Team communication needs to be enforced
In a team oriented game, Team communication should be the "FIRST" priority of this game, not toxcity. Toxicity can be dealt with simply by muting someone, it's that simple but the lack of communication in games is where the game falls short. Why do you think LCS teams dominate so well? They are 5 guys who play together all the time hooked up with head sets while one person calls the shot and everyone listens. Yet, you expect 5 random people not in call who never played with each other before to perform on a similar level and that's just absurd.
How many times have you guys played games where you ping the team to get inhibs while you aced the enemy team and your team just farms minions and jungle or recalls to buy items because their ego is telling them " Fuck that guy he ain't the boss of me" ?
How many times have you pinged Dragon or Baron to do when the enemy team is down and everyone splits off to do their own thing?
How many times have you pinged your team to team fight you know you can win to win the game and some jerk goes off and farms bot lane cause he wants an item?
How many times have you told your tank to engage in a fight and he stays behind the team running around looking confused?
How many times have you tried to communicate in champ select where people remain silent, don't talk or plan ahead or call out a position then auto lock in a position that is already taken?
In LCS they have stradegy, they have team play and most of all they listen.. In a Normal game or lower elo such as Bronze, Silver, Gold & Plat which i've played in all 4 there is always a lack of communication where people have to wing it and hope everyone else is smart enough to follow up.
To me that is not team oriented, so much focus goes on people calling someone a name or being toxic verbally which can be easily solved with a mute but not enough focus goes toward team communication. What's worse is it has gotten to the point where people disable chat, mute people from the start or even goes as far as changing their language so boxes show up in chat instead of words.
Riot needs to start focusing on the main problen and that is team communication. I don't care if they have an option to vote for a captain to lead the team, or start cracking down on people who refuse to communicate with the team but something has to change.
A built voice chat perhaps so people can communicate like a real team instead of 5 random strangers who have everyone muted in game and never look at the map for pings.. I don't know but something. This is a team oriented game and that should be the "PRIME" focus on getting people to work as a team and listen, not scaring people with punishment to where they just say "fuck it i'm going to mute the team at start"
You are essentially promoting people not to communicate in a sense by doing that. Sure there will always be some person who is not going to listen and just troll, but how about we start rewarding players who do listen instead of just punishing the ones who don't so trolls have more of an incentive to start communicating with the team?
Anything.. It's getting so annoying when people intentionally refuse to communicate because they are either afraid of talking in chat for fear someone will report them and get them suspended or they just feel that they don't need to listen and can do their own thing costing their whole team the game.
Maybe i'm wrong, maybe we will never be able to get everyone on board every game to communicate, but it seems on such a team oriented game the focus would be on that rather then Champion updates, Toxic reports, Deleteing an item then bringing it back, making minor changes to items most people don't even notice.. Those things seem irrelevant if you can't get a team to communicate correctly in a game.
