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Riot to Disable League of Legends Pro Accounts

Vberni Regalado
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League of Legends gameplay design director Mark “Scruffy” Yetter said that Riot Games is disabling the accounts given to pros due to them having “unfair gains” compared to other players trying to climb the rank ladder.

Since the start of season 11, multiple players noted that the top rank was populated by accounts with a much lower number of games played compared to previous seasons. Most of these accounts were found to be given to pros by Riot and had an inflated MMR to help them reach their corresponding rating faster. But now, Riot is disabling any accounts made after Jan. 7 and will be giving pros “fresh ones.”

“We’re disabling all Riot-created pro player accounts created after Jan. 7, 2021 to address unintended differences in LP gains/losses which resulted in an unfair advantage over non-pros in reaching the top of the ranked ladder,” Riot said. 

“These accounts will decay out of the ladder over the next few weeks. Pro accounts created before Jan. 7 are unaffected. Pros will be given replacement accounts with fixes made to the starting MMR. The update has already begun and may take a few days to complete.” Yetter added.

In recent years, some League of Legends players at VCS such as Kiaya, Bean J have reached Korean Challenge. Captain GAM Levi also nearly reached this rank and was lucky when Riot announced that they would not revoke the account from the Korean server.

This is good news for gamers in the Challenge rank, but bad news for those who are at Diamond rank. 

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