LoL players are complaining that Riot doesn’t do anything with boosted accounts. “I report it and nothing happens, they are still playing”
Boosting is a problem in LoL. And the community is fed up with it.
In League of Legends, the basis of ranked queue is precisely the ranks divided into other, smaller ones. The higher it is, the better skills the player has and the more powerful opponents they play. Unfortunately, it sometimes happens that they are not always gotten legally.
The boosting phenomenon is common and has been in operation since the first seasons of the League. While Riot bans for this, players say they don’t respect their own rules. Because of this, playing SoloQ doesn’t make much sense.
The problem of boosting in LoL
On the Internet, we can find many websites that offer buying a booster, i.e. people with much higher skills, who will rank higher for a fee. This behavior is toxic for many reasons. Not only that a player who plays not on his own rank spoils the matches of others, but also later the account owner plays not at his level, which again spoils the matches of others.
Riot itself, in an official article on this subject, mentioned several reasons why artificial MMR conquering is illegal:
- Our Leagues system has been carefully tuned so that players are placed in the proper tier with others who are within a similar skill level. If a player’s MMR is boosted unnaturally they will most definitely falter when they begin to play ranked at their new tier. If a player is unable to keep up with the other higher MMR players in their match they will most certainly degrade the game experience for everyone involved.
- It takes hard work, commitment and buckets of blood, sweat and tears for players to earn a high ranking in League of Legends. MMR Boosting devalues the commitment that many of our players make to earn their rightful place among the world’s best League of Legends players.
- MMR Boosting endangers account security. One should never share their log-in information with another player, no exceptions. Many players have shared their information with a potential booster, hoping to get a higher MMR, only to find their account was stolen and sold/traded to another player instead.
There is also a penalty for breaking this rule:
- 2 Week Account Suspension in League of Legends
- Your Honor will drop to level 0. Honor unlocks some time after your penalty as long as you’re showing signs of progress
- Exclusion from receiving the current season’s Ranked Rewards
- Second time offenders will be permanently banned from League of Legends
However, gamers believe that Riot is not taking this topic seriously. The community notes that despite post-game reports and through Player Support, boosted players are not getting banned when caught red-handed.
These harsh words from one commenter show how frustrated some regular players are. They are equally annoyed by the policy of distributing accounts with larger MMRs to pros, as well as bots and just boosting. At the moment, none of the employees has commented on the topic. It is interesting that the post was removed by the moderators a few hours after its publication.
Perhaps Riot should take similar steps as it did for scripts. This means lawsuits and multi-million dollar fines that may discourage boosters from earning money this way.
