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Banned Wrongfully for MMR Boosting.

çõdy·12/12/2017, 4:49:24 AM·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 Poro12/12/2017, 7:59:03 AM14 votes

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

Takaray12/12/2017, 5:10:35 AM11 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

TheGoddessBell12/12/2017, 5:10:27 AM9 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 Fetus12/12/2017, 9:41:17 AM9 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.

MinRuto12/12/2017, 2:01:24 PM5 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.

LostFr0st12/12/2017, 5:06:09 AM5 votes

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

REPORTYASUOXD12/12/2017, 6:21:13 AM4 votes

Good. Thanks for banning him riot.

Enjutsu12/12/2017, 5:12:45 AM2 votes

In the end, this is your word vs theyrs.

Tìna12/12/2017, 5:54:06 AM2 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 :)

Mathix12/12/2017, 5:44:21 PM2 votes

This kid is more guilty than OJ Simpson

AFK at Keyboard12/12/2017, 5:44:52 PM1 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

OnlyYouCanHearMe12/12/2017, 6:39:37 AM1 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.

Summonerrr 112/12/2017, 7:31:27 AM1 votes

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

Battalion12/12/2017, 12:32:25 PM1 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.