simple answer to * WHY LOL IS SO TOXIC*
Hi.. My name is Fahad 29 years old major in computer engineer working to get my master as a project manager I started playing the game at the end of season 3 I have been on and off playing the game since my career was more important to me the highest rank I got was plat 3 the servers I played on ( eu,na) my mains are ( tf,zed,daina,lux,swain,trundle,shen,morg,thresh, Leona,garen,sion,nasus) .
I know these champs like the back of my hand (recently I bowered my friend account who stopped playing the game I got him out of bronze(season7) and now I'm playing my promo and its very bad) I talked about my background so it make it easier to understand my point of view and mindset especially for the large community of lol and the variety of ages that this community contain let's take a rough guess between (12to30)yrs. the older u get the less free time u have for gaming the idea of talking to this large community is scary so please keep an open mind while reading.
so every time I logged into the game it seem to be getting worse and the actions that have been taking are very few and far between to make a good impact so why this is happening why the lol community and the game getting worse day by day while wasting the potential to be number 1 game in the world this is my simple point of view that I would love to share it and discuss with my fellow summonses. *Toxicity is the biggest complaint and one of the biggest factor that is holding the game back but this is not just in lol ,Toxicity is a constant in online games. It manifests in many ways {trolling ,feeding , Racist, gender(most attacked are females),ethnicity(most attacked are French and Poland) trash-talking or flaming}.These actions have a negative impact on any person leading to affecting the team and the member of this team will play with others spreading this behavior and the cycle will go on .
Let's go back to league of legend that why you reading this what this most annoying form of Toxicity u see in games most people will say flaming okay why people flame to cure something u need to find the source of it, flaming come from lol cuz it’s a competitive game when people clash 5 vs. 5 what is most people play and the one who destroy the nexus win and remember people hate losing the normal environment in this game suppose 5 people trying their best to win through induvial skill and team work (induvial early game ,team work late game) many factors have effects in the game but this is the simple concept to it now where do u think the most flame happen in what mode in this game yeah u guessed right rank is the most competitive frustrating part of this game u ask why cuz every one play it for these reasons (winning, proving their skill and gaining lp) and of u think differently than ur my friend part of the problem in rank flame star from the start when u choosing ur champ and the reason why cuz until now riot couldn’t find a way to separate serious competitive people from other player who just want to play for fun or play the game mindless and can't stop cuz of their addiction to it
To me these kind of people are the source of problem cuz most of times the feeder and troll is from them and this is the trigger of every toxic behavior that will happen in the game let me explain why is that this is the most common mistakes that these people do especially when they in elo from (bronze to gold) :
1-queue for rank when they not in the best shape ( tired, hungry ,upset,etc)
2-not having enough games in the required role that queue for if u have less than 500 games why r u playing rank (smurf and pro with new accounts not included)
3-picking champs out of meta only one trick can pull it off ,trying new champs for the first time in rank ,blindly copying builds without understanding the use of it and how to play with it
4-the lack of main champs in every role lead to in every autofill situation they have to dodge, accept lose, ask for role change hoping they will get it
5-not understanding what their team comb need or just being stubborn and picking what they want to play examples( a top who don’t pick tank(riven yasou then feed a sion) ,mid laner who don’t pick ap when his team is full ad{zed talon yasou u not llstylish or redmercy wake up pls} ,an adc who only pick vayne or draven{r u ready for the camp bro} ,Not taking a traditional supp like garen support{just pick janna for god sake} ).
*So u think okay my MMR and WINNING STREAK will protect u from these people no my friend for some reason winning streak will throw u with the worse feeders and mmr mean nothing (when u gold 1 and your adc silver 4) how why the answer is simple matchmaking is broken bugged system that is so messed up finding a solution to it, its like finding the meaning of life or ask bungie to give destiny more content and less dlcs or asking where will a new half-life will be made fixing it never gona happen cuz it require a lot of time and money so just forget it . So what riot solution for this, Forcing team play and this was one of many mistakes that the developers made to this game cuz even in high elo team play is not a common thing it always come to who have the best skills and the best jungler thats it I know picking (trynmare,twisted fate, jax,irelia) and just push the whole game is a shity way to win the game but this the best way to climb tested and proven cuz relying on 4 people is like gambling and believe me u will lose most of the times okay find a premade u say hhh my friend even 2 can't carry 3 feeders or trolls that don’t want to win have more premades then trying to find a way when all of u are free and can play is difficult especially when ur friends are married or have girlfriends or more focused on their carriers and u have your right hand as ur only company see its not easy mate
Then you ask okay why there's no tolerance for mistakes like before people used to laugh at other people mistake and new builds because my friend if u type league of legend in any search bar or web browser u will have over 1million content related to lol in different language that are divided to (funny videos ,montages ,coaching videos ,programs that give u stat about champs and their build other pro player builds ,streams to watch and learn from pro player ,and even people that have the will to watch your play and coach for free or money) so when u playing rank and u see a guy who don’t even know the simplest basic of the game or keep doing mistakes it will trigger you cuz u know this guy didn’t make any effort of watching a damn video and practise before he queue in your game(pro, smurfs not included they are a different problem that effect community in a different way we will talk about them in a different time )
*So now come to my solutions its maybe not that great and will not make a great difference cuz its still it require the people to change their ways of playing and acting but at lest better than nothing
First don’t make rank so easy to get into have more requirement only having a 16 champ not enough add a requirement like a specific number of game before u can rank ,a number of main champ and can be known by the masteries no less than 3 champs with masteries 6 or 7 , make an individual penalty to people who feed or troll in their game and u can find one by tracking the behavior of people that have the most death in every game or give the first blood always and this behavior repeated in an x amount of games and their punishment (like losing more lp than the others ,not playing rank for a time
*this weird system that when u play the first 10 games for the first time u get thrown in silver or even gold just cuz u are not a complete noob that is very missed up for the player himself and other who he put in their elo for the first time a played i got gold for some reason and I just lost every game I played in gold that most player accused me of being boosted or buying a gold account that it made me stop ranking and abandon the account for a bronze one to know what my skill is and getting out of bronze with that account gave me back the confident that I lost
*create a mode to practice rank and have point too so I can test myself before rank some people say u have draft pick its very rare to find people who take it seriously if people don’t find rank serious imagine what they think or beehive in draft and blind pick is just worse a damn nightmare.
These the ideas I thought of mostly about competitive and the best way to me is to separate them from other I hope u read this with open mind sorry if I offend anyone I just hope for this game and community to improve Note: league of legend have the best visual and graphic team they are really good and they are the ones that holding this game together.