Do people with boosted accounts legit manage to hold their own in higher ranks?
It doesn’t seem to me like they would. I’ve been carried to gold before, but I can’t aim to save my life so as soon as my team leaves I freefall back into silver.
If they don’t then what’s the point of boosting an account anyway?
Some people get boosted because their deluded mind thinks they are better than the rank they’re currently in. Then they start to fall again after getting boosted. Some other people do it just for to brag. And some others do manage to maintain their rank but really only because they get lucky with teammates and pick easy heroes.
Seen 5 Mercy mains that got duo/boosted drop 500 SR after a week of solo queing
Isn’t that freefall enough for people to realize that “hey, I play like crap”? I am in the 1700s and comfortably so. I always fall back here if I climb too high and always climb up to 1700 if I drop too low, I always get placed in the 1700s whether I win most of my placements or nearly lose them all.
You’d think people would be more self aware 
A guy i know couldn’t win in bronze but got boosted to gold, he’s gone 0-10 in all placements since he got boosted.
You might able to hold it when you only got boosted one rank above, like silver to gold, or gold to plat. But you gotta play support or tanks that dont require much raw skills and tryhard as much as you can. We carryed a bronze marcy main to gold before, she was able to stay in gold by playing mercy, but after a while, sho decide to play dps since it is mkre fun, and freefall back to bronze lol.
If ur boosted just pick brig 4head
I do a lot of coaching of lower rank players (sub diamond). Some have gotten impatient and turned to boosting.
Typically what happens is they boost to where they think they belong - I’d say average is a 1000 SR boost - and then they start losing games and falling back to their true rank. Once they start dropping, they get scared of losing their shiny new rank and stop playing competitive on that account. So, they buy a new account and call it their “smurf”. Then, they play a season of games on the new account which ends right back up at the rank they boosted from.
The most extreme case I’ve seen was a guy who is consistently sub 1k bronze who boosted all the way to 3.9k. He did not win a single game on that account after it was boosted, and every season he paid the guy to do placements for him and then didn’t touch it. His smurf is now level 595 while his main is 450, and his smurf is sitting at 900 SR while his main is an unplaced 4k.
Some stick with the boosted account, and after awhile slowly drop to within 300 SR of where they were boosted from.
I have seen one exception to this. A guy I was coaching who was extremely mechanically gifted but expected way too much of teammates and refused to change his playstyle to fit bought an account that was 1000 SR above his main. He initially dropped 500 SR, but gained about half that back after getting used to things and now sits somewhere around 800 above from where his main SR was. After he played in the higher rank for a bit, he was able to pull his main up.
No mmr makes sure to give them losing games if they get little value from their picks.
If by “hold their own” you mean…lose many games in a row, become toxic in voice chat blaming teammates constantly as they lose their way down to where they belong…then,…yes?
Well most likely people who think they are better than they are (most of OPs on these forums lol). They blame their teams for not climbing so I would imagine when they buy a boost and fall down they would still blame their team mates.
I don’t know but it’s really annoying to have boosted players on your team.
that’s not how it works, the mmr isn’t a prophet or something and can say which games are losses before they’re played…
no, one really bad player is enough to make a team lose
no they do not. simple
Low key depends. I have a friend who bought a GM account to my dismay but he kept it by playing the minimum amount of games while being boosted by his teammates.
Not many people understand the weight of the situation of playing in a higher rank.
People when they buy a boost think “Plat seems nice, silver is boring” But they get back and understand what they’d done.
Boosting companies dont tell people how much of sh*t you’re in before you buy. I know a professional booster.
What he does is, during the boost he tries to teach the players something. Teach them how to improve and actually keep that rank. Most clients dont come back for another boost.
Lol no, i know one guy who was boosted from silver to masters and he was dropping like a stone, after 3 seasons he is back to gold i believe.
just another reason to seperate groups and solo players
If you have a team with high mmr relative to their rank playing a team with low mmr relative to their rank guess who’s favored to win Mr private profile?
Not a smart business model there but hey, good on them for actually trying to help these poor idiots XD