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Wrong MMR boosting accusation

LÙQ··2 votes·1,060 views

Greetings,

I have read a few threads on the topic of MMR boosting, primarily those who believe and showed they were actually incorrectly accused of being boosted. My account was suspended yesterday (07/11/2015) for 2 weeks and after making a ticket, I received a response where the Rioter claimed that after an 'extensive investigation' (a bot, according to every thread I found), my account was tagged as having been boosted. Needless to say, I was quite upset reading this and I did send a very harsh response with a couple of insults which I wouldn't have sent if I had cooled down for a bit, this is from a player that has never got a chat restriction and who tries to keep a positive attitude.

My account: LÙQ

I thought a bit about the accusation and I do see why they could find it suspicious, my brother has been playing this game for longer than I have (summoner name: Lovecoil), he is currently diamond 4 and we both share some of our champion pool, which is sort of expected considering he taught me the game.

I won't deny he hasn't played on my account, I've played on his as well (yes, ranked, does this mean I boosted his account). The point remains, he has placed two other smurf accounts on diamond and he could do it if he wanted on my account, and I could probably do it myself if I really wanted it. But I don't, I don't like playing ranked, I like queueing a couple of normals with my friends and I've played ranked with the sole purpose of getting to gold for the victorious skin which will now be removed from my account. Reading this from an outsider's perspective I can understand that I haven't presented any proof to show that I've done this all by myself, but literally all I can say is that I probably am better than the average player in my bracket by looking at small stats like W/L, KDA and CS differential but I just don't feel like grinding past my skin reward. We share a similar champion pool, although I initially preferred playing ADCs, and with the change in meta this season he shifted towards Orianna and Jinx whereas I am an avid Viktor player.

The intent of this thread is mainly to know what happened to others who got incorrectly accused; and if it is possible to have my suspension and accusation removed, what proof can I dig up to show that I achieved my rank by myself?

11 Comments

o Maui o3 votes

Sharing accounts is a violation of the terms both you and your brother agreed to in order to play the game. Your account could have been deleted permanently.

Don't let anyone else play on your account.

LÙQ1 votes

Upon reading a more sensible post like yours it really does seem like any slight indication of account sharing is punished, in my opinion it is a bit harsh for a loyal customer like myself, but nevertheless I agree that it does violate the terms and conditions. Well, I guess that's how things go when somebody is honest about the subject; meanwhile bots, scripts and toxicity remain.

Thank you for the response, I will see to it that nobody else ever plays on this account excluding myself.

pripustas1 votes

I understand letting your friend play games on your account, but not ranked. If your friend plays ranked on your account, that's elo boosting. Even if your friend is worse than you, it's still unfair, because you haven't achieved the rank. Your friend did.

LÙQ1 votes

I feel like you missed on the point of my comment or you misread the main paragraph. The point is all 108 ranked games I played this season (67 W, 41 L) were MY games, I achieved my rank and no one else. As far as I know, nobody has ever known my account credentials and whenever someone has played on my account I was supervising the game, when I was learning the game from new in 2014.

Skadeglädje2 votes

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I feel like you missed on the point of my comment or you misread the main paragraph. The point is all 108 ranked games I played this season (67 W, 41 L) were MY games, I achieved my rank and no one else. As far as I know, nobody has ever known my account credentials and whenever someone has played on my account I was supervising the game, when I was learning the game from new in 2014.

If you admit that someone else has played on your account then I don't see how you can challenge the ban. Account sharing, even if it's "only normals" is strictly and explicitly prohibited. You say that no one played any ranked games on your account this season. What about last season? What about normals this year?

Yes, we could get into semantics wether or not this is MMR boosting or [some other punishable offense] but at the end of the day you admit to breaking the rules. You'll just have to own it.

LÙQ2 votes

You are correct, I will see to it that nobody ever plays on my account. Thank you for the response.

llIIxxIIll1 votes

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Skadeglädje1 votes

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This baffles me. We're on the player behavior board, where most of the discussions concern how, in a broad sense, we want our community to be. Yet you come on here saying things like "[bad thing 1]" and "[even worse thing 2]".

No, OPs account sharing/elo boosting is not ok but neither is your behavior.

edit: original post was deleted so I edited out the quotes.

llIIxxIIll1 votes

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This baffles me. We're on the player behavior board, where most of the discussions concern how, in a broad sense, we want our community to be. Yet you come on here saying things like "[bad thing 1]" and "[even worse thing 2]".

No, OPs account sharing/elo boosting is not ok but neither is your behavior.

edit: original post was deleted so I edited out the quotes.

i would flame if players like this asshole wouldnt exist.

Señor Karthus1 votes

You MMR boosted and the ban is legit.

COBRA C0MM4NDER1 votes

account sharing? you should burn and learn.

as for encountering bots , scripts and toxicity...make a support ticket and use the after game report feature along with that.

You'll be surprised how quick the reply can be.

Helping Riot out helps YOU & the COMMUNITY do something about these undesirables.

oh yeah, don't share the account.

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