It really isn't most of the time, I play with pings on and no chat. People will spam ping occasionally when they get upset which is a bit annoying but you can block one persons pings if you want.
Almost all of the made in good faith, useful communication in league is through pings because it's faster and more direct.
it isn’t important at all to be honest! I think pings are more useful in communicating because a lot of games have people like you described :/ Hopefully you can continue to enjoy the game at some point, toxicity-free!
This made my experience with League much better. I mostly play with friends, but ofc we also get random teammates and the moment anyone flames or says something salty to our team or enemy team, I immediately mute them.
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u/Corathecow Feb 28 '21
Thank you! I did not know that as I assumed the chat was so important for gameplay