Unexplained Phenomenon: Why would a booster / cheater change their summoner name?

Troll Armada··1 votes·891 views

So, it's been rare that I am 100% certain someone is cheating in game, but it happens, now I've noticed something kind of weird, and I'm at a lost to explain it.

So on three separate occasions I've offered the troll scripter / booster / cheater an 'out' ...basically telling them what I suspect in all chat that if they take the win then I will follow up with ticket, reprots, and screenshots, and take matters all the way to the top, but if they take the honorable way out, I'll forget it happened and move on with my life.

(note #1: no i'm actually too lazy to do this anymore, since while it will make me feel better, it doesn't solve the unerlying issues, which RIOT GAMES needs TO FIX, not individual summoners)

(note #2: this is against the summoners code, and you shouldn't follow my bad example, since you might get reported yourself, especially u people with the limited vocabularies.)

Three separate time I've immediately gone to 'stalk' the user from afar, watching their matches immediately after my own, and looking at their graphs, just to please myself that suspicious looking activity goes largely unpunished and unidentified.

On these occasions, the summoner in question has immediately applied for a summoner name change. It creates a weird situation whereby you have the same match, showing completely different summoner name due to caching update frequency etc.

TL;DR Why would an elo booster, getting caught cheating, change the summoner name of an account? There is a League identifier number which remains constant. Does this fool Riot Support? I mean there must a reason they think this does something? no?

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Sukishoo2 votes

TL;DR Why would an elo booster, getting caught cheating, change the summoner name of an account? There is a League identifier number which remains constant. Does this fool Riot Support? I mean there must a reason they think this does something? no?

They are clearly just trying to find anyway that they can do get around Riots system, but it's not like it changes anything.. The name may be different but the account is still the same, same ip, same everything else. They can still trace it back in whatever way they do, so it's just a waste of time for them is all I'm seeing.

FrankerX1 votes

boosters "force" you to change your name as far as i know. not sure why but you have to change name or they dont boost you

Troll Armada1 votes

interesting.

teentitanic1 votes

They don't force u to change ur name.. I've done it and its not needed for them to change ign

Awkward Couch1 votes

My best guess is this, they are boosting a new account to whatever they are getting boosted to (plat, diamond, masters etc.) then the person who buys this account changes it to the name that they desire. I don't think it has to do with fooling Riot, I think it's what the player who buys the account wants the IGN to be.

Troll Armada1 votes

that's valid, but it's a bit too coincidental that it happened RIGHT AFTER.

The first time I thought that it was just late and I was confused, it took me a little while to figure out what was up./

Awkward Couch1 votes

And who knows, maybe it was trying to evade Riot detection. I don't think changing your name would do much though, unless you are using a VPN...

Troll Armada1 votes

unless you are using a VPN...

well of course they are using a VPN, but...?????????????..... what does that have to with anything? Maybe there is some unknown process within riot, in terms of investigating claims, that this would confuse, that's the only reason i can think of...

Awkward Couch1 votes

For tracking location. Like if you catch player "X" boosting, they change their name to "Y" and it's harder to detect because they aren't playing from the "same location".

Troll Armada1 votes

Again, I understand your point about the location, however changing the summoner name and vpn IP, I don't understand what the relationship is, unless it's just to create general chaos to the point where it becomes too tedious for someone investigating.

I suppose any name change, despite there being an ID NUMBER which does not change, is going to confuse someone who probably looked at dozens of other reports.

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