League of Legends: Wild Rift Dev Tracker

We used to have a similar system in League called the Tribunal where players could look at reported cases and render a judgement. The key challenge was that the time lag between offense and penalty was very long because of the time needed to get player reviews. When a penalty is issued days after the offense the reform rate was not great. Another problem was scale, there was a mismatch between the amount of cases players were willing to review and the cases that were available, too many cases and not enough reviewers.

So in general our approach has been to use heuristics and machine learning to do much faster detection. WR is lagging behind in this area and is my primary focus on the team right now. We had several internal attempts to bring back the Tribunal on League PC in different ways, but were not able to overcome the problems with the original system at the time.

I don't work on skins, but I've passed it on to their QA folks and they were able to reproduce it. Thanks for bringing visibility to this!

Yeah ranked restrictions are something we are looking at, and it doesn't require the full honor system!

Yeah, these are the things we're focusing on behind the scenes. You're probably not going to see us talk too much about what we're deploying though. There are a few reasons for this, but the main one is that in our past experience across all our games it hasn't really made people feel better when we tell them about the incremental changes to behavior systems we're making. Ultimately it has to manifest in more appropriate penalties and visible feedback to players who report as you point out.

Also, players seem to think that the more complex systems in CN means that it is way better than here. Unfortunately this is not the case and disruptive behavior from players is still a big pain point that we're working to address in CN and other regions. We've taken different approaches because the audiences are different, but it is still a tough problem in all regions (and really a tough problem in competitive team based games in general).

You know when you are really determined, but it feels like you are bashing your head against a wall?

Aery is the most determined one of us all.

Also, I should clarify that the CN system is more like a social credit score which we felt less appropriate for other regions because we have different cultural norms.

Are there any meaningful report categories that you'd like to see in NA? We tried to match our existing PC categories a bit more closely in the rest of the world and keep them broader. However, behind the scenes we detect for multiple different behaviors. Like in AFK we have different methods for people who are disconnected/not inputing and for people who are idling and trying to evade detection.

We get a lot of insight into that from everyone else on this subreddit and through other channels. This is a unique opportunity to get insight from an English speaking player in CN which is much harder to get when you don't speak and read Chinese :D

I work directly on the player behavior systems outside of China (inside CN we use some tencent services that are not available outside the region). What problem do you think a honour system would solve for you? I was the UX designer on the League Honor 2.0 rework and I don't think honour is the most impactful thing we can be doing in NA right now. My focus is on improving detection of AFK, and intentional losing. Mitigating that behavior is going to have a much bigger impact for players in my opinion. Honour is not a good mechanism for addressing our current problems, it's more of a force multiplier to nudge people in a positive direction once you have a solid foundation of negative behavior detection. Happy to be convinced othe...

What does the community in CN think of the game? What's most important for us to improve? What do you consider better than competing games in CN?

I haven't seen this on portrait lock, but I have seen similar random instances of offscreen indicators being in the wrong place in some of our internal playtests. Had not noticed it on live before, and this repro video is very helpful. I'll follow up with our QA and see if we can reliably reproduce it, which is usually the first step to being able to fix it.

Can you elaborate a bit? Outperformed in what way? He isn't intended to be a traditional tank like Malphite, Leona, or Rammus. But he should be a durable juggernaut more similar to Darius, Garen, or Sett.

Not as good at starting fights, but about being hard to kill with good damage if he can get to his target.

At great risk of bodily harm. This was actually one of the reasons we wanted to add Grudge, because before it was all but a certainty that AD champions would get counter healing, now it requires the player to evaluate the situation.

Though I agree with you few things tilt me more than when playing against 3 heal heavy champions and we only have 1 Grievous Wounds on our team.

Yep yep, thanks for the tag here so I didn't lose it!

We've got a new AFK detection method running behind the scenes that will detect players like this. We've completed our manual review to make sure we're not catching a lot of innocent folks. We're just waiting to do some final tuning before turning it on. Unfortunately it won't still won't allow AI takeover, because the player is actively inputting.

Actually, if you have a high MMR for your Rank (e.g., you're in Gold but have a high MMR and are getting hard matches), the game will give you more Ranked Fortitude and therefore shields, and it will also give you more Rank Skips, so you can still move up even though your matches are in the 50/50 range.

The same thing goes for Diamond. If you are in Diamond IV but have the MMR of a Master, yes, you may only win 50% of your matches, but you will get +15 for a win and only lose -10 on loss.

So you would go, e.g., +15 +15 -10 +15 -10 -10 over 6 matches (3 W 3L, 50%), but be up +15 VP after. Basically, you would net +2.5 VP per game while going 50/50.

Yep, this is intended, TF can still port to any location but a Spell Shield will block it from granting vision of you.

There's a lot of system touched at the end of a game and they all need updates for a remake to work correctly so there's a lot of coordination and work to do before we can make it.

The way we measure the MMR system's effectiveness is by asking it for every game, who it thinks will win, and then seeing how often it guessed right --- basically its accuracy at knowing who is good at helping their team win. We do this across all games every day and track how well it's working.

The current system is currently significantly more (15%) accurate at predicting whether you will win matches than it was before, so therefore the MMR you have is more accurate at judging players' abilities to win matches.

The MMR system also places a fairness prediction on each match, meaning the chance the better team will win (e.g. 50%, 55%, etc.) So we also measure how precise that prediction is. We do this by looking at all of the cases where the system guessed, e.g., "55%" and see how often the better team really wins. It's currently right at 55%, whenever it says 55%. It's also at 59% whenever it says 59%, etc. So we have pretty good confidence in the system's ability ...

• No, the MMR system is currently robust to 5 stacking. The MMR system takes into account the difficulty of a match. If 5 stacks have easier matches, the MMR doesn't move much if any and doesn't inflate. MMR currently has very little inflation at all, if any.
• 5-player parties currently use a different matchmaker in ranked, so they can only play against other 5-player parties. They never play against randoms, trios, or duos.
• Because of the two above points, 5-player party MMRs do not affect the MMR distribution. If they have high win rates, it's more a function of them doing well against other 5-player parties, not against smaller groups.
• You're welcome!

No, MMR doesn't follow a 10/15 pattern. It is relatively stable and only moves significantly when there are unexpected outcomes. It usually goes up and down about the same each match.