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

Bronze fiend·11/5/2018, 6:05:12 PM·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

rujitra11/5/2018, 6:20:27 PM3 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.

BlinkZZ18211/5/2018, 6:58:21 PM2 votes

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

Horse Grenades11/5/2018, 6:13:30 PM1 votes

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

Sorin Alucard11/5/2018, 11:08:14 PM1 votes

You can't

DrCyanide11/5/2018, 11:16:38 PM1 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.

AJStarhiker11/6/2018, 6:33:51 PM1 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.