Left Handed People should be treated the same way as colorblind people

Blade Goddess·8/19/2017, 6:26:18 PM·6 votes·793 views

Yesterday i posted this tweet @RiotSupport : https://twitter.com/XaferSi/status/898560424085422082 I guess they want me to post my problem here : Im sorry my english is not good and im not good at formatting thats why youu get a wall of text I play League of legends now for about 6 Years never had any big Issues with it and it was always really fun to play solo or with my friends and constantly new content (Champions, Skins, Maps, HUD, Client etc.). But recently I bought a new mouse which is designed for Left Handed people and this feel when your mouse is made for your hand is incredible, unfortunately **Left click and Right ** click are swapped and for me as someone who grow up in a world which is made for Right handed people i learned to use a mouse with the "normal" button layout. Now You think : "hey you can swap the buttons in your computer settings " - you can swap it and yes i did that and it worked fine for everything except for my most played game League of Legends. Ingame everything felt strange and i tried to rebind everything as i want it to be but it didnt let me so i searched in the internet and found some Lefties who had the same problem with League of Legends. Some of the posts were made in the old forums i think it was 2012 (if i find the link ill paste it) they made some complicated tutorial but i didnt manage to do it. Then i found this post on the new boards which was posted about a year ago https://boards.na.leagueoflegends.com/en/c/help-support/X0HEAL9d-how-to-switch-mouse-buttons and a offical Riot Supporter answered with a guide but he said : "I have a quick guide on how to swap M1 and M2 buttons, but keep in mind that we don't officially support it. If you run into issues after making the change, you'll need to revert the changes entirely." this guide helped a bit since mb1 and mb2 were swapped, BUT somehow i dont know why everything was clunky and i wasnt able to pull out fast skillshot combos or attack moves with the indicator and this is key as adc main where you need to click often

  1. Thing that triggers me is that I need to change Game files because im (exxageration) handicapped and i need to revert it when i have problems and i guess my teammates suffer from it
  2. That this problem seems to persist for 5 years or maybe even longer and Riot didnt push an "offical" solution which is supported
  3. Being Left handed is something you cant change that quickly and needs a lot of practice and if Riots offical way to fix this is by re-learning the game with different Bindings i dont know if i want to do that.
  4. Colorblindness is supported, being left handed isnt - ~5% of humanity is colorblind, ~10-15% is left handed (could be wrong but thats what i researched) My Solutions for this:
  • Fix the way League interacts with the Computer Settings of the mouse (In my Case Windows 10)
  • Fix how the League controls settings works allowing you to bind the mouse buttons properly (you cant bind MB1 you can try it yourself)

if you have any questions you can write comments, hopefully this doesn't get ignored and reaches some attention since its important to me and hopefully for some other people who have the same issues

Please Riot Developers fix this i dont want to stop playing this game because of this little Issue :(

3 Comments

Pie Cubed8/19/2017, 7:01:52 PM1 votes

Just a question, but if you're left handed wouldn't you have gotten use to index finger = right click and middle finger = left click or something?

50ShadesOfÀDC8/19/2017, 10:24:47 PM1 votes

Im left handed and i use my mouse normally as everyone else does.Dont have any problem besides my handwritting which sucks .-.