LoL: Riot Will Return LP Lost to Players Impacted by Griefing

In a post published on X on Thursday, Riot Phroxzon revisited the 2025 Season 2, whose central theme is the region of Ionia and all the gameplay changes that came with it: the new Spirit Blossom map, better objective pacing to allow teams to express more creativity, bounties that better match player perception, consolidation of Atakhans, Feats boots tuning, and lastly—most importantly—the soft inting detection system.

To begin with, Phroxzon emphasizes that reporting bad behavior is the best thing players can do to support the moderation teams: “Don’t worry, reports don’t actually do anything by themselves, so it’s not like you can get someone banned by report brigading them, but they give us extra signal when someone does actually do something bad that gets flagged and increases our confidence that something nefarious happened.” He also notes that it helps them investigate situations where a player is heavily reported but hasn't been flagged by the detection system.

He also added that the detection system isn’t meant to remove all griefing on the first day, and that avoiding false positives is very important to them—they don’t want to punish players unfairly, since a bad game can happen to anyone.

The reworked system will allow the moderation teams to:

He concluded his message by stating that this is only the beginning, and that everything they’re doing is aimed at making League of Legends “the amazing game it can be”—by getting rid of griefers, account sellers, and ranked manipulators.