So is duo q boosting not bannable?

GarthBrooksIV·1/6/2017, 2:36:42 AM·3 votes·9,943 views

Here: https://support.riotgames.com/hc/en-us/articles/201751834-MMR-Elo-Boosting It only says elo boosting is logging onto someone else's account and playing it to boost its MMR.

So is it not wrong if I duo queued with a bronze/silver player to carry them to gold/plat in return for something, for example?

Is there any Rioter post about this duo queue boosting that high elo players will go play on smurf accounts queued in lower elo to help people climb?

Someone ever get punished for this behavior? I don't see any comment on duo q boosting from Riot and I wonder if it is acceptable.

17 Comments

Deep Terror Nami1/6/2017, 2:45:57 AM5 votes

Smurfing is not punishable. It's neither condemned nor condoned by Riot because they can't reliable prevent it (due to the free aspect of the game) and they don't currently have any alternative for the non-malicious uses of smurfs.

https://support.riotgames.com/hc/en-us/articles/201752954-Matchmaking-Guide#q9

http://na.leagueoflegends.com/en/news/community/q/lets-talk-smurfs-snow-and-bans-ask-riot

It's not punishable to queue with a player out of their elo either.

ModMod Curator1/6/2017, 2:43:51 AM3 votes

Duoing with a friend is perfectly fine. Paying someone to duo with you, or alternately being paid, is not, whether that payment is in money or gifts of some kind.

KVbqbFsC8e1/6/2017, 6:12:38 AM2 votes

Nope. They actively encourage it in fact.

This Is Your Dad1/6/2017, 6:10:51 AM1 votes

I reported someone a while back for advertising in chat that he's boosting for money. I also sent a ticket with a match history attachment of an ashe with an average kda 0f 20/5 in silver with 8 games total played in ranked and no normals matches that duoed with the same person for all 8 matches and carried the average person every time. I don't know if they did anything about it, but eventually they'd want to look into it because you'd have like no bronze players left :P

Ambient Snow5/7/2017, 4:34:33 PM1 votes

Isn't this kind of Ironically stupid? sorry to call out riot big wigs but seriously this is retarded.

" you're allowed to due queue with anyone out side your league as long as you don't Pay for it"

seriously

That's like screaming. " You can have some one boost your account, Just don't let us know."

so I can pay some one to boost my account, by duo queueing with them, I just have to be smart enough to not shout " I PAID FOR THIS"

And you wonder why your forums are so flooded with complaints about people smurfing and what not in bronze. I mean I understand the principle you can't really charge some one with out evidence but when your only evidence is going to be some one being stupid and admitting to the fault. then as long as they don't admit to it all Is good?

this is the issue with this game in ranked its easy to fix just make it a queue where is strictly

SOLO queue and make the ranked rewards there

if some one wants to duo queue then make them go play flex queue.

Then you will see a huge difference in peoples ranking.