An Idea for Promoting Good Communication.

Firu·4/21/2016, 2:41:04 PM·4 votes·434 views

Just a quick idea. Would it be possible for Riot to provide the occasional video on the front page or a chat log (with some Rioter's commenting on it) that display when team members communicate appropriately? My hopes that such examples could possibly model good (or acceptable) behavior for people.

For example: A video where a team makes a wrong call on a Dragon or over stays in a push and gets aced. Instead of people raging at each other, the video can show an example of people just saying what went wrong, joking about it in a friendly manner, unhappy with the results but talking about it a friendly manner, or perhaps just saying nothing and moving on?

2 Comments

teaph4/21/2016, 3:21:04 PM1 votes

I think featured videos like Team Fight Breakdown from LoL Esports can help with communication too, in the sense that having decent game knowledge is a co-requisite with communication to better teamplay. I feel understanding each role's contribution, win conditions and possible mistakes can help unite players to become more aware of how to win, thus uniting them to win together. It can be difficult for someone to communicate when they don't have a good understanding of the situation, but good understanding doesn't help if you don't have good communication nor trust in the team.

As someone who plays with friends often, we have plenty of laughs, constructive criticisms, moments of fun and glory, and moments of failed & nailed baits, so I don't have to seek it out. Riot should be able to find some similar snippets on streams and youtube.

Meta Phyton4/26/2016, 11:55:56 PM1 votes

I like the idea.

One interesting thing that I noticed in higher elo matches, though, is that the words don't actually change much - but the player attitudes do.

In higher elo matches, the players just appear to have a more secure and stable psyche. They know that they are fine, they are good players, they have capability in the Rift - so the insults and things do not appear to hurt them so much. So things roll off their back and don't make them suffer.

Something to ponder about.