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Charged abilities (eg. Vi Q, Varus Q and Xerath Q) make my ping spike really hard.

Chopin is Bach·5/21/2015, 3:35:13 AM·1 votes·3,346 views

I was playing a ranked, and as soon as I hit 3 I skill-up my Q as Vi. The first time I cast it I lagged really bad but I thought it was just a random lag spike. I then tried to gank mid and as I charged my Q I completely lagged out. (Ping went from 80 to 1000) I got pretty irritated as every single time I used my Q I lagged out. Later that month I had to re-install windows and therefor re-install League too. I played another game with Vi after that and had the same problem. So that ruled out the option of it being a broken file or something like that. Later that week I picked Xerath and I noticed that my Q made me lag out the same whay Vi's Q made me lag out. So I knew it was a problem with the charged skillshots ( I tested Varus in a custom and the same thing occurred). (Video might still be uploading)

5 Comments

Dorovon6/13/2015, 11:49:07 AM3 votes

These abilities seem to cause large spikes in network traffic which become worse as the client's FPS increases. I was able to lower these spikes to a playable level by capping my FPS at 60 when playing Varus.

FlashnFuse5/21/2015, 4:09:55 PM2 votes

Do you have a Cisco Linksys WRT 120N router by any chance?

I'm having this problem, as is someone else on the forums. http://boards.na.leagueoflegends.com/en/c/bug-report/Id8BNVWR-gameplay-vi-q-causes-ping-spikes

PRO Swift9/1/2015, 10:25:27 PM1 votes

Hey guys so I was having this problem and I did some research and it seems having V-Sync turned off causes this. So like Dorovan said, cap your fps at 60 and it should solve the problem. Solved my problems! Hope this helped :)