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Elo boosting and Riot possibly having an agreement with boosters/account sellers

T4underbolt·2/2/2018, 8:16:54 AM·3 votes·7,729 views

First important thing regarding this matter you need to remember while reading this: Riot has said that they ban boosted/sold/shared accounts in waves to prevent elo boosters/account sellers knowing their method of detecting such accounts. Ban waves can happen at any time all of sudden. So everything seems to be fine at the first glance - safety steps taken by Riot to increase effectivness.

Now moving to the matter and why do I think there are two possible cases: either Riot has aa agreement with boosters/account sellers or their detection system has been long ago exploited and knowing Riot they can't agree to the mistake they made.

The most important matter right now which actually is most probably not known by most of the people. Price of elo boosting and things you get when you buy an account. Elo boosting costs literally nothing. Casuals, kids, bad players who want to be higher do not have to pay a fortune to get that gold border at the end of the season. Even plat border is nothing much. Do you know how much elo boosters want for a division in gold and below? 3$. Yes. If you are gold 5 you need to pay 15$ to get to plat. This amount can be payed from pocket money that kids get to buy sweets or toys. Literally they just don't eat sweets for 2 days at best and get to plat in that time. Prize from plat to diamond. Whooping 25$. Yes you heard me. ONLY 25$.

There are different boosters. Those who boost normally. those who boost excusively for placement games. There are also honor level boosters. And you know what else. There are actualy duo boosting methods. Yes they offer you they just jump on a smurf and carry you to desired division. They have 99% of success rate and if they fail to do that in certain amount of time they boost you one division more than you asked. They are 100% sure to succesfully duo boost people. And the amount of offers you see on sites like ebay and any other site that works like ebay (usually countries have their own ebay like sites very often) are just huge. You literally have hundred of pages with viable offers.

What is even worse. YOU CAN BUY LVL 32 ACCOUNT WITH 25K BE AND SOME CHAMPIONS AND SKINS FOR 5$. That's not all. They offer like 500 accounts ready to sell at once. They even say that if they wont have account ready to sell (they have system that sends you login and password through e-mail right after you pay) you need to wait at best 12 to 24 hours to get your account. THAT'S NOT ALL. THESE ACCOUNTS THAT COST 5$ ARE BY DEFAULT BOOSTED TO GOLD 1. AND THIS BOOST USUALLY MEANS YOU HAVE HIGH MMR SO YOU WILL BE MATCHED AT THE BEGINNING WITH PLAT 3-5.

FOR 5$ THAT IS AS MUCH AS SOME SWEETS THAT CHILDREN BUY EVERYDAY YOU CAN GET GOLD 1 ACCOUNT. BETTER. FOR 10$ THEY OFFER PLAT 3 TO PLAT 1 ACCOUNTS WITH EVEN MORE SKINS, CHAMPS AND BE.

30$-50$ for diamond 1 account.

This is ridiculous.

But I've been talking about prices and stuff, but what about my statement that says Riot may work with boosters? Here goes.

Every account seller GUARANTEES that account has 60 days of warranty. Why are they so specific? Ban waves for bought accounts and elo boosted accounts are done irregulary and suddenly. And here goes the thing. They know that, because Riot probably has agree with them to give the kids that buy these accounts time to enjoy their gold 1 or plat 1 rank, because if they spent just 5$ for their dream account in gold they will most likely buy skins on it which means easy and 100% sure money for Riot. Those ban waves and arguments for not banning these people right away is just a bad excuse to keep their agreement.

But let's actually think about the other case and leave the terrible idea that really appears more and more to be true on the side. What can be other reason? Like I said Riot has no control anymore over people elo boosting/selling accounts. Do you know what I saw in offers of elo boosters and account sellers? They say that during elo boosting or account leveling action, they kill all the possible league of legends process in their operating system. This is something they come up with to make it harder to detect for the system that account is elo boosted/sold. Which says that Riot pitiful excuse that ban waves are to prevent boosters knowing their detection technique is false in every aspect. This system has been already broken by elo boosters or riot told them themselves how to find a security bridge to avoid the system.

The lack of control over boosters though doesn't exclude the case that Riot is still working with elo boosters. They just dont work with every each elo booster because that would be close to impossible, so elo boosters who werent in agreement needed to find another way to make their clients accounts safe. Unfortunately everything has got out of control long ago. The changes in game balance that basically made many roles and champions into "pick me and spam this button for free win I stat check them anyway" is probably a pitiful attempt to make players not use elo boost that much and get freelo and boost themselves with game "mechanics" itself.

Anyway. Gold players aren't actually bad. They are pretty decent and can really carry games and do amazing stuff. The thing is that most of players in gold and even plat currently are "gold" and "plat" players who bought accounts or got boosted for actual cents. So if you see a gold/plat player keep walking into enemy jungle trying to steal camp for the 7th time while he seen whole enemy team going there and he makes rookie mistakes, you can be sure this account was boosted or bought. I remember 3-4 years ago you could meet such players but it was very very rare even in silver. Yes in silver there were are lot of decent players and getting completely bad players that you would usually see in bronze 5 was not a thing.

Not it is a thing in most divisions because elo boost and account buying is easily accessable, cheap and apperantly not punished at all or rarely punished.

This is sad, but Riot hasn't taken any steps. They just keep lying about their great undetected system when reality is completely different. Riot has shown already many times how greedy they are for easy money by changing the game to milk it as much as possible. You shouldn't be surprized if Riot didnt give a damn anymore about elo boosting/account sharing or simply worked with elo boosting services.

31 Comments

Timethief492/2/2018, 9:17:42 AM3 votes

So so you have any Solid Proof?

Míellá2/2/2018, 10:23:23 AM3 votes

FOR 5$ THAT IS AS MUCH AS SOME SWEETS THAT CHILDREN BUY EVERYDAY YOU CAN GET GOLD 1 ACCOUNT. BETTER. FOR 10$ THEY OFFER PLAT 3 TO PLAT 1 ACCOUNTS WITH EVEN MORE SKINS, CHAMPS AND BE.

He comes the kick, while you sure can buy an accout that has a higher elo than yours, or just boost your account to lets say plat. Your MMR is still pretty accurate. You'll get boosted, be able to play with people that are iin "Your Elo" and then get into a losing streak until you are in your original Elo again. Waste of money. If you boost yourself to Plat, you'll just have to start playing, because if you don't you'll decay, which means, you'll still drop. (Doesn't count for Gold)

Second part. Riot can't take the sites down, as they do not break their Rules. The people that are boosting the accounts are breaking the rules, same goes to buying accounts. If you get noticed while being boosted or you bought an account, your account will be banned. The sites will not though.

Prices do not matter.

H1 H0w are Ya2/2/2018, 5:57:37 PM3 votes

Nowhere will boost your account to Diamond or Challenger for 25 dollars its 1000 minimum

dKiWi2/2/2018, 10:29:20 AM2 votes

Extremely messy argument. I would probably believe that there is a market for such activities but links to Riot are poorly argued.

Bosspick3/20/2019, 11:29:56 AM2 votes

Well, im pretty sure that riot is getting some money on boosting. because a professional booster told me so. He told me they can almost fully lock on teams, because of the ammount of boosters online at same time. they have a special client that can use script map hack and so on. And now almost every match there are at least 5 to 8 boosters using script the entire time. Riot delete the records therefore making players who pays for it unbanable. This guy told me riot is 100% into it. And they are getting more money on boosting than on skins.

YerroFever2/2/2018, 8:54:11 PM2 votes

The fact that you still see complaints on the forums that they're getting falsely banned for getting boosted but then their game history betrays them with simple easy to detect things like changing flash from one button to the other, or by using scripts and getting caught using scripts, different IP log ins, etc... It sounds like you are taking what the elo boosters as fact rather than unsubstantiated claims to try and entice people to purchase their service.

Remember when Airborne was sued because they made claims that were unsubstantiated by science and then Airborne settled their claims and changed their labeling and packaging? It sounds like these elo boosters are making unsubstantiated claims and guarantees. Remember that a lot of these boosting and leveling companies are over seas and enforcing contracts over seas is very costly and that for you to get a refund of $25 would probably cost you at tens of thousands of dollars in legal fees.

If you've ever worked with an over seas seller before that doesn't use a US based financial intermediary like paypal or something... it is very difficult to get money back.

I want to address this claim that Riot is working with the elo boosters and account leveling services... Conspiracy theory.

The lack of control over boosters though doesn't exclude the case that Riot is still working with elo boosters. They just dont work with every each elo booster because that would be close to impossible, so elo boosters who werent in agreement needed to find another way to make their clients accounts safe. Unfortunately everything has got out of control long ago. The changes in game balance that basically made many roles and champions into "pick me and spam this button for free win I stat check them anyway" is probably a pitiful attempt to make players not use elo boost that much and get freelo and boost themselves with game "mechanics" itself.

The whole premise of your theory that Riot is consorting with these elo boosters and account leveling services is that you believe that the elo boosters and account leveling services are being 100% truthful and don't suspect them of any shady dealings at all. You treat these boosters and levelers as if they are 100% truthful and never deceptive at all.... despite the fact that the forums have threads about being banned over purchasing accounts and getting boosted.

This is sad, but Riot hasn't taken any steps. They just keep lying about their great undetected system when reality is completely different. Riot has shown already many times how greedy they are for easy money by changing the game to milk it as much as possible. You shouldn't be surprized if Riot didnt give a damn anymore about elo boosting/account sharing or simply worked with elo boosting services.

Back in the day there was an article that posted that on any given day there are at least 3 million users logged in at any given time. Because they have to monitor the behavior of at least 3 million accounts every hour of the day, every day of the week.... you think they're conspiring with boosters and levelers...

The inferences you draw from lack of evidence is dumbfounding. The conspiracy theory level of this post is pretty high.

Myrmiron3/20/2019, 11:38:29 AM1 votes

$3??? How??? YOU'd need at least 5 games at crazy LP gains to go from g4 to g3, on an average MMR probably 7 games. That's more than 2 hours of games, most likely more! How can they live off of that???

Yordle Xayah2/4/2018, 8:21:06 AM1 votes

What on Earth are you even talking about https://cdn.frankerfacez.com/emoticon/214129/1

UKP LK7/30/2018, 1:22:04 PM1 votes

I dont know if you are stupid or what? $5 for a division boost? $35 to D1 boost? Dude where u even get those price??? If you dont even know abt the market then shut up lmao

No one would ever boost for $5, be realistic. You want to earn $5 playing 10+ games a day :D ????? It is at least $18 for s1 -> g5, and for high tier diamond elo it is fairly expensive $120+ dont even talk abt master $200+, challenger is $500+ LOL, how u think the market survive if they charge $5 LMAO, boosting is bad yes but it is not cheap like you said, it is only cheap in low elo like silver gold but gold 5 -> plat 5 probly like $100+ :D so u know lul

Ualdyatho8/11/2018, 5:42:09 PM1 votes

The thing is that the ELO Boost became very cheap and some websites actually can guarantee like winning 100% of your games,it's just worth it if you look at it from any sites,riot is not capable of putting an end to it because most boosts are done in duos and duos are perfectly legal,that's why its so safe and popular.

Bosspick3/20/2019, 11:32:20 AM1 votes

Ive nothing against boosting let them make some money, but using script locked team and sometimes ddos, is pretty ridiculous. They should maximum duo boost manually. no hacks. that would be fair also to players.

colonel cranc2/2/2018, 9:07:37 AM1 votes

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