I think colorblind players are still at a disadvantage

kingofsmalldongs·Dec 13, 2014·7 votes·978 views

Seeing as we are playing on a green summoners rift and most people who are colorblind are red/green defficiant. I'm sure you can all imagine how lux's lazer among other things are VERY hard to see. I was hoping that sometime in the futer riot could make the colorblind mode change the color of some red skillshots. I heard somewhere that 5% of men are colorblind. League of legends is the most popular game in the world right now with millions of players, I bet that at least 2.5% of people who play league are colorblind. It may not seem like alot of players but with the player base that Riot has that number is in the thousands. If anyone has any suggestions on how to make this change easier please feel free to comment. Lastly, I've made a quick list of the champs that I personally have troubles with:

Aatrox's W
Brand's W and Q
Caitlyns Ult
Lux's Ult
Blackthorn Morgana's Q

4 Comments

ƒenrisúlfrDec 13, 20143 votes

http://windows.microsoft.com/en-us/windows7/calibrate-your-display#section_1

This is a tool meant for correcting colors so that they display properly.

In your case, use them to tweak the Red to "whatever you want" so that it is visible to you.

Has the added benefit of ALWAYS WORKING so that you are no longer reliant on developer-side color blind modes.

GunpointDec 14, 20141 votes

{quoted} http://windows.microsoft.com/en-us/windows7/calibrate-your-display#section_1

This is a tool meant for correcting colors so that they display properly.

In your case, use them to tweak the Red to "whatever you want" so that it is visible to you.

Has the added benefit of ALWAYS WORKING so that you are no longer reliant on developer-side color blind modes.

Seems pretty legit to me.

QuephaDec 13, 20142 votes

i think that, unfortunately, at some point you have to accept that they will somehow be disadvantaged and you can only work so hard to fight against it.

RedHatGamerDec 14, 20141 votes

As a person with legit red-green colorblindness yes the shits harder to see. But i have been able to pick up on it well enough. And some things we pick up on even better. As an example (though not in league) those with colorblindness can pick out people in camo much easier as it doesnt blend in and we also recognize patterns faster then most others.