Why does ALL chat even exist in League?

Arch Mage Magnus··4 votes·1,398 views

Personally, I see no real reason to have to talk to the enemy in League of Legends. Coming from WoW, I thought it was at first, strange that you couldn't speak to the opposing faction. After playing it for awhile, I could clearly understand the reasoning behind this.

League I feel should follow the same ideology. When would you ever have to speak to the enemy team? If one of your players goes AFK, it doesn't broadcast that to the opposing faction for a reason, it also doesn't take a brain surgeon to understand if a character went AFK in the first place; he simply doesn't return to a lane.

If you want to complain about your team to the enemy, all you're doing is further hurting your chances to win. You are taking time our of your playing to chat instead of doing something positive, such as CSing. If you are already dead and decide to complain to the enemy team, you are simply lowering your teams morale, and raising the enemies. Soon as you find out the enemy team has turned on each other and are bickering, you instantly feel better about the game and your team becomes stronger.

I've seen so many players get caught up in the yelling and toxicity and just run around aimlessly working towards no objectives at all. It's a sinking ship and no one is bailing water. You generally have 1 or 2 players on the team that say nothing at all and continue to play the game; to which, I applaud them.

At the end of the game the teams can say whatever it is they want to each other. If it's important enough to report, I'm sure the opposing team witnessed this fact in game to at least question what happened in the post game lobby to decide whether or not a report is necessary. If it's laggy, talking to the enemy isn't going to help. If he killed you when you were DC'ed, telling him isn't going to refresh the death; also I am sure he new very well you were DC'ed when you stood there while he killed you.

I honestly can't think of a legitimate reason to talk to the enemy team except for the reason to bad mouth; which if Riot wants to remove toxicity from this game and keep it professional and respectable, I feel this is a step in the right direction.

7 Comments

King Odin1 votes

Because it can make the game more fun especially when the game has great sportsmanship and you merely want to compliment your opponent. People have a choice to remove all chat if they so please to or to enable it.

Lugg3 votes

Unfortunately, good sportsmanship exists in only 10% of games that I have seen.

ChargeItDownMid1 votes

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Arch Mage Magnus2 votes

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The main difference between league and wow is that league strives to be a competitive game. One of the most critical components of a competitive game is to maximize the amount that a player can learn in a game and a player with access to all chat will under every condition learn more than a player without access to all chat. The only downside to all chat is toxicity which should never take priority over a player's ability to learn and improve his gameplay.

Remember, all chat is a powerful tool for players to use to learn and improve their game. Just because you are unable to use that resource properly does not mean it should be disabled for those players who do understand how to use it.

How many players congratulate an enemy on a good play? I've seen it a few times, however....how many times has an enemy instead boasted about there play to another character, or be condescending to another player. I think one heavily outweighs the other.

Also, if you meet a decent player and want to learn, watch the replay or better yet add them after a game and see if they would like to play with you in the next game to learn. I feel a player might actually enjoy that feeling of entitlement and commit himself to help the other player. Simply saying "Good play" really doesn't do anything in terms of helping one player over the other.

Also, yes it is a competitive game, meaning it should look at how things are done in competitive sports. Do NBA or NHL players yell and complain about how shitty there team-mates are? Sure, maybe in the locker room which is the equivalent of team chat. Do you think they yell to the other team in game on the ice or the court on how bad so and so is playing, and how they are completely losing them the game and you should really go talk to my coach about benching them? No. From what I remember Riot was even talking about benching Dyrus or giving him a fine for taunting the enemy. If Riot has that stance, again....might as well remove all chat.

Cosmic Cocaine1 votes

*playing Shaco during first clear

/all Thanks for the red, Yi.

*hits level 6

/all Thanks for drag, Yi.

*late-game splitpushing and Yi ults, just to get deceived away from

/all Nice ult, Yi.

*splitpushes and takes inhib

/all Thanks for super minions. <3

*catches ADC out and kills him/her then deceives away from rescue attempt

/all Almost had me. Thanks for shut-down gold.

I use it for mind games and taunting. Yes, I'm a total scumbag, deal with it.

LoL Ergo Urgot1 votes

There are some people I play against, and I can tell taunting them will help me. Other times you can get some really funny people on the enemy team. But in the end you can always disable it so no big deal.

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