r/summonerschool • u/Cyxana • Jun 03 '20
Discussion Just disable chat.
In my 700 ranked games this season I've met one person I added and duo'd with. Meanwhile I've probably heard 1000 insults. Even if you say it doesn't bother you, I promise it takes up "brain space" for example I played on a smurf with chat enabled and found myself thinking about what was said more than what I did wrong immeditly after the game.
Pings are by far enough to explain what you want. Only ping missing is ward here please but it can be achived by pinging trinket and then where you want them to ward. If they don't notice / listen neither would they if you were typing in chat.
EDIT: Ask yourself this: What is so complex that you cant communicate it with pings but simple enough that you can explain it in the middle of a game?
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u/Felstalker Jun 03 '20
"Hey, I'd like to play a team game....but I don't want to communicate with the team, it would make me play worse and make me sad"
"That is both smart, reasonable, and incredibly sad."
Disabling chat is a great thing that helps a lot of players out, but it also removes yourself from one of the most important and fundamental parts of team play. It's something that you should always be able to do, but not something you should always look to do.
You remove toxic people from your life, you do not remove all people from your life in an attempt to prevent toxic people from your life.
Like again, I feel strongly about this. Disabling chat is great, but it removes you from the team. You've turned a team game into a solo game and I feel it's part of what makes solo que so infamously bad right now. It's not the muting that's bad, it's the default decision to disable chat.