Massive number of boosters in P1/D4

bald man bad·11/11/2019, 4:14:34 AM·1 votes·4,468 views

I am well aware that the end of the season is usually a clown fiesta. But I didn't anticipate to see a booster in almost every single game. Last game, it was a yi taric duo on extremely suspicious accounts. I can't name them due to boards rules, but I did send in a support ticket about it. The Taric player in that game normally is a ~50% winrate ADC main, but as of a little bit ago, suddenly switched to playing pantheon top lane, switched his flash key, and went on a massive winstreak through platinum. Recently, he's been yi-taric boosting with another suspicious account, and they're doing it again as I type this.

I just want to play the game to practice and improve. I don't care about yi-taric funneling being a strategy that exists. While it's annoying, you can play around it. What I don't like is when there is outright account share boosters duo queuing and ruining games and making it really difficult to learn anything or to enjoy playing. If you don't believe me, go look at my match history, and see my last loss.

I don't know whether there was any exchange of money, but what I do know is that this sort of nonsense is surprisingly common and needs to stop. Clearly the risk of a ban to their main account and the boosted account isn't enough to deter these players.

I hate to sound so defeatist, but just like the last dozen times I saw something like this happening in one of my games, I strongly doubt that they'll get punished for it at all. I know the typical arguments of "but you won't see smurfs enough for them to stop you from climbing." While this is true in most of the ladder, at the end of the season in the general p1-d4 region, there are many smurfs concentrated here boosting accounts for end of season rewards to make money.

I just wish the rules would be enforced for once. But player behavior is rarely actually investigated unless they type something toxic in chat.

4 Comments

VindicatorOFThey11/11/2019, 5:08:44 AM1 votes

I mean as long as the accounts is not shared everything else is fine no ?

rujitra11/11/2019, 5:09:07 AM1 votes

They do. They ban boosters after the season is over.

This hurts more. It doesn’t give people the chance to “try again” on another account. It tells them “you ducked up, and your whole season is gone”.

Plus, if they banned one boosted account immediately, the person doing the boosting would just have a new client to hop on.

Yin Yang Taoist11/11/2019, 5:12:20 AM1 votes

I'm sorry and sympathize with you, friend. When I returned to league last season, I had the same issue. Outside of Riot fixing this, I'd suggest that you always finish with your season placements, 2 weeks before they actually end. Because right as soon as Riot begins alerting players about the season end drawing close, that's when you begin facing all the smurfs and boosters.

Krissi219711/11/2019, 2:18:18 PM1 votes

Boosters are usually banned at the end of the season... There are people who boost in February and don't get punished until November.

So while they don't get punished asap, they get punished eventually. Riot does this in waves.

Unfortunately if they're DUO boosting and they're both on their own accounts, Riot cannot do anything about that. They can't ban people for duoing as long as they're not sharing their accounts with anyone else. The only reason they ban boosters is if they personally log into your own account.