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A buddy and I this year decided to give DOTA a shot. We grinded through the 100 hours of unranked (which was honestly horrifically balanced and often very toxic) to get to ranked with the hope it would be less toxic and more balanced. While it has been a bit better in terms of balance, the toxicity has been off the charts. We are only Herald 5 which might be part of it, but I'd say of the 20ish ranked games we've played so far 75%+ have had at least one player flaming everyone, usually with racial slurs, and at least a quarter of the games someone purposely feeds/afks/dcs, etc. In league, at least if someone is afk or feeds super hard you can ff and go next. I like the pacing a lot better in dota and it feels more fun, but when so many games have feeders, afks, and flaming, it feels really hard to actually enjoy the game especially when theirs no ff to leave the game early.

Partly I'm just venting frustration, especially as a new player, but I also wondered does it get better at higher ranks? Or do you just kinda get used to it?