For a game that wants to stop toxicity, it doesn't make any sense for them to allow /taunt. Taunting is negative and the only purpose for it is to harass other players.
Why is /taunt allowed? What does /taunt add to the game? And how can League really stop toxicity if they are promoting it with /taunt?
TequilaZombie12 votesBecause without /taunt and /laugh Singed would need huge compensation buffs. Kinda like Morde and Rylais.
Radiant Seraph1 votes+999
Villiers3 votesWhy doesn't everyone in life forever and always walk around in a full body pillow suit so no one can ever hurt them in any way, shape or form.
Wonderlands2 votesit's also a mental competition, the one that tilts loses.
Great Muta2 votestry addressing the questions here: Why is /taunt allowed? What does /taunt add to the game? And how can League really stop toxicity if they are promoting it with /taunt?
Wonderlands4 votesWhy is /taunt allowed?
What does /taunt add to the game?
And how can League really stop toxicity if they are promoting it with /taunt?
Great Muta1 votes
- It's a game about killing other beings, we're stabbing each other to death, why wouldn't they allow /taunt?
Because players are able to reported and banned for the slightest things in this current behavior system. /taunt would seem to promote it.
- It obviously tilts YOU so I'm gonna spam it under tower and wait for you to dive me out of anger and get a free kill for myself.
It doesn't. If you are doing that well that you can taunt me, the game is pretty much over anyway.
- Toxicity hurts feelings, taunting doesn't. /taunt isn't toxic smart one.
I'd rather be called a name than taunted. Taunting is regularly punished in most sports leagues.
Wonderlands5 votes"sports leagues"
child this is a video game on a computer, the pro scene may be e-sports, but our version of league is a video game
Great Muta1 votesListen little girl,
It might be a video game but Riot's behavior stances are more like a military school's kindergarden than anything else, especially after the Singed Support fiasco.
Wonderlands5 votesSo what if it is? Leave it if you don't like it since it's just a video game vs. an actual military where deserting is a treasonous crime.
The amount of dislikes on this thread already proves no one is against /taunt other than your easily-offended self.
Great Muta1 votesThe only thing it proves is that:
The downvoting system is being abused, which is usual behavior from the RBSC(Rito Butt Slappers Club). This is why the new section is usually more active than the hot section.
People would rather abuse the downvoting system than actually discuss something which clearly goes against what the game is about.
Wonderlands4 votesOkay, lets go with your ideas of discussion, out of the 4 people that have posted so far, 2 have disagreed with you, and the other 2 is posting memes.
Great Muta1 votesI haven't heard a good argument as to how this encourages a positive playing environment that League wants to promote, which is the crux of the discussion.
My guess is because it doesn't.
Wonderlands3 votesIt absolutely does, it encourages a long standing tradition and how players interact.
"git gud"
Great Muta1 votesIt absolutely does, it encourages a long standing tradition and how players interact.
And the majority of people think league is the most toxic community on the planet, despite it putting more effort than any other game to try and stop that.
GG.
[slayer-jinx-wink]
President Swa1n2 votesIt doesn't encourage positivity, but it doesn't promote negativity either. Not everything in the game must directly advocate being Lux 24/7
President Swa1n2 votesYou're telling me I can get banned in a sport for telling the opposition to "Come at me, bro"?
Great Muta1 votesYou can definitely get penalized for that kind of stuff.
President Swa1n1 votesYou get penalized for direct insults, not playful banter.
Korillo2 votesTaunting ones enemy into a blinding rage has been a tactic used for thousands of years. Why wouldn't I want to put my opponent into a frenzied stupor so that they kill themselves and save me from having to do it myself?
/taunt does not promote toxicity anymore than me auto attacking you promotes toxicity.
Drehirth2 votesimprove your skills
then find me again
ByakuyaTwerkami2 votesAside from the obvious one, to tilt, adding things like taunts and jokes add more to the character you're playing. New Ryze's taunts and jokes give you the idea he's a major smart ass. Stuff like that.
EazyMakaveli21 votesI agree. Even mastery emote serves no purpose other than to harass and annoy other players. i hope you guys realise bronze 5 negative 9000 lp players have mastery 7 on champions.
KVbqbFsC8e1 votesIt is odd, because Riot will ban you for "gg ez" claiming that its unsportsmanlike/negative.
BigBellBrute1 votesRiot's taunts are rather tame. Big difference between YOU DENY THE DARKNESS IN YOUR SOUL, YOU DENY YOUR POWER coming from Vgar and HAHA EZ MONEY CHUMP!!! typed in. Further riot characters taunt other riot characters They don't say YOU SUCK SUMMONER!!! Garen says DARIUS!!! You're not a general, you're a butcher!!! Poppy Says Garen... I think you're the one!!
LegendaryLemur1 votesYi's "your skills are inferior' is not too far from "gg ez". Though i agree with the person who said there's a difference between a champion taunting another champion with /taunt and summoner/player taunting/insulting another player in chat.