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I play league with my voice!

Handicapped God··180 votes·7,628 views

Due to a disability, I can’t use a keyboarditem 3070 item 3070 , so I cast all of my abilities using voice recognition. Recently I noticed a trend that some abilities are partly requiring a button to be held down, like the new Galio and Warwick rework. With my situation, I can’t hold down buttons so I’m quite limited when a champion requires that I do so.

My hope is to start a dialogue about adding an option to circumvent holding down buttons on abilities. Galio Galio was actually one of my favorite champions to play and his rework looks amazing, but I just want to be able to use him to his full ability. I’m not sure how difficult it would be to add more accessibility in this way, but I would like the community, and hopefully the developers, to share their input.

Edit 1: Very touched by all of your kind words, I never expected this post to get this much attention, and hopefully it’ll reach some Rioters. To answer some reoccurring questions, I use the latest version of Dragon naturally speaking to dictate and input keystrokes. For those asking about my disability, I was born with Duchenne muscular dystrophy. For those who want to learn more or support a fantastic organization I will link the muscular dystrophy Association website. Website: https://www.mda.org/

Edit 2: I made a post on the gameplay forums to hopefully get better visibility to rioters. Discussion: http://boards.na.leagueoflegends.com/en/c/gameplay-balance/th1GUeNG-i-play-league-with-my-voice-v2

89 Comments

BioticBrony50 votes

Does that mean you have a lot of Say in League

Handicapped God39 votes

Phreak would be so prouditem 3070 item 3070

13900 Essence30 votes

Hey man, I feel you. I have muscle deficiency that makes me unable to lift my toes or have full control of my feet. The doctors said it is also present in my arms and hands but in a lesser degree.

My name is Titanium Legs not because of Camille but because I wear leg braces to walk. I sit on my computer like a potato all day and play league partly because of this.

Godspeed, brother.

Handicapped God6 votes

Potatoes can't last hit.

13900 Essence4 votes

That's what they want you to believe. In reality, all of the challenger players are potatoes in disguise.

YoungFarmer18 votes

This dudes silver and can't even use a keyboard. My bronze friends have no excuses anymore. good job being good at the game despite the hardships that were set apon you :D.

Melledoneus17 votes

You say you manipulate League using your voice?

Holy crap. I envy your mastery over Thu'um, Dragonborn.

Leo102412 votes

if you can't use a keyboard there's mouses designed to let you play with only one hand, the mouse itself has buttons, i have a friend who was only born with one arm but still plays extremely well with a mouse designed for people like him! it's just a thought, something you could use, even MagikarpUsedFly (popular league youtube) uses a special mouse to reduce stress on his hand since he has lots of pressure in them from working with his hands a lot

tl;dr if you can't use a keyboard there are many different options that will make gaming easier than talking, no keyboard needed for even a game like league! best of luck to you :)

Handicapped God16 votes

That's something I forgot to mention, thank you. I only have enough strength to hold an iPhone, which I have a mouse app that I use. I'm not able to use a traditional mouse. Thank you for your input :-)

xelaker1 votes

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if you can't use a keyboard there's mouses designed to let you play with only one hand, the mouse itself has buttons, i have a friend who was only born with one arm but still plays extremely well with a mouse designed for people like him! it's just a thought, something you could use, even MagikarpUsedFly (popular league youtube) uses a special mouse to reduce stress on his hand since he has lots of pressure in them from working with his hands a lot

tl;dr if you can't use a keyboard there are many different options that will make gaming easier than talking, no keyboard needed for even a game like league! best of luck to you :)

magikarp uses a gamepad thing for the qwer aspect im pretty sure he still uses the mouse.

Luxs Destiny2 votes

No.. He doesn't actually use a traditional mouse. He uses a Razer peripheral that has programmable keys as well as two wheels to control the mouse cursor (Don't quote me on the mouse control, I'm not entirely sure.) He's produced a video that explains how he plays league. You can find it here.

TheTrueQuarian1 votes

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if you can't use a keyboard there's mouses designed to let you play with only one hand, the mouse itself has buttons, i have a friend who was only born with one arm but still plays extremely well with a mouse designed for people like him! it's just a thought, something you could use, even MagikarpUsedFly (popular league youtube) uses a special mouse to reduce stress on his hand since he has lots of pressure in them from working with his hands a lot

tl;dr if you can't use a keyboard there are many different options that will make gaming easier than talking, no keyboard needed for even a game like league! best of luck to you :)

Yeah filming all those pornos takes a toll on your ligaments

Fondling Gems8 votes

I am pretty sure that if you take those abilities off quick cast they require two inputs. The first input starts the channel and the second activates it. Are you able to go into the option settings and change that abilities quickcast at the start of the game?

Handicapped God8 votes

With Warwick you still had to hold down the button in order to follow using his Q. Haven't had the opportunity to test out the new Galio W, but I assume it requires you to hold down the button regardless of whether or not you have quick cast on. Thanks for the input :-)

Papa Andrei1 votes

I assume it would act like new WW E, where you can cast it, it channels, and can be recast at any time

Handicapped God3 votes

That would work for me, but I'm also worried about future champion/updates.

Fondling Gems7 votes

Good news! It works more like Vi Q so if you take it off quick cast then you press it once to start it and another time to reactivate it.

Handicapped God8 votes

That is great news! Thanks for your help. Hopefully future abilities will react the same way.

D2Vincent7 votes

....dear god I can only imagine how you'd play Karthus...

Just constantly saying QQQQQQQQQQQQQQQQQQQQQQQQQQQQQQWQQQQQQEQQQQQQQQQEQQQQQQQR

TeCoolMage5 votes

kyukyukyukyukyukyukyudubulyueehkyukyukyukyuarr

HeadHonchkrow3 votes

Arrrrr!

HeimerLmao2 votes

IMAGINE URF: EWQQQQQQQQQQWQQQQQALLACHAKBAR(ult, if you don't know already) times 5

Orangesilk2 votes

Cassiopeia URF

constant screeching

Handicapped God1 votes

Yeah… Champions that require spamming I tend to stay away from :p

Purpl3Jungl34 votes

I think its very inspirational of you to speak up. I hope the community raises enougb awareness for this issue. League should be for everyone :). Hoping this gets a red comment soon! X

llamasx4 votes

Perhaps Riot can create an option that by default is turned off, where abilities that require a button to be held to charge automatically charge until the button is pressed again.

OmegaPrototype3 votes

Hmm, just wanna say I'm touched by your passion for the game and not let your disability get in the way!

Wish you all the best!

Bless.

Inari Fox Orrion3 votes

We can always hope! We'd only truly know if a Rioter spoke up and answered, but we can use past experience to come out and say you'll be fine.

And also, I find it fucking awesome you used voice software to actually cast spells and skills in LoL. Sorry if that's fairly childish, but it's really neat. It even reminds me of the Dovahkiin; You could call yourself a Dragonborn if you'd like - and you wouldn't really be wrong.

Handicapped God1 votes

I appreciate your kind words <3

KledKleddNKleddy2 votes

When you play skyrim do you shout FUS RO DAH

Handicapped God5 votes

XD I can't play games that need WASD for movement

QuickenedBlade1 votes

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Handicapped God5 votes

I'm not a vegetable, but that's pretty messed up to say.

Sp33d Zer04 votes

It was poorly phrased, but looking at his other replies, it looks like he has a pretty low value of his life. I imagine he simply meant that for HIM as an individual, his life wouldn't hold enough value for him if he was also heavily handicapped.

Not saying he isn't an ass, but I got what he was saying, and I don't think it's worth taking personally.

QuickenedBlade1 votes

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It was poorly phrased, but looking at his other replies, it looks like he has a pretty low value of his life. I imagine he simply meant that for HIM as an individual, his life wouldn't hold enough value for him if he was also heavily handicapped.

Not saying he isn't an ass, but I got what he was saying, and I don't think it's worth taking personally.

#Oh I'm better than everybody. I'll make that very clear.

The worth of an individual is their intelligence to _striking _ good looks, proportionally. #I'm pretty much a god among men. Which leads me to face the fact that there's no joy in anything. There's no competition. There's no such thing as pride. There's no such thing as an afterlife. What is there to live for other than a family? I've come to a conclusion that almost nobody who even comes close to my standards I set, which are just below my own standing. I will also not drop my standards to be a contrived person who settles for less than they deserve. This may be a misconception of my own since I live in a Red state.

TheMinez2 votes

Let's see, arrogance, delusion, nihilism, not catching on to how the upvote game works, Bronze 5 0 lp with no matches in match history, truly "a god among men."

And not to mention how humble this guy is.

If you want a competition, climb out of bronze and into gold +

Appearance is subjective to one's culture. A land whale of today would be considered very attractive millennia ago.

Afterlife, well nobody living knows quite what it is like to die. A or many gods existing cannot be disproven as saying that there is an invisible teleporting unicorn in the same room as me that doesn't like to be touched. There is also the possibility that this universe is a simulation. Let's not get into philosophy.

Remember, if you want someone who meets your incredibly low standards if set just below yourself in actuality, or if you have them set where you think you are, you must not play both hard to get and hard to want.

Also, have you ever considered that the reason you may not be able to climb is a result of the Dunning-Kruger effect?

QuickenedBlade1 votes

{quoted}

Let's see, arrogance, delusion, nihilism, not catching on to how the upvote game works, Bronze 5 0 lp with no matches in match history, truly "a god among men."

And not to mention how humble this guy is.

If you want a competition, climb out of bronze and into gold +

Appearance is subjective to one's culture. A land whale of today would be considered very attractive millennia ago.

Afterlife, well nobody living knows quite what it is like to die. A or many gods existing cannot be disproven as saying that there is an invisible teleporting unicorn in the same room as me that doesn't like to be touched. There is also the possibility that this universe is a simulation. Let's not get into philosophy.

Remember, if you want someone who meets your incredibly low standards if set just below yourself in actuality, or if you have them set where you think you are, you must not play both hard to get and hard to want.

Also, have you ever considered that the reason you may not be able to climb is a result of the Dunning-Kruger effect?

literally climbing/climbed to diamond playing garen/dar/urgot support this game is not hard at all lmao

TheMinez1 votes

Well then why not post from your main and not a bronze account?

QuickenedBlade1 votes

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Well then why not post from your main and not a bronze account?

You mean the account that was bronze in season 3 and unranked since?

Bolt18 votes

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That's pretty low.

This guy is asking for help playing a game that he enjoys. It's pretty shitty to suggest that because this user plays the game differently from other users that he/she should kill themselves. They have just as much of a right to play the game and ask for help from Riot to aid in playing the game as anyone else. I sincerely hope you never have to deal with any disabilities, be it you or someone you know, because it takes a lot of adaptation to live a normal life. Handicapped God being able to enjoy a video game and wanting to speak out about a recent trend making the game less accessible is a great thing that will most likely help other League players.

Keeping games accessible is a very important part. Check out this one [sub on Reddit for disabled gamers (https://www.reddit.com/r/disabledgamers/) that has over 1,000 readers. Riot and other game companies would be smart to not turn away from these users, that is lost revenue. It's also hard for a gaming company, especially one with a player-base as large as League of Legends, to make everything 100% accessible. It won't always be of course, but it does help when someone like this points out a problem so Riot can both keep it in mind for future designs, and try to remedy the problem. I can think of a few more champions that have abilities that Handicapped God and other users would have trouble playing (Taliyah Viktor Rumble) and I'm sure you can think of others. Like I said, there is no way that every champion would be able to be played by everyone, but speaking out about it doesn't hurt and shouldn't open the user to ridicule or rude comments. This forum is for discussion, if you want to be a jerk go somewhere else.

You and I, along with millions of other gamers are able to pick up most games and play them will little to no difficulty. This user and many others don't have that privilege and need to find ways to adapt to the game to make it playable, and we should commend them for doing so. So what if he can't play WASD movement games, he can, and does, play League and I'm sure many other games; which is an accomplishment in its own right.

Let's imagine that you are an Alistar main, and Riot reworked him to have a knock up on his ultimate. Now to use that ultimate you have to hold R, sing Katy Perry's "Roar", and install an air conditioner in your neighbors window. Impossible, right? Well sorry, you can't play one of your favorite champions then. It would suck if that happened. Well, that's what this user is currently feeling. The proper response wouldn't be to tell him to kill himself, it would be to open a discussion on what can solve it or hope that a Rioter comes in to remedy the situation.

I would suggest you edit or delete your comment. Keep opinions like that, if you have them, to yourself. It makes you look like an asshole.

Have a good one [slayer-pantheon-thumbs]

GigaPube2 votes

free brownie points for rito = make changes to fit people with disabilities, announce changes in patch notes, ez PR

[slayer-pantheon-thumbs]

SennaFirstPick2 votes

dude you need to post a video. "press D" "fuck i said R not E!" "no no no don't open that xxx site" "...there we go"

Handicapped God2 votes

I actually use numbers for my main abilities, but sometimes my software will think I say the keystroke to summoner 4 flash… And you can guess what happens next. XD

Death by Glamour2 votes

It's a pity that the game doesn't support mods, hopefully you find a work around dude

Off Meta Evan2 votes

wow, dude you're a fucking legend.

Kill 992 votes

I also use voice commands since I lost both arms and have robotic prothstics. Use the command "hold <skill>" then "use" when ur ready to use

benster123456782 votes

you should make a video of you playing it would be pretty cool.

japhib1 votes

Have you tried doing normal cast instead of quick cast? I was under the impression that if you put the ability on normal cast instead of quick cast, you press it once to start the ability charging up (or holding on, in ww's case) and then a second time to release it.

Also, so glad to hear you can still play!!

calicfer1 votes

Can you generate key press and release events?

That might allow you to simulate a key hold.

Kersho1 votes

Wow that's amazing that you got to silver not even using a mouse or keyboard, you should make a twitch or youtube! Displaying how you do it :D it could make a real inspiration for some people :^). Also don't stop climbing!! Go for gold :D

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