League of Legends Dev Tracker

One of the hopes we have here is actually to prevent a certain specific brand of account hopping.

Many of our punishments are time based. This means that people with multiple accounts can often swap accounts and play until the punishment on their main has expired.

With game based ranked restrictions, those people will eventually need to come back to their main and play those normal games. There's no way to use an alt account to circumvent the punishment entirely. Obviously it only works for players who play ranked, but if we see improvement here we can try new features in the space later.

Hopefully the same things that got them caught in the first place.

If we need to, we can add a win requirement later. But the hope is to place people in a lower stakes queue where it's okay to reconnect with league being a game we play for fun. Requiring players to win puts the same incentive "you must win" on the remedial games as ranked games have.

This will work with a wide variety of transgressions. Feeding, leaving, and text can all get you a Rank Restriction

We're going to be watching normal queues closely. If it turns out all we're doing is shuffling toxicity around, we'll reevaluate the feature (maybe turn it off, maybe take another stab at it)

But if you've been following our dev blogs, you'll know that we currently believe that the toxicity you meet in game is normally not "toxic people being toxic," it's "people who are normally not toxic being toxic sometimes." The theory goes that putting people who are struggling with the stress of the ranked ladder in a lower stakes queue will allow them to take a breather. Or, if they hate norms that ...

Yep I joined last year! Riot sweet talked me into joining the League team and tbh I've loved it here!

<3 seeing people pop up and say nice things about my past work. Loved getting to work on WoW for a few years and that people enjoyed anything I did or tried to do. Will always love the WoW community.

We haven't dropped this at all and we've actually still been working on implementing it. Currently it's planned for sometime in the next patch or two and the way it will work is pretty straightforward.

If you catch a suspension from the game or get to the point where you're getting more severe chat restrictions, you'll receive a ranked queue ban until you re-earn the ability to queue into ranked again. So hypothetically if you leave too many games to the point where you finally catch a 24 hour queue suspension, when that suspension is up you'll be required to play 5 normal games before you can step foot into ranked again. For right now we're keeping it at 5 games regardless of severity or history, but we could adjust that in the future after we've observed how it works on live. The important thing to mention is that if you're hitting this point you've possibly caught a few infractions, and have already encountered a few queue delays or honor impacts before you hit this poin...

Yea, the goal right now is to ensure intro has no major bugs/systematic pain points (especially at scale) given we are using fairly new tech.

Once that is confirmed, the intro bots feel good, we will go heads down for a bit to build out beginner/advanced queues.

Then when all 3 are in a polished-ish state, we would want to roll all 3 queues out to live environments and iterate afterwards to make them more dynamic/improved to higher skill levels/expanded feature sets.

Potentially! I think we would want to see how the bots react first with the current system, and if we continue to see issues with Akshan in particular, we would probably flag this to the appropriate teams who own those systems to see what we can do.

Push comes to shove, we can make Akshan inaccessible to Co-op versus AI, and might do so for Intro bots especially, but I feel like there might be a better solution available that we can explore post launching these new bots to live. (Like being able to vote kick and replace with an Akshan Riot bot.)

I could not talk to how easy or hard it is due to that being a different product space, services stack, and systems that I am not the owner of, so even if it were easier to implement, it would take time to become SMEs in that area and understand all the knock-on effects that change could have.

Regardless, we do want the bots to react similarly to humans in even strange or off-meta situations, so this Akshan behavior gives us a way to target off-meta gameplay styles for our bots.

Honestly I don't find it pressing. His win rate is kinda high, his pick rate is high (that's a good thing) and his ban rate is relatively low.

For comparison, Rell has less pick rate and more ban rate. That's generally a pretty cursed combo.

In general, players ban things that they actually see and are (picking a word out of a hat here) upset about. Players see Rell less than they see Rakan and yet ban Rell more. In general, this tells me that Rakan is pretty acceptable in his current state, at least in comparison to other engage supports.

The short of it is that some champions have win rates above 50%. This will just always be true. Rakan is a pretty good champion for that honor for many reasons, some of which I wrote above.

That would be amazing to be honest! I would love to play against difficult bots.

I will say, one of our goals is to deprecate and replace all current bot features with our bots (so at some point we want to enable our new bots on customs!) but we need to get the bots to feel great first and then those areas are easier to extend to.

Please do try them out when we hit PBE and let us know how we can further improve them! Also, let us know of any bugs or weird behaviors!

Okay, gonna take off my dev voice and say...

BRO I HATE THIS sh*t. After I played with a player who did this the first time, I told my team we need to make people who do this have a bad time against our bots as this is unacceptable for anyone in our game. I could not imagine the pain a new player would experience running into this kind of behavior.

Okay Game Dev voice back on -- we made it so our bots will recall and kill any player who tries to enter their base prior to 5 minutes. Given this strategy is primarily intended to farm account levels (from what I am personally guessing -- if players know other motivations, please let me know!), we want to make sure our bots can adapt to these new strategies anyways.

If we still see consistent behaviors like this, we would just want to adapt the bots to be flexible enough to handle countering them over reducing the player's autonomy.

In regards to smurfs/player-made bots, I do think this is on top of mi...

This is related to the Quickplay work, so it will show up in patch notes when that is released.

Like memes aside, this is something I've seen happen in almost every codebase I have ever worked in. You make a rational change and it has side effects elsewhere. You can avoid it with some level of rad architecture, but people generally do not spend time on that. Small teams and small products can avoid. Larger teams hope to find it in a code review or quality pass.

Gentle reminder that a lot of decisions are almost made a year in advance, because it takes time to do work. 2023 is a result of 2022 etc

This was a bug introduced due to some work we were doing in champion select. It should be fixed in the next patch.

OK.

WAIT! Now I know why. I didn’t take smite, so the items didn’t pop up in the shop (a prerequisite to buying them is to have smite). Thanks for jogging my memory.

Dunno what to tell you, I just clicked on the first item that popped into my head for survivability. My runes and shop items were coming from some saved presets I had and I just picked my tanky presets.

As for the “what’s in the jungle”, I guess a better way to describe that would have been “wanted to see how jungle pathing/routing worked”.

Not quite sure why this post seems to have aggravated you so much, but I hope your day gets better.

Story time. I have been playing league since it was in beta. I have played every role except jungle. I have never played jungle outside of a game with bots where I just wanted to see wtf was actually in the jungle (this was like, season 5 maybe?). Well, a year or so ago I was playing a ranked game and ended up filled as jungle. I told the entire team that I have literally no experience in jungle and I’d trade for any role. No one wanted to trade and I don’t like to dodge, so I stayed and asked if folks would be patient with me. I committed to trying my best if they’d commit to only flaming me in their heads. This is like, high silver maybe.

I pick Rammus because I figured if you’re a jungle you need to be smart or be fast and I sure as sh*t wasn’t bringing jungle smarts to the table. Well, I didn’t even realize that jungle specific items existed so I bought Doran’s and a potion.

I gave up trying to jungle the actual jungle after like 5 min and started rotating throu...