RIOT, please answer: Will we get permabanned for scripting if we run LoL through Wine?

CiriousJoker·6/11/2018, 10:40:10 PM·5 votes·10,174 views

I want to permanently switch to Linux, but i've read that some people complained about getting permabanned for no reason just because they used LoL through Wine.

It would be really important to have an official answer for this question.

From what I've read, the support didn't really want to comment or unban all these people because "they generally dont unban scripters" (which is totally fine, as long as the person is actually scripting)

30 Comments

RiotBazerka6/11/2018, 10:46:46 PM11 votes

Great question, have you submitted a player support ticket? Thats the best way to get the right people to answer your question :). I legit don't know the answer (sry), but would def encourage you to submit a PS tool. Gl! I actually didn't move to Linux for that reason lol

NA Omega6/11/2018, 10:44:18 PM3 votes

The safest thing you can do.. it to NOT run lol through Wine. No matter what anyone tells you.. IF they detect "scripting" they will never unban the account and they WILL NEVER work with you to see if it was actually scripting or the use of wine. So again.. the only way to 100% not get banned.. is to not run lol through wine

Itirpon6/12/2018, 1:29:02 AM2 votes

I've heard that there's a new anti-cheat mechanism in the game; perhaps it's being tripped on some Linux configurations. It could be related to which DLLs are actually genuine DLLs (like DX9 installer-sourced) versus WINE-supplied "built-in" versions, which could explain why only some WINE players are being banned, if it's for unexpected responses to whatever test the anti-cheat system is performing.

Anyway, I think the best thing to do about it now is to go on-record before anything happens to one's account. I've been Linux-only for years and currently I'm using Lutris' DX9-based install; it was almost completely hands-off (only some dialogue box clickthrough during installation) and it kinda-works. (The game is fine once going, but it's a bear to get it to launch, and in-game voice has issues.)

I just ordered a new gaming rig basically just for League, so I really hope that I don't have to someday appeal to support over a false positive like some are apparently suffering.

Packun Flower6/12/2018, 10:10:22 AM2 votes

I can't speak for Riot as i'm not a Rioter, however.

Upon reading that there were a lot of people getting banned for seemingly running LoL through Wine a tech-savvy friend and myself put this myth to the test.

together we made a dummy account and used his homebuilt PC to run LoL through Wine.

The results?

We didn't even get through the tutorial before leagues anti-cheat system kicked in and banned the account.

So yes, it seems using Wine will get you auto banned and very quickly, whats worse is that Riot seems to support these bans. So alot of innocent people have lost their accounts and it looks like they won't be getting them back.

My sympathies to them.

Jestem Krzysiu6/14/2018, 2:57:32 PM2 votes

I have actually been permbanned last week exactly for this. Fortunately, I was not the only one during this time that ended up in such situation, so Riot had a reason to double check this. I sent three support tickets and got unbanned after ~5 days.

Generally speaking, I am playing LoL on Linux since around 2 years. I was using a lot of different setups on two different machines. This was the first time something like this happened to me.

Anyway, the new changes to anti-cheat are going to see the daylight soon and it seems that it might make playing through wine much harder, if not impossible (see this for reference).

However it's just my subjective point of view, if you want, you can ask the same question on r/leagueoflinux. There you can find more people like me and hear their story about playing LoL on Linux.

Trolling Legend6/22/2018, 9:43:27 PM1 votes

have you gotten it to run on wine ???? because i cant get it to load into game