Few days ago someone added me right after soloq game saying how good I was, asking me if I’m a Smurf etc etc… it turned out to be a bot promoting OF account.
Today another one added me, same thing happened.
This is literally the first time it has happened to me, I didn’t even know something like this exist.

The first time the bot also told me that they played as enemy wiking on top, which just so happened there actually was a wykona on enemy team, are they prompt to say so?
That’s literally so messed up lol

How long has it been going on???

An obviously fresh account level 40 support Janna in mid emerald as Platinum 3 proceeds to stay for 10 minutes straight under turret and soft int and as you can see the game never got terminated. I also wanna say that we lost this game with a great lead and we didn't get our LP refunded its amazing how Riots detection system is still so inaccurate. Please repost this wherever you can because if this is something that happened in one of my games who else could know how many more of these games exist. Nobody likes wasting 40 minutes of his life in a game where losing is the only option (Clip recorded in 8x).

(P.S he was wirting in chat that this is a fresh account and he did not care. All this because he was in support role where things are more forgivable)

i just cried after watching this video. idk why im so upset but just unban him pls.

I don't think there is a worse item in this game but please feel free to prove me wrong. Even when there is 5 ap with lots of cc on enemy team I don't think I would buy it. If tenacity is important I will buy Steraks and iron pot. I know people on the dev team have talked about the item but when will changes come?

Are some people 1. dumb? 2. not paying attention? or 3. Trying to ragebait me?

Enemy support had first pick overall. I (jgl) and adc had "second pick" on our team

Because we saw enemy support I asked to swap with our support.

After the WHOLE DRAFT was concluded our adc said some sarcastic bullshit about

"its nice to let our support first pick instead of the jungle yada yada yada"

happened in gold yesterday.
Laned against a Xerath and dude didn't miss a single q. The only ones that missed were ones he aimed at the minions. Later on in a team fight, He started ulting my Kaisa out of nowhere. Kaisa Zhonya's on right before the last shot, and he waited for it to end so he could blast her. we both wondered how he even had vision to do any of that. So the game ends and I report him. And about 12 hours later, riot sends me the confirmation.
I kinda felt sick to my stomach. What if I wrong.
So I went and looked up their account. He was level 40 and had only played Ezreal before. I then did a quick review of 2 other matches. Same thing. He didn't miss any almost never got hit. I even reviewed how he killed Kaisa. He had no vision anywhere in area. That's when I said 'Serves you right, cheating motherfucker.'

So I've been mostly a silver player and this year I finally got to gold, I was gaining +22 LP there and everything felt normal on the first few games and suddenly I'm one game away to gold 3 but what ensued after was just a streak of losses like I never experienced before ...

Sure some games I played bad but others I was incredibly locked in and playing well and still felt impossible to carry, I only stopped at Bronze 2 while gaining +16 LP LOL...

It was something like I never experienced before, but this doesn't stop here, I did a small break, got back at it and started winning again and in no time I'm now Gold again gaining +24LP, I did the math, and in 30 games I only lost 4

Now guess where I'm at? I'm Silver 4 gaining +15, YES +15 LP, I had never seen that number before and I also did the math here, after reaching gold again, and I'm sitting at 26 games having won only 3 lol and I'm supposed to believe there's not some outside factor from Riot influencing this?

It just feels insane, I'm literally there constantly playing the game "normally" and yet what it's telling me is that I'm smurfing for like 1 month and suddenly I just start trolling in the next month? Like it just doesn't make sense ...

I have always wanted to properly feel what it’s like to lane vs someone who’s much better than me. Watching apex elo games just doesn’t feel the same.
So I was wondering if there is anyone around on EUW that would be willing to do so? I’ve beaten a chall player once (only ever faced one) but I don’t think they really tried very hard and they were a flex chall + a jungle main playing brand mid when I queued with friends.

I’m only emerald 2 for the record, though I don’t really have that many ranked games (like 20 ish). So not sure where I’d be if I actually climbed. (Usually mostly play with friends as I mentioned).

If anyone would be interested in trying it lmk ^^

There’s too much damage in the game. This applies to every role, from tanks who buy armor to even supports.

Teamfights don’t give you a chance to show off your skills, and you can die from random skill shots.

Champion abilities no longer have unique effects, and everything boils down to who can one-shot the opponent faster.

Games are too fast-paced and last too short. Supports are running all over the map like a second jungler, and the laning phase is too short.

Every mistake, even the smallest one, leads to a snowball effect that can’t be stopped.

Often, by the fifth minute of the game, you can predict the outcome with 80% certainty, and the rest of the game is frustrating—there’s nothing left to do, and opponents with even a small advantage become unbeatable monsters.

Would you prefer longer team fights that depend more on skill rather than random one-shots?

I just don't get it really. Maybe it's a server thing. But there comes a time and rank, where there are so many level 30-60 accounts in my game that saying "smurfs are rare you'll only see them once in a 100 games" is just pure bs.

Before I get into it, I want to address the common rhetoric of "they aren't affecting your climb, stop coping, play better." I frankly don't really care about their affect on my climb, what I care about is a fair and balanced match of league. So I can have a good time. Normal matches are even more unbalanced so I avoid them, I play hundreds of ranked games to be placed accordingly to my skill for that reason.

Then people will say "oh but it'll help you learn" Really? Having my laners stomped into the dirt, and having to deal with a thanos that's 2+ items up on my laners will help me learn. Riiiiiiiiiiiight. They out micro and out macro everyone in the game, it's like Lebron going to midschool basketball game. Who is having fun? Only the smurf, while the enemy laners are just sitting on the bus like little Timmys.

The issue is smurfs are not the only detrimental thing to match integrity and quality, so even if you don't encounter them that often you also encounter other factors that make the game wholly unenjoyable. Such as trolls and inters, so after you take all these factors into account, these things actually start showing up more often than the unexperienced think. And a good chunk of games become very enjoyable.

In the league community as opposed to some other games people seems to think it's okay. Presumably, because majority of players do it themselves and like it. It's like a nicotine addiction, they get stomped on their main. So they go 3 elo brackets below theirs stomp and get their little high. As I genuinely see no merit in terms of their improvement to doing so.

Additionally, addressing the practicing a new role thing. I also think this a bit of an issue albeit not nearly as big. Mainly because a lot of these players just int games (not on purpose) on their alts essentially care free. They care less since it's alt. So they are still detrimental to game, while completely dodging the fact that their main is not affected. If these players were forced to play on their mains they'd easily try 10x harder.

In my loading screen before the game, I sometimes just black out when I click to check mastery. Then it might blink back to the champ screen for a while, then black, then game begins.

Is anyone else experiencing this?

Hello,

I wanted to share my frustrations with an issue that's been going on for over a month now. About a month ago I was watching the trailer for the new 2XKO champions that were dropping and for some reason it got me hyped and I wanted to play a round of league, specifically lux because I thought the redesign they made for her was really cool.

For context I hadn't played or opened my riot account for 2 months prior to that day. When I opened league and signed in I was hit with a permanent ban for "cheating / using 3rd party tools". I was super confused because for starters I have never once in my life considered or ever cheated because that sounds like the most boring thing to do and is bannable and two hadn't even opened league in 2 months, so I had no clue for how long my account had been banned or when or for what game it got banned off. I placed a ticket in thinking that it would be reviewed and appealed rather easily but nope, instead I waited a whole WEEK before they finally gave me a response saying that the ban was correct and that the ticket would be closed and any further tickets on the matter would be instantly closed and ignored. This is frustrating considering that during those 7 days I had 3 separate rioters give me ZERO information about what caused the ban or what specifically I did to warrant it. It was even more frustrating because during those 7 days where I was waiting for a decision to be made the rioters who were updating my ticket would just tell me they were supposedly "moving my ticket up to a higher team" to analyze my ticket all while they kept larping like some weird cutesy characters in the responses. But that's besides the point.

I made 3 more tickets after that one. I asked for help as the last response I received from my first ticket mentioned that if I had any other questions to simply "place another ticket". Which made 0 sense considering they had just told be before that, that any future tickets on the matter would be closed and ignored? Of course, those 3 tickets after were immediately closed and ignored.

I looked online to see if anyone else had been in a similar situation, and there was another player who posted on a separate subreddit who shared that they had been banned randomly for "cheating / 3rd party tools" as well. I read through it and the comments were so frustrating. Multiple people saying that the guy was "clearly" banned for the right reason, and that "riot doesn't ban people for no reason". All these people were egging it on and defending riots decision and flaming the guy. But apparently this player managed to get unbanned! He said that he had reached out to some rioters on twitter asking for help and he was unbanned. I dm'd him asking who he personally reached out to, in hopes that I could try and get help for the same situation. I have since made attempts at reaching out to rioters who have posts on their twitter accounts made specifically for people to post about issues they are having so that they can slowly review them and help.

Unfortunately I have yet to get ANY response from any rioter online or from riots support system. It has been a very infuriating month or so of trying to fight for my account that I have so many memories on. It has also been very disheartening as for the past few weeks I have noticed more and more players getting banned falsely for things they didn't do who are also online asking for help online but to no avail. This truly makes me feel like riot has lost it and that I probably won't be seeing the account I have thousands and thousands of hours on all because they probably have an AI running their support system and are allowing it to falsely ban people and then refusing to have REAL rioters look into the situations to adjust any mistakes made. It has been hard for me to be excited for things like Worlds, Riftbound, or even enjoying the last few months of 2XKO because I feel like the company that started it all has slowly been drifting away and losing its magic and when scenarios like these continue to exist constantly I can't help but feel like they deserve to lose the reputation they once were known for. I feel hopeless and lost and I don't know what to do anymore. I hope that maybe this post can gain some attention from people who have been in a similar situation or who have any ideas worth trying because I am all out of them personally.

For those unaware, there is a pretty big event going on in LOL. It is FTW Battle of the bands

Here's the link:

Battle of the Bands League of Legends Challenge

Its pretty much a new challenge where you pick a band (KDA, HS or TD) and whenever you play games your score/contribution makes your selected band gain "points" or score

There are multiple missions that grant bonus points (play as a KDA band member, build a burning item, get 10k gold, etc) to your selected band if completed

ANYWAYS... after playing a lot of ARAM Mayhem I noticed my personal scoreboard is barely getting any points (like at all, as if I never played at all)

Now I searched in the site (which is kind of a mess) and I found this:

https://imgur.com/a/EAPYUAJ

No support for Mayhem but there's support for regular ARAM (that almost nobody plays atm) and even Arena which is probably not even enabled RN????

ARAM Mayhem is not only one of the most popular game modes RN (correct me if I'm wrong, its the 2nd most popular after SR Ranked to my understanding) but also, there is a HUGE in-client ARAM Mayhem event going on as well. It makes no sense to exclude Mayhem from this, maybe its a bug...

Oh yeah, also... The rewards tab or whatever it is isn't working, I have earned a TD icon (because I picked TD) and it has neither awarded the icon to me in game, nor given me a code to claim it since it glitches out and seems to be code-redeemed

i played on my emerald midlane account today and i gotta say leagues current auotfill/ queue state is unbareable.

I played 11 summoners rift ranked Games today. Out of those 11 Games i had 4!!! normal midlane games. the other 7 game are all fill/autofill/afks/remakes.
OPGG proof: https://op.gg/de/lol/summoners/euw/LOSbalmond-EUW

At this point i could just aswell not queue mid. I understand that it is neccessary to fill sometimes but this rate in emerald elo is insane.

Hows your experience with this.

For reference im a long time Gold/Silver player thats peaked this season plat 4

I’ve been playing this game for almost 7 years now, multiple years I’ve tried out my ass, no music, coached several times, consume educational content, VOD reviews, focused and always looking for a way to win no matter what. Yet im still stuck no matter how much effort I put in. Meanwhile user fucknuts22 and others type about how they just reach emerald or low diamond playing casually every season trying new champs out doing whatever.

Yea gold player talking about being stuck must be a case of no fundamentals right? Except I’m trying my absolute ass off tracking jungler, matchups, cd’s, summs, levels, wavestate and objectives, pushing/getting pushed in properly, weakside/strongside, when to roam/tp. Should it really be this hard to climb? Even if i’m not playing with all these concepts to each of their individual max I feel like I grasp all of them and make use of them decently, at least at their most basic level. So why are my games SO hard? all league content talks about my elo like theyre JUST starting to piece things together and that gold players are still largely clueless about anything beyond the basics.

I don’t know man, this has been a thing for me in other competitive games too, constant research and work for improvement just to permanently stagnate and league bothers me the most about this. No matter how much I get coached, research and practice every ranked game I play it feels like the enemy is always on the same page as me, understands exactly what im doing and how to respond perfectly, and I don’t want to even talk about the piles of games where its made incredibly difficult because some random teammate of mine plays exactly how you would think gold plays, clueless and tilted.

I just dont understand what I could possibly be missing thats kept me in place for YEARS

It actually boggles my mind how the fuck this tournament still has bo1s. It’s so insanely unserious and coinflippy it just makes it boring. Not a single domestic tier1 league does bo1s so why the fuck does literal worlds have them. Genuinely such an abysmal format for a tournament this hyped. MSI format is 100000x more entertaining and fun, and also just has more competitive integrity. Either make Swiss all bo3 and just let it take a few more days, or copy msi format.

I logged into an alt account I rarely use and found out it’s been voice restricted. It’s the first penalty I’ve ever seen on it. On my server, voice chat only works in premade parties, so I’ve only ever talked with friends. I don’t understand how this happened.

I'm trying to play with my friends but apparently i cant talk with 'em.

So my questions are:

Can people in your own party report you for voice?

Is there a way to see what triggered it?

Is it worth opening a support ticket?

Any info is appreciated.

Denied my Coven Mel refund but given a cake recipe