If im boosting my friend to plat and he is g5 is that bannable?

occmcm·8/15/2018, 2:15:52 PM·1 votes·1,285 views

I had a player in my game not so long ago who was plat 3 and his friend was silver 5. And he said he was duoing just to get his friend up to plat. Is this banable? The one in my game was a ww who was playing on a gold 5 account so that his friend would acutually get elo from the games they played. I just wanted to ask because, as i was playing yasuo i was expected to get camped. But this ww did amazing in the game and admitted to having a higher elo account and admitted to boosting his friend to plat. So is this allowed? [slayer-jinx-unamused]

And yes. Im extra salty seen as it was my promos to Silver 2.... [sg-janna]

8 Comments

ModThe Djinn8/15/2018, 2:23:30 PM4 votes

Duo queue-ing with a friend is totally allowed, even if one player is better than the other. Playing on a friend's account to raise their rank is not.

Clockwork Mouse8/15/2018, 2:18:52 PM2 votes

Boosting is whn you play lower accounts to bring them up to your level. This just sounds like co-op to me. Riot allows this form of boosting because the person is actually playing the game, just with higher level friends

Himeski8/15/2018, 2:38:11 PM2 votes

If you're on their account it's bannable, not if you're duoing with them [slayer-jinx-catface] Boost away

Umbral Regent8/15/2018, 2:17:40 PM1 votes

Yes, boosting is bannable. If someone claims to be boosting, report them - whether with the in-game report feature, or through a Support Ticket.

DuskDaUmbreon8/15/2018, 5:14:30 PM1 votes

It depends, as there are two kinds of boosting:

The first kind, which is the one that that everyone tends to think of, is where someone besides the owner of an account plays on an account to get it to a higher rank. As this is account sharing, which Riot has forbidden in the ToS, that would be bannable.

The other kind, the one that happened here, is when you simply play with a higher-ranked person and have them carry you up higher. Riot and others frown on this, because it kinda screws the integrity of the system, but it's not against their rules.