[2022] Apps that reveal player names or stats in Champ Select need to remove these informations starting Patch 12.22

Originally posted by RedditUserLPP0010

This was a normal step for Riot to take, you make champ select anonymous in the client but let others that use your API to still show the info you want to hide.

Why even bother if let this happen.

Originally posted by mkaan

do you guys have any plans about the jungle and summoner spell timers on those apps? i feel like they damage the competitive integrity of the game and being forced to install 3rd party apps with advertisements feels really bad.

Originally posted by geozukunft

Will it be removed generally from LCU or just specifically not show the data anymore if it is a queue 420 lobby?

Originally posted by trapsinplace

Does this change include the little 'titles' given to players by apps like Mobalytics? For example it labels me a "Herald hijacker" because I am involved in getting first herald in around half my games. It also says I ward in the first 3 minutes in 100% of my games.

I actually like those because it lets me know the play style of my allies and it's fun to see my own labels.

Originally posted by IHadThatUsername

Is the anonymity opt-in or will everyone be obfuscated?

Originally posted by _negniN

I'm sure you guys know what's best for your game and all, but have you actually thought far enough ahead to consider how this may affect the game in the long run?

Sure, the intention of the change is to stop abusive behavior in champ select. If someone hovers a champ with a high skill ceiling they have a low winrate on, that someone is usually harassed into picking something else and if they don't, teammates will threaten to troll and eventually someone dodges.

That sucks, but what do you guys think will happen if you force these games to go through? I'll let you guys sit on this one for a lil bit. If there's a player on a team who is acting abusive because a teammate of his wants to play a champion they are not very good at and you take that player's ability to even know that before the game starts, hence removing his ability to preemptively dodge, what do you think he's going to do once he gets into the game and op.ggs his teammates anyway?

This seems like a very short-sighted change of which the implications really weren't considered that well.

Originally posted by Assaulter

I feel like if someone's gonna troll in champion select once they see someone not picking their main will just do that if you pick a champ that they dont think is good or as soon as you load into a game now, and the names show up and you get all the same info and problems. Which is arguably worse because now you can't escape by dodging the lobby.

Any plans to make people anonymous the whole game if they wish? ...Actually there's even a problem with the part of them being able to choose since anyone who manually makes the choice to be anonymous then will just be assumed that theyre turning it on because they have something to hide in their statistics.

Originally posted by Hounmlayn

Is this to focus on pure soloq? Or has soloq been scrapped?

Originally posted by hotdogman402

You should obfuscate it by randomly substituting out names or swapping them around on teams for maximum chaos