Best Drew Levin tweets roasting League of Legends cheaters in 2025
Drew Levin, leader of Product and Strategy on League of Legends, has spent the best part of the year taking on cheaters.
The Rioter became especially vocal on social media this year, calling out smurfs, cheaters and account sellers on Twitter.
This all started back in August, as Riot Games upped its efforts to crack down on behaviour which was ruining millions of games.
He has become the unexpected hero of the LoL community in 2025, so here is a look back at Levin’s best tweets from the year.
Where it all started
Drew Levin quickly got shoved into the spotlight of the LoL community after he called out an ADC player who tried to claim Ashe is weak.
The expected savageness set off an immediate snowball as players were quickly infatuated with Levin’s blunt comments and relentless replies.
The open communication meant Levin was suddenly flooded by messages and a Twitter spokesperson for Riot Games, whether that was intended or not.
A few days later, Riot Games revealed they were clamping down on smurfs and alt accounts.
This has been one of the major issues with the game for a long time, with banned players spreading toxicity through multiple accounts or highly-skilled players intentionally playing on lower-ranked accounts to try and feel good about themselves.
Levin was a major contributor to this plan and stressed:
“We see the work of improving game quality as a systemic issue that we have to solve systemically. This is another part of that.”
Riot crackdown on League of Legends smurfs
Levin made his feelings on smurfing very clear, mentioning he hates how it disrespects players’ time, especially with how long LoL games can be.
And turns out, nobody was safe. If you cheated, he would find you.
Though UK streamer Whatley found the one loophole where even Levin admitted a little bit of account sharing can be ok.
Smurfs get roasted
In one patch, Riot claimed to have punished 400k ranked players and shut down over 1.5 million sold/botted accounts.
Levin shockingly admitted that this was a venture Riot would likely lose money on, but hoped it would improve the game experience.
All the shutdown accounts and punishments led to a lot of tears and tantrums, something Levin relished.
When one tried to gain sympathy for their lost income of no longer being able to sell accounts, Levin had the perfect response.
The roast of the year
While Levin’s McDonald’s tweet was a smash hit, it wasn’t his biggest tweet of the year.
That came months after arguing with cheaters online, especially with one user who repeatedly pleaded innocence.
After growing sick of petty excuses, Levin hit them with this now infamous line.
The tweet even got an honourable mention as LoL’s “Roast of the Year,” making Levin one of the League Awards 2025 winners.
Fast forward a month, and Levin is still having issues with the same user. And despite being on vacation, Levin continues to roast them.
With big League of Legends changes planned for 2026, as well as continued smurf combating and work on ‘LoL 2’, it’s going to be a very interesting year.
Here’s hoping Levin and Riot are getting plenty of rest over the holidays, it sounds like they’ll need it.
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