[GUEST ACCESS MODE: Data is scrambled or limited to provide examples. Make requests using your API key to unlock full data. Check https://lunarcrush.ai/auth for authentication information.] [@drewlevin](/creator/twitter/drewlevin) "tell me why faker was down NINE HUNDRED GOLD before getting out of lane in a 0-0 game where he got counterpick" [X Link](https://x.com/drewlevin/status/1979486046460256761) [@drewlevin](/creator/x/drewlevin) 2025-10-18T09:53Z 42.3K followers, 37.6K engagements "@lol_purify nah its fine I got nothing to hide" [X Link](https://x.com/drewlevin/status/1979650064156086745) [@drewlevin](/creator/x/drewlevin) 2025-10-18T20:45Z 42.3K followers, 13K engagements "@lol_purify The Incident (me making a very stupid gambling-related joke in public that resulted in me getting disqualified after Swiss when I would have been iirc 2nd place going into top8. cost me $x000 and my first pro tour appearance wouldve been Amsterdam):" [X Link](https://x.com/drewlevin/status/1979651802921685106) [@drewlevin](/creator/x/drewlevin) 2025-10-18T20:52Z 42.3K followers, 36.8K engagements "@Bxkachuwu I would happily accept reduced to nothing but a target for gooning over treated as a valid target for antisemitism which happens 100x more but I have never seen you express any concern over" [X Link](https://x.com/drewlevin/status/1980002768900518336) [@drewlevin](/creator/x/drewlevin) 2025-10-19T20:07Z 42.3K followers, 91.1K engagements "unpacking from this weekend and reflecting on how much love and passion I got from everyone. mad love to @BasiilLeaf @_owoAmber @sorrowtalks @spoluks and the lovely people who handed me LCK trading cards and a friendship bracelet and a beautiful keychain I love you and your art" [X Link](https://x.com/drewlevin/status/1972821044772905299) [@drewlevin](/creator/x/drewlevin) 2025-09-30T00:29Z 42.3K followers, 45.8K engagements "Team is aware of us-east-1 outage causing some issues in NA and LA working on mitigations" [X Link](https://x.com/drewlevin/status/1980298532742635584) [@drewlevin](/creator/x/drewlevin) 2025-10-20T15:42Z 42.3K followers, 59.2K engagements "Dev update up Super excited for the team to finally ship emote tagging this patch ❤ Many of you have seen the updates to streamer mode on PBE - we have more details on that + happy to answer questions. Finally well be linking penalties across alts starting in 15.23" [X Link](https://x.com/drewlevin/status/1975215717047046598) [@drewlevin](/creator/x/drewlevin) 2025-10-06T15:04Z 42.2K followers, 270.5K engagements "@VeladeLOL @ODP_Sparky @luminawa @RiotSupport do you actually not understand whats going on or are you just invested in yelling at me at this point" [X Link](https://x.com/drewlevin/status/1976740907346165828) [@drewlevin](/creator/x/drewlevin) 2025-10-10T20:05Z 42.2K followers, XXX engagements "@NbWho X. correct X. no handleveled non-shared non-rank-manipulated accounts are fine X. no all of what youre seeing is about (1)" [X Link](https://x.com/drewlevin/status/1976743497744236809) [@drewlevin](/creator/x/drewlevin) 2025-10-10T20:15Z 42.1K followers, 217.6K engagements "@yetanotherscrub @caro_irl I traded a bitterblossom and a tarmogoyf for the FBB trop at a PTQ its more of an unc status self report tbh" [X Link](https://x.com/drewlevin/status/1979483396931002442) [@drewlevin](/creator/x/drewlevin) 2025-10-18T09:43Z 42.2K followers, 4498 engagements "@FlashShad0w red kaisa :)" [X Link](https://x.com/drewlevin/status/1979828484974465434) [@drewlevin](/creator/x/drewlevin) 2025-10-19T08:34Z 42.1K followers, XXX engagements "why is he ignoring me specifically featuring my mentions from just the last five hours (so not the six hours immediately post dev update)" [X Link](https://x.com/drewlevin/status/1975386011963372001) [@drewlevin](/creator/x/drewlevin) 2025-10-07T02:21Z 42.3K followers, 81.1K engagements "@KurokiKaliyuga also it is remarkably antisemitic to demand that a random american person who happens to be jewish justify their support or lack thereof of a foreign government and their policies this shit simply does not happen with any other combination of religions and governments" [X Link](https://x.com/drewlevin/status/1980158409711505851) [@drewlevin](/creator/x/drewlevin) 2025-10-20T06:25Z 42.3K followers, 15.8K engagements "@SkyrstLoL Yeah this is a very solid and coherent argument. I do think living out your power fantasy has strong overlaps with winning (it exists imo as a subset of winning games) but agreed that it is narrower and so people can get triggered into giving up on it sooner in even games" [X Link](https://x.com/drewlevin/status/1980759172997345643) [@drewlevin](/creator/x/drewlevin) 2025-10-21T22:12Z 42.3K followers, 5548 engagements "A lot of people ask me what I do on League so here's a problem that I'm thinking about right now. I'm going to describe how I'm thinking about it and I'll call out assumptions and goals. I'm interested in peoples' thoughts on it. The problem is solo queue toxicity" [X Link](https://x.com/drewlevin/status/1980729805168603572) [@drewlevin](/creator/x/drewlevin) 2025-10-21T20:16Z 42.3K followers, 275.7K engagements "@LibitinaK right trying to figure that out" [X Link](https://x.com/drewlevin/status/1980741168515412234) [@drewlevin](/creator/x/drewlevin) 2025-10-21T21:01Z 42.3K followers, 7440 engagements "@Veneraea209 sure ok let's stipulate a world with voice chat do you think that actually solves people deciding to run their teammate down if they find them annoying/frustrating/get slighted" [X Link](https://x.com/drewlevin/status/1980761497174528065) [@drewlevin](/creator/x/drewlevin) 2025-10-21T22:21Z 42.3K followers, 1900 engagements "@KennyEdgar Yeah I buy these arguments. What do you think are the most important things for us to build or bring back What elements of those things matter the most to you" [X Link](https://x.com/drewlevin/status/1980837323731522016) [@drewlevin](/creator/x/drewlevin) 2025-10-22T03:23Z 42.3K followers, XXX engagements "what smurfing means to us: people who try to trick our skill evaluation and matchmaking systems to get into lobbies they don't belong in. this includes buying accounts that other people have played on. if you make an alt to offrole and play it yourself it's our job to place you" [X Link](https://x.com/drewlevin/status/1954922402414203137) [@drewlevin](/creator/x/drewlevin) 2025-08-11T15:06Z 42.2K followers, 142.5K engagements "@wackaflcka1 concept: dont type shit into text boxes in league of legends that you would not say directly to a strangers face and XXXXXX% of the time you will be completely fine DMs are text boxes" [X Link](https://x.com/drewlevin/status/1971642342383001684) [@drewlevin](/creator/x/drewlevin) 2025-09-26T18:25Z 42.2K followers, 44.1K engagements "update on this: X. MMR updates for Ranked games have processed X. Well process all LP updates on Monday X. Because of how LP updates work we will only process lost LP from that game if that was your most recent one. X. Winners get their LP no matter what" [X Link](https://x.com/drewlevin/status/1971719210612203946) [@drewlevin](/creator/x/drewlevin) 2025-09-26T23:31Z 42.3K followers, 215K engagements "gonna spend yom kippur with my family and community so will be afk for the next XX hours or so. for those observing I hope you have a meaningful fast. for many of you if you want me to see your thing reply to this thread and Ill check it out on Friday" [X Link](https://x.com/drewlevin/status/1973542409138217156) [@drewlevin](/creator/x/drewlevin) 2025-10-02T00:15Z 42.2K followers, 155.5K engagements "to answer many of the questions: X. sorry we didnt enable compensation mode our bar for that is XX% of games affected open to arguing for a lower bar X. removing autofill is very very unlikely to happen it enables role select as a queue model we are working to even it out" [X Link](https://x.com/drewlevin/status/1975387016369217710) [@drewlevin](/creator/x/drewlevin) 2025-10-07T02:25Z 42.2K followers, 30.5K engagements "thats my wiki goat" [X Link](https://x.com/drewlevin/status/1976308842205225012) [@drewlevin](/creator/x/drewlevin) 2025-10-09T15:28Z 42.2K followers, 58.2K engagements "@fohmigs X. It clears fast food burgers not fast casual burgers X. Double double animal style with chopped chilis (look up their secret menu its a bunch of condiment modifications that make their stuff good) X. Fries inedible without animal style X. Shakes good" [X Link](https://x.com/drewlevin/status/1980184965641023884) [@drewlevin](/creator/x/drewlevin) 2025-10-20T08:11Z 42.2K followers, 4511 engagements "@hakhak003 Can I get an account ID" [X Link](https://x.com/drewlevin/status/1980436412098076859) [@drewlevin](/creator/x/drewlevin) 2025-10-21T00:50Z 42.3K followers, XXX engagements "@itskenzieque it also creates weird incentives where the value-maximizing thing to do could become "lose early so you can trigger the comeback threshold and earn a super-win"" [X Link](https://x.com/drewlevin/status/1980736675065282611) [@drewlevin](/creator/x/drewlevin) 2025-10-21T20:43Z 42.3K followers, XXX engagements "@BCollamer @notunslee if we're looking to massively reduce behavior that happens very infrequently on an individual basis then we're looking at approaches that will almost inevitably have high false positive rates or be very very costly to implement" [X Link](https://x.com/drewlevin/status/1980737141077680614) [@drewlevin](/creator/x/drewlevin) 2025-10-21T20:45Z 42.3K followers, XXX engagements "I dislike how disrespectful smurfing is of the enemy teams time. if I queue in ranked I expect im XX% to win at baseline. if someone in my lobby is secretly chall I definitely dont have XX% to win. If I knew that beforehand I would not have queued for the game. fair or no" [X Link](https://x.com/drewlevin/status/1952883367852294503) [@drewlevin](/creator/x/drewlevin) 2025-08-06T00:04Z 42.3K followers, 943.2K engagements "making a thread of useful resources for people tweeting at me since I run into many of the same conversations over and over and wont have time to reply to every single person at the rate that folks are sending stuff to me (sorry I also have a job I have to do)" [X Link](https://x.com/drewlevin/status/1954694784779763905) [@drewlevin](/creator/x/drewlevin) 2025-08-11T00:02Z 42.3K followers, 1.2M engagements "Im also not on the skins team which means I cant tell you when your champ is getting a new skin. Also even if I did it wouldnt be my place to tell you that our marketing folks have their jobs because they are way better than me at doing that" [X Link](https://x.com/drewlevin/status/1954695314776166713) [@drewlevin](/creator/x/drewlevin) 2025-08-11T00:04Z 42.3K followers, 55.1K engagements "boosting penalties are beginning to roll out today pls note: if you boost someone elses account your account will also be punished up to and including permabans. penalty ladder in the quoted tweet:" [X Link](https://x.com/drewlevin/status/1965878822970208356) [@drewlevin](/creator/x/drewlevin) 2025-09-10T20:43Z 42.3K followers, 795.2K engagements "ok yeah mitigated was an issue for about XX minutes ty for the screenshots" [X Link](https://x.com/drewlevin/status/1971398789937365481) [@drewlevin](/creator/x/drewlevin) 2025-09-26T02:17Z 42.3K followers, 133.9K engagements "yeah league is getting ddosed in NA BR LATAM right now team is on it" [X Link](https://x.com/drewlevin/status/1975069774930681887) [@drewlevin](/creator/x/drewlevin) 2025-10-06T05:25Z 42.3K followers, 306.1K engagements "@xFSN_Saber "I got autofilled" is not a reason we want to support people dodging - at some point games have to get made and "make someone else play autofill" is not a systemically good thing to enable or support" [X Link](https://x.com/drewlevin/status/1975267040564027739) [@drewlevin](/creator/x/drewlevin) 2025-10-06T18:28Z 42.3K followers, 299.3K engagements "NA getting ddosed (again) teams on it (again)" [X Link](https://x.com/drewlevin/status/1975316786766881193) [@drewlevin](/creator/x/drewlevin) 2025-10-06T21:46Z 42.3K followers, 411K engagements "Ranked back up team will keep a close eye on servers for the next while. Appreciate the patience as we worked through this pls contact player support to get related queue lockouts removed" [X Link](https://x.com/drewlevin/status/1975613256409723367) [@drewlevin](/creator/x/drewlevin) 2025-10-07T17:24Z 42.3K followers, 127.5K engagements "aight leave a message here gonna go back through some threads and bookmarks tomorrow and forward a bunch of stuff to folks. wow what a week (captain its Wednesday etc etc)" [X Link](https://x.com/drewlevin/status/1976181673999192420) [@drewlevin](/creator/x/drewlevin) 2025-10-09T07:03Z 42.3K followers, 48.6K engagements "@VeladeLOL @luminawa @RiotSupport ah I see what the problem is. youre a flex booster. no reversion cut that shit out" [X Link](https://x.com/drewlevin/status/1976516237623783654) [@drewlevin](/creator/x/drewlevin) 2025-10-10T05:12Z 42.3K followers, 1.2M engagements "Reupping this article today as people seem to have a lot of questions lately about what boosting is and isnt:" [X Link](https://x.com/drewlevin/status/1976736967997243812) [@drewlevin](/creator/x/drewlevin) 2025-10-10T19:49Z 42.3K followers, 96.4K engagements "busy week at work gonna spend the weekend kicking it with friends leave all of your questions about what boosting is under this post for when Im back working Monday" [X Link](https://x.com/drewlevin/status/1976903564057559493) [@drewlevin](/creator/x/drewlevin) 2025-10-11T06:51Z 42.3K followers, 64.1K engagements "@Aint28 @i0ki_LoL broader question perhaps: do you think we should enforce some kind of champion mastery minimum for ranked If so what should it be" [X Link](https://x.com/drewlevin/status/1977774445675851976) [@drewlevin](/creator/x/drewlevin) 2025-10-13T16:32Z 42.3K followers, 39.8K engagements "ok finally worked my way through my DMs + multiple threads of replies so I shouuuuuuld be current on passing along all of y'all's concerns/issues/"drewlevin k*ll this guy" replies if you've sent me something that I've neither fav'd nor bookmarked pls relink it ty all 3" [X Link](https://x.com/drewlevin/status/1978928360920142071) [@drewlevin](/creator/x/drewlevin) 2025-10-16T20:57Z 42.3K followers, 72.5K engagements "spending a long weekend out of town with friends leave a message at the beep and Ill check back in on Monday beeeeep" [X Link](https://x.com/drewlevin/status/1979006071243952625) [@drewlevin](/creator/x/drewlevin) 2025-10-17T02:06Z 42.3K followers, 35.5K engagements "@caro_irl hey" [X Link](https://x.com/drewlevin/status/1979441905030304222) [@drewlevin](/creator/x/drewlevin) 2025-10-18T06:58Z 42.3K followers, 152.7K engagements "good lord that was certainly a game I stayed up for ://////" [X Link](https://x.com/drewlevin/status/1979484990196076781) [@drewlevin](/creator/x/drewlevin) 2025-10-18T09:49Z 42.3K followers, 39.9K engagements "also again. I get Im not good at the game but this alistar champion doesnt seem very good against this poppy w ability. probably missing something big but Keria was getting stuffed all game. utterly tragic" [X Link](https://x.com/drewlevin/status/1979486693695930518) [@drewlevin](/creator/x/drewlevin) 2025-10-18T09:56Z 42.3K followers, 18.7K engagements "I guess this is how many of you find out I used to be Actually Good at Magic (ratings invite to nationals played in a PT)" [X Link](https://x.com/drewlevin/status/1979584974518202390) [@drewlevin](/creator/x/drewlevin) 2025-10-18T16:26Z 42.3K followers, 129.2K engagements "@Bxkachuwu found one" [X Link](https://x.com/drewlevin/status/1980006007373000742) [@drewlevin](/creator/x/drewlevin) 2025-10-19T20:19Z 42.3K followers, 23K engagements "@SecularLad @KrazyBoup If someone hypothetically were to systematically go on websites that advertise below-cost gifting to accounts and repeatedly do that to acquire content below cost do you think at some level of doing that we should ban them for fraud" [X Link](https://x.com/drewlevin/status/1980368532400664727) [@drewlevin](/creator/x/drewlevin) 2025-10-20T20:20Z 42.3K followers, 8170 engagements "@Elm_Road not my org so dont have a great answer here. my job is to own the product quality and product outcomes of the live league of legends experience so I do the things that I think are best aligned to doing that" [X Link](https://x.com/drewlevin/status/1980397926565441675) [@drewlevin](/creator/x/drewlevin) 2025-10-20T22:17Z 42.3K followers, 1067 engagements "And so I'm curious about two things: X. Whether the assumptions laid out above scan as true and X. What a sufficiently appealing likely positive secondary goal in the context of losing soloq games would be that could plausibly deter/redirect griefing intent" [X Link](https://x.com/drewlevin/status/1980732395231088910) [@drewlevin](/creator/x/drewlevin) 2025-10-21T20:26Z 42.3K followers, 33.3K engagements "Obviously we'll continue to work on detections and deterrence but my larger point here is that I think there is an underlying motivational problem that needs addressing beyond just "punish people faster and harder" because that won't actually get everyone/all of it" [X Link](https://x.com/drewlevin/status/1980732689155326460) [@drewlevin](/creator/x/drewlevin) 2025-10-21T20:27Z 42.3K followers, 25.4K engagements "@NoatakLoL it is very hard to believe that "i don't want to risk my X% progression toward this cosmetic object" is enough to get someone to not lash out at a teammate would you actually change your behavior while at your worst in the presence of such a system" [X Link](https://x.com/drewlevin/status/1980741490067534107) [@drewlevin](/creator/x/drewlevin) 2025-10-21T21:02Z 42.3K followers, 4257 engagements "@Veneraea209 ok great thanks for the feedback - what teamwork tools would you suggest beyond voice chat" [X Link](https://x.com/drewlevin/status/1980754157343789082) [@drewlevin](/creator/x/drewlevin) 2025-10-21T21:52Z 42.3K followers, 13.9K engagements "@chovygoat do you want absolute best or best value for money or best in a certain price bracket different answers" [X Link](https://x.com/drewlevin/status/1980802614397923705) [@drewlevin](/creator/x/drewlevin) 2025-10-22T01:05Z 42.3K followers, XXX engagements "@Rev_7278 So we debate this a lot. The big argument against is the fear of overly shifting incentives from do what it takes to win to play for personal statline first and win second which would be quite bad as an outcome" [X Link](https://x.com/drewlevin/status/1980836137058152942) [@drewlevin](/creator/x/drewlevin) 2025-10-22T03:18Z 42.3K followers, 9978 engagements "@axcelllllll @Rev_7278 At a sufficient layer of abstraction this is what we already have: we look at whether you win or not. If you do things that contribute to winning more you will win more. If you dont you wont" [X Link](https://x.com/drewlevin/status/1980838455853887632) [@drewlevin](/creator/x/drewlevin) 2025-10-22T03:27Z 42.3K followers, 1541 engagements "@grand_prix_geek @Rev_7278 do you think honor should focus more on whether you are a skilled player or a person who exhibits prosocial tendencies/good sportsmanship" [X Link](https://x.com/drewlevin/status/1980840863686357118) [@drewlevin](/creator/x/drewlevin) 2025-10-22T03:37Z 42.3K followers, 1159 engagements "@grand_prix_geek @Rev_7278 Your assertion is incorrect. Being in a premade with someone and them carrying the game taken together predict the majority of where someones commendation(s) will go" [X Link](https://x.com/drewlevin/status/1980844441914208645) [@drewlevin](/creator/x/drewlevin) 2025-10-22T03:51Z 42.3K followers, XXX engagements "@EzequiasVSky go on - why do you want that" [X Link](https://x.com/drewlevin/status/1980844537439518756) [@drewlevin](/creator/x/drewlevin) 2025-10-22T03:51Z 42.3K followers, XXX engagements "@felixirofspeed ooh - favorite thing you ate in San Diego" [X Link](https://x.com/drewlevin/status/1980923191582405104) [@drewlevin](/creator/x/drewlevin) 2025-10-22T09:04Z 42.3K followers, 1944 engagements "ok we are up and it is the match we all came here for FLY 2-0 let me sleep thanks" [X Link](https://x.com/drewlevin/status/1980940063233187930) [@drewlevin](/creator/x/drewlevin) 2025-10-22T10:11Z 42.3K followers, 31K engagements "@XyrianForsaken I am an American esports fan G2 vs LCS X seed at worlds is my Super Bowl ok" [X Link](https://x.com/drewlevin/status/1980940983425794288) [@drewlevin](/creator/x/drewlevin) 2025-10-22T10:15Z 42.3K followers, 1550 engagements "@Gray_Ghost6 truly no idea live events not my bag" [X Link](https://x.com/drewlevin/status/1980941434342776910) [@drewlevin](/creator/x/drewlevin) 2025-10-22T10:16Z 42.3K followers, XXX engagements "chat where the fuck is our antiheal against spirit visage lv16 mundo" [X Link](https://x.com/drewlevin/status/1980978829385736703) [@drewlevin](/creator/x/drewlevin) 2025-10-22T12:45Z 42.3K followers, 112.1K engagements
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@drewlevin
"tell me why faker was down NINE HUNDRED GOLD before getting out of lane in a 0-0 game where he got counterpick"
X Link @drewlevin 2025-10-18T09:53Z 42.3K followers, 37.6K engagements
"@lol_purify nah its fine I got nothing to hide"
X Link @drewlevin 2025-10-18T20:45Z 42.3K followers, 13K engagements
"@lol_purify The Incident (me making a very stupid gambling-related joke in public that resulted in me getting disqualified after Swiss when I would have been iirc 2nd place going into top8. cost me $x000 and my first pro tour appearance wouldve been Amsterdam):"
X Link @drewlevin 2025-10-18T20:52Z 42.3K followers, 36.8K engagements
"@Bxkachuwu I would happily accept reduced to nothing but a target for gooning over treated as a valid target for antisemitism which happens 100x more but I have never seen you express any concern over"
X Link @drewlevin 2025-10-19T20:07Z 42.3K followers, 91.1K engagements
"unpacking from this weekend and reflecting on how much love and passion I got from everyone. mad love to @BasiilLeaf @_owoAmber @sorrowtalks @spoluks and the lovely people who handed me LCK trading cards and a friendship bracelet and a beautiful keychain I love you and your art"
X Link @drewlevin 2025-09-30T00:29Z 42.3K followers, 45.8K engagements
"Team is aware of us-east-1 outage causing some issues in NA and LA working on mitigations"
X Link @drewlevin 2025-10-20T15:42Z 42.3K followers, 59.2K engagements
"Dev update up Super excited for the team to finally ship emote tagging this patch ❤ Many of you have seen the updates to streamer mode on PBE - we have more details on that + happy to answer questions. Finally well be linking penalties across alts starting in 15.23"
X Link @drewlevin 2025-10-06T15:04Z 42.2K followers, 270.5K engagements
"@VeladeLOL @ODP_Sparky @luminawa @RiotSupport do you actually not understand whats going on or are you just invested in yelling at me at this point"
X Link @drewlevin 2025-10-10T20:05Z 42.2K followers, XXX engagements
"@NbWho X. correct X. no handleveled non-shared non-rank-manipulated accounts are fine X. no all of what youre seeing is about (1)"
X Link @drewlevin 2025-10-10T20:15Z 42.1K followers, 217.6K engagements
"@yetanotherscrub @caro_irl I traded a bitterblossom and a tarmogoyf for the FBB trop at a PTQ its more of an unc status self report tbh"
X Link @drewlevin 2025-10-18T09:43Z 42.2K followers, 4498 engagements
"@FlashShad0w red kaisa :)"
X Link @drewlevin 2025-10-19T08:34Z 42.1K followers, XXX engagements
"why is he ignoring me specifically featuring my mentions from just the last five hours (so not the six hours immediately post dev update)"
X Link @drewlevin 2025-10-07T02:21Z 42.3K followers, 81.1K engagements
"@KurokiKaliyuga also it is remarkably antisemitic to demand that a random american person who happens to be jewish justify their support or lack thereof of a foreign government and their policies this shit simply does not happen with any other combination of religions and governments"
X Link @drewlevin 2025-10-20T06:25Z 42.3K followers, 15.8K engagements
"@SkyrstLoL Yeah this is a very solid and coherent argument. I do think living out your power fantasy has strong overlaps with winning (it exists imo as a subset of winning games) but agreed that it is narrower and so people can get triggered into giving up on it sooner in even games"
X Link @drewlevin 2025-10-21T22:12Z 42.3K followers, 5548 engagements
"A lot of people ask me what I do on League so here's a problem that I'm thinking about right now. I'm going to describe how I'm thinking about it and I'll call out assumptions and goals. I'm interested in peoples' thoughts on it. The problem is solo queue toxicity"
X Link @drewlevin 2025-10-21T20:16Z 42.3K followers, 275.7K engagements
"@LibitinaK right trying to figure that out"
X Link @drewlevin 2025-10-21T21:01Z 42.3K followers, 7440 engagements
"@Veneraea209 sure ok let's stipulate a world with voice chat do you think that actually solves people deciding to run their teammate down if they find them annoying/frustrating/get slighted"
X Link @drewlevin 2025-10-21T22:21Z 42.3K followers, 1900 engagements
"@KennyEdgar Yeah I buy these arguments. What do you think are the most important things for us to build or bring back What elements of those things matter the most to you"
X Link @drewlevin 2025-10-22T03:23Z 42.3K followers, XXX engagements
"what smurfing means to us: people who try to trick our skill evaluation and matchmaking systems to get into lobbies they don't belong in. this includes buying accounts that other people have played on. if you make an alt to offrole and play it yourself it's our job to place you"
X Link @drewlevin 2025-08-11T15:06Z 42.2K followers, 142.5K engagements
"@wackaflcka1 concept: dont type shit into text boxes in league of legends that you would not say directly to a strangers face and XXXXXX% of the time you will be completely fine DMs are text boxes"
X Link @drewlevin 2025-09-26T18:25Z 42.2K followers, 44.1K engagements
"update on this: X. MMR updates for Ranked games have processed X. Well process all LP updates on Monday X. Because of how LP updates work we will only process lost LP from that game if that was your most recent one. X. Winners get their LP no matter what"
X Link @drewlevin 2025-09-26T23:31Z 42.3K followers, 215K engagements
"gonna spend yom kippur with my family and community so will be afk for the next XX hours or so. for those observing I hope you have a meaningful fast. for many of you if you want me to see your thing reply to this thread and Ill check it out on Friday"
X Link @drewlevin 2025-10-02T00:15Z 42.2K followers, 155.5K engagements
"to answer many of the questions: X. sorry we didnt enable compensation mode our bar for that is XX% of games affected open to arguing for a lower bar X. removing autofill is very very unlikely to happen it enables role select as a queue model we are working to even it out"
X Link @drewlevin 2025-10-07T02:25Z 42.2K followers, 30.5K engagements
"thats my wiki goat"
X Link @drewlevin 2025-10-09T15:28Z 42.2K followers, 58.2K engagements
"@fohmigs X. It clears fast food burgers not fast casual burgers X. Double double animal style with chopped chilis (look up their secret menu its a bunch of condiment modifications that make their stuff good) X. Fries inedible without animal style X. Shakes good"
X Link @drewlevin 2025-10-20T08:11Z 42.2K followers, 4511 engagements
"@hakhak003 Can I get an account ID"
X Link @drewlevin 2025-10-21T00:50Z 42.3K followers, XXX engagements
"@itskenzieque it also creates weird incentives where the value-maximizing thing to do could become "lose early so you can trigger the comeback threshold and earn a super-win""
X Link @drewlevin 2025-10-21T20:43Z 42.3K followers, XXX engagements
"@BCollamer @notunslee if we're looking to massively reduce behavior that happens very infrequently on an individual basis then we're looking at approaches that will almost inevitably have high false positive rates or be very very costly to implement"
X Link @drewlevin 2025-10-21T20:45Z 42.3K followers, XXX engagements
"I dislike how disrespectful smurfing is of the enemy teams time. if I queue in ranked I expect im XX% to win at baseline. if someone in my lobby is secretly chall I definitely dont have XX% to win. If I knew that beforehand I would not have queued for the game. fair or no"
X Link @drewlevin 2025-08-06T00:04Z 42.3K followers, 943.2K engagements
"making a thread of useful resources for people tweeting at me since I run into many of the same conversations over and over and wont have time to reply to every single person at the rate that folks are sending stuff to me (sorry I also have a job I have to do)"
X Link @drewlevin 2025-08-11T00:02Z 42.3K followers, 1.2M engagements
"Im also not on the skins team which means I cant tell you when your champ is getting a new skin. Also even if I did it wouldnt be my place to tell you that our marketing folks have their jobs because they are way better than me at doing that"
X Link @drewlevin 2025-08-11T00:04Z 42.3K followers, 55.1K engagements
"boosting penalties are beginning to roll out today pls note: if you boost someone elses account your account will also be punished up to and including permabans. penalty ladder in the quoted tweet:"
X Link @drewlevin 2025-09-10T20:43Z 42.3K followers, 795.2K engagements
"ok yeah mitigated was an issue for about XX minutes ty for the screenshots"
X Link @drewlevin 2025-09-26T02:17Z 42.3K followers, 133.9K engagements
"yeah league is getting ddosed in NA BR LATAM right now team is on it"
X Link @drewlevin 2025-10-06T05:25Z 42.3K followers, 306.1K engagements
"@xFSN_Saber "I got autofilled" is not a reason we want to support people dodging - at some point games have to get made and "make someone else play autofill" is not a systemically good thing to enable or support"
X Link @drewlevin 2025-10-06T18:28Z 42.3K followers, 299.3K engagements
"NA getting ddosed (again) teams on it (again)"
X Link @drewlevin 2025-10-06T21:46Z 42.3K followers, 411K engagements
"Ranked back up team will keep a close eye on servers for the next while. Appreciate the patience as we worked through this pls contact player support to get related queue lockouts removed"
X Link @drewlevin 2025-10-07T17:24Z 42.3K followers, 127.5K engagements
"aight leave a message here gonna go back through some threads and bookmarks tomorrow and forward a bunch of stuff to folks. wow what a week (captain its Wednesday etc etc)"
X Link @drewlevin 2025-10-09T07:03Z 42.3K followers, 48.6K engagements
"@VeladeLOL @luminawa @RiotSupport ah I see what the problem is. youre a flex booster. no reversion cut that shit out"
X Link @drewlevin 2025-10-10T05:12Z 42.3K followers, 1.2M engagements
"Reupping this article today as people seem to have a lot of questions lately about what boosting is and isnt:"
X Link @drewlevin 2025-10-10T19:49Z 42.3K followers, 96.4K engagements
"busy week at work gonna spend the weekend kicking it with friends leave all of your questions about what boosting is under this post for when Im back working Monday"
X Link @drewlevin 2025-10-11T06:51Z 42.3K followers, 64.1K engagements
"@Aint28 @i0ki_LoL broader question perhaps: do you think we should enforce some kind of champion mastery minimum for ranked If so what should it be"
X Link @drewlevin 2025-10-13T16:32Z 42.3K followers, 39.8K engagements
"ok finally worked my way through my DMs + multiple threads of replies so I shouuuuuuld be current on passing along all of y'all's concerns/issues/"drewlevin k*ll this guy" replies if you've sent me something that I've neither fav'd nor bookmarked pls relink it ty all 3"
X Link @drewlevin 2025-10-16T20:57Z 42.3K followers, 72.5K engagements
"spending a long weekend out of town with friends leave a message at the beep and Ill check back in on Monday beeeeep"
X Link @drewlevin 2025-10-17T02:06Z 42.3K followers, 35.5K engagements
"@caro_irl hey"
X Link @drewlevin 2025-10-18T06:58Z 42.3K followers, 152.7K engagements
"good lord that was certainly a game I stayed up for ://////"
X Link @drewlevin 2025-10-18T09:49Z 42.3K followers, 39.9K engagements
"also again. I get Im not good at the game but this alistar champion doesnt seem very good against this poppy w ability. probably missing something big but Keria was getting stuffed all game. utterly tragic"
X Link @drewlevin 2025-10-18T09:56Z 42.3K followers, 18.7K engagements
"I guess this is how many of you find out I used to be Actually Good at Magic (ratings invite to nationals played in a PT)"
X Link @drewlevin 2025-10-18T16:26Z 42.3K followers, 129.2K engagements
"@Bxkachuwu found one"
X Link @drewlevin 2025-10-19T20:19Z 42.3K followers, 23K engagements
"@SecularLad @KrazyBoup If someone hypothetically were to systematically go on websites that advertise below-cost gifting to accounts and repeatedly do that to acquire content below cost do you think at some level of doing that we should ban them for fraud"
X Link @drewlevin 2025-10-20T20:20Z 42.3K followers, 8170 engagements
"@Elm_Road not my org so dont have a great answer here. my job is to own the product quality and product outcomes of the live league of legends experience so I do the things that I think are best aligned to doing that"
X Link @drewlevin 2025-10-20T22:17Z 42.3K followers, 1067 engagements
"And so I'm curious about two things: X. Whether the assumptions laid out above scan as true and X. What a sufficiently appealing likely positive secondary goal in the context of losing soloq games would be that could plausibly deter/redirect griefing intent"
X Link @drewlevin 2025-10-21T20:26Z 42.3K followers, 33.3K engagements
"Obviously we'll continue to work on detections and deterrence but my larger point here is that I think there is an underlying motivational problem that needs addressing beyond just "punish people faster and harder" because that won't actually get everyone/all of it"
X Link @drewlevin 2025-10-21T20:27Z 42.3K followers, 25.4K engagements
"@NoatakLoL it is very hard to believe that "i don't want to risk my X% progression toward this cosmetic object" is enough to get someone to not lash out at a teammate would you actually change your behavior while at your worst in the presence of such a system"
X Link @drewlevin 2025-10-21T21:02Z 42.3K followers, 4257 engagements
"@Veneraea209 ok great thanks for the feedback - what teamwork tools would you suggest beyond voice chat"
X Link @drewlevin 2025-10-21T21:52Z 42.3K followers, 13.9K engagements
"@chovygoat do you want absolute best or best value for money or best in a certain price bracket different answers"
X Link @drewlevin 2025-10-22T01:05Z 42.3K followers, XXX engagements
"@Rev_7278 So we debate this a lot. The big argument against is the fear of overly shifting incentives from do what it takes to win to play for personal statline first and win second which would be quite bad as an outcome"
X Link @drewlevin 2025-10-22T03:18Z 42.3K followers, 9978 engagements
"@axcelllllll @Rev_7278 At a sufficient layer of abstraction this is what we already have: we look at whether you win or not. If you do things that contribute to winning more you will win more. If you dont you wont"
X Link @drewlevin 2025-10-22T03:27Z 42.3K followers, 1541 engagements
"@grand_prix_geek @Rev_7278 do you think honor should focus more on whether you are a skilled player or a person who exhibits prosocial tendencies/good sportsmanship"
X Link @drewlevin 2025-10-22T03:37Z 42.3K followers, 1159 engagements
"@grand_prix_geek @Rev_7278 Your assertion is incorrect. Being in a premade with someone and them carrying the game taken together predict the majority of where someones commendation(s) will go"
X Link @drewlevin 2025-10-22T03:51Z 42.3K followers, XXX engagements
"@EzequiasVSky go on - why do you want that"
X Link @drewlevin 2025-10-22T03:51Z 42.3K followers, XXX engagements
"@felixirofspeed ooh - favorite thing you ate in San Diego"
X Link @drewlevin 2025-10-22T09:04Z 42.3K followers, 1944 engagements
"ok we are up and it is the match we all came here for FLY 2-0 let me sleep thanks"
X Link @drewlevin 2025-10-22T10:11Z 42.3K followers, 31K engagements
"@XyrianForsaken I am an American esports fan G2 vs LCS X seed at worlds is my Super Bowl ok"
X Link @drewlevin 2025-10-22T10:15Z 42.3K followers, 1550 engagements
"@Gray_Ghost6 truly no idea live events not my bag"
X Link @drewlevin 2025-10-22T10:16Z 42.3K followers, XXX engagements
"chat where the fuck is our antiheal against spirit visage lv16 mundo"
X Link @drewlevin 2025-10-22T12:45Z 42.3K followers, 112.1K engagements
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