I was playing a match earlier today and a player would announce "Enemy blue buff will spawn in 1'22"" And stuff like that for every buff/dragon and baron. He would announce the timers for everything at the exact same time down to the last second with a program he has installed.
Is this legal? Legal might not be the right word but I can't imagine Riot is okay with this.
I'm going to assume a few things then answer your question.
I assume he was accurate.
I assume that this included things that your team did not have vision on.
I assume that he was in fact using a program as opposed to some alternate explanation. (In chat with someone on the other team, legitimately keeping timers for things that your team had vision on)
If however, he had a third party program installed that was giving him the timer for enemy buffs/camps and global objectives without requiring him or the rest of your team to have vision to receive the timer for that object, then I would personally qualify this as cheating. I'm vehemently opposed to third party programs that allow advantages to players in game through install/injection/overlay within the game of League. These confer unfair and unsporting advantages and should be considered cheating and against both the Terms of Service and the Summoner's Code.
It may not be a program he installed, or a bot or anything like that. I know there are apps you can get for your smart phone that tells you exactly when the buffs will spawn as long as you mark it as dead right when it dies. It's to help with map dominance.
I don't think its illegal or else Riot would have said something about it a long time ago, it was at least one year ago that I heard of this app, and I'm sure it's been around much longer than just one year.
A common practice is for junglers to say the times of the buffs they know have recently died to help with jungling/counter-jungling. This helps mainly with getting buffs to clear faster and gank better. If there is a program that tells people things that they shouldn't know that gives them that big of an advantage, then it is definitely cheating.
the Anarchit3cht4/19/2014, 7:45:56 PMIf the timers go off automatically, it's illegal. If he had ten egg timers next to his computer and manually twists them every time a neutral monster goes down, then it's fine. That being said, unless you had vision on the enemy buffs/dragon/baron etc when they went down, there would be no way to be 100% accurate. Normally, however, one can assume(for the first round of buffs) that the enemy jungler is taking the buffs at or around the same time as your jungler.
