Riot won't ban booster?
So I reported 2 players via ticket offering evidence. The Support won't punish the accounts and says "our own system detects all rule violations".
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People make false statements all the time. Riot's system is exceedingly good at detecting when an account is being shared between more than one individual - and they are banned upon detection. Simply someone saying "i'm boosted" does not mean they were violating the rules.
The rule prohibits account sharing. It does not, however, prohibit duo queuing with somoene to "boost" your account's MMR/ELO. Riot's system is very good at punishing for sharing. They do not punish for duo queue boosting as it's not against the rules.
What kind of evidence did u provide anyway?
Their own statements for example.
they only ban boosters after multiple infractions. But if your caught boosting you dont get season rewards either.
Bans for boosting, scripting, third party programs, or any of the gameplay related offenses are done in waves typically. This helps keep the boosters/cheaters from knowing how they were caught, and protects the players who turn them in from being subjected to any kind of revenge from those boosters/cheaters. It also helps Riot be a bit more clever in how their methods of detecting and verifying boosting/cheating.
Just because you haven't seen an immediate action taken on behalf of the tickets you submitted doesn't mean that nothing will happen. They just had a wave of bans go through, so it may be another week or two before the next wave happens. Rest assured, if these people are clearly boosting, via their own statements, and system logs prove those statements, then they will be punished. But since the punishments are more severe (14 day suspension or immediate permaban of the account) Riot does wait until they have concrete evidence of any rule breaking before issuing punishment.
I was just in a ranked match yesterday in a duo team with a D2 jungle main streamer who plays with his viewers every Saturday. He owns multiple accounts with lower MMR so he can play with his lower elo subscribers and viewers. It just so happened that the ADC on our team was ALSO on a smurf account, and it got someone on the enemy team insanely tilted. They looked up our winrates during the match, and proceeded to accuse us of "boosting" and flame us and hurl insults including a homophobic slur.
The end result was they got reported for hate speech and we got pop ups saying someone was punished about 5 minutes later, and nothing happened to the players on their smurf accounts.
To be clear, "Boosting" is when you share your account info with another person so that they play ranked matches and get your League up to a higher level. The real violation of the ToS there is with account sharing. Having multiple account is NOT a violation of the ToS, and neither is playing with friends on a "smurf" account, even in ranked matches.
If the players themselves were actually guilty of boosting by means of account sharing then they will get their justice. If not, well then you just need to chill and accept that players are gonna smurf.