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PSA: Don't participate in MMR boosting

ModWuks·9/7/2016, 6:01:12 PM·49 votes·8,159 views

Within the first few months of a new season, I see a fair share of new discussions from players who were caught in a MMR boosting ban wave (whether they were the Booster or the Boostee), only to try to appeal it under the basis that they won't do it again, or it was only one game/tier/division.

I'm going to get real with you right now.

For starters, most boosters don't care about whether your account gets banned. They can use scripts, they can verbally abuse other players on your account, they can tell other players they are boosting your account, etc. Your account may reach that rank that you've been dreaming of, but it doesn't actually represent your growth as a player, and your account at that rank may very well may be short lived.

No matter how desperately you want to win that series promotion, no matter how much you want this season's Victorious Skin, it's not worth losing your account permanently.

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68 Comments

Great Muta9/7/2016, 6:07:54 PM16 votes

The problems are:

  • Boosters don't care. The streamers make enough cash to buy as many accounts as they want and the risk/reward ratio is high.

  • Anyone who plays this seriously has a second account.

iamthegoatofwar9/7/2016, 6:47:09 PM11 votes

2 words wuks. Dynamic que.

General Esdeath 9/7/2016, 9:51:06 PM6 votes

Riot doesn't like boosting but lets DQ boosting exist? Nice meme

Supreme Senpai699/7/2016, 6:29:34 PM5 votes

It specifically says ranked games. Can we do this with normal or custom games? Say, for example, a friend owns a champion that I don't. Can I play a normal on their account to see if I like the champion before buying it? Or maybe the same with a skin? Wish I would have done this with battlecast Xerath tbh, had to refund that one.

I mean Riot probably can't tell either way, but still interesting to know their stance on it.

Teslyn9/7/2016, 6:23:29 PM5 votes

thing is, people dont realize that they ban wave at odd moments.

AATTRROOXX9/8/2016, 3:45:17 AM3 votes

Hey Wuks, just wanted to say that your participation in the boards has been awesome and I thank you for all the advice and help you;ve given out despite not even being a Rioter.

Thank you. [zombie-nunu-hearts]

NaturesMayhem9/7/2016, 10:51:57 PM3 votes

This is such a waste. No point in doing this, as what makes a rank worth so much to players is that it was earn fairly and with hard work. I have tried my arse off lately to climb and each division I climb feels like a true accomplishment. If someone just walked up to me and gave me a Diamond I might find it cool and surprising but that would shortly pass and it would cease to matter anymore to me. Dont mmr boost as it is never worth the cost and the false victory is short lived and boring.

Nami in Bush9/10/2016, 6:13:49 AM2 votes

I'm Plat 1,

enemy Kog'maw starts off game with "xxx email need boosts contact tom @eloboost.net" in all chat

when he gets 5.0 attack speed at 22 min, I see him backing up and attacking between EVERY SINGLE ATTACK AT 5.0 ATTACK SPEED.

He gave this gmail at end of game. Perhaps can associate with an account

http://imgur.com/a/joMNw

While he plays duo with some other kid who's being boosted with him.

Wish I had a recording of this game to submit, it was so fucking obvious

Meanie409/8/2016, 3:35:03 AM2 votes

Why do you need to let someone else log into your account, when 4 boosters friends can help you?

Fudg cicles9/10/2016, 12:26:51 PM1 votes

There is a whole subreddit dedicated to it, I have submitted several tickets and its being ignored, its smart for a company to put its contractually obligated professional players into a position where they boost people for $$$ for the company, would make sense. Boosting will not stop, for as long as their as contracted pro's.

Lucian Waifu9/7/2016, 6:34:30 PM1 votes

What if your computer has died and you need to plat at least one ranked game to keep your rank from decaying?

Lucian Waifu9/7/2016, 7:42:06 PM1 votes

Oh good, thanks guys!

Troll Armada9/8/2016, 12:00:41 AM1 votes

So I have a question about this, perhaps you can answer, I get requests all the time to submit and boost my account, since most of the games in my elo are boosters and their accounts, throwing matches, etc...

Which I'm not going to do, more for moral reasons, however I was wondering about what some companies claim are "legit" duo boosting services, where they don't touch your account, just duo games with you and "carry"

Does riot have any official stance on this?

Whenever people I barely know offer to duo with me I always make sure to let them know, just please don't script in my games, since I don't want to be associated with it.

Could one of these services potentially get me banned if they are cheating in order to 'carry' me up the ladder?

Meurtrierr9/8/2016, 12:20:50 AM1 votes

Account boosting can also happen in between friends. I'm no snitch, but i have many friends who boost the accounts of their other friends.

What ever you think is your opinion after that on if they deserve to be on a higher division or not because you don't know them and you don't know in what kind of game they been through. It`s no secret that lol's matchmaking is just bad.

Bagguette9/8/2016, 5:03:57 AM1 votes

What happends if you and your friend are sharing an account but the account is bronze 5 and they keep loosing

Randomonium9/8/2016, 10:30:21 AM1 votes

Do you know of any plans to address dynamic queue boosting? There are multiple streamers who advertise that if people subscribe to their stream they'll play with them and boost them to higher divisions.

71883083DEL19/9/2016, 12:13:35 AM1 votes

can't we just queue together? there can be a diamond player smurfing in bronze and boosting him.