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Blocked Players, Matchmaking, and Toxicity

Kritty·4/12/2016, 8:34:43 PM·1 votes·428 views

Today I went into a ranked game, ready to enjoy myself. When I saw the name of my ADC, I thought it seemed familiar, but I couldn't place it and moved on. As the game went on, I saw nothing from my ADC, but saw people responding to someone they believed to be toxic. Curious, I used Tab to check the scoreboard, and I found out what I had thought before - I had already blocked the ADC in the past. I remembered him after that, and quickly informed my team that he was negative and toxic, but by that point it was too late... Our team was already fighting amongst themselves, which negated any chance we had of winning the game. We ended up surrendering just after 20 minutes.

After that game, I began to think of things that might help reduce that in the future, and I came upon an idea - preventing players from being matchmade with a player they blocked. This would, in general, reduce the chances of a player ending up with a toxic player they had an unpleasant experience with in the past, as well as improve the experience for those others in the same game, as they wouldn't have to deal with the toxicity either.

I don't know how easy or difficult this would be to implement into the current system, but something has to change. There is no reason a player should be subjected to a blatantly toxic player if they already have blocked that same player in the past. It's extremely rough on players who are learning the game, and also unfair to those who are looking to climb in their leagues.

3 Comments

x R e n g a R x4/12/2016, 8:46:43 PM1 votes

People would abuse it by blocking people they think aren't good at the game.

Hey look my top laner fed i'll just block him and never play with him again.

Imagine how many people would block others if this system is incorporated.

Queue times sky rocket as well lmao

Fízz Bøt4/12/2016, 8:55:38 PM1 votes

Well, just mute them. If you are good enough and you get your preferred role, it shouldn't be too hard to carry. Additionally, if you want to enjoy yourself, don't play ranked. Ranked is very toxic because it is filled with try hards who cannot handle any sort of correction. This is for lower ELO though; the higher you climb, the less toxicity there is. If you wanna climb in ranked, play with at least 2 other people. Find someone who you can work well with. Maybe a support if you are bot lane or a jungler if you are top or mid.