Champion Select Exploit- Players can see the champions enemies are going to pick during banning.

RizzoTheRipper·7/3/2016, 11:39:01 PM·11 votes·5,234 views

Hello Riot,

Long time league player (Season 2), first time submitter. I recently stumbled across a bug in the ranked champion select that becomes a huge exploit.

The bug:

When a player types the name of the champion they wish to play in champion select and it becomes their turn to ban, the banner above the champion circle will say the champion name that they have typed once it's their turn to ban. For example, I declare that I want to play Leona and type it into the search bar, its my turn to ban and the banner says Leona. The enemy team can see this banner and choose to ban Leona which is a huge exploit.

Steps to Reproduce:

  1. Load into Ranked queue and type the champion you wish to play.
  2. Once it's your turn to ban look at the banner above the champion circle.
  3. Notice the banner will read the champion that you wish to play to all players (including enemy team)

This issue occurs always with 100% frequency.

Thanks for your time, Jessica R.

12 Comments

SpookyNeedle7/4/2016, 12:20:59 AM2 votes

I always wondered about that, although I had no idea it because you type a name in

AidanWR7/4/2016, 1:36:59 AM2 votes

I have seen this, but it's never the champ that they are going to play, it's usually a champ that someone was hovering over from a previous game or queue

Troll Armada10/9/2016, 5:58:44 AM2 votes

I actually saw this a while back, assumed it was intentional, and that's why I don't usually select a champ at all...

oh interesting. I didn't think of this. I just assumed it was their throaway accounts and exploited matfhmaker

i.e. just switch windows/computers and/or check cheat app, whatever setup they got going, and look.

Dehitay7/4/2016, 12:36:24 AM1 votes

Riot has "fixed" champion intent being visible to the other team at least 2 times now. I don't know how hard it is to only make the chosen champ visible to the other side after it's been locked in, but at this point, I'm just going to assume Riot can't pull that off.

Rico Nasty7/4/2016, 7:04:41 AM1 votes

I always wondered this as well! Upvote.

Only Play Darius7/4/2016, 7:14:19 AM1 votes

Yet another reason to never use pick intent.