Riot, lets talk about match history colors. They are confusing!

ItsCalledALance··27 votes·1,306 views

I'm dichromatic color blind. Which means I can't see red/green right. Been that way for a while. =)

NOT complaining, i dont miss what I dont know.

Anyway, when I'm looking at match history this is what I see:

I see a match, with 2 teams, one yellowish, and one blue.

I see a graph, with yellow, and blue.

I READ: "blue ahead" or "purple ahead"

So i ask friends: What are these colors? which is purple? which is yellow? of course they have a good laugh, and then say neither, there is Red and Blue.

so which side is red? Then I have to imagine in my head that Red and Yellow are the same color, and then try to decide which side in game was "red" and which was "purple"....or is that blue? is blue purple? or is red yellow? is purple top side and red bottom? is blue bottom? or red? or yellow? is there a yellow? why does it display different colors than it reads?

I'm not going to bother asking if anyone else has this same issue, but I'm sure of the 75 people who play this game, someone must =)

11 Comments

TNHA Baritone13 votes

"NOT complaining, i dont miss what I dont know."

Dude, that IS something to complain about. I'll upvote this <3.

It makes me feel...idk...happy that you appear to cope with your condition. I hope Riot sees this and it doesnt affect your gaming at all. <3

Good Lyfe and Good Luck. I hope 2 see you on Rift.

ItsCalledALance2 votes

Thanks, I try. I dont know any better hehe =)

Tribbles Foxfolk7 votes

I'm not personally color-blind, but I'm in total support of any color-blindness options in games, especially one as huge as League. Come on, it's 2016 and the colorblind mode seems very basic at best.

Yggdrasil Leaf3 votes

I know EXACTLY what you feel like. I have the exact same issue, and it's a huge pain to look at my match history and gold advantages etc. I'm really glad colorblind mode exists in this game, when I was first starting I would always click the wrong minion forgetting which color side I was on, and which color minion I had to kill. Eventually I just memorized it. Upvoted! Keep on keepin' on!

ItsCalledALance1 votes

Glad to know someone else is dealing with this =)

Spizzle90003 votes

I do believe that on the diagrams for match history, blue is the upper half of the graph and the left parts of the pie charts. The blue team is the one on the lower-left corner of Summoner's Rift. Hope this helped! :D

MacDthree3 votes

I will say i'm a bit disappointed in the lack of colorblind options that Riot has. Especially considering how reliant some parts of the game are to what color your minions, enemy's, buffs etc. are. I happened to start playing WoW again yesterday (dear gods help me) and noticed that they now have options for types of colorblindness that i've never even heard of. [IMAGE] You can even make your own custom filter.. I'm not really too sure how hard it is to implement something like that into a game, but it "seems" pretty easy. I'm excited to see if riot steps up their colorblind mode game in the future though.

001100012 votes

All I can say is GJ bro.

And second a fix for this. If it makes you feel any better, it's annoying to us that aren't even color blind too.

At least they did fix the actual game for your particular condition. :)

The Lexer1 votes

Blue is bottom left corner of the map Red is upper right hand corner. Big clarification issue: Upper right used to be purple, but it was changed to red, but still reads as "purple" on match history.

Q: What colors do you see on the map (towers, nexus, inhibs.) Is it grayish, or is it yellow and something else?

As a side note, you have a typo, there are more than 75 people that play this game, you're about 74,000,925 off.

ItsCalledALance1 votes

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Blue is bottom left corner of the map Red is upper right hand corner. Big clarification issue: Upper right used to be purple, but it was changed to red, but still reads as "purple" on match history.

Q: What colors do you see on the map (towers, nexus, inhibs.) Is it grayish, or is it yellow and something else?

As a side note, you have a typo, there are more than 75 people that play this game, you're about 74,000,925 off.

I'll have to start a game and look, I typically dont pay attention to what color things are. I dont see them as colors, just as objects.

LOL when I first started playing League, I had some guy yelling at me because I didnt give him this thing he called "red buff" I had no idea what he was talking about. It was weeks of playing before someone was kind enough to explain that the slowing/true damage buff, was "red buff". and the mana/CDR buff was "blue buff". LOL

Reds and colors like red, I see as yellows, Greens i see as shades of grey.

I dont pay attention to colors, and never talk about them with people, simply because of bad experiences, I didn't know I was color blind, and my parents didn't know, but about the time I was 16ish i knew something was off with my vision. When I was in HS i wore orange jeans and a red T-shirt to school, I had some girl making fun of me because they didnt match.

I was being sarcastic with the 75 people =) I remember seeing something riot published in season 2 ish, saying that 35 million people log in each month. Considering that in each game I play there are between 2 and 7 custom skins, They must be rolling in cash!

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