friends who were at that rank.

ABlueQuaker4/6/2017, 8:28:35 AM2 votes

To the best of my knowledge, Riot likes to think they're getting away with it then they punish. Same with bought accounts and powerlevelled accounts. Riot likes to make these sorts of punishments as devastating and time-consuming as possible.

Why ban a bot at level 5, when they could wait until it finally hits lvl 30 and ban it?

grug4/6/2017, 9:38:04 AM1 votes

there are several players that i have played with on OCE who have been diamond in seasons past and are now miraculously in bronze solo rank for unknown reasons so i'm guessing the metrics to generate manual audits are much more rigorous than previously thought.

I have also reported several players in games who have uttered the phrase ' i don't care, it's not even my account' without ever seeing any form of punishment, one of the clearest admissions of guilt that i have ever seen.

KB Lozo29/5/2017, 9:03:55 AM1 votes

xinzhaoisgood45 steal my paypal acount and they use it to buy champions and skins please ban them and suspent there acount