Riot, Can We Actually Get A Comprehensive List Of 3rd Party Apps That Are Taboo And Why They Are?

Axel Beoulve·10/26/2015, 10:12:55 PM·4 votes·1,131 views

Every Time I See This Subject Riot Just Usually Dances Around The Questions Without Really Answering Them. It Sure Would Be Nice If We As A Community Had a Definitive List Of Black Listed 3rp Party Apps, Instead Of Just Muddying The Waters Of the Whole Ordeal And Maybe Making It More Apparent That Our Computers Are Being Monitored On A Level That Breaches Privacy On A Personal Level

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ImNLuvWitATeemo10/26/2015, 10:42:52 PM3 votes

So Many Capital Letters

Daen10/26/2015, 10:56:11 PM2 votes

Is There Any Particular Reason You Feel The Need To Speak Like This? It's More Work Than It Would Be To Just Type Correctly.


The definitive list of black listed 3rd party apps is all of them. Riot does not officially endorse any third party programs, and unfortunately that's the best answer you're likely to get. Custom skins are merely a cosmetic change that's a one-time edit in the game files, apps showing ranked stats are usually borderline (though sites like Elophant generally do their best to comply with Riot's ToU), etc.

Overall, it's safest not to use any third party products and Riot's official stance is that none of them are supported. They aren't likely to ban anyone for using custom skins or HUD overlays, but if you plan to modify your client at all you need to be prepared for its possibility.

TeemoJenkins10/26/2015, 10:18:40 PM2 votes

Definitive Answer: All 3rd party applications that interact with the League client are disallowed. Says so in the terms of use in your End User License Agreement.

Stephenizgod10/26/2015, 10:45:00 PM1 votes

Anything that interacts with the League Client is against the rules, if it effects the game in any way im pretty sure das ist taboo

Daedalus87110/27/2015, 12:08:58 AM1 votes

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Every Time I See This Subject Riot Just Usually Dances Around The Questions Without Really Answering Them. It Sure Would Be Nice If We As A Community Had a Definitive List Of Black Listed 3rp Party Apps, Instead Of Just Muddying The Waters Of the Whole Ordeal And Maybe Making It More Apparent That Our Computers Are Being Monitored On A Level That Breaches Privacy On A Personal Level

Downvoted For Inconsistency, Even Though I Agree With You.

TurquoiseYoshi10/27/2015, 12:47:13 AM1 votes

This Is Far More Painful To Do Than I Expected. I Typed One Sentence And Wanted To Quit.

Technically, all of them are banned. However, the only heavily enforced ones are the ones that affect actual game mechanics. Scripting, drop-hacking, and other game-breakers are targeted. Things like death replays or custom skins are less impactful to the actual game, but can mess up the client and make you or others crash, so they're technically unallowed, but you normally won't get banned or targeted for them.

TeemoJenkins10/26/2015, 10:32:49 PM1 votes

I've never seen a Red post stating any of those are "Okay". Riot discourages the use of 3rd party applications for several reasons.

  1. Exploits - you never know what that 3rd party application is doing, what data it's mining, or what keys it's logging.
  2. Hacks - Even if you aren't using them, if the application has the ability, it's not good for the game.
  3. Client instability - 3rd party applications that interface with the League Client can have unexpected results which can cause you to DC (Skin not loaded errors being common for those users that used the 3rd party app that let them "try out skins") among other things.