Porofessor’s New Feature Ultimate Timer Tracker Is Actually Fine | LoLNOW.gg

Edit: We’ve been misinformed about the activation requirements for Porofessor to track ultimates and how it works, we’ll start by a quote from Alex Ennerfelt, the product owner of M.O.B.A network:

Our ultimate and spell timer countdowns aren’t triggered by in-game pings; users must manually start them by clicking the ability in the overlay. Additionally, our timers don’t account for Ability Haste or other cooldown reductions.

One of the most widely used third-party apps for League of legends, Porofessor, is facing backlash, wrongly, for its new ultimate cooldown tracking feature. While Porofessor has long been a Riot-approved overlay tool for tracking summoner spells, jungle timers, and other in-game stats, its latest addition is dividing the community, due to misinformation.

This new feature allows players to track the cooldown of enemy ultimate abilities after they have been pinged manually clicked by the user in the Porofessor overlay, without factoring in Ability Haste. The League community is debating whether this crosses the line into cheating, especially considering that Riot Games has historically been strict about third-party tools. Edit: Reddit is misinformed in this case, as other League of Legends overlays are doing this as well, such as Blitz. Source: Blitz.gg showing that it has ultimate tracking option in their overlay.

➡️ Read the full Reddit discussion on the controversy here.

Note: The original post has been removed as it had quite a lot of misinformation, but we decided to leave the link to the post up as you, the reader, might still be interested in checking it out.

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Porofessor’s Ultimate Timer – An Unfair Advantage?

Porofessor’s new ultimate cooldown tracker works by logging an ultimate’s cooldown once it has been manually clicked by the player in the porofessor overlay, and then estimating when it will become available again. The tool does not factor in Ability Haste or any item-based cooldown refunds, such as Axiom Arc.

🚨 Why Players Are Concerned:

• Provides a major advantage – Players with the porofessor overlay can track ultimates, which would normally require memory and game knowledge.
• Similar to jungle timers controversy – When Riot first introduced jungle timers, many argued that it removed a key skill expression aspect of the game.
• Other third-party apps already have this feature – Porofessor is not the first to introduce this function, Blitz.gg has it as well, but its popularity has reignited the debate.

Why Porofessor’s Ultimate Timer Doesn’t Provide An Unfair Advantage

If you’ve been keeping up so far, but still want a simple reasoning why it’s actually not cheating/unfair, here’s a simple explanation:

• Porofessor does not track enemy ultimates automatically, but only after an input from the user, you, in the form of clicking on the ultimate in the overlay.
• The ultimate tracking done is a simple timer, similar to you setting up a quick timer on your phone or pc, ex: Mordekaiser R is 140 seconds cooldown, you can set up a timer yourself on your phone and congrats, you’re doing the same as Porofessor.
• Porofessor ultimate tracking does not account for Ability haste, or any form of special effects from items, such as Axiom Arc.
• The only advantage Porofessor gives the player is the simplicity of the process of setting up a timer, that’s all!

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Community Reaction – Is This Cheating?

The community is divided, with some players believing Porofessor’s ultimate tracker is outright cheating, while others argue that this information is already accessible if players track it manually.

Against Porofessor’s New Feature:

🛑 “None of these should be allowed. It is straight-up cheating.” (over exaggerated due to misinformation)
🛑 “If you can calculate it yourself, then do it. Using extra software for an advantage is unfair.” (while some might view it as such, we argue it’s fair)
🛑 “Riot needs to either add this in-game or ban it completely.” (white and black take, since riot gives the players an option to do it themselves if they know the cooldowns (in which Riot does provide them with the neccesary information in the game or provided in the wiki for all champion abilities))

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Defending Porofessor:

✅ “This feature already exists in other apps like Blitz. It’s nothing new.” (This user was correct, source)
✅ “Tracking cooldowns is skill expression, but this just makes the process easier.”
✅ “Why is this a problem when we already have global Baron and Dragon timers?”

Reddit user GNSasakiHaise shared their thoughts on why cooldown tracking is a valuable skill:
💬 “Knowing cooldowns helped me climb from Bronze to Gold quickly. If everyone has access to this information, it removes a key aspect of skill expression.”

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Riot Games’ Stance – Will They Take Action?

Currently, Riot Games has not made any official statements on whether they will restrict Porofessor’s ultimate cooldown tracker. Historically, Riot has cracked down on third-party apps that provide an unfair advantage, but they have also incorporated some popular third-party features into the game over time.

For example:
✅ Jungle timers were added as a core feature in the game after players relied on external tools.
✅ Ward expiration timers were initially seen as an unfair advantage but were later implemented in League of Legends.

🔮 Possible Riot Responses:

• Ban the feature – Riot could decide that this feature goes too far and prohibit all apps that provide cooldown tracking.
• Integrate it into the game – Similar to jungle timers, Riot may choose to make ultimate cooldown tracking an official feature in a future update.
• Ignore it for now – Since other apps already offer this function, Riot may take no action, allowing the feature to remain.

Until Riot makes an announcement, we believe that it won’t be removed or have any players taken action against, simply due to Porofessor not giving anyone an advantage they already don’t have, and while also allowing Blitz to do the same.

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Final Thoughts – Should Riot Allow This Feature?

The addition of ultimate cooldown tracking in Porofessor is just the latest example of third-party tools blurring the line between assistance and unfair advantage. While some players believe this removes a key aspect of skill expression, others argue that if everyone has access to the same information, it’s fair game.

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