League of Documentary - The Harsh Reality of Eloboosters.
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A documentary revealing the harsh lives of eloboosters and how what may seem like a fun side job is anything but.
League of Documentary - The Harsh Reality of Eloboosters.
0:00 | Introduction
1:45 | Part 1 - How much do boosters make? How much do they play?
8:18 | Part 2 - Boosting websites and customer acquisition
18:10 | Part 3 - Chinese Whales
22:00 | Part 4 - What is Riot doing about boosting?
25:45 | Part 5 - Thoughts on boosting
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Yo TonyP1 isn't boosted, I just yonked some montages lol - Hry
This guy play so much league, he forgot there's only 24hours per day.
35 hours is wild your eye would turn rainbow at that point
What do you mean? 35 hour circles have nothing to do with day cicles
@@sinatraforeign He just rounded, he's not seriously saying that a day is 25 hours. It's just easier than saying "that is 2 days and 2 hours" they're just having a conversation.
@@glaiydan Yeah, but that's the point op make
@@sinatraforeign 3500 per month if he works his 35 hours and 12 hours sleep cycle.
Tyler1- 17 games a day
Dopamine- Rookie numbers
@@vnstyler61 obviously not everything is easy to improve but if riot wanted to they could make the game much less toxic
@@irek1394 indeed, but there are kinda some obvious steps which could decrease the problem and improve quality of game
@@vnstyler61 that is what I meant :P there are things that they could do to make the game better in that aspect but they chose not to do them so its obvious they dont care enough
Not to mention their game rules are written in a way that prevents any appeal in case of mistakes by the system. You literally cant get any help in case you get an unfair punishment
@DongHuaP gonna talk with my friend he was a booster for few seasons he remember the old days of Kassadin with Silence and R like flash so u gonna like him
also Tyler: *plays 30 games on stream*
24:21 "and make sure nothing look out of the ordinary"
Incomes 10 games of rengar games each with 30+ kills
Just have every champ played. I got rengar 7 so it wouldn't be to much of a red flag.
"Imagine you are 27, have a family"
Ima be honest here... Didn't expect to get burned like that. Damn
Same brother...same
even the video game-as a job guy could get a family..
Bashes on NA being boosted for a good couple of minutes. LOL
Some players love shortcuts
@@danholtcoach9601 yeah it is what it is
NA babies
not that i woud be one haha.......
@@kamikaze12 less players than on euw or korea still
"3600 euros is about $3000 USD. To most people, that's not a lot of money." Either I'm really poor or everyone is really rich.
I have the same feeling, but i think these numbers of money, are not meant to be for "young people". If u are an adult 30-40 years or so and you have a job then i think these numbers are realistic. If you are go to school or you are a stundent then of couse these numbers are insanly high.
Or, i am poor as well. Who knows.
to earn that much money, he works like 2 full time jobs so... It's not that much for the time he spends on it
I dont know where he went wrong, but 3600 euros is 4300 USD
@@johannesyri The guy above has it the wrong way round. It's 3000€ = $3600. In the video, it's correct.
*Laughs in New Yorker*
I think one thing you find hilariously consistent amidst dodgy markets is how damn good their customer service is. You are almost always taken seriously and treated with respect through the whole process. It's the complete opposite on so many other platforms.
It’s really bc they’re small businesses, and as a small business owner myself (a legal business don’t worry lmao) you know that every single customer is valuable.
@@alliu6562 what business is that ? i always thought into getting in the business world but i have no idea how it really is. Also i heared that most first ideas pretty much always gonna be trash, it's to like 3rd or 4th that it works out, problem is, i dunno if i can tank it to the 4th one lol.
Yup, from many gray markets to dark net, unless it's full-on scam, everything runs off reviews and ratings that are hard to fake, escrows that give you decent financial security when done carefully and customer service that allows them to make money in the long run.
I remember reading that Silk Road (the drugs market) had one of the best customer service everywhere
i still remember the fiora that destroyed me in gold 2, and had 97% wr while carrying every single game, only for the dude to reach d2, start playing support and decaying to plat 4 right now...
My friend irl, he boosted from silver to diamond 2. Booster played champs like Kha zix , hecarim, evelynn and now he only plays yuumi.
You can buy elo but not skill
Unpopular opinion but I think every league player should face someone leagues above their skill level every so often. It's humbling and makes you realize how much you don't know.
But I wouldn't say bad matchmaking or boosting is how those encounters should happen. I think there should be a free for all mode with no mmr.
what rank is he now
Yep that job paid alot, ended up on 84% WR with fiora top. on my main acc i reached rank 8 EUW fiora.
sadly due to circumstances i dropped boosting. been thinking about picking it back up
I'm from Ukraine and I say here it's every parent's dream for the child to be an Elo booster
😆😆😆
I think it compounds better to become a professional investor, though not many people can do that.
@@ThorOdinson1269
Not many people can elo boost
Sounds like a reason to get our of bronze
@@ThorOdinson1269 how people tricked you into thinking gambling but whilst wearing a suit is a decent reliable career I will never understand
Imagine being boosted to challenger and then applying to become a booster for others…. Stonks
How to lose money 101
HAHAHA FUNNY THIS IS Gonna be good
@@ramy9103 I mean lets say ur diamond and u get boosted and U do jobs like bronze to gold 4 ITS NOT BAD
i know a guy haha
That’s not how it works at all, you have to had been masters+ (maybe even grandmasters+) multiple seasons in a row, while playing constantly. No one is going to hire a first time 250 lp grandmasters player. Of course you could say that the person who pays for the boosts, does it every season, but that is another thing about them wasting money every year on league boosting.
*Dopamine* "Riot does nothing against ELO boosters and nobody ever gets banned"
*Dong* "There's a chance Riot is watching this video"
*Dopamine* "Don't buy boosting you're gonna get banned, buy coaching"
🤣🤣🤣🤣
Basically : "If you give a man a fish, he will eat for one day.
If you teach him how to fish, he will eat all his life"
@@neodymus If you buy a fish, you don't need to fish at all. 😂
I.e Boosting
@@letsrank9349 but he would eventually fall back down, needing the boosting help in order to climb back in. so he may be buying the fish, but he's gonna need another fish eventually.
@@letsrank9349 if buying the fish is eloboosting, then eating the fish would be dropping back to gold because you're trash
@@TheBloofyx true, cause it's gone after so you need to buy again😂
12:53 "if you are good at what you are doing, the money will be good" - this really hit me hard on an irl level.
Totally not true. Ask a teacher or a medical assistant.
imagine paying to be bad in higher elo... just stay out 😭
i dont understand the fun in that at least when you are in your deserved elo you will have games where you do good and feel good but if you get boosted then you will just keep getting shit on most of the time
@@idonargesy8197 as a gold 3 player i feel this. Btw if i ever boost myself i want someone to end me
Maybe someone likes the border or the victorious chromas, and thats why they boost themselves. But as the guy says in the video there is some coaching too
I think there's a lot of delusion amongst low elo players. A lot of them truly believe its their teammates that are holding them back and genuinely believe that if they had better teammates they would win more often.
@@wetsaapbrehh7839 then im the contrary. Im gold and mostly think its myself thats the issue. Only sometimes do i blame my teamates or my potato pc
When the boosting websites have more professional and organized leaders and staff than riot itself LULZ
I mean, riot is part of this system, they don't care about elo boosting and they're profiting much more than those league slaves.
@@BezmenovWasRight Yes, in many points it sadly makes sense what riot does, also the insane amount of bots that level up accounts up to 30. It would be insanely easy to detect them and ban these accounts, why should riot do that and lose a potential customer.
@@tatumirvana1414 That’s correct:)
@@XoNasX these accounts do get banned a lot after they switch hands.
if someone ask for duo do i have to buy low elo account to play with him or what ? if there is any good ideas tell me pelase
Been hardstuck in bronze for 3 years, couldn't hold back my temptation anymore and got my account boosted to Platinum
Lol thats a feels bad man
@virtue who said I've been playing after that lmao
@@oblivion.walker cringe af just find a new game ur not shit at lol
@@amp4105 i did lmfao
was so nice to watch this, to feel teh human part of this process, to understand human needs, and the honest advice for coaching. thanks for this content
Didn't realize how organized this whole thing is.
What moron levels up his account for 3 weeks to level 30, and then play 3 months to get to gold.
Just work for 1 day, and buy an account.
@@GoznerPeter doesnt really make sense
@@GoznerPeter because some people wanna be legit and most don't have 90 euros to throw around.
@@eVill420 Legit what does that? Legit insane perhaps? Also wtf are you doing if you dont even have 90 euros. I can throw 100 euro bill out of the window right now if I want to, tomorrow I'll earn it back. Who even gives a shit.
@@GoznerPeter I just graduated highschool and am going to uni. Takes 10 hours/Day to study and The rest I exercise/sleep/socialize/do whatever. Social wellfare gives 250/Month and that goes to My living expenses cuz I live alone. In Summer I do random Jobs I can get for a quick buck. 100 euros is a lot for me rn.
Riot should hires dopamine as sound engineer to remove him from the elo boosting scene.
he'll be smurfing on the music dept
Yoooo this comment 😂😂🙌🏻🙌🏻🙌🏻
LMAO
+1
Hey he can be a 200years developer in the Balance team just fine, anyone can do it :)
the way u make theses documentaries somewhat makes me happy, even though league is dying or pretty much dead in my land server, u earned my sub
dude the edition is on point lol, its like the perfect amount of scuffed to be entertaining without feeling forced
Paying 2000$ just for people to say "oh you're good in a video game that's cool I guess" imagine the insecurities lmao
If that video game is treated like a sport in your surrounding culture, it's more like showing off you are an amazing athlete. It can be a genuine boost to your perceived value (since being good at stuff requires a lot of hours and sometimes affinity [usually improperly called talent]). I agree the insecurities are high but it's no different than kids being bullied for being sht at Fortnite by their peers.
I’ve seen a man and it’s not just one person they get outed real fast the moment they play with anyone when the ‘challenger’ be feeding harder than silvers I their own elo
$2000 for us is like $30 for them. Negligible amount of money
@@itarH all sports are fundamentally games, so I don't get your argument. Sports are accepted or rejected because of culture. Both physical and digital. There is no objective problem with videogames being classified as a sport. You rejecting that fact shows a lack of epistemological understanding on your part.
@@bennygo3 2000 sgd to go from gold to chally thats not $30
Imagine paying so much money just to show others that your League account was played by someone way better than you
Is like getting NTR and being proud of it
@@zhuzhong74 yes
I mean, that was a weird comparison but you aren't wrong. It isn't your legacy, it's someone else's.
Typically people that boost have the mindset that they deserve a certain elo. So for example, if you got a guy that has like 1000 games played and he's gold trying to be Plat, he truly believes that he should be Plat, but because of supposedly outside uncontrollable factors like bad teammates or afkers they think that they aren't the rank that they should be. Most people don't elo boost for clout but for self-satisfaction. They believe that they've put in the work, therefore it's finally time that they get what they want.
Kinda true
@@TickleMyPitz Couldn't have put it better. Well explained.
This was an awesome video: very well edited, the topic was interesting and the different parts made everything smoother and easier to watch. It probably required a lot of work and research so thank you for that !
It's a sad reality, I dont understand how you can pay someone to boost you to a rank you dont deserve. The whole point of rank is to improve by yourself and get the rank you want to feel good about it. Can't really blame the boosters tho, it's a good way for them to make money.
Because what people "deserve" is subjective and rhetorically useless, and because matchmaking is rigged. Inters are part of the matchmaking algorithms
I love the though process of "Golly Geee I am losing all these gold matches but I know if I was in Platinum I would win. Lets pay someone to get me to a place where I will become a liability to my team and lose more."
Honestly respect to the CEO, man is hustling
@@Praise_gg HAHAHAHA
It's immoral though, he harms the game a lot. Hope you don't go on ranked later and get angry at your teammates for being bad or your enemies for being extremely good, cause right here you're endorsing that (on an industry scale). That would be pretty damn hypocritical.
@@Flechashe the game sucks anyway, and Riot is to blame for that. It does not matter that much
it's insane how professionally he treats his clients and employees, this shit is what you expect multibillion dollar companies would do
@@quincy7258 Many people care about it and play it though. In fact, that's the reason why this service has value in the first place. If no one played it and no one cared about ranks, no one would buy elo boosts
Those who buy boosting services also buy a lot of skins. That's why Riot does not ban them. I have seen many boosted accounts. Never ever one got banned.
damn it makes a lot of sense now
kala ta les
Kinda true. 95% of accounts I boosted had insane amount of skins, sometimes even full unlock. And 5% are fresh accounts.
Look it on the bright side jus as you hace have an eloboosted in your team the enemy team can have one and just like the enemy team can have an eloboosted you can have one on yours ,which is basically league at its finest
@@pineaplejuicegg7667 There is no bright side to that. One game you are bored and the other you struggle. Both suck.
Fascinating video. Very well produced. Thank you!
"you can work whenever you want so it's great"
10 mins earlier: "I have to work 36 hours straight no sleep"
The "coorperate editing" when the guy talks about his service and company seems so sarcastic:D
And the guy sitting alone on the field. 😂 Really reminds me of those typical corporate powerpoint presentations, lol.
when gaming become a job, most of the time, it will not be fun anymore.
Well said. Sasuga someone with a Baron Zeppeli pfp
@@floofy1 XD
You mean when anything becomes a job? feelsbadman
I wouldn't say that. I did a lot of boosting in a bunch of different games like Apex, Valorant, and League. 1 of the things i've found is that getting good at the game so you CAN boost is the really fun process. I loved sitting in Aim labs learning how to flick and how to be more accurate or spending time in training mode learning combos on different champs or watching videos about dopa or others to learn how they approach the game. I think if you really want to get good at a game the #1 thing is too have fun but also too look at the game like a job. You must approach it with the same mentality of a doctor. You have to dedicate your entire day in and out and it really is fun if you enjoy it. I wanna get out of boosting but I've had injuries to my Knees and back that make it hard for me to work a normal job while im in College. I hope to quit when I finish my masters.
Not many jobs are fun, at least it MIGHT be more fun than common medial jobs
this was honestly well edited and enjoyable to watch bro! A ton of royalty free sample clips XD but it worked, keep it up man
My friend was banned for boosting, but he didn't do it.
It was a false positive.
He just ranked from bronze to gold after he started maining Orianna/Viktor.
150 games a week? That's more than what Wunder does in a season.
scrims
if someone ask for duo do i have to buy low elo account to play with him or what ? if there is any good ideas tell me pelase
hhahahah wowwunder
lmao This is hilarious!
Riot can't just ban people on VPNs, lots of legit players have VPNs on when playing.
I'd say over 90% of VPNs on LoL are legit
Just ban VPN it's not hard to disable one lol
There is no reason to ban VPNs. There are other layers of detection and identification that can be applied first.
@@jamfero that literally makes your vpn useless then, a vpn is most useful when on at all times
@@toxicmeatballs604 VPNs cause noticeable lag they are not good 24 7 they're really only good if you use them when needed
One of your best videos. Thanks for all the info on the landscape of Elo boosting. I've personally never minded the idea of playing against a random booster in my games as it gives the opportunity to learn/adapt, but I understand it's not fair competition. Great additional note by the booster to reconsider coaching instead. Seems like a down to earth guy.
I love your mindset on learning and adapting. That mindset will help you strides in life and with improving. Too many people think negatively about it and whine, victim mindsets only hurt people. You seem cool enough to play some league games with. Add me on league, my IGN: improve
Imagine trolling a boosters game and losing them actual money over it lmao
You are giving some people ideas.
One dude from comments said: "I'm from Ukraine and I say here it's every parent's dream for the child to be an Elo booster". I live in Ukraine too, so I can say that some parents realise that computer games can be a fulltime job. A lot of kids inspired of esports prodig. such a s1mple, tells esport stories to their parents
i dont know how to feel about this.. some ppl still frowns on idea of "esports" as not a real "sports" & they kept saying you're just sitting while playing on computer bla bla bla
better start early on the next big esports then lol is nearly 15 yr old who knows if its still gonna be popping in 5 years
@@calvintuano557 you sit while playing chess and u move plastic pieces. its still a sport.
esports is such a huge commitment tho, theres so many people on league, cs and other games with 10 thousand hours+ who arent pro and dont make money from the game despite trying. Not worth it.
@@amp4105 same thing with regular sports..
That Dopamine guy was honestly the best part of the video lmao
As a hardstuck d1 player, I really hope Riot is gonna do something about boosting. Literally every single game there is at least 1 person, who was for example master or grandmaster last season, but now is d3 40%wr.
Lol gig gud
One day you will realize it dosen' matter and it's your fault, git gud
Goddamn, as a spanish speaker it hit me hard that the first thing Dong said was "when somebody is unable to achive their elo goals" and then nixxaster appeared, she is the spanish definition for hardstuck
Gotta give credits to Dopamine. The guy is authentic!
cant believe to see him here, i watched his stream like a year ago. Never knew hes doing that. Good for him i guess xd
Dopamine seems like a good guy. If he made a coaching youtube channel like NEACE I would watch it.
he has a youtube channel
@@eryalmario5299 what is it
@@ottosmiddletoe387 search for dopamine rengar
He does coaching just not often, he’s currently trying to grow his channel
I’m subbing! Coaching is great I have done a few couches and I only stick with him. I went from b1 to s2.
These guys talk so motivationally like they’re living their dream jobs like having a passion I’ve seen no doctor or real estate agent have😊
I started elo boosting about 5 years ago and i am not kidding when I say I still have a ton of grey hairs from that period of my life. It was by far the most stressed out I'd have ever been in my entire life. Boosting accounts for 12 hours a day and feeling like youll lose your job if you stop... end of season coming, people not allowing you to play on their accounts so they ask you to duo boost them from bronze to platinum (just imagine having that on your team every game). Absolutely terrible and I was not even making minimum wage half the time.
I would have just told the dude that he'll forever be permahard stuck. No way in hell I'd duo someone in Bronze all the way to plat 😂
@@channie3473 then bye bye to the boosting job
thats painful.
Do they lend you money and force you to boost for practically free?
Did you ever have a duo client who learned during the boosting process and genuinely impressed you and improved? Follow up question, what do would you say was the % of clients that fell I to this category?
This is fascinating.
29:03 good job covering the name :)
well made video dong and respect to the booster for comming out, good luck on ur twitch career :)
i like how they made the flash placement a huge deal when you can just go to our settings and make it so when you press F it counts as D and vice versa
Which is also an easy thing to detect. In fact I would think that if a lot of settings were changed and the time that this happened coincides with different champs being played and a significant elo rise then that is highly suspicious. Most people never even touch the settings apart from smartcast settings, so if I were working for Riot and tasked with writing a program helping to identify boosters I'd definitely include setting changes as an indicator.
@@blafoon93 You can change your keyboard settings on your computer also
@@IceKnight678 wait, you do?
@@skipmanghondarg Yes, you can just google it for the steps
wow they can lose money based on lp...i know it's still early but i have no idea on the details of a boost, gonna be a fun one.
Edit: finished the vid, dopamine was a really great guest.
Client 1 XD
Does anyone know if Dopamine is the coach working with NEACE? Guy has the exact same voice.
@@RodrigoTroncosoR think so yah
@@RodrigoTroncosoR NEACE doesn't ring a bell
@@RodrigoTroncosoR pretty sure thats phylaris
@@munchygaming3886 No, they're thinking of Oorix. And yeah, I noticed that too about their voices. It's uncanny.
Never thought I'll watch a documentary about league of all things. Nice video though! Its nice to know more about the community.
i know this guy he is rly good at rengar and kayne he peaked rank 10 on EUW now he is offline on his main acc for at least 8 months now i know why
Finally an accurate video about Elo-Boosting, thanks for showing the other side of the story!
-PT Elo Boosting Team
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''NA is the most boosted region''
>clip of Blaber's nid
lmao good one
Dopamine, if you ever see this, you seem chill af. I've just followed your channel and I hope to see more of you!
very well made video curious to see how Riot reacts to this
Wow this video was one of the more interesting ones I've seen in a while. We don't get to take a deeper look into the dark underbelly of League like... ever :o
WHAT THE- DIDN'T YOU MAKE MAPLESTORY VIDEOS BEFORE THIS?! OR IS THIS ANOTHER VARS?!
My guy you are so underrated keep up the grind
@@ashrafulalam3662 Yes :3
I love your content, man, keep it up!
Love that content Vars!
"Mute everyone" the best advice ever, it also doesn't cost anyone to try to win regardless if its norms or ranked.
Was doing this for 5 or 6 years and it was really good I got enough money to start my own business and 9 years later I am really happy with how everything turned out.
That’s dope man, I’m happy for you
are these youre cars?🤓
600 euros a month is 14,000 pesos in Mexican currency. That is double or even triple what most people make here, and that's a low amount? Damn I'm becoming an ELO booster right now
What rank are you ?
@@Improvelol bronze 4 😎
@@maguc5906 its doomed :(
So a good booster doubles as a coach as well? How wholesome.
that's normal, that's extra money
So wholesome how they violate the TOS and sacrifice the fairness of the opposition's experience to earn money by technically cheating.
But they explained what they were doing in game = WHOLESOME AF
@@Loctorak Smurfs are legal according to riot, and they still do exactly the same thing. Haven't seen you mention that.
I was an Elo booster from senior year in high school to 21 years old and it paid for my medical assisting school and got me a cheap hoopty car idk what my life would have been like without league even though I don’t play anymore. To this day I’m proud of my Braum symbol tattoo and I’ll never forget this game
I got couple of skins by boosting, it wasnt efficient at all to make money in such way around s3
12:36 damn this guy's speech gave me life inspiration
(The ost and editing here was amazing lmao)
This is legitimately a well made documentary on such a vague profession.
Great video.
What I found unexpectedly touching was you using Dopamine's music as the video ended. That was....really fucking wholesome, and honestly a good reminder that people who boost are humans too. Yes, they ruin the integrity of whatever game they are providing services for, but our disdain for them (if, you know, you're one to care about such things like myself) sometimes causes us to forget that they really aren't that different from us. You using his music as he was saying his final piece was a great illustration of that.
Yeah, thieves and murderers aren’t that different from us either, but instead of robbing and killing people, we get up in the morning and go to work.
@@Fucklifedeadshit ah yes, elo boosting, on the same tier of horrible as murder
@@AoiZassoOFCL Ah, yes, coping to excuse your crimes.
19:55 "I'm at bronze, I know I can get to silver"
Proceeds to break the rules of the game by paying another player to play for them
"See? I knew I could get to silver"
Realistically every player can go up 1 division if they really commit to the game, but they don't want to spend all that time. Not that I endorse boosting just that thought process has some truth to it.
@@jameskim2356 this is bs i've seen thousands of acc who are hardstuck with 600games in silver/gold
@@spiritx8833 They aren't committing. I mean vod reviews, systematically approaching the game, finding free coaching, joining a competitive team, etc. I coach many teams and in 3 months 90% of my players go up a division. The gold 4 roster I had are all plat 4. I had a silver 3 player hitting plat promos recently. These are all doable if you have the drive to do it. Those 600 game plus accounts literally turn their brain off and play for the sake of playing, not to improve.
@@jameskim2356 Going from silver to mid-high diamond is impossible without genetics. Hahahaaaa
@@bradley9191 when did i say silver to mid dia? I said going up 1 division is possible for any player.
“I can’t win a single game in this garbage bracket, can I pay you to boost my account up into a bracket that’s way better so I can lose even more games???”
This shit makes NO SENSE.
this was really interesting to watch thanks donghuap :)
Big thumbs up to Dopamine for the courage of putting himself in the spotlight.
Dude this video was the most fascinating league of legends video i have ever seen. It's interesting, funny, shady and wholesome at the same time. I loved it. Keep doing documentaries man.
The end was great really. Dopamine seems like a genuinely good dude. He knows that people buying boosted accounts is pointless because your skills remain the same.
In the Philippines, the average monthly income is around 800 USD. So earning 3000 USD is life-changing here.
Yea dude but dont forget the phillipined is like 70% cheaper then the usa
Wow. I’m surprised I watched the entire 30 mins and 56 seconds video including two full ads I didn’t skip. Very great video you made there DongHuaP.
The same person who is willing to pay just for someone to get him a higher rank is way more likely to buy skins and RP.
Maybe they stopped banning them because they saw that it hurt LoL income to much.
If someone pays over 100$ for a boost he won't pay 10$ for a skin of his favorite champion?
Precisely.
I'd like to think that most people that buy skins aren't infact boosted. I've certainly bought quite a few skins, but would never in a million years pay someone to play on my account.
I would. Probably will. If they ever put out Shaco skin as a reward. I hate ranked deeply. Last time I did it was in season 2 and I hitted gold. I'm not good but I'm probably good enough to get gold myself, I just don't want to. I just want all Shaco skins FFS.
@@charlied.g.5029 ranked is Normals 2.0 especially in low elo, so idk what you "hate" about it. If you think you're good enough to get gold, then why don't you just do it?
Long term it is going to cost more than few bucks for a skin, since it is just a small, none-reasonable and easy-to-quit part of playerbase in here. Long term loss is decided with game quality - since ranked system is the most catchy part of the game it needs to be maximum healthy or otherwise it becomes less enjoyable - and people will leave it and those who stay would become even more toxic and nervous - leading to further drop in playerbase from potential noobs who wanted to try, but was shocked by general toxicity of the process. That's it.
Thanks for useful content Dong! im from kyrgyzstan and we earn avg 240 usd/month here at full time job, so starting today im learning how to play (silver4)
The "don't buy boosting, buy coaching instead" thing really hits me. I play Overwatch in the lowest ranks. Whenever I search for how to get better, a vast majority of the results is with the mentality of "how to get to a higher rank without actually getting better just for the sake of being in a higher rank". Well, while I do want to be in a higher rank, I want to be there as a direct result of me getting better. So the "how to get to a higher rank without getting better" kinda frustrates me.
Boosting is one way of getting to a higher rank without getting better, but coaching is a way go get better.
I did elo-boosting for over 3 years and I can say that this video is really accurate.
I was around top ~400 on EUNE at the time (as the market grew, it's actually impossible to become a booster with this rank anymore) and I was boosting mostly silvers and golds on EUW as a part time job in high school. That translated to around the minimum wage in Poland. As I was living with my parents and didn't have any actual living costs, I managed to save quite amount of money that way. I invested most of it in crypto in Q1-Q2 2017, which allowed me to buy an apartment earlier this year.
I'm 23 and I had many different jobs, right now I do in investment banking. But I can honestly say that Boosting was the most fun and satisfying job that I ever had. In my case, I could even say that it was quite life-changing. I recommend any good player to try it out as a part time job.
isnt it illigal?
@@knutflvig857 not illegal, but against Riot’s TOS
@@knutflvig857 It's against Riot rules, but in general it's completely legal. The worst thing than could happen is your LOL account getting banned, or you getting banned from attending Riot events etc.
I mean it sounds fun if you are good for a solid part time job income but for a full job it would not be good at all
@@tyszq i think in south korea it is illegal
Such an amazing guest. One of the best league related videos I've ever seen.
Damn, must be frustrating to find another booster in the enemy team
you can swap summoner spells by just changing the keybinds around in the in game settings, it will appear as your flash is on d when clicking f is what makes you flash
Big fan man thankful for the content!
we say regarding exams:
if u study u can pass .. if u cheat u get high marks.
That was so interesting :0
Awesome video!
Nissaxter on the intro XD yes she is the example of frustration in league being 7 years in silver elo and always tilting
Lmao this first half high key feels like a lowkey boosting recruiting and customer ad. ESPECIALLY when u started playing that motivational ad music. I dont feel like getting the time stamp but you know what im talking about
Damn. This is enleightening. Thanks, Doug!
Best of luck to Dopamine with his streaming and producing career.
Really informative and well put together documentary. Subed.
How odd that Riot isn't the sponsor of a channel like yours your the heart of their community
"if you're playing on NA above D1, most of your teammates will be boosted" great. People really needed more reason to call each other boosted. Thanks a lot
This looks like an AD for boosters and I like it.
Super interesting video, great work!!!!
This is honestly a very well done minidoc on the league of legends boosting scene.
When I was a student I used to boost on EUW, EUNE, NA and the usual salary monthly was like 300 euros. I eventually gave up on it because the mental health strain was too much. And you're giving up everything in your life to grind a game that you eventually end up hating. I'd say it's only worth if you're really good and consistent, and for example if you have a friend to duoboost with through cheese tactics like funneling. And even then only diamond 4+ boosts are worth any good money, but they're always a coinflip on whether you get 4 humans or 4 bots in your team. The parts about boosters being toxic and not using vpns is all true too, most of the people I worked with only ever did a forced offline script mode if the client wanted that, and sometimes you could even get a chat restriction and play it off before the customer notices, now it's pretty much impossible because it's obvious when your honor drops lmao. The best customers are usually UAE arabs rich on oil money, who pay a lot to play with you on a second account. And last of all Riot will never give a shit about this industry because even their CEO got caught getting eloboosted, that mark merill guy or whatever his name is.
wtf
why the fuck this is happened and i had no idea.
@@sametekiz3709 because it happened a long time ago and nobody cares and won't care. I had a customer not paying once, I came clean on reddit and wrote to customer support with all the evidence, neither him nor me got banned, riot is a joke of a company. Only interested in profits aka selling skins.
@@GarroshYT Yeah, mark merill is literally co founder even if he is elo boosted there are no neglect,it's profits.I am sad tho i had no idea.
@@sametekiz3709 in October of 2012, evidence was collated that proved Riot’s CEO, Marc “Tryndamere” Merrill, to have not only boosted accounts, but having also shared confidential account details (account sharing) - offences which are now considered substantial enough for even professional players to receive permanent bans from the game. One of the sources - the versed article from 2016, you can google and find out more if you want yourself.
everything is pretty much true, this job is stressful and mentally draining as fuck
It's honestly just like other things/hobbies
It becomes dreadful once you try to monetise it
But the fact that you can lose money and League games are becoming more and more team oriented and harder to carry alone is extremely draining
Get a real job😁👌
@@azrael8890 i did and its still not even close, eb24 takes everyone go and try urself
@@azrael8890 if you're homeless just buy a house
Seems like hell really. Games are supposed to be fun. Tyler1 is a perfect example. Does he even enjoy LoL anymore? We’ll never hear his honest answer obviously, but comparing his variety streams to his LoL streams its clear that he finds more fun in other games.
I used to be mad addicted to League 7-8 years ago, I hit plat 1 and gave everything trying to hit diamond as a 16/17 year old, I used to play 10-15h a day neglecting my (social) life. Did I have fun playing LoL, hell no. I quit when season ended at plat and never looked back since. Cant explain how much my life has improved since then. Actually living life and not stuck trying to get a visual rank nobody gives a fuck about. I still watch LoL videos but playing the game is over for me
DongHuaP my man, that reference to the Bolivars in Venezuela hurt my soul, I left the country 8 years or so ago ;-;
But yeah, some currencies are worthless and living standards are measured differently in other countries. You take minimun wage in the US and bring it somewhere else and you're basically rich for their standards
Free coaching along with the boost? What a steal!
Riot : The game is not pay2win
Elo-booster : Hold my beer
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The stock footage lowkey be crackin me up lol.
i loved when you showed physical sports when the booster was talking about giving coaching sessions. i actually laughed. that was hilarious.
that feint boosting ad like part made me go DAMN really nice guy