is boosting reportable?

ToxicFatPleb··1 votes·2,128 views

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SEKAI3 votes

is boosting reportable?

Yes.

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Technically, it depends the kind of boosting.

If you're boosting via having a high elo player using their lower elo smurf to duo with you to carry you into high elos, it's not technically illegal (outside of the regions, like KR for an example, in which smurfs aren't allowed that is), despite the overwhelming disdain felt by the general players and Riot alike.

But it would be flat out illegal if the said 'boosting' is you having a high elo player playing directly on your account.

ToxicFatPleb1 votes

like someone logging on to a bronze 5 account and see a visable difference in games type of boosting. if so how do i report said person cause theres no reason someone jumps in skill this much.

Silent Gravity1 votes

Playing on an account that is not yours is a bannable offense.

You can report them after the game or with a support ticket.

SEKAI1 votes

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like someone logging on to a bronze 5 account and see a visable difference in games type of boosting. if so how do i report said person cause theres no reason someone jumps in skill this much.

If by that you mean: Say for instance that you're a Diamond 2 player, and you log into your other account in Bronze 5, and proceed to dominate the game because you're literally a Diamond player in Bronze. Then that is not "boosting", but "smurfing". Smurfing is when you intentionally go to a rank lower than you really should be in with another account THAT YOU OWN**, just so that you can wreck the lower elos for your own personal pleasure. While Riot and most players are against the notion of smurfing, however outside of regions in which they have their own rules prohibiting the act of smurfing such as KR and Garena/China, otherwise smurfing is not illegal in Riot and League's terms as of yet and not punishable on the ground of smurfing alone.

"Boosting" is when you rank up another account that you DO NOT OWN**. And as clarified before, there are typically 2 types of smurfing, and only 1 of the 2 is outlawed.

  1. The first form of boosting is when you use your smurf account (reference above for "smurfing") to engage in DUOING with ANOTHER player of the lower rank, in order to carry them into a higher elo the carried player do not belong in. This is a form of boosting that is not outlawed centrally because the notion of smurfing is currently not outlawed by Riot as outlined above.
  2. The second form of boosting is when the higher elo player is PLAYING ON ANOTHER PLAYER'S ACCOUNT. It is a subcategory of "account sharing", ie Player A plays on Player B's account, something that is forbidden by Riot just to include this form of boosting. This "account sharing boosting" is when Player A (high elo) plays on Player B (low elo)'s account for the purposes of ranking Player B's account into higher elo bracket without the real owner even playing the game, and is the form of boosting that is acknowledged as illegal by Riot.

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**Regarding "OWNing" the account:

The "ownership" is defined by Riot by comparing the player behavioural profile built from collecting detectable facts and player biases as the player plays after the account's inception with the current behaviour of the player using the account. Such as where and how often you use an account in a given IP address, certain play habits such as Flash being put on which keys, preference in champions such as 1-trick or having handful of dedicated mains or a player dedicated in a certain team position or a generalist who pick champs almost by random, etc etc. And if a player's behaviour and pattern in any or any combination of these things change so much and/or so abruptly that the system does not think the account is played by the same person, the system detects it as another playing playing an account they do not "own" and bans it for account sharing (or in the case that the system believes the account is hacked, it will ban it to protect it and until the real user contacts with Riot).

ToxicFatPleb1 votes

like the zed literally was in bronze...doing some twitch highlight diamond rank shit lol.

SEKAI1 votes

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like the zed literally was in bronze...doing some twitch highlight diamond rank shit lol.

Assuming the player really is a Diamond rank player on his main account but is playing on one of their Bronze account just to troll the low elos by rolling over them with his far superior game skills that do not belong in this elo bracket, then that would be smurfing, which itself isn't punishable because Riot does not hold the belief that smurfing itself is harmful to the game; only certain regions like KR and Garena/China may enforce rules to forbid the creation of smurf accounts due to local legality and whatnot, but otherwise, smurfing itself is not punishable (despite the fact they do ruin matchmaking, but hey).

ToxicFatPleb1 votes

his account was level 112. in bronze v. i highly doubt its a smurf account.

SEKAI1 votes

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his account was level 112. in bronze v. i highly doubt its a smurf account.

  1. They could be a Bronze player just having a really good game at the time, which may make them seem severely out of the league. or
  2. They may be a high elo player tanking their elo into Bronze, most often through a series of continuous soft-inting, which is punishable but is hard to detect due to its slippery nature. or
  3. If the match in concern is in fact a normal game and not ranked, then it's entirely possible a high elo in ranked may just queue up a normal match and end up in low elo matches. Because ranked and normal modes keep separate records on elo.
Yatol1 votes

depends what kind of boost

account sharing boosting is banable (the loop hole would be if said player had the same IP address or played on your computer)

high skill player playing on your team is not

AJStarhiker1 votes

I suspect metrics such as prefered role/champions/keybinds, etc hold greater weight than an IP location.

It might be useful to flag an account as suspicious, but between dynamic IP's, shared routers, and proxy servers, they need much more than an IP address for Riot to be confident they aren't banning an innocent player.

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