Riot wants to make League of Legends' "behavioural systems matter more"

Riot Games says it’s “making behavioural systems matter more” in League of Legends and is “shifting [its] approach” to poor player behaviour “to directly impact your experience and strengthen our community”.

“I know many of you have been disappointed in the lack of progress made in Behavioural Systems over the last few years,” writes Hana “TimTamMonster” Dinh, product lead for behavioural systems, in a post on the official website. “You’ve told us again and again that this space is important. And I’m with you. That’s why I’m here to share some updates kicking off Riot’s new approach to this space in 2022.”

Data suggests that just 5 per cent of players are “consistently disruptive”, intimating that the other 95 per cent of reported players are “regular players who get tilted every once in a while”. However, Riot says it knows that its behind the scenes updates to detection and punishment systems “isn’t making enough of an impact”.

Champ Select reporting has been problematic, resulting in “lost confidence”, the post continues. Although Riot says it has been monitoring these reports, “we didn’t add punishments for them accordingly as promised”. Well, that’s about to change, and punishments will be tied to troublesome Champ Select reports in a patch “coming very soon”.