Team Voice chat should only be accessible to Honor 5 accounts
There is already tiers of chat access based on honor level why not restrict voice chat to the highest level.
Obviously there are people who are still cringe and toxic even in honor 5 text chats, but I feel like you need to be top honor to access voice chat, text chat should still be the main way to comm in the game along with pings ofc, hopefully this would reduce the amount of weird and toxic people you’ll receive game by game and do a better job with the announced rework of the banning system to weed out the sexist/racist losers that focus on insulting rather than genuine callouts or constructive comments.
If the game keeps it to honor 5 which I usually get only honor 5’s in my honor 5 lobby it should allow players who actually care about maintaining a good reputation to thrive in a comfortable space. I could see how people might find this redundant because why add voice chat if only a small percentage of people can even use it? But I think it’s a better way to incentivize players to be chill/nice and prove they can be good in text chats before full access to voice. What are your thoughts?
Edit: if Honor 5 is ridiculously easy to get, could riot potentially use their new moderation system to not only make banning a lot “easier” to navigate but also determine who is actually being a decent player?
Posted Feb 19, 2026, 3:45 PM UTC · edited