Can we put the toxic players in a league of their own? || Thoughts with incoming patch 7.13's Honor

LittleOak·6/23/2017, 2:53:54 PM·1 votes·292 views
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I am fairly new to the forum community, so bear with me.

I have only been playing League of Legends for about a year (according to my friend who has been playing since season 2, Rek'sai can be in no way called "an old champion" but I thought she seemed like it since the "new" ones to me are Kled and everything released since his release) and I absolutely love this game. My friends and I spend a good few hours a night after work getting on and playing games with each other rather than hanging out in person when we all live in the same town. So needless to say, I have devoted some time into this game and its community. Whenever I talk to one of my friends who doesn't play the game but loves video games they always say the same thing as I used to when asked to why they won't try league of legends: "there are players that are too toxic and if it already turned me off from playing the game now, playing with them will absolutely destroy the experience."

SO that brings me to today, one year (approximately) since I started playing this awesome game and even as I am typing this, my group message popped with a message about a player in someone's game that was such an ass to the team, he has made my friend not want to play tonight. I'm sure we have all had an experience like this where someone in our games says something that strikes just the right cord with us at the moment that at the end game screen we have to actively fill out the report, and either stop playing for the night or begrudgingly continue playing (more often than not tilted off the face of the earth).

With the PBE being updated with the new honor system and the expected release of patch 7.13, there's finally a way to track a player's behavior over time. Obviously it will depend on how effective the system is and probably couldn't be put to use effectively in high ELO, BUT I personally (as the player who types in at east 80% of my games "stop fighting/Don't give up/we are all on the same team") would not be opposed to an extra minute or two added to my queue time in order to queue up with people who have proven time and time again - thanks to the new honor system - that they aren't the players who flame, drop the N word, spew racist/sexist comments, intentionally feed, attack team mates in chat, go AFK because your support accidentally killed a minion, go AFK because the were first AND second blood and just typed "gg open mid" in all chat until the 15 minute mark where they would just spam the surrender button rather than staying safe under tower or asking a lane to rotate to their lane to try to stop the bleeding and get caught up against different laners.

All of the above instances have been part of my personal experience in league and many of which happen from multiple people on my team in the same game. It's not a good feeling when you get to the end screen and say "wow, I honored that enemy jungler because even though he was winning he still wrote kind things in all chat and made mention of his own 'luck' and that all his skirmishes with our jungler were close but I had to report two of my own two team mates for their super racist and d-bag comments all game".

I'm not trying to play the victim here or draw any sympathy but it can't just be me and my own group of friends that I know that have this problem. Do we think there is any way of implementing someone's honor into queue? Can we take all the toxic flamers and force them to play on the same team as each other? A silver 3 game where all players are honor 1/2? Or better yet, in a way the give them the hope of reform (where toxic player's might not want to honor their own teammates) make the team of Silver 3-Honor 1 players play a game against Silver 3-Honor 4/5 players, and give more weight in that game to the player's with higher honor. Just an interesting thought to help the community and possibly relegate the players that have been keeping the community down, out of the way and bring in a new generation of players who have always been interested in playing but have been held back by the "toxic community".

7 Comments

NinjaGuy696/23/2017, 2:59:35 PM3 votes

Can we take all the toxic flamers and force them to play on the same team as each other?

That is just another variation on Prisoner's Island, which Riot has previously said that they are against implementing. Plus, that may be fair to you and your friends but it isn't fair to someone who is toxic and it trying to reform.

Lastly, this would break the matchmaking system because it would have to try to match people together based on skill level and honor level, which would be far more difficult. Queue times would probably be horrendous.

Weathered6/23/2017, 3:04:12 PM1 votes

As others will say, Riot has said a few times that they do not like the idea of "Prisoners Island".