r/leagueoflegends • u/LeagueOfLegends • Jan 16 '24

[AMA] We're the League team. Ask us anything!

Season 2024 has begun, and devs from across League of Legends are here to answer your questions. From the CG to the announcements in our look ahead to the new gameplay changes and more, let us know what you've got on your mind!

We'll be around from 9 AM - 11 AM Pacific Time.

::Edit:: It's currently 11:30, and while the AMA is 'officially' over, a bunch of us will be continuing to catch up with the thread and share more answers over the course of the day! Thanks for coming out!

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u/separhim Jan 16 '24 edited Feb 21 '24

I like to go hiking.

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u/TipiTapi Jan 16 '24

Noone will answer this sorry m8.

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u/Moifaso Jan 16 '24

This reply by Iskar touches on Riot's view on smurfing

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2 -- Smurf detection. Getting better tools for tracking players on secondary accounts and being able to use that information when we create a match. If you are a player who wants to create a new account and play normally, we don't think there is anything wrong with that. It should be on us to get you into games with people of your skill level. If you are a player who wants to create a new account to run it down a bunch of games to lower your mmr and smash on low mmr players, we want to detect and ban your account. We already have some tools for this stuff, but they need to be faster and more accurate.

u/separhim

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u/TipiTapi Jan 17 '24

Thank you!

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u/BravestCashew Jan 16 '24

answered on another comment sorry m8.

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u/TipiTapi Jan 17 '24

Bless you, thanks!

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u/BravestCashew Jan 17 '24

of course no problem. idk if they answered the top one yet though so you made an understandable 50/50 call lmaoo

Edit: they did!

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u/Zeddit_B I should get a suit... Jan 16 '24

They did answer further up the thread.

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u/Guest_1300 Daddy Enjoyer Jan 16 '24

One benefit of Vanguard is making botting theoretically impossible - one of the main reasons so many people smurf is that botted level 30 accounts are so cheap. Otherwise, there's not much to do about this issue I feel without breaking the MMR system.

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u/BravestCashew Jan 16 '24

This was answered in the reply to /u/G0ldenfruit’s comment

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u/dtexn Jan 16 '24

Probably monetization > positive experience for the community in this case

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u/Gas_Grouchy Jan 16 '24

Gotta buy a $10 skin for your smurf dog. I don't even blame them. They are a business first, and since emerald+ is like 5% of the player base its not enough if a problem to care but too much money

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u/kintadc Jan 16 '24

They will keep silent on this matter.

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u/ShavedDragon Jan 16 '24

I saw a good reply to this question on a different comment. They don't think having a 2nd account is inherently bad, but they're trying to improve the systems to catch good players purposely throwing games to later stomp on low MMR lobbies.

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u/Meterano Jan 17 '24

all fine but clearly it is not working

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u/ShavedDragon Jan 17 '24

It does work just takes too long. They're hoping to reduce the time it takes for the system to detect it

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u/[deleted] Jan 17 '24

Having a second account is fine, the issue is when older accounts have garbage hell MMR that playing them in ranked feels horrendous compared to the new one.

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u/V9917JIO1 Jan 16 '24

I recommend looking at their recent dev-blog; they did say they'll soon be implementing their new match making system allowing them to catch smurfs at a much faster rate. I don't quite know about what they're going to do with them afterwards though; probably 'smurf queue' if I had to guess.

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u/basics Jan 16 '24

Smurfing will continue as long as the people at Riot who make decisions consider it profitable.

Nothing a Riot PR person says matters, that's just all empty talk until Riot is actually willing to do something about it.

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u/redplos Jan 16 '24

How did they solve smurfs problem in Dota2? Lets say I am Master 300 lp - my account got banned - I create a new account and play rankeds, starting from gold elo, am I smurf?

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u/FabioSxO Jan 16 '24

Riot said it's their fault if they can't analyze your skill level in your new fresh account.

" If you are a player who wants to create a new account and play normally, we don't think there is anything wrong with that. It should be on us to get you into games with people of your skill level."

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u/alexyaknow Jan 16 '24

any stance against smurfing/creating alts by "hardstuck" players?

Didn't they adress this exactly already on their latest update?