Is boosting a bannable offense?

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Boosting someone means that they’re receiving SR by having someone carry them in Competitive.

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And why is it obvious? Sounds like you’re petty

  1. its quickplay
  2. any smart mercy would pocket a carry
  3. you literally can’t see if theyre duo’d together, but nice assumption
  4. i have friends who makes alt accounts and they ask their mercy main friends (who play together at the same rank in comp all the time) to help them lvl up fast (group xp)
  5. the mercy being a higher level (when playing the hero properly) does not mean theyre boosted. If anything they could be the same rank on alts.
  6. A LOT of dps players on new accounts ask for Mercy pockets for the group xp bonus in the LFG section and bored mercy players often help out since its just qp

You really shouldnt read too deeply into this and stop immediately blaming the mercy.

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I’m not blaming the mercy I’m just asking if its bannable. and the soldier was a really good soldier and the mercy was mediocre (no offense to her) in my eyes she’s getting boosted by that soldier as she’s only sticking to him and not even caring for the rest of the team. and im 100% sure they where duoing as from the beginning of the match to the end she was damage boosting him. if this was just a random mercy she wouldnt even have known that thafs the team carry that fast. and plus they were talking pretty actively and laughing in vc. that’s just my opinion at least

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You literally called the Mercy boosted.
Thats an accusation (one not based on facts).

Is boosting bannable? Yes.
Is that Mercy being boosted? You don’t have a clue.
they literally could be friends on alt accounts who are the same rank/lvl on their mains. I have plenty of friends like that lol
Just because they dont care about the rest of the team in ‘quickplay’ and are laughing/having fun, does not correlate to being boosted, just the two players being bad teammates

Also boosting is something that can really only happen in competitive. Boosting means taking someone into ranks they do not belong in or playing on someone elses account to raise the SR.
Its not comp so no SR is being raised. And its not comp so no ranks are being boosted.

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You cant do anything with boosters, they have multiple accounts for duo q and when they solo, they use customer’s account. Even if you somehow will proof that someone is boosted, the booster will just switch account/client. Boosting is unbeattable cause of the ammount of demand it gets.

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Yeah definitely report that. Boosting is a bannable offense and even in a case where they were just friends playing with each other on an alt account because that’s perhaps the only way for the Mercy player to do so and the hero pick might come from them not wanting to break the game on some other support, it’s still better to report them just because. If they’re not boosting they won’t get banned. It’s as easy as that

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playing as well as you can is the only right thing to do.
If the system allows good and bad players to play together, it should be none of your business.
=> there’s no such thing as boosting, there is only throwing. You can always report throwing.