Old Champion Name Availability

bandage·Jan 14, 2018·28 votes·4,459 views

@Development Team Hey everyone!

I recently talked with a Rioter over live chat (if you didn't know about this it's amazing) about taking old champion names. Newer champions such as , , , and some others have been able to be taken as an IGN on/before release. I was trying to take the name "Poppy" but was told that it was unavailable :(

Basically, **my idea is to see if people would like to approve being able to take old champion names! **~~And to help me get the name Poppy!~~ Any upvotes/comments help to get this seen by Rioters and the dev team, and hopefully they'll respond in this thread!

Click here to see that a Rioter even approved of my idea in chat! Thanks Agent 007! [slayer-pantheon-thumbs]

25 Comments

Thresh Outta FuxJan 14, 20186 votes

Gotta upvote this. What will I ever do if I finally run into a Red offended by my name? :(

Mysticman89Jan 14, 20185 votes

Poppy is unavailable because someone already has that name, not because it's an old champion name.

If the player is inactive for long enough, then it'll become available that way. https://support.riotgames.com/hc/en-us/articles/201751914-Summoner-Name-Clean-Up-

edit: Hum, news to me that they arbitrarily locked up those names manually. Even if they made those accounts themselves early on, I feel like they ought to have allowed the name clean up thing still kick in. If it is one of those manually locked names, then I don't see why they should keep them that way.

bandageJan 14, 201811 votes

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Poppy is unavailable because someone already has that name, not because it's an old champion name.

If the player is inactive for long enough, then it'll become available that way. https://support.riotgames.com/hc/en-us/articles/201751914-Summoner-Name-Clean-Up-

That's entirely false. If you look up every old champion, you'll see that they're set at Level 6 with no match history prior. Riot has intentionally done this in the past, and I have been playing since Season 2 to know this.

MordepoolJan 14, 20185 votes

[{quoted}](name=Crestfallen Hero,realm=NA,application-id=3ErqAdtq,discussion-id=qN9HQLfQ,comment-id=00000000,timestamp=2018-01-14T00:17:31.226+0000)

That's entirely false. If you look up every old champion, you'll see that they're set at Level 6 with no match history prior. Riot has intentionally done this in the past, and I have been playing since Season 2 to know this.

I was just going to say that

Evil YasuoJan 14, 20184 votes

Sure dude, though I personally much prefer adding stuff to them like my current name or Dark Yasuo, Demon Talon, etc.

Troll for TrumpJan 14, 20184 votes

Why so edgy...

Evil YasuoJan 14, 20185 votes

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Why so edgy...

It's what I like. Some of us love edgy stuff.

jadeeJan 14, 20183 votes

good idea! hope you get poppy :)

ElohavenJan 14, 20183 votes

Go for it.

SõnaJan 14, 20183 votes

Unfortunately.

JustARivenMainJan 14, 20182 votes

Cool idea, honestly would love to get Riven ofc

ZeroAgainstJan 14, 20181 votes

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Cool idea, honestly would love to get Riven ofc

fyi alot of creeps would add you for it thinking your a grill

JustARivenMainJan 14, 20181 votes

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fyi alot of creeps would add you for it thinking your a grill

I don't add people anywayyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyys

SpoofghoulJan 14, 20182 votes

well if they allow it then with everyone here as my witness i claim the name Sion

bandageJan 15, 20182 votes

Thanks for the feedback everyone! I do agree that there could be some confusion toward newer players, but I feel as if it wouldn't make the most egregious difference. After all, you should know whether you're going into a "pvp/normals" queue or a "pve/player vs ai" queue.

The funny part is that while someone on the enemy team may be named Amumu there'll probably be someone with a name like xXBurg3rManXx as well, showing it's actual people. [leblanc-funny]

DivewingJan 14, 20181 votes

Given that there's no pragmatic reason for this (at least on the surface), I'd hazard a guess that this is because if we COULD name ourselves the same as the champions (at least the old ones), it would result in something-something-mom's-spaghetti-code

Ashen RiderJan 14, 20181 votes

Riot intentionally has those names locked. The only reason they let people have the names of new champions is because those people have the name BEFORE the champ is announced. It would really suck to have your name taken away like that.

CHODES AND LOADSJan 14, 20182 votes

happened with nocturn. gave the guy nocturn on release to make up for taking his name

morris1Jan 14, 20182 votes

Also Kled, Kindred, Bard and probably others more.

Ashen RiderJan 16, 20181 votes

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happened with nocturn. gave the guy nocturn on release to make up for taking his name

Riot has changed their stance since then.

bandageJan 14, 20181 votes

[{quoted}](name=Ashen Rider,realm=NA,application-id=3ErqAdtq,discussion-id=qN9HQLfQ,comment-id=0007,timestamp=2018-01-14T08:21:51.355+0000)

Riot intentionally has those names locked. The only reason they let people have the names of new champions is because those people have the name BEFORE the champ is announced. It would really suck to have your name taken away like that.

Let me clarify possibly. Newer champions are completely permitted as Riot has decided to do away with this rule according to the Rioter that I spoke to.

The issue here is to allow older champion names to be available. I'm not asking if they're locked, I'm asking to allow them to be unlocked, as they've been more lenient about champion name-taking. item 3117

Ashen RiderJan 16, 20181 votes

[{quoted}](name=Crestfallen Hero,realm=NA,application-id=3ErqAdtq,discussion-id=qN9HQLfQ,comment-id=00070001,timestamp=2018-01-14T13:14:59.814+0000)

Let me clarify possibly. Newer champions are completely permitted as Riot has decided to do away with this rule according to the Rioter that I spoke to.

The issue here is to allow older champion names to be available. I'm not asking if they're locked, I'm asking to allow them to be unlocked, as they've been more lenient about champion name-taking.

No offense to the Rioter that you talked to, but I doubt that the opinion of somebody working in support reflects the opinion of the company as a whole. Riot just doesn't want people to have the same names as champions, but they aren't going to forcibly change someone's name because of it.