I just got DDOS'd in game and riot wont do anything.

Variks·Nov 8, 2018·2 votes·3,899 views

I was in a premade with three other people and we were all in discord, my friend thefoxyginger got disconnected first, and rapidly reconnected and disconnected. We yelled at him to make it stop and he was like it just says attempting to reconnect. Next was kfoxtrot16, he was like i just got dc'd, and then it started disconnecting and reconnecting him rapidly. Next was me, and by this time I was like we're being dos'd. I've had it happen many times before between my 200 days of play time is Destiny and COD. The remaining friend, strahtz, was like we're ff'ing. So they completely got away with being able to deny us a game. We're all struggling to even connect to league right now. One of us got in and they said they couldn't connect to queue. I can't even report anyone because I didn't get to see the end of the game. Cool Riot. Really fucking cool.

9 Comments

VoldymortNov 8, 20186 votes

you can't get ddos'd in league because of how the connection to riot servers works

it was likely just the server acting up again...

ı Sona ıNov 8, 20181 votes

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you can't get ddos'd in league because of how the connection to riot servers works

it was likely just the server acting up again...

What, this doesn't seem accurate at all. Remembering when players were constantly DDOSING the matches themselves so that even if they lost it it would become a Loss Prevented? Which in turn is why we can't rightfully have Loss Prevented anymore and when there is a legitimate server issue NODOBY who lost a game got a Loss Prevent? Which is funny, seeing how afterwards I played a game of normal and loss, AND THERE I got a Loss Prevented even though there was no game issues there! XD

This isn't really a player behavior thing, more of gameplay thing.

rujitraNov 8, 20181 votes

That's DDoSing the machines, and Riot theoretically has protections against that as do most major companies.

RallerenPNov 8, 20182 votes

Don't know why you got downvoted, because that's 100% correct (with one very specific exception).

When you want to DDOS someone, you bombard them with traffic so that your router can't keep up.

To do that, you need to know where to send all the traffic.

When playing League, you are only connected to Leagues server, so there isn't a possible way to figure out the adress of everyone else in the game.

However, I HAVE seen a post of someone who clicked a link, then got DDOSed. This makes sense, if you click a link, you connect to a server, and the server can then see your IP adress (assuming you don't use a VPN). If the player who sent the link happens to have access to the server, then they can see your IP aswell. They can then DDOS you.

But through League directly? No way.

VoldymortNov 8, 20181 votes