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League Community (Low Level - Addressing an issue with toxicity)

Unfortunate Game·5/13/2016, 10:31:03 AM·14 votes·1,460 views

Backstory:

I was leveling up a new account. Met someone who just joined today and he was asking me a lot of questions, so I figured I'd add him. Later on I recommend to him to play normals because he was only playing bot games, and I dont recommend new players to play solely bots.

Later he pms me:

"[4:27AM] : I did one match with real people and died 10 times everyone was freakin yelling at me for trolling and how im a dk and that im not new im just an asshole f* this game im not gonna play something like that."

This game has an extreme toxicity issue, and this is coming from someone who was permanently banned twice for toxicity, but no longer is toxic.

Low levels (1-20s) has to be the most toxic part of this community i've ever seen. The only time I look at the league community and im like wow the community is looking nice is when I watch higher elo players. And thats only because that "higher elo" part is just a smaller community within league. Most of everyone else is just beyond toxic, in all elos, bronze-diamond.

I was just wondering what happens? Whenever I report toxic players nothing happens, so what then? Quite disgusting that someone who just joined today and was excited to play, quits on the same day because he's bullied off the game.

15 Comments

Dukues5/13/2016, 12:52:44 PM4 votes

Such a large game with so much toxicity, so much to learn it would be incredible hard to enjoy it as a new player these days. I would like to try and get new friends to play it but already know they would quit within the first week.

VirusSixZero5/13/2016, 3:29:53 PM4 votes

League (against humans) has a steep learning curve, and the game does a poor job of incrementally bringing in new elements. Players earn IP and want to try new champions, but don't realize that once they hit the proper level, they'll want all that IP for runes.

This is paired with a game that is built around opposition. Gold is not shared between lane partners, but XP is. So two cs-hungry players in lane grow half as fast, and compete for farm.

The whole emote system is centered around taunting opponents, there's no positive "thumbs up" ping to encourage players who just made a good play, or escaped a trap. The ping system is decent, but caution and danger overlap a fair bit.

Riot owns some responsibility for having mechanics that frustrate new players and encourage intra-team competition. The majority of the issue lies with players not taking responsibility for their own actions, and relishing in taking jabs at their own team, rather than helping them.

Asriel Memester5/13/2016, 8:21:56 PM4 votes

This is basically my experience. Started a few months ago. Played a few normals, people were unreasonably mean, now I just play bots because people are nice there.

In short, new player experience is the worst I've seen in any game. Which is a shame, because the game can be a lot of fun.

Dolyna5/13/2016, 3:48:44 PM3 votes

I enjoy playing against bots. I hardly ever see any toxic players.

Zaryelle5/16/2016, 7:33:25 AM2 votes

Once you realize someone can go 20/2/10 and still be called trash by their teammates, you start to get desensitized to it. But new players won't know this for a while and it'll create a negative experience for them and they start avoiding PvP

10Tickler5/13/2016, 1:14:28 PM2 votes

Solution time!

1: Below 15 Queue - Players below Level Fifteen should have their own 'normals' queue which lets them learn how the game's played in a more competitive atmosphere compared to bots, while not being paired with/against 30's who are slumming aboot in low MMR Normal games.

2: BETTER TUT/BOTS/INSTRUCTIONS. Riot's instructions unclear. Now I have a pair of Twins who are screaming and likely wet :C

Aír5/16/2016, 1:52:16 PM1 votes

I always tend to take screenshots and record my games whenever this happens and send it to player support. Especially when I am on my smurf. I might not know if he or she was punished, but at least it now has a higher chance of letting something happen than otherwise.

Chewbacca Merkin5/14/2016, 10:52:30 PM1 votes

You beg league to white knight for you because you can't take somebodies comments and now you don't want to deal with the consequences it has on new players. League of white knighting.

Fovere5/13/2016, 11:01:50 AM1 votes

I wouldn't call that a toxicity issue. People are going to be mean, that's life.

It might be nice to have somewhere for new players to learn how to play against other new players, but honestly if it was his first day he should probably stick to bots. Probably for the first week.