More than 50% of players at Diamond V are probably boosted. This needs to be looked at.

Yenn·9/6/2016, 9:45:05 AM·11 votes·1,625 views

I'm experiencing that roughly half of the players in every game at Diamond V have a massive skill discrepancy. More often than not, these players have Gold or Silver borders from the previous season.

It's reached the point that there are so many of these players that they just keep beating each other and manage to maintain their rating, which ruins the game for everyone else. Every time I queue up for a ranked match, I have to cross my fingers and hope that my team has less of these players than the enemy team.

This season made it ridiculously easy to boost players, thanks to the ability to queue with a 3- or 4-man group. The problem has become so bad that I honestly don't even want to play the game anymore.

I've been Platinum S1 (before there was Diamond), Diamond S2, Diamond I S3, Diamond 1 S4, and Diamond 1 S5. I cannot even get past Diamond V right now, because almost every game's outcome is dictated by how many of these boosted players are on each team.

This is making the game extremely un-fun for those of us whose normal MMR is too high for good matches, and really needs to be addressed. I'd rather play exclusively with toxic players and actually have close games.

17 Comments

EvilDustMan9/6/2016, 10:42:00 AM11 votes

[Citation required]

KVbqbFsC8e9/6/2016, 10:07:20 AM3 votes

Not something Riot cares about at all, unfortunately. They encourage boosting through Dynamic Que.

Augment Death9/6/2016, 11:15:38 AM3 votes

Your csing is really bad, i think silver players get atleast the same amount of farm per minute (kills ain't everything). Also when i look at your matches, the amount of damage you deal is really low even in the games in which you have a decent score, for example in your last game, the 5/10/7 support!!! Veigar did 22k dmg, and you as Cassiopeia mid with a 9/6/0 score dealt only 18k. So yeh, you have to improve that to carry games, right now you ain't good enough for diamond just like the "boosted" people.

Maximum Morde9/6/2016, 11:22:07 AM3 votes

An accurate representation of the players this season:

http://i.imgur.com/pkez5se.gif?noredirect

Xidphel9/6/2016, 11:43:44 AM2 votes

[Citation needed]

Karunamon9/6/2016, 3:58:00 PM2 votes

Serious question:

How do you determine a "boosted" player vs a player having a bad game?

Itankyou9/6/2016, 10:09:44 AM2 votes

Fuckin high five dude, literally started smurfing and silver is just as skillful as diamond. Literally. There is no ranked integrity. This is some real talk bro. Upvoted.

TNHA Baritone9/6/2016, 10:48:02 AM2 votes

You used "50%" and then "probably" so.....ummm

Even in high Plat, I agree. Ran into a fool who didn't know what "oom" meant.

Hot Belly Dancer9/6/2016, 10:58:28 AM2 votes

Same in gold, there are tons of boosted bronze players. its a shame tho, playing is more of a stress now you get anxious praying you dont get them boosted animals!

Pew Pew Lasers9/6/2016, 6:09:36 PM1 votes

If the ranked system was setup properly boosted players would drop back to their skill level quickly. But they dont. Because of MMR and excessive derank protection.

I am constantly seeing high ranking players in my games. Upon review I see that their mmr is lower than my rank or even the rank of my division.

I've seen a Gold V with the MMR of a Silver V in a Silver II game for example. After playing with this guy I realize he shouldnt even be in Silver V. Yet here he is infesting people's games somehow clinging to a rank he shouldnt have.

TheLazySunbro9/6/2016, 1:23:53 PM1 votes

I had a Diamond Border lb play like a bronze player in my G2 promos

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