Toxicity and How I Think It Can Be Helped

Many websites list League of Legends as the most toxic online game to date. See above for those links. Toxicity and Verbal Abuse have been a major issue since the beginning, and Riot's current solutions are only a band-aid. On the other hand, in recent years the developers have been working hard on making changes for the better.

To begin I would like to apologize for the long post, but it is important for a game I feel passionate about. I will preface a few things before I get into the proposed solutions.

Preface I understand this is an online multiplayer game. There will never be a perfect solution to get rid of toxicity completely. I also understand there is a mute button, but I have a few issues with that as well. I have been playing since Vel'Koz came out, so roughly 4 years. However, I am only an average player who usually plays norms, with about 1100 games under my belt. My win rate is maybe 50%, I am ranked Bronze II, and I am a college student that doesn't have much time to play unless it's during the summer.

Proposed Solutions There are numerous solutions to this issue. I will only talk about two. Please feel free to comment if you feel something else can be done. The more we come together as a community to get this out there, maybe something will be changed. It really begins with the player.

I really like what Blizzard did with their chat system. They found typical sayings (gg ez, you are bad, etc.) and re-routed them to something else less toxic and possibly humorous. I believe if something like this was implement into League of Legends, then the community would be better as a whole. Most players aren't afraid of being reported/banned. For example whenever someone says "I am going to report you" the typical response is "do it bronzie." However, if players knew their "you are bad" was going to be changed to "It's past my bedtime. Please don't tell my mommy" then they may not say anything at all. Also, players may get a laugh out of it.

For the "Why don't you play Overwatch, then?" response... I didn't enjoy the game. I like League's dynamic leveling system, runes/play styles, and item builds. It's fun, strategic, and engaging. That's just my opinion.

As for the in game mute button. I think League should implement a way for the mute to carry over into the end game screen. That way players can look at their stats in peace. There could possibly be a setting in the options menu to turn off end game chat all together. Like the current turn on/off all chat toggle along with the /muteall command.

I appreciate those of you who took the time to read this long post. I would like to see the community come together in a way to make this game much better. I also hope Riot sees these solutions and thinks of more possibilities in the future.

Edit Changed link below to link above.