Banned Wrongfully for MMR Boosting.

çõdy··35 votes·3,383 views

I got banned for two weeks and my ranked rewards taken away for being accused of MMR boosting in Season 7 and I did not have anyone else play on my account other than myself. The only two computers I have played League of Legends on was my laptop at Harper College and home, aswell as my desktop at home. During season 7 I believe that I averaged around Platinum 1 and Diamond 5 while I was getting back into the game, then as preseason hit I changed back to my main role of ADC for the rune update, and reached Diamond 3, I then stagnated and was unable to keep climbing with ADC and decided to try out other roles such as Top and Jungle ending before the ban with a rank of Diamond 4.

I contacted player support on December 7th 2017 when the ban was placed on my account and I was told by several different Rioters that they double checked my case and that they found that I was MMR Boosting in season 7, Player Support said that they were not able to divulge into any details of the case built against me to help future investigations against people who participate in MMR Boosting. I was not able to give them any evidence of any support from my Computer, IP Address, League of Legends Logs.

A quick background of myself is that I have been a high ranked player peaking at Master Tier several times and Challenger in ranked 5's when that existed a couple seasons ago ( https://twitter.com/lolMakeBelieve ) , All the screenshots are the same account that just got banned for MMR Boosting just with different names. I even made it to round 2 of the first Open NACS Qualifier with my team Super Nova. I did not buy MMR Boosting or have anyone play a ranked game on my account other than myself, this Ban needs to be investigated further.

40 Comments

God is a Poro14 votes

Join the club they won't do anything "they have significant evidence".............

Takaray11 votes

Sure a few games might look odd but a history of being Masters/Challenger makes it hard to believe that there was shenanigans. Anyway yours seem super outrageous, have my upvote altho I wouldnt hold my breath I gave them airplane tickets and they didnt care lol

TheGoddessBell9 votes

Riot will just give the same nonsense they have to all of us and that's "We have investigated the account and the ban is properly placed, goodbye" cause they don't care if they are wrong or right in all of these cases.

Flawless Fetus9 votes

Did you boost? Not get boosted, but boost. I lost my end of season rewards and had a two week ban a couple of years ago bc I had been boosting other players. You don't need to be getting boosted to get the ban.

LostFr0st5 votes

Through glancing through the online match history, last December seems a bit odd. Summoner spells flip-flop and there's a role shift.

çõdy4 votes

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Through glancing through the online match history, last December seems a bit odd. Summoner spells flip-flop and there's a role shift.

My account was hacked during that time period, I got the account back around June 2017, player support also said that the boosting occurred while I had the account in my possession.

Dragon Zyra1 votes

Who hacks a lol account to play a few ranked games and then stop? Not to mention it's useless.

A main reason why League doesn't worry about 2 step verification is that you can't do anything with the LoL password unless you are the e-mail owner, who can easily change the password at ANY time.

And they wouldn't be able to also hack your email (not just because that's insane to do) since League never tells you your complete e-mail account.

çõdy1 votes

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Who hacks a lol account to play a few ranked games and then stop? Not to mention it's useless.

A main reason why League doesn't worry about 2 step verification is that you can't do anything with the LoL password unless you are the e-mail owner, who can easily change the password at ANY time.

And they wouldn't be able to also hack your email (not just because that's insane to do) since League never tells you your complete e-mail account.

He hacked my email as well and got my league account through my email, I didn't realize it until I tried to play several months later after taking a break from league.

Battalion1 votes

This happened to my military buddy while all his account info was in my possession, they can, and they do hack your email and change the password. I never used his account for ranked or anything of that nature and I only ever logged on to complete first win of the day so he could come back to an account full of IP when he was done with basic training. Unfortunately I had to get support to temporarily deactivate the account because the email was compromised; I'd change the password and the next day it was something else, literally.

LostFr0st1 votes

When League detects that another person is playing on an account, the account is banned until the owner gets in contact with them (they verify the owner ofc.)

Imperial Pandaa1 votes

Did you mention that in the ticket? About how there was a prior case with your account being hacked during that timeframe? Seems redundant to say, but it might help.

çõdy1 votes

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Did you mention that in the ticket? About how there was a prior case with your account being hacked during that timeframe? Seems redundant to say, but it might help.

Yes I did mention that in my ticket! They said that the boosting occurred while I was in ownership of my account during season 7, apparently the guy who hacked my account also scripted on the account, which I got banned for but the ban was revoked because It was while the account was hacked.

LostFr0st1 votes

Hmm, Sorry then. [sg-soraka] I thought that since the hacker was accessing the account at the same time as the owner that it wasn't a hack.

Can't seem to find anything other than a couple games where your active moves, but that could be accounted for by buying it at the end of the game/ forgetting to move it.

Real Sexy Yoona1 votes

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My account was hacked during that time period, I got the account back around June 2017, player support also said that the boosting occurred while I had the account in my possession.

First off, it sounds like an excuse when you don't mention a fatal point until you were questioned by a comment. It's something worth mentioning before someone takes the easy step to check your match history and question your summoner spell flip flops etc.

While there is no Rioter to confirm any of this, you are also talking about a rare case scenario of being able to get your account back after it was hacked... It just seems odd that he would hack your league account after hacking your gmail (as you said in another comment). Like how did he know that the specific league account was connected to the gmail? Or is the hacker going around hacking gmails, checking if there is a league account to hack? It's hard to see your true intentions, but it's even harder to see why the hacker would do any of the things mentioned, and how he would do it- unless if there was no actual hacker. Did gmail support confirm you got hacked? Evidence?

The summoner spells flip-flop is definitively questionable and your account was conveniently hacked then. To you it could be a reality, but to the casual viewer, it just looks like a awkward patch up story. The "I don't have a reason to MMR boost based on my history" argument always comes up in posts like this, and I'm not trying to say it's a weak point. It's just that everyone says something similar to that and some of them still get banned.

I definitely hope the truth does come out. However, it's near impossible to determine your situation at this point in time.

çõdy1 votes

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First off, it sounds like an excuse when you don't mention a fatal point until you were questioned by a comment. It's something worth mentioning before someone takes the easy step to check your match history and question your summoner spell flip flops etc.

While there is no Rioter to confirm any of this, you are also talking about a rare case scenario of being able to get your account back after it was hacked... It just seems odd that he would hack your league account after hacking your gmail (as you said in another comment). Like how did he know that the specific league account was connected to the gmail? Or is the hacker going around hacking gmails, checking if there is a league account to hack? It's hard to see your true intentions, but it's even harder to see why the hacker would do any of the things mentioned, and how he would do it- unless if there was no actual hacker. Did gmail support confirm you got hacked? Evidence?

The summoner spells flip-flop is definitively questionable and your account was conveniently hacked then. To you it could be a reality, but to the casual viewer, it just looks like a awkward patch up story. The "I don't have a reason to MMR boost based on my history" argument always comes up in posts like this, and I'm not trying to say it's a weak point. It's just that everyone says something similar to that and some of them still get banned.

I definitely hope the truth does come out. However, it's near impossible to determine your situation at this point in time.

I honestly didn't think it was worth mentioning since it was such a complicated issue and riot already stated that the boosting apparently occurred while I was in possession of my account, I understand the point of it looks like a patch up story, I dont need to post screenshots of the chat with support of getting my account back because they already know about the account being hacked, and as I do appreciate people investigating it themselves I mainly want the attention of riot to get more rioters to look at my case. I hope the truth comes out as well.

MinRuto5 votes

Hey genius.

You posted a twitter account that explicitly says you boosted some body. .. clearly ban deserved. Lol and no one hacks into an account to play a few games. Not sure how no one else thinks what you are saying is outrageous.

çõdy2 votes

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Hey genius.

You posted a twitter account that explicitly says you boosted some body. .. clearly ban deserved. Lol and no one hacks into an account to play a few games. Not sure how no one else thinks what you are saying is outrageous.

The context is as a joke, Raccoon was on my team that I made it to challenger with.

EDIT: I found me and him playing in the NACS Open as team Supernova, bottom left ( It says my name and his) https://battlegrounds.leagueoflegends.com/t-csoqna/brackets/en/191

REPORTYASUOXD4 votes

Good. Thanks for banning him riot.

Enjutsu2 votes

In the end, this is your word vs theyrs.

çõdy2 votes

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In the end, this is your word vs theyrs.

The thing that really scares me is that I asked them if there was anything I could do once the account is unbanned in the future to protect myself from getting wrongfully banned again, they told me that there was nothing I could do to prove my innocence.

SailorPsycho1 votes

Only thing I can think of, is to stop playing ranked on that account :/ but that's about it.

Enjutsu3 votes

How can we know you were really banned wrongfully?

Tìna2 votes

Flip flop of summoner spells is suspicious. Generally players don't do this, but it is evident you are a good player regardless. However boosting still happens people do pay for boosting out of diamond or plat. So its not unbelievable just because you are good. Regardless I hope this gets investigated further and that the truth comes out :)

çõdy1 votes

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Flip flop of summoner spells is suspicious. Generally players don't do this, but it is evident you are a good player regardless. However boosting still happens people do pay for boosting out of diamond or plat. So its not unbelievable just because you are good. Regardless I hope this gets investigated further and that the truth comes out :)

Yes I agree, I play with flash on D as you can see since June 2017 it has been D and only D, I believe the account was hacked around 08/2016, every game before 08/16 is me with flash on D and after June 2017, I realize me being good doesn't defend me I just dont have any other defense as much as I hate it.

Bettnachleger1 votes

Your account was comprimsed for like 10 months?

Mathix2 votes

This kid is more guilty than OJ Simpson

OnlyYouCanHearMe1 votes

Generally speaking, there's quite a bit that goes into Riot issuing a ban for boosting/account sharing. Two of the things that often pop up as red flags are the swapping of summoner spells and the changing of roles played, as the others have already mentioned here from looking at your match history. Just looking at it objectively, the sheer amount of summoner spell back and forth over that 2-3 month span is mystifying. It is scientifically proven that players develop muscle memory to ingrain the use of certain summoner spell patterns, so to see something like that tends to make other players suspicious. But Riot doesn't base bans on suspicions. They use hard evidence.

It can involve things like IP address of login, but those change when people travel, so that is never the sole basis for a ban. One of the things that doesn't change, and is unique to a player is their input patterns. How many times is that player clicking per minute? per second? As a rule, those numbers go up with skill and rank. For example, watch a Bronze V Vayne main, and then watch Doublelift in a skirmish. I'll bet you any amount of money on the planet that Doublelift is executing more clicks per second than the Bronze player. And it's a noticeable difference to the system. The differences don't have to be as severe as Professional/Challenger to Bronze to be able to tell either. Especially for long-term players, the system has a lot of data stored up on our patterns of play, and while we can make gradual improvements, we're not going to suddenly have a spike in ability that randomly vanishes one day. And if that sort of change correlates to a summoner spell switch, and a role swap, or a change in champion played, and a new IP address that is across the country.... it begins to add up in a damning fashion.

The reason why Player Support doesn't tell every player who submits a ticket all the reasons behind their ban is somewhat unfortunate. It's because the boosters are looking for how they got caught. Riot has no way to tell in the span of reading a ticket that someone submitted whether a player is a genuinely confused, and potentially innocent, player, or whether they are a booster who is simply playing dumb to try and figure out how they got caught so they can not make that mistake again. So, Riot's policy is not to give out the specific details on their investigative process. They can direct players here, to the Boards, where other players can give a bit of insight into the types of things that can trigger a ban, while maintaining the integrity of their system to protect players from the boosters. On the plus, this means the boosters don't get that information. On the negative, it means that the genuine players who are simply confused and not actively trying to cheat the system, have a harder time finding out what they did wrong.

çõdy2 votes

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Generally speaking, there's quite a bit that goes into Riot issuing a ban for boosting/account sharing. Two of the things that often pop up as red flags are the swapping of summoner spells and the changing of roles played, as the others have already mentioned here from looking at your match history. Just looking at it objectively, the sheer amount of summoner spell back and forth over that 2-3 month span is mystifying. It is scientifically proven that players develop muscle memory to ingrain the use of certain summoner spell patterns, so to see something like that tends to make other players suspicious. But Riot doesn't base bans on suspicions. They use hard evidence.

It can involve things like IP address of login, but those change when people travel, so that is never the sole basis for a ban. One of the things that doesn't change, and is unique to a player is their input patterns. How many times is that player clicking per minute? per second? As a rule, those numbers go up with skill and rank. For example, watch a Bronze V Vayne main, and then watch Doublelift in a skirmish. I'll bet you any amount of money on the planet that Doublelift is executing more clicks per second than the Bronze player. And it's a noticeable difference to the system. The differences don't have to be as severe as Professional/Challenger to Bronze to be able to tell either. Especially for long-term players, the system has a lot of data stored up on our patterns of play, and while we can make gradual improvements, we're not going to suddenly have a spike in ability that randomly vanishes one day. And if that sort of change correlates to a summoner spell switch, and a role swap, or a change in champion played, and a new IP address that is across the country.... it begins to add up in a damning fashion.

The reason why Player Support doesn't tell every player who submits a ticket all the reasons behind their ban is somewhat unfortunate. It's because the boosters are looking for how they got caught. Riot has no way to tell in the span of reading a ticket that someone submitted whether a player is a genuinely confused, and potentially innocent, player, or whether they are a booster who is simply playing dumb to try and figure out how they got caught so they can not make that mistake again. So, Riot's policy is not to give out the specific details on their investigative process. They can direct players here, to the Boards, where other players can give a bit of insight into the types of things that can trigger a ban, while maintaining the integrity of their system to protect players from the boosters. On the plus, this means the boosters don't get that information. On the negative, it means that the genuine players who are simply confused and not actively trying to cheat the system, have a harder time finding out what they did wrong.

The summoner spell switching was what I can only believe is when my account was hacked, the hacker shared it to many different people. My IP address has remained static between the two places I play at college and at my home since I regained ownership of my account. I believe that my APM has remained very constant and I have always had a history of changing roles (Specifically top and jungle, I mained riven top to high diamond and Nidalee jungle a to master a couple season ago. I dont believe that riot support has looked at all the variables well enough, to charge someone in criminal court you have to have be 95% sure that the criminal Commited the crime, obviously this is riot court though so its not the same thing, Riot, while I love them, are the judge,jury, and executioner here, I dont want them to reveal how they got the information or what the information is, but I want them to thoroughly investigate the case more.

OnlyYouCanHearMe1 votes

How long was your account hacked?

Just to clarify, I make no judgments here, or assumptions as to what you did/didn't do. I'm just looking things over to try and give you an idea of what Riot MIGHT be seeing. These things may have something to do with it, or they may be unrelated, but I just wanted to be upfront about the fact that I'm not saying that you're guilty or innocent, or anything like that. I'm just combing through and looking for facts.

Looking through your Match History, which thankfully MH seems to be working now, and has stopped being finicky, the summoner spell flip-flop went back and forth from October 3, 2016 to January 29, 2017. That's roughly four months, during which time not only did the summoner spells shift positions from the D key to the F key, they were changing on the SAME DAY and then changing back again (October 18, 2016 goes back and forth.) That kind of thing really doesn't look good.

But the confusing thing is that the matches aren't all ranked. In fact many of them are either normal matches, or URF, and there's no clear pattern of wins associated with the swapped summoners. In that four month span, there are approximately 27 wins and 24 losses. There's no one champion that really stands out for having an excellent record during that time, though you do seem to have quite a few Jarvan IV matches. There does appear to be a difference in farming ability associated with the different summoner spell order, but it's not something I would look at and assume it to be statistically significant. You do have a pretty good win rate on Jarvan IV, but looking through op.gg, you've always had a decent winrate with him when you played him. While the summoner spell swapping is pretty weird, if it is all due to the hacking, and Riot has confirmed that the boosting did not occur during that time frame, then I would surmise that it's entirely unrelated to the summoner spells.

Which sends me back to op.gg. Checking out your monthly tier graph, you have a jump from Plat 3 to Diamond 5 that occurred from June 2017 to July 2017. Given your history, that doesn't seem like an unreasonable jump at all, but it's the only thing that looks even remotely plausible in your history. Your mmr was dropping steadily from February to June, and then bounced back within a month. If I were only glancing at your Match History, I might find it a tad suspicious that you suddenly started playing all these adcs and were able to jump up in rank again. But a quick glance at the previous seasons on op.gg shows that you've always played these same adcs. And that's not that big of a jump in rank for a player who was already at that rank earlier in the season. So, I really don't see anything too out of the ordinary there.

Fundamentally, I can't really say definitively what they pegged you on, just that there are things that don't look right. And while we know some of the ways that Riot catches boosters, even those of us here who try and help people understand don't know all the ways that they use. I suspect that they have some additional information that we simply are not privy to, which would likely make this all make much more sense. I'm sorry that I can't be of more help to you.

çõdy1 votes

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How long was your account hacked?

Just to clarify, I make no judgments here, or assumptions as to what you did/didn't do. I'm just looking things over to try and give you an idea of what Riot MIGHT be seeing. These things may have something to do with it, or they may be unrelated, but I just wanted to be upfront about the fact that I'm not saying that you're guilty or innocent, or anything like that. I'm just combing through and looking for facts.

Looking through your Match History, which thankfully MH seems to be working now, and has stopped being finicky, the summoner spell flip-flop went back and forth from October 3, 2016 to January 29, 2017. That's roughly four months, during which time not only did the summoner spells shift positions from the D key to the F key, they were changing on the SAME DAY and then changing back again (October 18, 2016 goes back and forth.) That kind of thing really doesn't look good.

But the confusing thing is that the matches aren't all ranked. In fact many of them are either normal matches, or URF, and there's no clear pattern of wins associated with the swapped summoners. In that four month span, there are approximately 27 wins and 24 losses. There's no one champion that really stands out for having an excellent record during that time, though you do seem to have quite a few Jarvan IV matches. There does appear to be a difference in farming ability associated with the different summoner spell order, but it's not something I would look at and assume it to be statistically significant. You do have a pretty good win rate on Jarvan IV, but looking through op.gg, you've always had a decent winrate with him when you played him. While the summoner spell swapping is pretty weird, if it is all due to the hacking, and Riot has confirmed that the boosting did not occur during that time frame, then I would surmise that it's entirely unrelated to the summoner spells.

Which sends me back to op.gg. Checking out your monthly tier graph, you have a jump from Plat 3 to Diamond 5 that occurred from June 2017 to July 2017. Given your history, that doesn't seem like an unreasonable jump at all, but it's the only thing that looks even remotely plausible in your history. Your mmr was dropping steadily from February to June, and then bounced back within a month. If I were only glancing at your Match History, I might find it a tad suspicious that you suddenly started playing all these adcs and were able to jump up in rank again. But a quick glance at the previous seasons on op.gg shows that you've always played these same adcs. And that's not that big of a jump in rank for a player who was already at that rank earlier in the season. So, I really don't see anything too out of the ordinary there.

Fundamentally, I can't really say definitively what they pegged you on, just that there are things that don't look right. And while we know some of the ways that Riot catches boosters, even those of us here who try and help people understand don't know all the ways that they use. I suspect that they have some additional information that we simply are not privy to, which would likely make this all make much more sense. I'm sorry that I can't be of more help to you.

This is a very fair and thorough investigation of my account and I feel as if you did more investigating than riot games, Which I really appreciate, I can say that I only play with flash on D, and I believe every other game in that time period with flashes swapped are not me, I literally rage quit the game for a couple months without even checking it. I believe the J4 winrate was actually the hacker last season, I actually saw my stats when I got the account back and I believe he was boosted out of the elo by somebody. I just hope they investigate it and take all factors into consideration just like you have, they have the information to connect all of the dots to determine whether I am guilty or innocent. I really appreciate you taking the time to look at everything noted.

Bettnachleger1 votes

It's kinda suspicious, that your account got hacked **after **you rage quited the game. For me, it sounds like you sold your account, and after a while you wanted to play again.

OnlyYouCanHearMe1 votes

Well, I'd be lying if I told you that we didn't see cases of obvious boosting here on the Boards all the time. We do. And many times, it's so very obvious when you look at the account that someone was boosted. Which is why those of us who reply tend to be a tad skeptical when we read the initial posts, and we know what sorts of things to look for in a match history. We see those guys who come to us about their boosting bans, but a quick glance will show that they are a mid main who suddenly went from Gold 5 to Diamond 3 (when they've never made it out of Gold in the last 4 seasons) by playing Twitch Jungle. Or someone who suddenly has a streak of 30 wins with a MUCH better kda and double the cs that they normally had. They are all really easy to pick up on with just a quick glance over an account, but in your case most of the suspicious looking things turned out to not look very significant. A jump in rank - only up to a rank you'd already held that season. A winstreak on a champ - one you've always had a good winrate with. Summoner spell swaps - happened during a hack, and at least half the games were normals, URFs, ARAMs where you wouldn't be gaining elo anyway.

I wish you the best of luck with Support. I'm sure it's very frustrating to have to deal with this, but try to remain as calm as possible when talking to them; politeness does tend to encourage people to be more willing to discuss the situation with you. Perhaps try going over some of the things we've all talked about here. Good luck.

[sona-playing]

Summonerrr 11 votes

MMR boosting wouldn't be an issue if MMR was actually accurate and statistically valid...

Battalion1 votes

The account hacking may not have been expunged from the system in the way of your digital fingerprint. So while support knows your account was hacked the system may flag your recent games as not matching up with the last known good data, causing it to see a "recent" change. That's all conjecture though. I would keep making a new discussion post every 24 hours until you get a riot response.

OnlyYouCanHearMe2 votes

Please don't encourage someone to spam the Boards with daily threads. There isn't a reason to do so. The only guaranteed avenue to a Riot response is through Support Tickets, not here on the Boards. This Board is primarily utilized by other players, and while some Rioters do answer questions, it's not a regular or scheduled thing, and there isn't a guarantee that they will see it. And definitely DON'T tell someone to make multiple tickets, as doing so will just end up in the duplicates being closed, and the initial one will be dropped to the back of the line.

Battalion1 votes

There's a difference between spam and 1 topic per 24 hours which will certainly be off the main page in that time. Calm down.

AFK at Keyboard1 votes

I mean call me crazy but

https://imgur.com/a/0yOuW

https://imgur.com/a/lGjFt

You get banned for being a booster, not just for being boosted

Can't tell if you're just bad at humor or if you really boosted some guy

çõdy2 votes

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I mean call me crazy but

https://imgur.com/a/0yOuW

https://imgur.com/a/lGjFt

You get banned for being a booster, not just for being boosted

Can't tell if you're just bad at humor or if you really boosted some guy

Raccoon was my support on my team supernova I didn't actually boost him lmao its a joke, I suppose its bad humor but it was a running joke between us.

UpDownLeftRightAB1 votes

Riot is zero tolerance, this might actually be what got you banned... I mean, it's like saying "I'm 12 what is this" and getting banned because minimum age is 13. Essentially you "admitted" to boosting, be it a joke or whatever doesn't matter to them.

çõdy1 votes

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Riot is zero tolerance, this might actually be what got you banned... I mean, it's like saying "I'm 12 what is this" and getting banned because minimum age is 13. Essentially you "admitted" to boosting, be it a joke or whatever doesn't matter to them.

That is true, I could see them viewing it that way, I dont think me saying I boosted a friend jokingly on twitter is the case they have against me.

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