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Champions and Swearing

IainG10·6/13/2018, 4:06:53 AM·2 votes·4,063 views

So we now have the reveal of Aatrox's VGU, and however you feel about it, he does have a VO line with a curse word in it (specifically his taunt to Void creatures). Now there are two other champions who at this stage of their life (pre-release) swore, and they were handled differently: Xayah had the word changed to a non-curse version, whilst Kled got a bleep instead. Interesting to not is it's the same word for all three champions: sh*t. Maybe because I'm no longer a minor, or maybe because I'm British and here every child over the age of 12 cusses, but I was highly disappointed in the change to Xayah's VO, and slightly annoyed by Kled's. The vast majority of League's players are old enough to hear curse words; most of the more vocal players are throwing them at eachother every game. Can we please have an option to enable the more adult VOs; I'm not saying it has to be the default, but can it be somewhere. Many games have profanity filters, so tying it to League's, or something close to such a filter, should not be too hard...

And Rito, when you inevitably censor Aatrox, please at least go with the Kled bleep option, so he's still at least swearing, even if you don't know what he says....

Also, customary poll, just 'cause....

8 Comments

Ebonmaw Dragon6/13/2018, 4:19:24 AM2 votes

Kled has the bleep sound effect because it is funny, not because it was censored. Ryze actually swears right now, so, there are not actual problems with champions cursing. Maybe they removed the curse from Xayah because it was a bit out of character?

Infernape6/13/2018, 4:23:19 AM1 votes

League's rated T. Mild profanity is actually allowed. InFamous and Uncharted are both rated T and I can recall Cole MacGrath and Nathan Drake swearing quite a bit.

It's not like Riot would be forced to increase the game's ESRB rating.

SSmotzer6/13/2018, 5:12:23 AM1 votes

It depends on how frequent Aatrox will be saying shit.

MrFrixy8/22/2019, 4:02:25 PM1 votes

And Riot said you have to be 13 yo or older to play lol beside those swearing quotes, what about ahri's death sound, or most of the female champs, especially the skins

The Iceborn11/9/2019, 8:33:39 PM1 votes

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