Starting yesterday, the name Poppy has become a nightmare for many ranked players due to her global skill bug. With this bug, Poppy can rack up 200 to 300 kills in a match, and even achieving 500 kills in 15 minutes is not a big deal.
While it’s outrageous that Riot Games has left this Poppy bug unattended, what’s even more frustrating is the fact that they are banning the accounts of victims who were killed hundreds of times by Poppy.
To elaborate on this issue, players on the opposing team faced with Poppy were killed so many times in a match that the system mistakenly interpreted it as intentional feeding. At the end of the match, they were reported by Poppy for intentional feeding, leading to an automatic 14-day account ban by Riot Games.
Many of Poppy’s victims have unjustly received 14-day account bans, which will be a significant drawback in their eyes if “the music company” Riot Games does not find a way to resolve and compensate those players whose accounts have been banned. Additionally, Riot Games has received ample criticism for increasingly neglecting League of Legends, focusing only on new game releases like Valorant or League of Legends: Wild Rift.
Furthermore, the majority of the League of Legends community advises each other not to exploit this Poppy bug, partly to protect a “healthy” League of Legends environment, and partly because they could end up with a one-month or longer account ban when Riot Games conducts a detailed investigation. Earlier this year, during the “great purge” by Riot China, Ornn also had a global skill bug, and those who exploited Ornn’s bug faced account bans of at least one month, with the worst penalty being that in the Chinese server, up to 3,300 accounts were banned for three years.