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ELO Booster, or player improvement.

SomeSortOfAsian·9/9/2016, 2:19:49 AM·5 votes·1,111 views

So, I've recently come across this guy. He didn't have the greatest attitude in the community. Kinda cocky, he's a Bronze V (well, explain the bad attitude.) and my other friends did say he is a massive boaster, always ranting around how he can 1v1 everyone in school.

Well, that's not the point I wanted to talk to day. He has consistently grinding on Rank for the past couples of day. Seeing his match history, he seemed to carry most of his game. That's a good thing right? He's improving... well, not quite.

http://imgur.com/a/bO95J http://imgur.com/OKqM9Ru http://imgur.com/N73bimz

If you can see here, you will notice that his score is pretty decent, right? Not that too obvious, and he's playing snowball champions most of his game, so that explain (also a preferable archetype that ELO Booster really enjoy playing.) It doesn't prove much, right. Maybe he took a break, and do some practice, watch from pro guides. But wait, there's more.

http://imgur.com/r9qE2vO http://imgur.com/ygBStYf http://imgur.com/RxTZjjy http://imgur.com/lnjxx1w http://imgur.com/FNwwvof

I could only assume that he got to a whole new level of skill in that short one month where he stopped playing rank. I don't know about you but if that doesn't spell skeptical, then I don't know what is. Not to mention, his CS counts. If you check through these images, you'll see the CS counts of his recent games nearly doubles the amount of CS he has in previous games. That's a huge improvement of quality farming if you asked me. That's all I will have to say for now. Maybe this will get to Riot's ears, and maybe actions will be taken. That's all I have to say.

Edit logs: -Added Summoner's name. -Remove Summoner's name due to Privacy. -Made a CS count analysis of his games through both recent games and the past games prior September.

17 Comments

Finn Teh Human9/9/2016, 4:04:49 AM5 votes

If he's still in Bronze I doubt he's boosted. But if he got a jump in actual elo, not just wins in games, then chances are he's boosted.

Randomonium9/9/2016, 4:43:09 AM3 votes

Its hard to tell just looking at the match summaries. I'd look at things like cs/min, how many wards he places a game, and how many pink wards he buys. These metrics normally change very slowly so if you see a huge spike I think that's a better indication of boosting than just carrying games.

For example, I took a several month break from ranked and just focused on improving my positioning and decision making. I came back like 2 weeks ago and climbed from Silver 4 to Silver 1 (promos to gold) with a 75% win rate. Do you think I'm getting boosted?

Netherlife9/9/2016, 5:44:14 AM2 votes

I'd also like to add that I think the most accurate way of telling would probably be large spikes in the quality of his CS score. Ending games with close 10 minions per minute, with a final deficit of around -30 CS would heavily imply boosting as he is prone to normally having a -200 CS deficit at around 40 minutes in the ADC role.

NoRunesMasteries9/9/2016, 5:48:48 AM2 votes

First off name shaming is offensive and you should remove his name and censor it.

Secondly send in support ticket and thirdly ban him Rito!

Netherlife9/9/2016, 5:38:53 AM1 votes

His account will have to under-go a lot of scrutiny to determine if he is boosting or not, such as a sudden change in champion pool and/or large elo drops.

Itankyou9/9/2016, 2:47:43 AM1 votes

You are literally the most boosted animal on the forums. I just want to laugh for hours at you.

SomeSortOfAsian9/10/2016, 12:12:57 AM1 votes

Update log to the Investigation. Most of you do suggest that I should check his CS counts, and so I did. Let's say that I was not surprised to see his CS counts does increase just like his KDA, and his ELO in general. If you guys have any suggestion that would provide concrete evidence, feel free to share.