As we know, to reach the Valor 5 milestone in League of Legends, players must strive for victory and not ruin the experience for their teammates. Essentially, toxic players who frequently sabotage games and face reports will have no chance of receiving rewards at the Valor 5 level.
However, over the past few years, Riot Games has been heavily criticized by players for the rewards at the Valor 5 milestone being too… “lackluster.” Basically, you can only use the Valor 5 Tokens to exchange for the chromas of the two skins, Grey Warwick and Medieval Twitch. Each year, new chromas are added for these two skins. These are not particularly eye-catching skins, so very few people use them. Thus, the community has dubbed this reward as one of the most overlooked in League of Legends.
Besides criticizing the Valor 5 rewards from Riot, the League of Legends community is also discussing ways to make it more meaningful in the future. Then, an extremely interesting idea emerged to reduce toxicity in League of Legends. Reddit user Hazardous_Youth suggested that Riot could design a skin for a champion most used by toxic players and use that as the Valor 5 reward. This would contribute to reducing toxicity while also enhancing the value of this reward.
The Valor 5 rewards are perhaps one of the most overlooked aspects in League of Legends.
You reach Valor 5 and receive a message that you are about to receive a great reward. Then you have to exchange for the chromas of Grey Warwick and Medieval Twitch for the fourth consecutive season. Did someone at Riot forget that the notification said “new rewards will be added each season”? Or is what they call a new reward just a chroma?
I wonder how many people would achieve Valor 5 if Riot made a skin for Yasuo and used it as a special reward for this milestone.
Do you know what the smartest move would be? Riot could use their data to find out which champion is chosen by the most toxic players. Then design a skin for that champion and make this skin the Valor 5 reward.
Indeed, even though Riot has implemented many penalties in League of Legends, the toxicity and game sabotage in this game still persist significantly. The Valor 5 rewards are perhaps the rare motivation for players to restrain their “childish” behavior and play League of Legends more responsibly. However, the low value of these rewards makes players feel extremely bad because their efforts throughout a long journey seem utterly unworthy.
It is thought that Riot Games needs to seriously reconsider the Valor 5 rewards in the future. They do not necessarily have to create an entirely new skin as the community suggested, but creating additional chromas for other skins to allow players to showcase that they have reached this memorable milestone is essential.