@Any Rioter: So I can pay people to boost me via Dynamic Q?

SorryBoysImLes·4/12/2016, 11:11:01 PM·5 votes·730 views

So long as they're not logging into my account and boosting it first hand, I'm allowed to pay a challenger (or multiple if I see fit) to log into a lower ranked account of theirs(s), group with me, and carry all my matches for me until I am also challenger?

Apparently the defense for Rioter's allowing boosting through DQ (and streamers now using it as a form to gain more income from their viewers, i.e: paying to get carried) is because of a loophole of "Well technically boosting is logging into the boostee's account so any other form of it is okay."

Since as of now Rioter's are allowing popular streamers to charge people for playing with them in order to get boosted, I'm making the assumption this is 100% allowed now, right?

FYI: I have no intention to do this, I think it's piis poor and a cheap tactic to climb, but apparently it's allowed if myself or anyone wanted to do so. I was under the impression that money + climbing ranks without doing it via your own merit = against ToS.

7 Comments

1 800 MID LANE4/13/2016, 3:41:20 AM1 votes

It's against the rules. However, the issue is that it's significantly easier to get away with. Paying money for an in-game advantage that isn't an official thing is punishable in every single multiplayer game today. (A couple examples of official advantages would be WoW's level boost or RuneScape's bonds that you can sell for in-game currency.)

Gimpy894/13/2016, 10:06:18 AM1 votes

yup there is no way to enforce this. this is why i want soloQ

Horse Grenades4/13/2016, 8:19:20 PM1 votes

What prevented this in the old ranked system?

ModEvangele4/13/2016, 11:01:29 PM1 votes

Nami Im pretty sure the act of tanking their elo to get to a place where they can queue with someone much lower is against the rules somewhere but as far as I understand and have seen, this is happening a lot. I ran into a pair of higher elos doing this. Fresh accounts, lost all 10 of their provisional games on purpose (I happened to be in one of those losses and have been watching them since) and then right when they hit that bronze they started triple queing with another player in bronze who had 100+ games there and within another 10 or so games, that player was silver and the duo boosters are back to tanking their elo back into bronze to do it with more people.

I would like to know Riot's actual stance on this in particular.