He had over 10 banned accounts because he was noticed for toxic behavior in League of Legends. Now Tyler1 is finally allowed back in the Rift.
Those who express racist remarks in League of Legends, insult other players in various ways, or intentionally disrupt games will be shown the door. At least that’s the theory.
The player “Tyler1” streamed a lot of League of Legends in 2016 and was particularly noticeable for his toxic behavior. Insults and unsportsmanlike conduct were the order of the day. After being banned for more than a year and a half, Tyler1 can now prove himself and gets a new chance in League of Legends.
Tyler1 unbanned – Back in LoL
On his Twitter account, Tyler1 proudly shows that he was finally unbanned in LoL “after 613 days of intensive rehabilitation”. His League of Legends stream is set to restart on Monday. Fans are excited to see if they will see a new Tyler1. After all, in the past, he mostly attracted attention through negative actions.
Who is Tyler1 and why was he banned?
Tyler1 is known as a talented LoL player, masterfully controls the champion “Draven” and won many games on his own. Tyler1 was able to impress with his skill in the MOBA but his streams were accompanied by a sour aftertaste.
He regularly insulted teammates or opponents, trolled in matches or deliberately ran into enemies so they could kill him. All to entertain his viewers?
His stream quickly gained popularity; people would say, “You have to check out this troll” and laughed at his antics. Probably also because they themselves were not the victims.
The developers at Riot Games took notice of Tyler1. The devs initially found his questionable entertainment factor to be secondary. His toxic behavior simply went too far for them.
Gradually, the developers banned several accounts of Tyler1, but he simply created new accounts to play. Then in 2016 Riot Games slammed the table and issued a identity ban for Tyler1. This means that not only are noticeable accounts banned, but every account created by this player is banned.
Survived with PUBG and IRL streams
Now Tyler1 could no longer entertain his viewers with his LoL games. Therefore, he turned to other games like PUBG and some of his viewers stayed with him. As a streamer, he gained a foothold and regularly gained new followers. He now has over 900,000 followers on his Twitch channel and streams various games there or does IRL streams where he chats or participates in video formats with other LoL greats like Imaqtpie.
League of Legends veteran David “Phreak” Turley stated that Tyler1’s ban could indeed be lifted if he “reforms”.
Tyler1 took this to heart and told his viewers he wanted to reform himself.
How seriously one could take this statement at the time, no one could say. After all, he gained attention as a troll. Was that his “true self” or is Tyler1 actually a nice guy who just knew how to make it as a streamer?
Insulting Tyler1 led to the dismissal of a Riot employee
In 2017, the topic of Tyler1 came up again concerning insults, this time surprisingly from the other side:
In October 2017, a Riot employee wrote in a Discord chat that the “Tyler1” case caused him a lot of stress and stated: “It’s okay, he’s going to die anyway from a cocaine overdose or testicle cancer from all the steroids… after that we are Gucci.“
As a result of this statement, Riot Games parted ways with this employee.
After this incident, Tyler1 received an email stating that they wanted to review his accounts that he played on in recent months. If these were found to be “clean” and “not ban-worthy”, Riot Games would unban him.
On Twitter, he now shared the news that his ban was indeed lifted and he could play League of Legends again after 613 days. This news quickly went viral on Reddit, receiving over 47,000 upvotes. In the Reddit thread, Riot employee The_Cactopus commented:
“As already mentioned, we do not comment on the ban status of ID banned players. Without any reference to that, I would like to mention that my desktop looks really clean today.”
To that he linked the following image, where you can see a mousepad from Tyler1’s merchandise store.
The inscription “Reformed” shows that Tyler1 took the matter of reforming very seriously.
Maybe he will really start strong in the new season? The 8th season of LoL starts in a few days
