A month later, elo boosted player still plays ranked unpunished.

Bronze fiend·Nov 5, 2018·3 votes·3,219 views

This is not a vent!

I came across a player that was being elo boosted, and there is not a doubt in my mind it was so, I am sure there's not a single person in the world to disagree after seeing the evidence.

I wrote a ticket to riot support one month ago, they assured me they'll look into it and take punishments if necessary, and there we are a month and three support tickets later, guy's still playing on the account. I'm sure first thing that comes to the mind of everyone reading is probably I am wrong and this really is not a case of elo boosting, I can't convince you I am right without linking this guy's op gg, which I believe is prohibited.

My question is, if they are not banning this kind of obvious case, a case that someone like me goes the extra mile to bring into their attention, how can anyone trust them when they say that they're doing their best to find and punish these cases? I am really curious what you all think about this. I'm sure there will be people suggesting that I am wrong in judgment and that maybe the guy was not being boosted, but anyone thinking that is free to message me for the guy's op.gg.

Really looking forward to what you guys think, what would you do?

11 Comments

rujitraNov 5, 20183 votes

Riot has so much more evidence from you. They detect and punish boosters with extreme accuracy already using the private data they collect from games.

This is a situation akin to if you went and told an investigator "I know he did it" when the investigator has investigated his alibi and it checks out, and already has someone else as a suspect. You aren't in the position to determine if they're boosting or not.

Riot punishes boosters in a wave at the end of the season by removing their rewards and banning them. This is so they can verify no false positives as well as ensure all have been caught.

DanksleyNov 5, 20181 votes

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Riot has so much more evidence from you. They detect and punish boosters with extreme accuracy already using the private data they collect from games.

This is a situation akin to if you went and told an investigator "I know he did it" when the investigator has investigated his alibi and it checks out, and already has someone else as a suspect. You aren't in the position to determine if they're boosting or not.

Riot punishes boosters in a wave at the end of the season by removing their rewards and banning them. This is so they can verify no false positives as well as ensure all have been caught.

It's not exactly subtle when people switch flash, start playing a new champ at diamond level, then switch back at extremely low ranked activity and 30% winrate.

BlinkZZ182Nov 5, 20182 votes

The elo booster ban will take place next season around March or April. Why are you so anxious about it?

Bronze fiendNov 6, 20181 votes

Why am I so anxious about it? I'm more heartbroken than anything. Elo boosting is really disgusting to witness, this guy has 30% winrate in past matches as of now, he's just ruining solo q for everyone involved with him, he needs to be punished.

Horse GrenadesNov 5, 20181 votes

SInce we can't see the case you've made against the player, it's all hearsay and we can't really comment

Bronze fiendNov 6, 20181 votes

I am asking you to imagine this kind of scenario, what would you do? You are certain that's a case of elo boosting that you've came across, and no punishments are taken against the person, despite you doing your best to bring that into riot's attention, the guy's still playing rankeds with a steady 30% winrate.

Horse GrenadesNov 6, 20181 votes

I would keep playing and not worry about it because it’s not of my business what someone chooses to do with their money. I would also just hope that he was on the enemy team so I got a free win. If he was on nine I would just dodge

Sorin AlucardNov 5, 20181 votes

You can't

DrCyanideNov 5, 20181 votes

If the person boosting them was not logging into their account to play on their behalf Riot doesn't consider it boosting, just duoing.

Bronze fiendNov 6, 20181 votes

Certainly not the case. To give a little context, there's a 25 win streak gap on that account, with a completely different role and champion than the account's usual ~50% win rate champ pool.

AJStarhikerNov 6, 20181 votes

Like the others said, boosted accounts tend to get wave-banned. It sucks when you run into them between bans, but like scripting, doing them in waves make it harder for offenders to positively figure out what got them banned.