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

Troll Armada·3/4/2016, 1:52:21 AM·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?

10 Comments

Sukishoo3/4/2016, 2:05:05 AM2 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.

FrankerX3/4/2016, 2:02:08 AM1 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

Awkward Couch3/4/2016, 2:03:21 AM1 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.