Melee champions idling

Anrita·7/7/2019, 1:01:14 AM·2 votes·972 views

I've seen this happen a few times with different champions, and only with melee champions so far. A melee champion will start moving into position to attack an enemy, but the other champions will arrange themselves to the chosen target can't be reached. The melee champion will then just stand there idling until the chosen enemy is killed, or until a path opens for the melee champion to reach the chosen enemy. This happens even if there is another enemy that he could be attacking during this wasted time, which is just silly. If a champion's target becomes unavailable, they should look for a new target immediately, and only idle if there are no targets available. While idling, they should also check for a new target whenever any champion moves or dies.

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Leo Umbra7/7/2019, 5:04:46 AM1 votes

The AI of melee champs is definitely a problem when you go melee oriented comps like blademasters and knights. Not only are melee comps absolutely terrible anyways, but melee champs bugging out like this (even champs like graves and gp) makes it unplayable.

Fuzzy Goblinoid7/7/2019, 5:50:35 AM1 votes

https://clips.twitch.tv/BloodyShakingWaspWholeWheat

Here's a clip where I ran into a melee just standing and not picking a target nor moving and blocking other melee champs from getting to targets. Ashe is there but her Ult did not hit Gnar in the clip until after he was immobilized and there was not a second glacial either.

Sidernar7/8/2019, 1:56:38 PM1 votes

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I've seen this happen a few times with different champions, and only with melee champions so far. A melee champion will start moving into position to attack an enemy, but the other champions will arrange themselves to the chosen target can't be reached. The melee champion will then just stand there idling until the chosen enemy is killed, or until a path opens for the melee champion to reach the chosen enemy. This happens even if there is another enemy that he could be attacking during this wasted time, which is just silly. If a champion's target becomes unavailable, they should look for a new target immediately, and only idle if there are no targets available. While idling, they should also check for a new target whenever any champion moves or dies.

see this every few games with melee comps, it is sad too cause i like to try brawler/knight comps with massive tank items and this makes me second guess what i am running. i also get this when shy turns(even though she is no longer melee).

Juggaz7/8/2019, 4:24:41 PM1 votes

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I've seen this happen a few times with different champions, and only with melee champions so far. A melee champion will start moving into position to attack an enemy, but the other champions will arrange themselves to the chosen target can't be reached. The melee champion will then just stand there idling until the chosen enemy is killed, or until a path opens for the melee champion to reach the chosen enemy. This happens even if there is another enemy that he could be attacking during this wasted time, which is just silly. If a champion's target becomes unavailable, they should look for a new target immediately, and only idle if there are no targets available. While idling, they should also check for a new target whenever any champion moves or dies.

Exactly this happens to me almost every time in the late game when there are teams of 7-8 units.