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Toxic levels of this game seem to keep rising. Riot? is this working?

TheFallenShaw··4 votes·1,224 views

It's like I can't go one single game without reporting atleast one if not more players these days. Then even when I look at the forums and its full of rage post one after another. Ingame players rage constantly in chat. Harrassing their own team mates more than enemys even. Honestly Riot, I don't think your system is working. As a player I feel more stressed after playing league than ever. And I'm suppose tobe playing a game for fun not stress.

What ever happen to players following the summoner's code? The respect and understanding between team mates? Is this the game you really wanted to create? Full of hate, rage, stress, and trolls? Sounds more like a nightmare than the dream of what league could be to me. So Riot, What I'm asking is can you do something to fix this? Make harsher punishments or something I don't know. I know its a really hard to fix something like this but your the game masters, the ones players turn to. You design and lead the way the game goes. So its your responcibility to make the game enjoyable for all. I'm just not seeing playing as enjoyable like it was. There's just to much hate and anger. Playing has become more of a job than a game.

Yeah I know who am I to ask for a change, especially one of this magintude. I'm just a low ello player after all.

15 Comments

Douglas Funnie3 votes

The feeders and trolls are the reason why people are toxic. The majority of people who are getting punished are the frustrated players who are dealing with the issues over-and-over again. People have complete control over text based toxicity. It's called muting. It's fast and simple.

Players, however, cannot control the in-game actions of other players.

Riot needs to focus on these issues to reduce the toxic atmosphere.

  • Gameplay Balance
  • Feeders
  • Intentional
  • Grieving
  • Boosted players who don't belong at their current elo
  • AFKERS
  • Rage Quit
  • People who sit in Base and move around to avoid the AFK check
  • Those who type in-game so much that they don't even pay attention to the game.
  • Trolls
  • Champ select players who hold their team hostage because they didn't get their preferred role.
  • Account Sharing
  • High tiered players boosting low accounts
  • Cheaters
  • Scripters using Xerath
  • Learning new champs in Ranked.

The list goes on...

Right now, trolls are getting away scott-free during champ select by forcing other players to dodge. The troll doesn't lose any LP. They go straight back into queue and continue this malicious pattern until they get their preferred role. The person who dodges loses LP and gets queue timed. This is unbelievable.

There are sly players who play the game to lose without feeding. They make it seem like they tried, but their primary goal is to lose the game and get demoted.

TheFallenShaw2 votes

You forgot smurfing, though even a smurf will climb out to his/her real rank eventually. Still a Diamond player does not belong in a silver game. And there are plenty of unranked to diamond youtuber series. This also inflates the number of people who are actually diamond. Again something else I believe should be considered cheating. A player should only be allowed one account per player. Though I seriously doubt riot will ever enforce this. Though the term feeders I think can't really be touched. As How can you say to a player your a feeder bc your feeding if they are truely playing their best and just suck? Maybe somehow they went threw promos and are in silver 3 for example but belong in bronze 4. Thats a matchmaking issue riot should address. Sure it falls under boosted but they simply played fairly and won enough games. Its not their fault they got placed in silver thats riots. A simple fix for this would be everyone starts bronze 5. Yes becomes ello hell for real, however the good players shall rise and bad ones will stay. Those no ilegit boosting will ever happen.

I also believe if you loose enough games in Bronze 5 say 10 in a row. your should be banned from ranked for a set of normal games say 15 to 30. This would serverly limit the trolls.

CrimsonDawn772 votes

I find that there's a consistent moderately high level of toxicity. I was placed in bronze 3. I play unranked most of the time and find that most people are neutral or somewhat friendly but I consistently end up reporting someone about every 3 games. That's on average 1 in 30 people, so a bit over 3% of the player base at my elo. Honestly I find the best solution is to que with friends and just mute someone the second they say something that starts to get on your nerves.

MisterSki2 votes

Feeding causes people to be toxic because the game is competitive so solve the feeder issue and toxicity will decrease over time.

GreatWhiteNorth1 votes

Feeding happens in every game. Champions dying is part of LoL's design. Expecting your team to always go 0/0/10 with you having 40/0/0 is just dumb and requires the enemy team to feed you. Learn how to carry games that you are losing, and have fun doing it.

Warwick the OP2 votes

I tell my teammates to kill themselves and uninstall and to stop playing and that they are shit in every single game i play in. you know why? because its true. I want them to kill themselves for wasting 40 minutes of my life in making me extremely mad. its not fair that i have to lose

OwO scripter7 votes

According to your logic you should kill yourself and stop playing, you have 0/8/0 game as fiora 2/10/0 game as darius ecc... you cant do anything to change other ppl skill when you play you should focus on yourself and not on other ppl :)

Faustavian2 votes

I'm nicknaming this ^ guy Bunsen, because he just burned you.

TheFallenShaw3 votes

What isn't fair is for people to be forced to spend 25mins with you warwick in game. You just admitted to not only being toxic, but blantly harrassing other players. You seem like your really hate playing, so why are you wasting your time if you don't enjoy it. Grow up and learn the facts, When a game between two teams of 5 is held, one team is gonna lose. So its not fair you have to lose? Get good as people would say. Even people in diamond and challenger loose around 40-45% of their games. Why? because no matter how good they are they can only contribute so much. So your top and bot loses lane, they feeding? Inteing? Not exactly, they may just be less skilled than their enemys, though someone like you with an IQ of 4 prob has never considered this, nor the fact that raging someone whos already in a bad situation could permantly tilt them beyond return. Thus you lose, and yes you deserve to loose every game your toxic in for simply being toxic. A toxic player is not a team player and this is a team game. Go play minecraft or something if you want a solo experience.

Warwick the OP2 votes

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What isn't fair is for people to be forced to spend 25mins with you warwick in game. You just admitted to not only being toxic, but blantly harrassing other players. You seem like your really hate playing, so why are you wasting your time if you don't enjoy it. Grow up and learn the facts, When a game between two teams of 5 is held, one team is gonna lose. So its not fair you have to lose? Get good as people would say. Even people in diamond and challenger loose around 40-45% of their games. Why? because no matter how good they are they can only contribute so much. So your top and bot loses lane, they feeding? Inteing? Not exactly, they may just be less skilled than their enemys, though someone like you with an IQ of 4 prob has never considered this, nor the fact that raging someone whos already in a bad situation could permantly tilt them beyond return. Thus you lose, and yes you deserve to loose every game your toxic in for simply being toxic. A toxic player is not a team player and this is a team game. Go play minecraft or something if you want a solo experience.

not my fault that they are garbage at this game. they should stop playing if they feed in every single game they play in

GreatWhiteNorth1 votes

You admitted that you don't know how to carry a bad game, and that you don't enjoy the game when you are losing.

Essentially, you hate the game about 50% of the time.

Why are you still playing?

YerroFever1 votes

Toxicity goes down as the higher you get. Usually the hyper toxic people get banned and have to start over and get banned again before they hit 30 and start over and get banned again... and again... and again...

Lucian Waifu1 votes

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Toxicity goes down as the higher you get. Usually the hyper toxic people get banned and have to start over and get banned again before they hit 30 and start over and get banned again... and again... and again...

You have to get extremely high for that to happen. The least toxic places are G5-G2 and then D3 and up. Low Plat and low diamond are horrendously toxic, low diamond even worse than plat.

GreatWhiteNorth1 votes

Bronze III is incredibly non toxic. Elo heaven.

Warwick the OP1 votes

Thats because my internet service provider has gone to shit and ive not played much recently because of that. I wish I coudl play without the 600 ms but oh well.

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