Riot dev roasts LoL booster allegedly earning $10K+ a month

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A Riot Games employee discovered a League of Legends player selling help to others for a fee and took an unusual step to stop them.

A common frustration in competitive games, especially League of Legends, is encountering players who seem much better than their account history would indicate. This happens at all skill levels in the game.

Services that help players unfairly improve their stats, often called ‘boosting,’ have existed for a long time. While they violate most games’ terms of service and can lead to account bans, people continue to use – and sometimes even advertise – them, as seen in a recent post on X.

Things took a bit of a turn, though, when a Riot dev spotted it and decided to respond.

Riot dev warns against boosting accounts in League of Legends

The website PCGamesN first reported that a user named “Little Peter” was offering to pay players to boost their rank in the North American League of Legends server. He posted in Portuguese, offering $10 per game for Diamond 4, $15 for Diamond 2, $20 for Diamond 1, and €31 for Master tier (up to 200 League Points).

They also mentioned in that post they’re really looking for former pro players or people who main just one character. Apparently, you can make over $10,000 a month playing pretty casually, and if you really get good and understand the game inside and out, you could even hit $20,000!

Drew Levin saw the post and immediately reacted. He warned that he would ban anyone who repeated the behavior.

Someone challenged the developer directly, but instead of apologizing or stepping back, the user responded with a defiant challenge: “Try and find me.”

Levin then asked a simple question that immediately shifted the conversation: “Should I share your primary account details here?”

Suddenly, the other person apologized: “Sorry, please don’t shoot me.” After that, things quickly de-escalated, and Levin simply responded with a handshake emoji.

Players are still paying others to improve their rank in games, a practice known as boosting. This isn’t just happening in competitive titles like League of Legends, Valorant, and Overwatch, but in many other games as well.

We’ve even seen services offering to help players quickly advance in games like Palworld – even though Palworld is designed to be played at a relaxed pace, letting you collect monsters as you wish.

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2026-04-24 10:21