Chat, champs, things that be, how how they should be (or not be)
RESTRICTED WORDS AND BANS: The whole chat system is just a mess. To start with its toxic, most games you'll find at least one person being toxic. Groups are the worst when it comes to this (talk about mob mentality). On top of which the system that 's supposed to help usually doesn't do much. First, it doesn't understand context. Why does this matter? Because saying "That's fucking awesome" means something very different than "fuck you". Again, calling something "retarded"... for example. "Akali's 'w' is retarded" or "Akali's retarded" (which totally is) can raise flagged. All this is likely amplified by all chat. Point is the current system is results in a just as many false positives as true positives.
REPORTING: Another odd thing is that "reports" govern it all. That is to say, no matter what you say or do, if no one report, your safe. Kind of an odd idea when your trying to negate toxicity. This does help thou, because is like a player saying "this, in context, is bad". So if they are feeding, trolling, toxic, whatever it's how context is understood. So this idea has some ground to it. But its they same as "I don't like or agree with you" which makes up 90% of report (A made up statistic that seems valid never the less). This could mean the repeated use "banned " words could result in a chat restrictions receiving a ban regardless of context or content. For that reason I wonder if it's possible to get banned for use of these "banned" words but in a positive manor as mentioned in the previous section.
MORE RANT ON BANS: Another aspect is why have the banning function to begin with? I'd been one thing if it was cheating. However games and trash talk go together like PB and J. And if you don't like it, Riot even implemented a way to mute everyone (Which I for one would like to see a way to mute pre and post game chat, or even a way to turn it on by default). Even if someone gets banned, it takes no time at all to make another account. You can even buy them off eBay at level 30 (to play ranked). That said, professional feeders exist, running it down mid exist (btw, pro feeders can actually get away with it by exploiting the flaws in the system) but these results are overall poor or completely unsuccessful. Potentially even feeding the flames so to speak resulting in the exact opposite results. Overall I'd think the game would balance itself out if you just left it well enough alone. That said, in a competitive sense this will never happen. Riot needs this game to be competitive, and this would likely relax things more than they'd like.
CHAT BUG: Since I'm bring up the chat feature a lot I'd also thought to mention a small bug that exist with the game regarding it, particularly muting players. There exist a duration at the end of the game where chat can get pass that mute. During a /ff between the moment the game understand it to be over and the point the nexus explodes there exist a gap when muted chat will show up in your chat logs. Thou I am unsure if it something that was said during the before mentioned gap, or if backlog chat somehow snuck its way in.
REMAKE AND AFKS: Another broken aspect I've run into is how the game considers someone afk, or when or not you can remake. Sometimes, they are just sitting their, no items, but they game doesn't see them as afk. Sadly this issue is without a solution. Because if you make a secondary vote system to say "This person is afk" people will use it to leave bad match ups, or just for toxicity sake. So this section is just me griping.
HONORING: This next one is by far the most annoying change that was introduced with the new client. And that is the new honor system. My main complaint is the inability to honor multiple people and the inability to honor enemies. Sometime you have a opponent that is really clutch, sometimes you have multiple teammates that make last nights wet dream seem drier that the Sahara Desert. And guess what, I'd really like to honor them. Why do I need to pick and choose, its just feels like a dick thing to do. Especially when the both deserve it, and they get rewards for it as well.
NEW SKILL TIER: Here's on idea that people have bounce around. When are we getting a new tier, like skill level tier? People been joking how we need a cardboard 7 and their right, kind of. More so we need a new low tier rank. Something to distance the ranking between skill level in the lower tier, because lets face it, some people really do sit on the cardboard 7 level of gameplay. And in those lower rank, your team really can hold you back. I'm thinking of something either bellow bronze, or something between S5 and bronze would help.
