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The reason why league is so toxic

2kewl4life·11/21/2017, 2:04:53 AM·3 votes·1,704 views

I personally think League is simply so toxic becuase it is so team based. Unlike other games, they are not as serious and time consuming as League, so of course people’s toxicity comes out when you loose. For example, you spend 50 grueling minutes on a single game but some guy decides to AFK at the last moment. It also feels like you are doing nothing when you report people, as you are not notified about any punishments carried out. The next reason why League is so toxic is becuase it is so team dependent that you mostly can’t carry a troubled team. Imagine winning bot lane and getting objectives but then your midlaner looses lane and then enemy roams bot and oneshots you. It’s also really hard to climb elo since the game refuses to let you climb bronze if you continuously have relentless feeders and afk. Sometimes you feel like you want to rip yourself from inside out since it’s so frustrating. The most common root of toxicity is simply loosing the game or getting wrecked by the other team. It’s easy to blame your own team when your th real problem. When you are toxic to others, other people get toxic and gather animosity or stress. It’s not easy playing with random strangers you have no control over. I personally think that Riot has a very tunnel visioned approach towards toxicity, they ban many toxic players who just happened to be toxic that one game. Riot fails to ban feeders and other trolls and Riot never has any “player” views on the game. They look from above instead of putting themselves in other people’s shoes. I also think riots balance team is complete bullshit, it’s full of low elo diamonds who don’t actually play League that much to know what the player base needs.

9 Comments

Jamaree11/21/2017, 2:07:17 AM2 votes

Basically that being said who should the game be balanced around because it is impossible to balance around everyone and make everyone happy and you wouldn't not like exclusively high elo balancing.

Magical Player11/21/2017, 2:45:29 AM1 votes

Going in reverse of your points

Riots team is made of low elo diamonds who don't understand the player base gg Where exactly do you think the player base is d2+? over 1/2 the league is below silver 2 riot sends surveys out often to collect data

Riot listens to players alot more than you think the report system for isntance is people directly stating to riot this guy is xyz and is a problem. Riot isn't auto punishing people unless they're reported correctly.

Common root is losing games..... Seriously this isn't wrong but and its a big but this would implicate over 1/2 the player base as being toxic

"can't climb from bronze because of feeders" You are not getting feeders 100% of your games, you are not some hidden challenger player simply because you think you should be if you were you'd be able to solo carry games. If you want to climb play the meta, pick 3 heros and nothing else you will climb with enough time

HabitualSmoker11/26/2017, 8:44:41 AM1 votes

League is no more toxic than any other competitive game. I have played many online competitive games in my life and found leagues community to be no more or no less toxic than any other game. the real problem is all the millenials playing this game that think they are special snowflakes and are entitled to whatever they want. Back in my day people didnt get so easily offended and butthurt when some random person on the internet talked shit.