Reporting System Is Pointless
The reporting system in League of Legends is 100% garbage. The reason I say this is because the toxicity and trolling in the community has increased not decreased. In the past 3 years of playing league (ranked or normals), I have not had more trolls, afks, or toxic people than I do now. It has gotten worse not only in terms of frequency but also in terms of intensity. Let me give you an example:
I get into a ranked match. At champ select (after the 4th time someone dodged), people select their champs before they ban. Then the ban: which at this point someone decided to intentionally ban a champ that someone has selected. The player says, "Come on man, why did you ban my champ?" The response, "F-you. Your mother is w""re. I f-d your mother." I then think to myself, "this is going to be a loss."
The champ select continues, and then I see our illustrious support (the player who banned intentionally and insulted the other player) select Nunu with smite. So I think, "Ok, this isn't that bad."
The game begins and Nunu decided to run down to red-buff and smite it, stealing it from our JG. He then proceed to run down mid and feed kills. Our JG then tells everyone not to report him because it's his little brother, but then later he tells us it's just his duo buddy and then joins him on the troll and the horrific insults about everyone's mother...etc.
At this point the rest of us give up and try to surrender at the 15 minute mark, without success. Then at 20 minutes mark, without success since the duo won't surrender.
I then started counting the matches where this happens, and out of 20 games, I've had 12 with these types of players. This means that 60% of the time you have this experience in a League of Legends game.
**So now I want to know: What's the point of the reporting system if it actually doesn't cure the problem of trolling and toxicity? **
After so many years, the community has actually gotten worse. So to me this just tells me that the reporting system doesn't do anything. Another conclusion I got was that the toxicity comes from other players sure, but first it comes from the actual games itself. I don't think people really know how to play it and Riot doesn't do a good job at teaching people how to play the game and also helping them understand the scope of the game.
Either way, I think this is my closing statement before my friends and I depart from this game. Riot doesn't seem to care for good players but instead allows toxic players, as my experience has shown. If Riot did care, they would come up with a better system to rid the community of toxicity.
Thanks!