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Posting here in hopes that this reaches someone that still worry about the game and has the means to do something about it.
People have been using an exploit that makes you able to put more characters than available in your nickname, then, they'll name change and pump a bunch of spaces before their actual nickname.
Why is that important?
Cause that makes the system not able to give or take LP from them after the game ends, so, they are playing 12+ hours a day inting games to drop their MMR to low elo after reaching Challenger (not in a legit way), to then play against low elo players winning every game while still gaining 20+ LP, exploiting their way to Rank 1.
Here you can see it in action:

https://u.gg/lol/profile/br1/tt%20vuc7777/overview
https://u.gg/lol/profile/br1/shyauroratime%204/overview

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over 1 year ago - /u/Auberaun - Direct link

Originally posted by Mafros99

Holy f**king shit, the LP system breaking down because the nickname has too many characters might just be the single most unholy spaghetti bug I've ever seen. Istg, League is built on duct tape and hope lol

Anyway, letting /u/auberaun know might be helpful

They're gone and we'll look at what's going on.

over 1 year ago - /u/Auberaun - Direct link

Originally posted by LowRezDragon

You're awesome! Thank you for the speedy action and response.

Sure, it's what you should expect and it's not cool that stuff like this is possible.

edit: to clarify you should expect speedy action when something illegitimate is actually happening because league's competitive integrity is really important, not necessarily public responses in cases like this

over 1 year ago - /u/Auberaun - Direct link

Originally posted by yo_sup_dude

but shouldn't the game be seeing that the account is challenger rank/iron MMR and give the account less gains as a result?

https://support-leagueoflegends.riotgames.com/hc/en-us/articles/4405781372051-MMR-Rank-and-LP

or is this effect outweighed by the effect you mentioned where since he is playing vs silver MMR as an iron MMR, his gains are increased?

u/Auberaun can you chime in here? should an iron MMR account with challenger LP see less LP gains?

I mean there's a minimum LP gain amount that's set, but it's not too relevant in this case because these people are all getting banned anyway