Study · Data checked 12 October 2026

LoL Boosting Bans After Vanguard: What 1,674 Trustpilot Reviews Show

We read 1,674 Trustpilot reviews of 13 League of Legends boosting sites. 37 customers say their account was banned, suspended or had its rank reset after a boost. Every one of those reports was written after Riot switched on its anti-boost system in September 2025. The 169 older reviews in the same sample report none.

Key findings

1. 37 of 1,674 reviews (2.2 per 100) describe a Riot penalty after a League boost: a ban, a suspension or a rank reset.
2. All 37 were written after September 2025. The 169 reviews written before then contain no ban reports.
3. Eloboost24 had the most reports: 12 in 200 reviews, or 6.0 per 100, the highest share of any site with 100 or more reviews read.
4. 7 of the 37reports came from duo orders, where the customer kept playing on their own account. Duo lowers the risk, but it doesn't remove it.
5. At least 24 of the 37 customers say the site refused a refund or compensation after the ban, or stopped replying.

Ban reports by boosting site

A report means the reviewer says their own League account was banned, suspended or reset after they used the site's boosting service. We read each one by hand. Account-purchase problems, marketplace seller disputes and other games don't count.

A low count doesn't make a site safe. Sites with thousands of five-star reviews push the complaints further down the list, and a site's 200 newest can cover a fortnight or a year depending on how many reviews a site collects. Compare the date column before you compare the counts.

Before and after Riot's anti-boost system

Riot says it launched anti-boost detection in League in September 2025. In its 17 September 2026 update it reported 296,416 accounts actioned across League and VALORANT. Five sites in our sample have reviews from both sides of that date:

169 reviews before, no reports. 1,505 after, 37 reports. The before sample is small, and more than half of it comes from Elo-Boost.net, so read it as a direction rather than a measurement. It does match what Riot says it started doing.

What banned customers describe

The common story is short. The order finishes, a few days later the account is suspended, and the rank drops back to where it started. Where reviewers give the length, it's three or 14 days. Three describe permanent bans, one of them after a booster used a script. Six point at the booster logging in from another country or without the VPN the customer asked for. Then comes the refund dispute, which is what most of these reviews are really about.

Duo orders are not exempt

7 of the 37reports came from duo orders. In those, nobody else logged in. Riot's own rule explains why: it removes rank from players who repeatedly party with boosters or smurfs, even when they say they didn't know. One reviewer quotes Riot's message about playing with "an account known to boost MMR".

Duo still gets caught less. On our own 2026 orders, about 5 to 8% of duo orders on the customer's own accountwere caught, against 12 to 32% of solo orders where a booster logs in. Those figures come from orders, not reviews, which is why they're higher than anything Trustpilot shows. We cover both in our duo boosting safety guide.

What Trustpilot can't tell you

• Reviews aren't ban rates. Most banned customers never write a review, and sites ask happy customers for one. Real ban rates are higher than these counts.
• Samples differ. The 200 newest cover five days of GameBoost and ten months of Elo-Boost.net.
• Marketplaces mix games. Eldorado.gg, GameBoost and Gamesatış sell for many games, so their review pages say little about League.
• 8 of the 21 sites had no Trustpilot page at all. These were mostly the Brazilian and Turkish sites, so this study says nothing about them.
• We sell boosting too.DuoBoost.net has one Trustpilot review, so it can't be measured the same way. That's why our own detection numbers are printed above, from our orders.

How we did it

1. Sample. Every boosting site in Google's top 10 on 12 October 2026for "lol boosting" and "elo boost" in Australia, "elo boost" in Türkiye and "duo boost lol" in Brazil: 21 sites, us included.
2. Reviews. Up to the 200 newest and the 200 most relevant reviews per site from the DataForSEO Business Data API, de-duplicated: 1,674 in all.
3. Reading.Every review that mentions a ban, suspension, restriction or reset in English, Spanish, Portuguese, German, Polish or Turkish was read in full and classed by hand. Reviews that deny a ban ("no ban, all good") were never counted as reports.
4. Data. Per-site counts are in the CSV, free to reuse under CC BY 4.0. Reviewer names are left out.

Reading a boosting site's reviews before you buy

• Sort by newest, not by relevance. The bans are in the last few months.
• Search the review page for "banned" and "suspended" before you look at the stars.
• Check what the site says it does when an order gets you banned, in writing, before you pay.
• Ask whether the booster plays on your account or queues with you on theirs. That's the solo or duo question.

For the rules behind all of this, see our guides to Vanguard and anti-boost and Riot's boosting penalties.

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