Current State of SoloQ Community Response 

I’m devastated by the accusations against my character and for my mental health have made statement below. At 16:15 I did not fart my dog woke up and had a shake, you are hearing his ears slap not my cheeks. I’m sorry for those who are disappointed. #FartGate

Bringing back the tribunal system would be such a great idea for league of legends. In Dota 2 they have a tribunal system (called overwatch) where high Elo players with a great communication score (Honor system in league) moderate trolls not trying to win, and something actually happens. You can even see full perspective, so if someone is tabbing out flaming in chat. Pinging teammates or even just full blown giving up... So you can give punishments to someone ruining the game for everyone else.

This video is a total experiment and the amount of times I say like... is 'like' actually 'like' cringe I'm never using that word again like ever

riot is only doing whats easy to do like chat banning me if i call my 2/32 botlane retared but they wont ban my full ap draven after he decided to run it

Yesterday I played 3 soloq games with my buddy in low emerald lobbies. I never felt as hopeless and useless as those few games. I dont even care about matchmaking and smurfs, the game has too much damage. Good luck outplaying someone who's ahead. They will just smash their head on keyboard and deal 2/3 of hp in seconds while running around like a maniac. Those 3 low emerald games literally had worse quality than silver-gold games I head back 3 years ago. I felt like I was losing my braincells every time our team was araming midlane in "highly competitive" game. Arena feels more like soloq than soloq itself. Riot overcooked their game.

Riot August said recently during one of his streams on Twitch that League of Legends had its peak (amount of players) a couple years ago which means the game is declining. Riot Phreak also said that from now on (next patch) they are going to balance the game around statistics from China, but I do believe that also someone else linked to Riot said that the game is declining in the "West". So Im pretty damn sure the overall player number is declining or at least stagnated (China making up for the loses in the West).

They do ban high elo players for trolling, they just assume low elo players are r...

41:05 Twisted Treeline is so forgotten, it's getting called Howling Abyss now :(

My only worry with a league tribunal system is that league players are assholes. Especially the higher up you go i genuinely dont think half of them have the mental capacity to put themselves in someone else's shoes enough to do this. So im sure most members would be very heavy on the ban option.

As a lvl 600 player, i can personally say that i would usually always buy a skin durring a holiday or 3 day weekend or on my birthday. Sure, i had my main solo q champs, but I really never got bored because I would learn a new champ and for a while that champ would be my favorite, like Gnar for example, and i'd buy skins for gnar. There's and endless amount of skins. I don't play Gnar in solo to climb, but i still buy lots of skins for him bc he is one of my favorites. As I learned new champs and expanded my pool, i'd buy more skins in tandem. I take the opposite stance here and I would say that because i had tons of skins on my main, it made playing aram so much more enjoyable. I LOVED playing all my different skins in aram. I quit playing because of smurfs and I actively told riot that they aren't getting another penny out of me until smurfs are dealth with. In my case, I can attest that I would deffinitly spend more money on my main because it's my main, and no, it's not like getting blood from a stone... It's fix the game and then i'll buy stuff. I'm not spending a single penny on a smurf and i'll die on that hill, i don't care what rank i am.

commenting for algorithm, tribunal you just got a chat log to vote on. one of my favourite league channels, unique content. keep it up

Straight to the point - League has been around for almost 15 years and the matchmaking is the worst it's ever been so I don't expect nothing to change. As we all know it's a team game but with very specific roles. It's absolutely ludicrous that four players on the team can try their best and perform well at their chosen role, doing everything possible to try to get the win. But the one player on their team who runs it down 0 - 20 while typing toxic abuse in chat etc can lose the game for the whole team making it a completely unwinnable, then everyone ends up losing the SAME amount of LP in RANKED! CRAZY. RANKED - If LP gain/loss was based on performance and not ONLY a outdated (2009) WIN or LOSS then good players would inevitably climb and bad players, especially trolls will obviously fall down in to the piss about ELO called IRON, where they all compete to see who can INT and feed the hardest. This would bring a lot more people to RANKED because it's a much more rewarding experience IMO. How can the game be marketed so hard as a TEAM game, with ROLES. When the only role which has a impact on gaining or losing LP is "TROLL". EVERY player should be rewarded on THEIR OWN PERFORMANCE! Even when you get the disgusting top laner who purposely runs it down 0 - 20 and hands you a loss, it's OK because you played 13 - 1 and had the most damage, most gold, and over an 80 percent kill participation so you will be gaining LP, while that troll who single headedly lost the game for the other four players will be losing a ton of LP because he played like absolute dog sht in a toxic manner. Can honestly say that I think this will also stop so many people tilting because their entire ranked experience is not held hostage or in the hands of they ever so reoccurring toxic players. Bring the game in to 2024 FFS. Love your videos Rew, keep them coming!

13:50 I actually have gotten *one* notification that somebody was *punished* (not banned) for intentionally feeding once. I wish I took a screenshot. It actually just happened 3 days ago. However, it's literally been once and only once. in the last few years, all of the other ones have been for inappropriate chat. And the ratio would probably be like 200+:1 or something. So inters can get punished, but like, it barely happens. And I think it happens more when everybody reports the same person for inting. Because the person who was punished was somebody who pissed off the entire team, didn't type once, and went like 0/12. everybody reported them.

in response to what you said at 13:55 about trolling penalties, i had a message after the game that was like "weve issued a penalty to a player in one of your games for sabotaging the team. heres 20 consolation LP and 2 autofill shields" and that felt great cause i had teammates that went 0/16/0 in BOTH games i played. i have a ss, i couldnt believe rito would do that.

I knew riot lost their marbles when i was system muted and lost honor because i told someone to die in aram (you know aram, the game mode where the only way to reset and spend your gold is by dying?).. i had to message riot to get the mute removed which they did tbf but still

The most insane situations that really grind my gears are when there is someone clearly inting and griefing you game and then when you call them a fking idiot for wasting everyone's time you are the one getting banned and he gets to grief more games scot free

the pinacle of stupidity that this developers demonstrated is that u can get chat restricted for asking enemy team for reports when ur jglr clearly typed in teamchat "gl im afk farming" (proceeds to do so) Funilly enough the only one that gets chat restricted and 5 games penalty is u... because asking actively for other players to report the toxic guy ruining the game apparently " ruins" the experience for other players. Meanwhile the guy that actively sabotaged the game on purpose after dying on river when u pinged him to not go is still allowed to play normally... Funniest part is it dosn't matter if u fill report in game or if u write a ticket to riot itself... They just dont care. (I stiil have 45 min of video left xd, nice video again my man!. doing some work rn and I do love having on the background this type of podcast'ish format )

I got my first chat ban after i accidentally miss typed like with a K at the start. Didnt even know it was a slur. For the rest of the season, even after i got unbanned, i got temp chat restrictions for just complaining about my team normally, stuff I said. But my main issue is that i couldnt appeal my first chat ban, even though in context you could see it was an accident

Akined to how Korea requires citizenship or something for an account, make it so you need a phone number for an account and you can't reuse the same number for multiple accounts

The main crazy part about the troll/smurf situation is how the grass really is greener on the other side when playing dota. Ive never had someone run it down in my dota games yet the most ive seen is toxicity in chat where everyone still tries to win and a total of 10ish smurfs over ~600 hrs(all 10 were before the recent smurf banwave) I swapped after a stupid chat ban and then in the next game that i had 2 people trolling with 4/5culls I was d2 in lol played every day but 1 game i had a karma just walking into the enemy not using abilities and i said "can you stop getting into terrible fights and just poke with rq dmg " That of all things got me chat banned I appealed of course cause it was dumb and they said " commenting on someone's performance In a non-construtive way.." highlighted in bold is why i got banned when asking how is that not the perfect example of constructive criticism they said "please keep in mind that constructive feedback is welcome in the chat only when asked for by the other player." Not even mentioned is thr fact that karma with imperial mandate rush had 300 dmg done with the item at the end of the game and 7k dmg dont total in a 30 min game Meanwhile in the same ticket i sent screenshots and the match id for the game with both the trolls and ofc both just kept playing ranked cause they were never banned or even forced to play norms Vanguard being added soon after also cemented my decision to notcome back and just give the incompetent company that is known for lying about data full 24/7 access to my pc especially when i personally know botters who are still running their farms business as usual

Lots of the problems can be fixed with making it so you can only have 1 account! It would force people to be less toxic, not afk, smurfs and boosting. Simple fix. Smurfing is the biggest problem, Ruins matchmaking and is unfair to people who are legitimately that rank. Make it so you can only have 1 account and are forced to play in your own rank. And if you wanna play with friends play norms! That's what they are for. And as far as trolling, if you know you can only have 1 account you're less likely to troll knowing you can't just go make another account and avoid any punishment. And the riot needs to ban on time not games. Like first offense banned a week, 2nd banned a month and so on and so on.

Tribunal imo, would have to be players over a certain level (maybe at least level 500) who are maintaining honor level 5, and have not been banned previously. Basically a seasoned (not a smurf) player who has a clean record.

About the tribunal -- there are things I like about it, but: 1) it can lead to player A being judged way more harshly than player B, because tribunal judges can vary wildly, even if they're all trying to be fair. Some people are just way harsher than others. An algorithm that bans inters at least is consistent, applying the same standards to everyone. 2) if John play five games, maybe John see three people worth reporting. Let's say that one tribunal case needs five reviews. Okay, so then after five games, John needs to review 3 * 5 = 15 tribunal cases, to be "tribunal neutral." If John doesn't review 15 tribunal cases after playing 5 games, then he's creating a tribunal backlog, and others need to review even more cases to work through that backlog. So in practice, the tribunal just creates a huge backlog of cases because not enough people review the tribunal, and inters aren't punished quickly enough. Whereas an algorithm is quick, and can ban the really blatant inters incredibly quickly (it doesn't have to wait for two weeks for tribunal judges to review the case). As for your "people don't falsely report others" -- some people absolutely do report people just for having a really bad game.

The game is not as bad as ppl claim it to be. I stopped playing it only because i had nothing else to reach after chall and playing competitively for a little(I revealed that team sports are not rly my thing). I can assure you anyone can reach high elo if you're somewhat good. If you don't reach it it's not the system, sorry. Ppl just have absurdly dogshit mentals. They play it like a socials game and barely focus on the actual game. You don't need fkn coaches, youtubers, twitch streamers, all you need to do is download your little replay and watch it, note what was good and what was dogshit garbage, keep doing the good things, think about what else you could've done in the bad shit. At the very max compare it to a pro what did they do in a similar situation(soloq game not pro game). What did they DO, not say. Think about why did they get to that conclusion and how what you initially thought is complete garbage. Enjoy high elo, you can thank me later. And remember you don't need to pay half your(or your dad's) monthly salary for disgusting posers that call themselves coaches. Jk there are some good ones, but you don't need them unless you're challenger and planning to go pro.

This video is pretty spot on. I had an account with over 8,000$ in value that had been there SINCE THE FIRST WEEK THE GAME RELEASED. I got chat restricted one day some years into playing league and decided i had way too much value in my account to risk it so i just stayed completely silent in 99% of my games, only ever typed in things to let teammates know what my plan was, like "path bot skip camp lvl 3 gank". One day i was in a game a great game at that my team was slamming, and the enemy jungler was just being an absolute troll running it down handing us the victory on a platter and i typed in all chat "sorry that your jg is being a moron". I finished out the day woke up the next day to a perma. I went from no penalties, to a 3 day chat restriction, to a perma without so much as cursing at someone or spamming or harassing. I quit league for 3 years over that. I knew coming back that i wouldn't put any money into the game again, but I made it a point to not talk in chat in any meaningful way, the only things I say AT ALL is "starting blue/red" "no leash" and then ping my movements in the jg. I still got a chat suspension somehow, and this is the most tryhard account i've ever had. I furiously sweat to try and carry my games and keep my chat to nothing more than what i just stated and yet i still got a restriction. I believe their system is more than just keywords i think if people report you enough you just get punished anyways and riot sees it as "well something had to happen for them to report you and it happened enough so we're not really gonna argue against it"

Yooo that basketball example is EXACTLY what i say. You are just expected to deal with it in league, when you wouldnt anywhere else

I literally uninstalled the game, opened yt and had this video pop up

I'm in gold mid main, was emerald last season. everygame I have to stomp 1v9 and consistently i get 20 kills and sometimes still lose because i'm not chall and can't carry with 2 people who don't or refuse to contribute. worst gaming experience i've ever had so now i cba and play random champs cuz i know im not getting back to emerald 1

The main character syndrome I believe is the primary intersection of so many things that create the negative experience talked about in these videos, and it absolutely is a syndrome that is a product of the game's design. Characters are overloaded and have created the expectation that a single person *should* be able to carry in any role in any situation, within any team comp. That was not the case in early seasons. Champions used to have very clear strengths and weaknesses that would rely on complimentary roles and teamplay in order to thrive. Now, those dynamics still have a presence, but why go through the trouble when you can just pick something like Yone, or Ksante which are much more self-reliant? And when everyone is playing a more self-reliant champion, everyone has the power fantasy of being the carry. This cascades into more FFs, and more toxicity and negativity because if someone isn't getting to play the game as the big dumb hero, then they would rather go next. I also feel this dovetails into engagement-based matchmaking, which is tailoring lobbies to cater to this mindset, and is why lobbies feel so coin-flipped and swingy. Rather than those moments happening organically, the game feels contrived to create those moments to drive engagement, and is why I think people feel less and less agency over outcomes of games, even when playing well. In short the game has been designed into a sort of mirage to entice players that "maybe the next game is where I pop off", and matchmaking is holding the keys to facilitate that, and knows how to push players into playing as much as possible to chase that hit.

Oh my god. If there could be a ranked que that you can only join if you paid, say, $5/M or something, I would be SO into that.

this is the video i listened to while being on autopilot with a troll jg and top in my team. i would love to see one more with comments from this video or other vids

Whenever I duo on my other account with my one friend who is in bronze, the games often feel genuinely harder than I remember games in emerald being not too long ago. It feels like there are quite a lot of smurfs, many players doing things far beyond what a bronze player would do, and many players especially on our teams for some reason have incredibly weak mental, they just leave the game after one or two deaths or over one or two insults from someone else on the team.

I really enjoyed listening through the 3 videos! You're the only one I've heard say EXACTLY what I've been saying for years now about the state of League. I dang near agree with everything you've said! Really good commentary and input. I really hope Riot fixes these issues... It's getting to be way too much. Too much time wasted. I've always said, "The actual game of League is phenomenal and fun! It's the players that ruin the game..."

The thing with corporations is that none of them are truly incentivized financially to care about UX (user experience). Moreover, they cannot quantify it and that's important for reviewing yearly/quarterly reports. So if they decide to do the right thing in their perspective and implement all these anti-troll systems, they're quite literally throwing resources at air

I’ve had honour 5 every season since they launched it. Everyday I get multiple notifications when I log in that players are being punished for whatever I write reports for (some are well thought out, others not so much). Once people start typing, you can almost immediately tell that they’ve been chat banned before or will get chat banned in just a couple games. Sometimes just asking people how old they are helps. Folks need to remember that they’re an adult and lower their blood pressure xd My only recommendation to these people is to stop playing and find peace ✌️ First time viewer. Thanks for the rant 🤟🏻

About the Int-Feeding bans, once I had a friend of mine test this out in a smurf acc I had. He literaly picked Nunu Cleanse Ghost, run it down, and spammed in chat "i will run it down gl". The account only got a 14 day ban. You literally have to EARN the int-feed ban, it's crazy.

I just love listening to podcasts about league's ranked system. You have a very soothing voice btw

Riot doesn't need to implement weekly or permanent bans. That 1/10 aatrox should absolutely get banned, just not for as long. Have a 5 game ranked restriction for being a dirty inter. Also variable LP gains / losses based on performance will vastly help. The worst performing player loses the most LP, the best performing player loses the least LP.

watched till the end mate, enjoying your content allot since accidentally stumbling upon your live. much love mate

25:50 to be fair there are absolutely people who just randomly start reporting their ream when they get triggered, even many streamers do this. Although thats not really a good counter point to your point because you could probably quite easily detect that and stop taking their reports seriously. In regards to your tribunal idea, it definitely sounds like a very reasonable idea that could work very well in theory. Although I have to assume that its probably a lot harder to actually implement in practice, otherwise I find it hard to believe why Riot wouldn't "just" implement something like that. One of the most important things I have learned as part of my studies is that systems that sounds great in theory are often far far harder to implement than one would anticipate. Thats why I am very skeptical of "simple wonder solutions" as a baseline. Although thats of course a very speculative counter-point, and even if an idea is more complex to implement that anticipated, that doesn't mean that idea is bad. And who knows, maybe the reason why they don't do it really is just... "skins"!!

i have given up on my climb out of emerald into diamond this year. i just cant deal with the coinflip stress. i dont mind losing a game when its a "good game". the problem is there are either smurfs or trolls in almost every game making it nearly impossible to climb

I think a very important thing to consider is the time investment it takes to climb, or "reach your true rank". If you played 3 Ranked games every single day without fail you would reach 500 games in 6-7 months. Each Ranked split now is 4 months. Your rank will reset around the 350-360 game mark. To get 500 games in a split you'd have to be playing 4 games every day, with half of those days playing 5. That's likely about 3 hours if we account for queue times and short breaks, provided that games are all about 30 minutes. That's 3 hours of Ranked League of Legends games, every single day, for 4 months. That's a new torture method.

Only after watching this video do I see how bad it is, I started playing ranked again this week after being 6 years clean and I got placed in bronze, I’ve got about 20 games played now. Games are genuinely decided by smurfs and inters. You either get a 20/0 draven on your team, or the enemy gets two smurfs that go 10/0. And if none of this happens, you get a laner that ints because he feels like he didn’t get ganked enough. This is just my last 3 games played and I genuinely do not want to play ranked anymore. So naturally I try to queue up for a normal game and try some mid, but for the life of me I cannot get mid, I always get my secondary role. And ofcourse if by some miracle I do get mid, the game turns to a remake

Made it to the end! Something that I do wish riot took under consideration was instead of a defeat always ending in negative lp, have it base how much LP you lose or gain based on how well you played. Riot is already telling you in the post game results "Hey you got an S rank, but uh oh you lost the game" so full negative lp loss. Give everyone an incentive to keep trying. Its kinda disheartening to play really well, to then lose the match and also get the full loss of LP ontop of it.

The good thing of people being looked at if the enemy reports them, is that it prevents premids of 4 all just gangning on you and verble abousing you in normals and you geting punished for it because they are 4 and you are 1. Instead it leads the player on the other team deciding which ones gets punished and not.

The netflix and play thing is so real. I do that A LOT. I'm so tired of toxic teammates fighting almost every game. The mental exhaustion I feel trying to play those games became too much

Only 720p... cant even read the commands proparly

There are two things I would just like to say about this. I think Tribunal is a big thing to bring back. CS.GO has the VAC Reviews where higher ranked players can watch replays of games of the person reported and it's a good system to have the community help with something the Dev team might not have time for and those higher players have the knowledge to most likely see if something is off. Second is that I think it would be easier for players to enjoy the game if they would really play with only the rank/MMR they have and only changing if you do well in those games for it to rise and have you face a rank higher players. Basically like ranked, if you are Silver I and want to get to Gold IV, then you have to beat Gold IV players. It would eliminate the huge skill gap in some games with players that don't know what they are doing quite yet who are dying to the account level 400 Emerald player. It wouldn't make the game fun for the new player or maybe not even new player but rather players who don't have the skill set in this game yet. It would be better to look into the whole MMR and narrowing it down a little. I get games in ARAM (because I just want a quick game) where I'm playing against Emeralds and even Diamonds, while only being ranked Bronze (because I barely play ranked and don't grind it, I just play it when I feel I could have a good day playing it). So the MMR is completely off still. It's just a simple, if you play good, then you play with players in your skill set, if you have no clue what you are doing then you should get put in games with similar players doing the same, that way it will become a learning ground for them against each other.

one point ill make about the lower ranks learning from higher ranks section is that if you put a grand master or any proper high elo player in a low elo lobby he does not play the same way he does in high elo, high elo is a different game there is a reason why the kills per minute get lower the higher rank you are, people respect your knowledge and play around it. but put them in a low elo game and they will abuse every detail. its like watching an iron player stand in a nasus w they wont learn not to do it because they dont think its hurting them. they have to play nasus themselves to learn. its the same thing. its a knowledge gap and they wont understand how they are being gapped

I could really relate to your last video. I had no history of giving up or soft inting (playing since S1), but after i got chat restricted, losing my honor 5 going to 0.0 and getting suspended for 14 days for using the word "retarded" repeatedly in season 13 (I did not write it over and over on purpose, it's just part of my vocabulary when i'm describing something i find rediculous of idiotic), I became that guy you described. I started fluctuating between diamond and high plat, throwing games, saying "ff" and soft inting if anything didnt go my way, or someone as much as pinged me or said anything negative to me. I'm not really sure how it came to this, and I'm trying to fix my attitude, but one things is sure: I've lost all respect for Riot, and their honour / report system, and to this day I don't give a shit about being nice in their game anymore, because they've antagonized and punished me for something so rediculous (made it to the end)

Just had someone go 0/15 as morde.. i got 24 consolation lp though, but damn 0/15..

We made it to the end G, probs the best channel I've found in the last year. Well done bro, end of the day we love league and want what is best

Over the years I’ve learned that there is nothing you can do to make your teammates better at the game, most players just have a ridiculous ego and think they are the best player alive, your teammates can’t do wrong in their mind, most you can do is make sure you keep a gold lead and hope for the best. I lose a lot of games where I have a 2k gold lead on my laner and a cs lead, it just kinda iz what it iz. Focus on your own game and hope for the best.

Trolls and inters, ruin the game for me. I am rank 102 Hec, and I am silver 4 now. Peaked at Emerald. This game is not fun because of the trolls and inters, and I can't play games because they ruined it. I know I am good, I know I am better than 80% of LoL players Jungle. Yet I get the bad coin flip on my Main account. Paid for a Masters account, after 100 games I am almost grandmaster and I don't even want play it because I didn't make the account. League has lost its luster when paid for Masters. It showed me my skill is way above my rank, which means Riot is awful at ranking.

The only reason why I still play league since season 2 is I want to be a witch using my Coven Morgana or wanted to see people fly using my Janna, that's it, my skill far exceeds most of my teammates but it doesn't really matter if you're support, you can't carry 4 if the opposing team is on par with your skill or close to it, teamwork wins games, no matter how good and experienced you are, it's still the worst teammates that will decide if they want to get carried or not. League is dead, the only thing keeping people from playing it is because they have been attached to certain champs like myself, I only play Janna or Morgana depending on my mood, I might get winstreaks but I still stop at certain points cause it's not really fun anymore and it's just an avenue to waste time if you're bored and have nothing to do.

Loved this style of video, made it to the end and really enjoyed listening to your responses!

Just a quick correction. During the tribunal era you couldn't watch replays. You got a list of kda, items, and the full chat log and you had to skim through the information and make a decision based off the limited information you had. If you made a unanimous decision with other tribunal members the player got banned. They would reward tribunal members with xp boosts and exclusive skins that later became available to everyone once the tribunal was removed. I miss the tribunal era because as a member i felt I could make a positive impact on the game. As for false positives there was an appeal system where a rioter could manually go over the same information and possibly reverse the ban.

I started getting into adc and I am shocked as to how many troll supports I get. Ive had 3 back to back troll supports who sat under tower, flashed, and spam pinged from the moment the game started. I want to say about 20-25% of my games are with a troll support. Ive never had such a horrible time playing ranked.(started in S8)

The coach for my Am team actually talked about soloqueue recently and said some things that I agree with. He basically said that when we go into solo queue, we should be focusing on our own play and trying to improve aspects of our play. Using that mentality has actually helped me not tilt when my teammates are trolling. Since I'm offroling adc, I'm trying to focus more and trading, and team fighting because those are the weakest parts of my game right now. I know that my teammates and I have a different perspective and different goal for playing ranked than most people so I don't think it'll work for everyone, but this actually helped my mental state during solo queue games a lot. I obviously like having good competitive games too but focusing on myself and my play is the best way for me to play ranked. that being said, everyone on my team has lower winrates and lower ranks then they should have right now because of poor game quality. it's frustrating but as long as we're improving as players, we'll start climbing again.

Most of the issues you bring up have been addressed by dota 2; all Riot needs to do is do what they do best and steal from Dota and it would fix 80% of these issues instantly Edit: To be specific, overwatch cases for banning, phone numbers for ranked to name the biggest two

as off meta player who performs at the top of the team but gets the heat aynway because of picks, i say fk ppl who say "fk false positives"

I have received 1 warning my entire time playing league (since season 3) and it was for saying “fuck, I suck” after I made a bad play. Yet people will intentionally lose games, even write in chat that they “don’t care if they win” or “you deserve to lose” and nothing happens to them. And yes, I have been screaming that lvl 30 accounts are what is ruining league. Implement the phone verification for ranked! I am %100 on board with that idea!!!

So, regarding the tribunal - no. We did not watch the game. We were given the chat log, stats and items. The replay system wouldn't be a thing for another 2 seasons by the time the Tribunal was retired. Chat Restrictions were implemented in the beginning of Season 4 btw, immediately after the Tribunal was retired. Also. Chat Restrictions aren't really false positives anymore? When it was just implemented, I got one from... pretty much not chatting ever. Haven't gotten one since.

im rather frustrated by smurfs rather than trolls to be honest, simply because the troll might stop trolling, and play to win, while smurf will crush you, you learn nothing, you waste your time, and you get frustrated, sorry but im reporting smurfs along the way just for my sanity, go to your main accounts and prove yourself there, if you want to boost your ego, you can crush players in normals, no need to ruin ranked games as smurf

Team Scouting in champ select would also remove a ton of the troll issues! You uses to be able to atleast dodge if ur adc had gone 0/14 the last 3 games today. Now you can't see until you're in load screen

Just matchmake by rank. And have some bonuses that allow to skip however many pips you got winstreak (idk) It will be better than closed mmr system. And yes, I hate behind the scenes mmr. Alternatively, screw ranks. Delete them from the game. Just have a normal "first come, first served" queue; and a better rewards normal queue, with mmr matchmaking by the game.

I hate that hyper carry/mega split pushers are super common in soloq, also playing the game where the enemy team has a clear disparity with your own team is unbearable

I got chat banned for saying “midget” when referring to a Viegar… yet the guy that gives out instructions on how to tie a noose DOESN’T GET ANYTHING?! 💀

The major issue is people dying once then running it down over and over in 60% of my games it’s crazy. So hard to carry games like that

The point of "riot wants to keep smurfs because they buy skins" is the only point I find hard to believe. I don't see how anyone who just wants to smurf or run down some games on a bought account would want to spend $10 or more on skins. The problem of smurfs might just be a byproduct of riot being too lazy to do anything and since it increases the player count numbers at lower elos, the internal metrics just can't pick up how bad of a problem this is.

There was a picture for the average monthly players in league 2018: 75 million 2019: 116 million 2020: 137 million 2021: 149 million 2022: 152 million 2023: 151 million 2024: 132 million SO MANY people left league this system and by looking at everyone I've seen people also started playing much less a lot of people play like 5 games a week even if they played like 50 games a week before (like me)

I’ve done it all and after playing since season 3 I’ve seen it all. You and cadreal is all I ever watch now as you two are not try hards you guys are REAL FANS

If I can throw in an opinion, I have a friend who went from gold to emerald, after the ranekd changes, and then he went back down to plat and it looks like he might crater back down to gold. It's been hugely demoralizing for him, to go on a massive winstreak and bleed all of the elo back down to plat, possibly gold, and this has hugely deterred him from playing ranked as much as he used to. (I did duo-queue with him during this time, and he's started blaming himself for much more than he used to, since he was playing above his elo with me and it was much more evident who the weakest link was. All of this culminated in him playing even worse for a time, because NOW he was being too careful when playing.) For this reason, I think Elo should be stagnant for as long as you are skillwise, only fluctuating when you do. it feels more rewarding this way, and much less bad when you do lose elo. Additionally, it doesnt destroy your confidence as much, because the coinflip up 2 elos and cratering back down isnt possible. The ranked changes granting more LP below emerald make this much more volatile aswell. Just my 2 cents. 👍

bounty is not enough to get back into the game unless game is very long when you can catch up in levels

Too much damage. Can't carry because everyone one shots you. Can't strategize and outplay the opponent because it's whoever one shots you, not who plays it better. Everything boils down to that. Easy fix, Riot just needs to take every champion in the game and reduce their damage by say 10%. The patches are a joke, the only broken champion they actually nerfed this patch was karthus. They refuse to touch jhin, caitlyn who have been one shotting everyone for months, or garen having the highest winrate in the game in every role. Losers Queue is real, and it's tied to reports. If you love tahm kenching on Riot's serrated dirk, explain how I have an account with a 32% winrate over 95 games in gold, and another account with a 68% winrate in high emerald over 134 games. Same player, same roles, same playstyle, same champions. And no I do not tilt queue or rage quit. They won't ban inters or griefers. Try it yourself, get an account, run it down, get like 1 assist or kill and hard grief, see if you get banned. Pick syndra and just follow your jungler around resetting their buffs. Play anivia and block your team into their deaths or spit them into the enemy as tahm, whatever. You will never get banned. Another huge problem is that League players do not want to win. Go into a game and start saying you want to win, ask them if they want to win, they will legitimately freak out and say it's just a game and to report you. It's like some strange NPC interaction. Next time your team is flaming you while you're carrying them, ask them if you should leave, they will tell you to leave. They do not care about winning, only ego. Stop flaming junglers. I am so sick of getting blamed every game when we have 2 drakes to 0, 6 grubs, and I'm up 3 levels. Yet I'm being griefed or flamed by the entire team for not ganking their losing lane against full health champions that can easily kill us, or when I did gank they didn't even go in. Or better yet, when I'm spam pinging them to help drake and they don't and the whole enemy team comes and takes it, then I'm flamed for having no drakes. Just in case you're wondering what I'm reported for in low elo that puts me in losers queue, it's just for playing the jungle role. And by the way, Riot says it's against ToS to say to report someone, enforce this so I stop getting spammed all game in all chat to report me for playing jungle.

My low elo ass wondering why soraka split pushing is so bad

My worst experience ever in League was the following: A guy named YuumiTopOhTeePee hovered Yuumi Toplane. So casually i banned that shit right? Then the guy did not write or flame or anything. He just picked Irelia and we went into the game. He then came to me on Botlane starting at LV 1 and took every minion he could. He died trying. Didnt care. Then i go Toplane, he follows, i go jungle clear camps he follows. He did it for 20 Minutes because he kept us Hostage and we couldnt ff at 15. Then i write a Ticket to Riot. And the answer was: We cannot ban someone for having 1 bad Game. As if that Situation was not totally and 100% intended by YuumiTopOhTeePee. After that the Riot employee also wrote: Players like this, will get banned eventually. So he told me that even if that game was banworthy, they are just gonna wait until that guy ruined another 30 Games. Crazy....

32:44 should point out that one of the main reasons people don't report, especially inting on the enemy team, is because why would you when nothing happen? I used to report every time somebody trolled when I first started in this game but I can't remember the last time I reported somebody, Because why? It doesn't do anything. The only report that used to work was for toxicity, but now they track keywords so you don't even need to report them because if they used a keyword they will be punished and if they didn't they won't. I don't even know why we have a report system, I guess it's really just a means of venting frustration when somebody ints you even though you know nothing will happen.

I'm a Diamond jungler. Let me tell you how the Hell it feels. If your laners lose lane or choose champions that cannot out shove the minion wave of the opponents then your entire jungle gets warded up and they see everything you do. So much vision in this game and it has to be nerfed. Furthermore once the vision is on you they just take your camps if you don't ward the opposite side of where you are. Then once the outer towers are gone you have almost zero way to get back into the game because they are so far ahead in gold and they take all your experience and camps. So you just become a useless appendage and the support has more value. Playing this game as a jungler sucks but I can't quit because I'm addicted. I hate it here.

Wdym you'd be annoyed IF your adc and supp went 0/21? That's a when, I don't think I've had a single bot lane win in months.

The sad reality is that all of Riot's attention is likely on KR and CN (see: the whale skin sales performing fantastically in those servers), and I could be wrong but I think these issues aren't nearly as prevalent in those servers

Not only are chat restrictions too strict. But you can't even type in PARTY CHAT while chat restricted. WHICH MAKES NO SENSE.

I listened to this while cleaning like its a podcast lmao love the feedbacks about griefers and smurfs as well as the tribunal system! I highly doubt that riot will really take action towards these common if not, most prevalent problems in the rift due to esports scene being more of their priority over solo queue, but i certainly do hope that they at least adjust these situations because man, ive met tons of people hardstuck in bronze but completely stomping their lane opponents and the whole enemy team if they are given properly functioning teammates. Really sad to see them rot in a place where they dont belong in specially since they do grind the game on a daily basis.

omg, I love your voice, this waas so nice to listen to

I don't care how many times riot chat bans me. I will never stop calling the enemy jungler a pussy in order to bait them into ganking me. If you're wondering why I do this, it is because when the enemy top laner hasn't fought me in the last 5 seconds I got bored.

Bausffs viewers will permaban him on all of his accounts with this system

Honestly, having come back to League after deleting my original account (lvl 136, iron/bronze) and coming back into it years later to see the new ranks and these issues definitely makes playing ranked even more daunting. I've ran into the inting case just yesterday in norms. Scarner jungle just admitting to running it down in chat and nothing gets done, it's genuinely wild. Also, your idea sounds just like CS:GO's Overwatch system, where players would be selected to review sections of games just after someone got reported, and it contained check boxes after the replay for cheaters and inters alike. It genuinely was so much fun to overwatch and it sounds like league could really use it. Also, made it to the end lol

All of the recent changes to league is so frustrating and tilting its impossible to have actual enjoyable games now. Saying a single word or pinging twice either gets you fullmuted by your team or chat banned. You ping your jg? Good luck being in an island for the rest of the game. You die once? Congrats you lose 2 plates and are now 500 gold and 2 levels behind. Matchmaking is a complete joke and the lack of communication makes teamwork actively detrimental. I'm straight up done with ranked and just for fun in normals or flex playing random sht. Riot is just incompetent.

500 stack smolder struggling to kill a fucking mundo is wild to me, just when i wanted to play bolder

About that "main character syndrome", if u want to climb and go watch some educational youtubes about how to do that, every single streamer, or coach, especially for low elo, is saying "just mute all at start", "dont listen to pings, do what you know is best", "they might be trollin, but if you ignore them and play your best you will climb". If you accept those philosophies, and add the fact that 50-80% of people in every game is chat restricted, ranked just look like playing those starter bot games, where you and 4 bots are vs 5 bots. So its no wander that many people can't escape logical conclusion that they need to be main characters in game, and if they can't, they are genuinely unable to play otherwise.

Tie what champs you can pick in ranked with Mastery Lvl. If you dont have 20+ games on a champ last month u shouldnt be allowed to pick it

i think the reason tribunal got taken out is because people were abusing it and wrongfully banning players that weren't doing anything wrong. You can't really trust a jury when they are basically anonymous with no accountability.

It's not too different from season 9, but there is a difference in the mental approach you should have. Having climbed from silver to plat with the usual smurf queue games back then it was quite obvious games in silver/gold were very low quality. Nowadays these kind of low quality games are also found in higher gold which wasn't the case before. The rank distribution is just so different now that it's hard to put it all in perspective. I'm sure some people, especially in silver and gold, are in the games for a different reason than to climb. Those people are in both teams, the opponents and your team. That's the only tough part of soloqueue as having agency over your games give you more mental resilience to weird things happening like AFKs and trolls, but that's a mental game with the soloqueue and I have always noticed that when I get too frustrated there are other reasons for that frustration than League of Legends. I have never had problems climbing other than my own motivation and the system in place seems to still work as it inflated my LP gain after I hardcarried a couple games. I have spread like 200 games over 5 accounts so my sample size is decent but your obversation about people behaving different is one key element to the frustration of soloqueue. My assumption is that the newer generation players might be educated or brought up differently than relatively older players, bringing in the main character syndromes that we see too often. Any time something like that happens, a hissy fit from a guy that thinks his ego is too big to give a free win to a, in his eyes, inferior player means that he too loses LP. There is no reason to be upset about that other than having him waste your time. My last point would be about smurf queue and division skipping. In season 6 I had the fortune to skyrocket through the ranks with an inflated diamond mmr hitting platinum 1 fairly easily. It was hard to get the same result with a plateaued mmr back then, so people took League games very seriously. That got changed into a privilege only people in smurf queue could enjoy, which in turn had its own downsides concentrating the toxic and trolling players that got their previous account permanently or temporarily banned, which was around season 9 I suppose. Riot having removed smurf queue meant that I could not enjoy that privilege this season. I have had a game where I got a 38 LP gain, which to me looked absurd and also meant that game was destined to be a loss if it hadn't been sheer luck. But never did I enjoy the ability to just skip a couple divisions or inflate my mmr, which I think is the sole reason why the current rank system is so flawed as this prevents smurfs having less impact in lower elo games which makes the game generally an unbearable experience for the casual player. My plan is hitting Platinum, Emerald and then Diamond just for the sake of it. Take this with a grain of salt, my ranks were Platinum 1 peak in season 6 and low platinum in the seasons where I had the time and motivation to play the game. I didn't play much the last three seasons so I missed some changes in the rank environment.

I played heavily in early seasons, 2013 to about 2017 and just came back recently. The game is much easier to improve on than it was before or maybe I’m just more focused? I haven’t seen as many trolls as I have back then but maybe I haven’t played enough recently.

Firstly, great video, love this format for listening to in the background and I did make it to the end! Now, my own input on the false flagging. I have a friend of a friend who I occasionally queue 5 stack norms with. He is iron/bronze and used to play a lot of sion doing what many people probably dread from a low elo sion and he would rack up 20 deaths every game. Now he did play to win to the best of his ability and usually bounced between a 48-52% winrate. He isn't a toxic player at all he's just self admittedly bad at league. After playing this way consistently for a few years his account did get false flag banned for trolling. He struggled with riot support for a whole day and eventually got someone to review his account and did get unbanned, but the rioter told him although how he was playing was resulting in a ~50% winrate it could be unfun/discouraging for his allies, misconstrued as trolling, and unsportsmanlike. They essentially told him to either limit his deaths a little more or at least inform his team in lobby of his intentions. I can say now he has abandoned sion for the most part and even climbed to silver. He tells this story with some sense of pride and still mainly plays league for fun, I just think seeing the rare case of a false flag is interesting as he genuinely meant no ill-will with his game play, he just sucked and accidently got banned for it.

DID BRO RIP ASS AT 16:12

There is definitely more botted accounts. My friend has a website rn that he buys level 30s with most champs unlocked and he gets them in packs of 30 for like $3. It's ridiculous, they usually come with some skins too. Idk how it got this crazy

If you spawn then click on the enemy nexus while all tier 1 towers are still up then die 20 seconds later you should be banned. If at 15 minutes you sell all your items and buy 6 rejuvenation beads you should be banned.

Tribunal system sounds amazing, but I feel like the spaghetti code of this indie developer game would implode on itself if they add it lmao

love that you do these longer ones aswell now keep it up buddy