What is considered boosting?

Jaikenbacon·Jan 2, 2017·5 votes·698 views

So, I fought a yi around a week ago, and noticed he had 100% winrate at 40 matches, and had a TF winrate of 3%. He's a bronzie, and seems to queue with someone who by extention has an evenly high winrate. Looked the main guy up today. 90 MATCHES and 100% winrate on Yi, 6% on TF with 48 matches.

If I've ever seen a carry booster, I'd put my money on this one. But is Riot's judgement on it based on trends or they need to have concrete evidence like chat logs stating that there is a carry happening to discipline people like this? I'm just surprised that after a week, and surely other reports, that he's still at it.

Even if he's not carrying, he's not making it fair for the ELO he's in by keeping himself there. That alone should be enough to be disciplined, imo. What does Riot think of this situation?

9 Comments

FlahertyJan 2, 20171 votes

The only thing that should be punishable is if someone who is much better than you is using your account to play games and give you a rank you don't deserve. If you're playing with a friend on your team who pretty much carries you each game it's kind of a shitty thing to do but not so shitty you should be punished for it

JaikenbaconJan 2, 20172 votes

Even if the statistic shows that he's purposefully sinking his MMR (intentionally losing) to stay in that MMR?

FlahertyJan 2, 20171 votes

intentionally losing should be punished but I think is a completely different issue

DanjengJan 2, 20171 votes

Maybe the guy is just so bad at every other champion besides Master Yi. A true one-trick. But most likely is just trying to make a name for himself by getting good stats on Yi.

Optimus InfectusJan 3, 20171 votes

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The only thing that should be punishable is if someone who is much better than you is using your account to play games and give you a rank you don't deserve. If you're playing with a friend on your team who pretty much carries you each game it's kind of a shitty thing to do but not so shitty you should be punished for it

Check riot rules please - there is not allowed to use not your own account

FlahertyJan 4, 20171 votes

I know it's not allowed, just because I said it should be the thing that is punished doesn't suggest that I think it is not being punished. And your sentence should be written as "Check Riot's rules please, using someone else's account is not allowed." I'm not trying to be a dick by correcting your grammar, but it looks like English isn't your first language so I just wanted to help you communicate better

Optimus InfectusJan 4, 20171 votes

You are right, english isn't my first language, i appreciate your correction of my sentence!

AnexiaJan 2, 20171 votes

I think he is deliberately trying to lose on everything else to sink his rating so he can easily win in low ELO games on Yi and get his name on sites where his win rate and KDA would not take into account his Rank for their own ranking purposes.

GreatWhiteNorthJan 2, 20171 votes

At the bronze V level this can happen without boosting. I was bronze V, and often chose to master champions that were grossly underpowered at the time because I found them fun. Right now I'm a Caitlyn god of the bronzies because she's been massively buffed this patch.