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 lastlyâmost importantlyâthe soft inting detection system.
Improve the player experience
To begin with, Phroxzon emphasizes that reporting bad behavior is the best thing players can do to support the moderation teams: âDonât worry, reports donât actually do anything by themselves, so itâs 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.â 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 isnât meant to remove all griefing on the first day, and that avoiding false positives is very important to themâthey donât want to punish players unfairly, since a bad game can happen to anyone.
The reworked system will allow the moderation teams to:
- Continually iterate and build more and more detections over time: "There are some things we're not detecting today," so they need more time to develop them fully.
- Make punishments more severe as theyâre currently in a âmake sure thereâs no false positivesâ phase.
- Quickly return LP to players in games where theyâve been griefed.
- Provide feedback to reporters when someone has been punished, and eventually display that the system is working by identifying the perpetrator on the end-of-game screen.
- Ensure timely player support reversals when a mistake has been made.
He concluded his message by stating that this is only the beginning, and that everything theyâre doing is aimed at making League of Legends âthe amazing game it can beââby getting rid of griefers, account sellers, and ranked manipulators.
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