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Recently, gamers stumbled upon an extremely 'phantom' feature in League of Legends.
As we all know, chatting in-game is an essential element of League of Legends. It's the quickest and clearest way to exchange information among players and help the team perform better. However, over time, the chat frame has become a place for players to criticize, release 'toxic' remarks towards teammates and opponents. Therefore, Riot Games introduced features like chat mute, ping mute, and muting expressions of a specific player to help players focus more.
However, recently, League of Legends players have discovered an even more effective way to mute chat using just 3 characters. Normally, when you mute someone's chat, they can still chat normally, but you won't see it. However, by typing 3 characters including '%i:' into the chat frame, all players, when they press 'Enter' to send their chat, receive nothing in return. No matter how many characters you type, nothing will appear.
So how can you restore normal chat in the game? The simple answer is to type the '%' character. This is seen as a quirky glitch existing in League of Legends and was discovered by a streamer named Elosanta just a few days ago. What's even more special is that you can also add some emotes while chatting in League of Legends. Specifically:
Many gamers are devising a 'conspiracy theory' that this glitch originates from Riot Games secretly developing the integration of emotes into the League of Legends chat frame. With its minimal impact on gameplay and the reduction of 'toxic' chat messages, this glitch is a rather useful feature that Riot may consider keeping.
