For League of Legends, there are third-party tools that are supposed to help you in the Rift. Some of these also show you statistics of your teammates before the match. This is apparently not desired, and a pro has now faced the consequences for it.
What are lobby-reveal tools needed for? Since the pre-season 2023, the names of teammates in the lobbies before a match are not visible. It just shows something like Krogs, Murks Wolf, or Gromp. To bypass this, players could rely on third-party tools that still display the player names.
Since Patch 14.9, a new anti-cheat tool called Vanguard has been implemented for LoL, which makes it easier to detect such software, even if it hasn’t worked properly at the beginning. Apparently, Riot does not want players to see the names in the lobby and is now starting to ban users of such software. A pro has also been caught in the process.
This 67-year-old player has become a headache for Riot:
Now it hits a pro
As the player Czekolad posts on x.com, he was greeted with a permanent ban upon starting the game. The ban message states that Czekolad was banned for using a third-party tool. Czekolad is a former LEC player who currently plays for the French team BK ROG Esports.
He himself comments in the tweet only: Sorry that I am so good
. In the comments to the post and also in a Reddit thread on the topic, many users write that he was probably banned because of lobby-reveal. The permanent ban
is actually just a display error. As RiotK3o states on x.com, players are only banned for two weeks on the first ban. Much worse are the hardware bans against cheaters.
But why should one even display the lobby names? Many players who use such a tool want to know before the game how good their own team is. If you have a name, you can look up statistics such as match history, win rate on certain champions, and also former and current ranks on popular sites.
If you are not pleased with what you see, you can simply leave the lobby and lose only a few ranked points.
This obviously has advantages and disadvantages for the game. If you see that a player is losing all of his matches or even trolling, you can end it before the match. On the other hand, it can be frustrating when someone constantly leaves the lobby, and you have to search for a new match, or you get criticized in the lobby for your champion statistics.
In higher Elos, such tools are also useful
Another problem for better players and streamers are the so-called stream-snipers. If you know the name once, you might also leave the game before the match. In higher Elos, this is a bigger problem since you may encounter the same teammates more often.
In principle, however, it is not intended that one simply leaves games before the match. Sometimes you are just lucky or unlucky with teammates.
If you use such tools, you should uninstall them before the next game, otherwise, you might also receive a ban. Competitive games usually have a high frustration factor because it often isn’t just about pure fun. This is also stated by a large German streamer: Trymacs says: Gaming is no longer fun for him – blame games like League of Legends.
