This game has become the most Toxic game I've ever played.
I have recently returned to this game following a 2 year break from it and I am actually shocked at just how toxic this game has become in that time. Now don't get me wrong, League had some toxicity in it in 2017 too but it was nowhere near how pronounced it is now. Back then maybe 1 in every 5, so about 20% of games I played had someone truly toxic in it. Sure just about every game someone got upset, threw an insult or two, stuff like that , but I'm talking people who take it a step further. The int feeders, the full-blown ragers, the rage-quitters, you know the severely toxic people. About 1 in 5 games had someone worth reporting back then, but now I literally haven't had a single game in over a week that I can say was actually a good game. Every single game I have played in the past week has just been horrible, here's some I can remember:
- Someone full on raging at everyone telling them to kill themselves, they should never have been born, to get cancer and die, etc
- Someone who ragequits the game, usually on their first death, but I even have had a few people ragequit the game because they were pinging for the jungler to help them, the jungler ganks the lane and secures the kill, but the jungler is the one who actually got the kill so the lane ragequits.
- Someone who decides to int feed for whatever ungodly reason
- Someone never connects so we remake
- Someone never connects so we SHOULD remake but trolls decide to hold the game hostage by voting no, sometimes they also int, rage, etc.
- A couple times I got matched as the solo in a 4 man premade and they just decided they didn't like me so they proceeded to flame me, cs starve me, int my lane, and just do everything they possibly could to make the game hell for me.
- The jungler decides they don't like me so they basically do the same thing as the premade one
- Fighting in pre-game lobby, people raging didnt get mid cause they didn't call fast enough, etc.
- Someone trying to force someone else out of lane, usually because of the option right above this one, they lock in their champion anyway and go to the lane they wanted and are usually raging and flaming the entire time.
I have even had a couple games that someone on my team goes full troll mode, singles me out cause I'm usually the only other person who types at all, spends the entire game passive-aggressively insulting me, blaming me for anything that goes wrong, and usually tries to troll my lane by trying to take cs or just always follows me around to soak XP from me so im under leveled, then he goes into all chat and starts making up that I'm going berserk in chat and that IM the one following him around to soak xp, starts going sobstory to the enemy team and they buy it, I try to tell them whats really going on but they've alreayd been hooked by the troll so the enemy team will also spend all game insulting me and saying stuff like I'm pathetic for not leaving the guy alone and stuff and the single troll on my teal gets the entire enemy team to report me by the end of it.
Now so far I haven't gotten any chat restrictions or anything from these false reports from these trolls but I know for a fact I've recieved TONS of false reports this past week from all the ragers who report everyone at the end of games, but I'm worried that all these reports my account is getting might have put me on like a "watch list" or something so even if I do something that can even been seen as slightly rude I'll instantly get slapped with a punishment. I'm human too and I can get emotional so I'm worried about that, like if I throw in a curse word or something cause im upset, like if I said something like "oh my god this fucking jax is annoying" or something like that cause a jax is killing me a lot.
These are just the ones I can think of right now but this is every single game I have played in the past week there is always someone just being extremely toxic.
Like I said a couple years ago this was like 20% of normal games, now it's literally every single game I play.
Is there anything at all that can be done about this because if I didn't already love this game I sure as hell wouldn't keep playing it after what I have been going through.
I guarantee that any new players will be turned away by this, and I know that for a fact because when I just came back from my 2 year break I tried to get a friend of mine that I play with all the time to play league, we played enough games to get him to lv 11 and he told me he will never play this game again, I asked him why and he said this game is too toxic for him to enjoy.