Does Riot even care about the toxicity of this game?
For starters, I know about the mute button, but why should we have teammates that yell at us the whole match? This is supposed to be a team orientated game. I know ranked is much more serious than normals, however, flaming someone over and over isn't going to help that person. For example, I was playing a match earlier as Leblanc vs Brand. I didn't die to brand once in lane but was down cs. Brand roamed bot lane more than once. I pinged multiple times and even followed twice. I stopped following to push my lane and farm, which I ended up getting tower and a kill on their jungler. My support, Thresh literately ranged at me the whole time. He would insult me because I was in Silver while he was in Gold. He also would type in all chat that I needed to be reported, all because he wouldn't listen to my pings nor ward half of the time. As soon as I saw Brand leave, I would ping missing and danger to bot lane multiple times. Thresh would lie to the enemy, saying "I only pinged once" and that I was "bad." 10 Minutes into the game, when he was 5 deaths in, he would immediately say "GG it's over." and every time he died. We had a good team comp and our Trist even got a penta, but Thresh refused to listen to both us when we said we could win, since we were making a come back.
I think it is ridiculous how many times a person can flame someone and not be at least chat restricted. I know from experience, since I was never banned from being toxic, because before I was _extremely _toxic. I started to release how angry I was becoming and stopped playing for a while. I came back and I am no longer toxic now. But during those days, I was never banned nor chat restricted for my behavior, which honestly, I should have been. The only thing I never told people to do was kill them selves, which I have been told by multiple people in this game. I think that if you actually tell someone to kill them selves, you should be chat restricted (maybe that's just me, but I don't think that is a funny nor an appropriate thing to tell someone).
Now, has Riot addressed toxicity in a game? From what I have heard, new players are having a horrible time with it. But that just doesn't stop when you've been playing for a while.
And I am pretty sure many people are going to tell me to mute someone, but that doesn't solve the problem. They're just going to attack another person.