Dota 2 Account Boosting – How does it really work?

How does Account Boosting in Dota 2 works? What is the price of it? Is Boosting impacting the Dota 2 matchmaking system? I researched everything, let’s jump in!

What is Dota 2 MMR Account Boosting?

Account Boosting in Dota 2 means to manipulate your MMR trough help from others to achieve a higher rank. The matchmaking system in Dota 2 is serving every player with the rank of his real skill to maintain fair games.

Account Boosting creates a gap between the real skill and the displayed skill on a Dota 2 profile, which can have a serious effect on the balancing of a game.

Keep in mind that many people use the word “boosting” in Dota 2 as a common slug for giving the best and improving the account themselves. That of course is 100% legit. 😉

But in most cases when people talk about Account Boosting, third party boosting services, pro friend boosting and boosting organizations are meant, read below how it works.

How much does it cost to Boost your Dota 2 account?

Higher tiers cost more money, since these games are harder. While a boost of 1000 MMR from 2000 to 3000 MMR costs below $100, a boost from 5000 to 6000 MMR is extremely expensive with around $600.

This table shows the price for solo MMR boosting, if you choose “duo queue” to play with the Booster together, an extra price of about 33% will be added.

Can I earn money trough Dota 2 Account Boosting?

If you are an extremely good player or retired pro player with around 6000 MMR, then try to get even better and start a professional career. If you are too bad for that or not ambitious enough, boosting can be an option…

Besides Dota 2 account boosting, coaching is a much more legitimate and reputable income source. Anyway, in my opinion, any day job out there in real life will make more money per hour, but if you seriously want it, you can make money through playing Dota 2.

First steps to start coaching or boosting:

• Create an account of Fiverr for free.
• Choose the correct category (Gaming) and add your boosting or coaching service in 2 minutes.
• Add even more text and a nice image of Dota 2 to it.
• Promote your gig and start with a low price to get your first reviews fast.

How does Dota 2 Account Boosting works?

Getting boosted has two common strategies:

• Share your account and another player is forcing nothing else but wins and wins.
• Party with Booster Players and get carried. This often is a bit more expensive than sharing the account, but is safer.

When a Dota 2 account is boosted, it has to be the case that the boosting player has higher skill than the real player. Hopefully. It depends on the skill of that Booster player and his ability to turn games into safe wins far beyond 50%. If you share the account for playing on it make sure to limit the hero pool to those heroes that you played before often.

Dota 2 Account Boosting is more expensive than Account Buying:

MMR boosting on an existing account is way more expensive compared to buying a Dota 2 Account, at least 3 times expensive. You might have experienced that in the Dota 2 ranks update: Valve made vast MMR differences in each medal. It was a tactic to reduce the number of boosters. The bigger the gap the higher the price. It forces people to stop buying boosting services. The prices will always go up over time.

Boost Services Experience Seasonal Peaks:

After every 6-7 months, a new Dota 2 season starts. Valve resets the MMR, and the account recalibration starts again. The time of recalibration is like Christmas for account boosters because in that phase almost every player wants to improve his MMR. The websites start providing discounts throughout the recalibration phase. A quite huge number of players end up buying those calibration services.

Serious Opinion about Dota 2 Account Boosting:

Is Boosting bad?
Yes it’s seriously bad.
Here is why:

• Your current MMR is where you belong. If your current MMR is 3000, then you will swing between 2700 – 3300 MMR. And that’s good. Its where you have to be and where the 9 other players have the same skill as you. The perfect setup for a good and fair round of Dota 2.
• You will lose your money. Imagine you get boosted from 3000 to 5000 MMR. What will happen? You will fall down to 3000 MMR again, it’s just about time. The money will never come back.
• After getting boosted you will lose nearly every game because you can’t keep up with the skill of the match. Moreover, the other players will blame you. You will only win games if the other 4 players carry you.
• You may get banned. If Valve can ban 17000 smurf accounts, then they can do the same with boosted accounts as well.

Tips how to Boost your Dota 2 Account:

So, here’s the advice: Don’t do account Boosting. 😉 If you still want to do it, here are some soft ways to do it, without destroying the system:

• A small MMR Push could work out if you are really better than your MMR but you do not have the time because of your girlfriend or your job. A simple push of about 500 MMR, could help out and maybe you can stay there.
• Calibration Boosting may be okay, it’s just about 10 matches and then you can play on your own and check if you deserve that rank.
• If friends help each other for a few games (playing on the account of a friend), no one will kill you. A few won games won’t hurt.

But here is the best advice: Just play with better players together. You can learn a lot, they can carry you and everything is legal. You will not have superhigh chances of getting a lot of MMR fast, but improving your own skill is the best way to play Dota 2.

Fun-Fact: The first 10.000 MMR account was also boosted

The whole Dota community was astonished when somebody in the Southeast Asia Leaderboard achieved the 10.000 MMR milestone. Everybody was curious about how that is even possible. They also wanted some tips to increase their MMR.

Later on, a report came out that the man who achieved the 10.000 MMR is a Booster. He, along with his other Booster fellows, boosted this account and set a record. They did not do it through skills – they used cheap tricks and spammed heroes. They also used one big trick that even Valve was not aware of:
The alleged booster filled 70% of his matches with his own ten accounts. Sounds creepy, but it’s true, on Reddit he confessed it. Unfortunately, it’s not possible t to share the profile because of the privacy issues. The booster wrote a large note on Reddit and explained everything. However, he said, he will not share the trick how he fills each game with 10 of his accounts. One thing is clear that guy has ten computers. 😉 At least he saved Valve from a big mess. Otherwise, if he had leaked that trick, the whole matchmaking would be wrecked.

Conclusion

What about you, have you ever used Dota 2 Account Boosting services, or do you know people who did it? What is your opinion about it, tell us in the comments! 😉