Gameplay very clunky and unresponsive since the last patch. (And Sonas Power Chord as bonus)
Since the last patch I've been noticing a lot of weird and clunky client behavior. So far that it even costed me a few games.
It is hard to notice if you don't pay a lot of attention to it but it is there. I have even heard other players complaining.
As example the last match a Diana told me that she thinks Aurelion Sol is bugged because she gets stuck in Aurelion Sols passive ring.
But I don't think it has to do anything with Aurelion as it occurs all over the map.
The champions get stuck pretty much everywhere, but I have noticed that around Baron Nashor it happens more often.
For the sake of simplicity I will only mention what happened the last match.
I just had a teamfight at Baron while I was playing Sona. I was standing right at the entrance of the Baron pit when I saw the enemies incoming. I right clicked on the top lane bush and my Sona instead of going directly straight to top lane she chose to run towards the enemy jungle entrance (to their blue buff) first and then turn towards top. That random run path costed me my life.
But not only there, it occurs in every game at different places. Where my champion would simply decide to run in the wrong direction before turning around and going the right way. Even while walking to my lane sometimes, my champion turns around half way through, walks a few steps back and then continues to walk normally towards my lane.
And every time I look at my ping and its just at 61ms like always, so it is not lag. Not only that but it even shows me the wrong run path on the minimap.
Second thing that I have noticed is the unit collision, I have never got stuck so many times in minion waves like I did in the past few games. I play league since season 2 and never had such issues with it before. Playing top lane became a frustration. As a melee champion I can't even come close to the enemy, they can basic attack me all time while I get stuck for 1-2 seconds in minions trying to get myself out of that mess.
Or even when chasing an opponent if a minion crosses my way I know that I am definitely going to get stuck in it, where my champion would just wiggle left and right for a second before managing to go further forwards.
It makes me just want to stay under my tower or buy a phantom dancer no matter what champion I am on, as it simply got way too frustrating.
Then there is the basic attacking, It became so unresponsive lately. Either the animation doesn't want to start right away while cs-ing or it sometimes simply doesn't want to attack while poking as a ranged support. The latter happens mostly when the enemy is near the border of the basic attack range. It sometimes cancels the animation and doesn't want to attack for a moment even when they get back in range.
As that all is not enough sometimes spells are getting unresponsive too. Just tried to save my Jhin while playing Sona. I pressed R to ult Varus but nothing happened, until a second later the spell activated, but Jhin couldn't survive that long.
Or the following scenario, I have my ult and Flash up. Our team is chasing an Ezreal and Soraka in botom lane. I press Flash and right after that my ult. However my Sona didn't flash she just waited a split second and ulted the empty space in front of her.
I am playing with smartcast turned on, so I am used to a "faster" gameplay.
Alright that should be everything about the unresponsive gameplay lately. But there is one more thing that is bugging me since a long time already.
Since Sona is one of my most played champions there is one bug that always ruins my engages. Her Power Chord.
Until she gets her Power Chord stacked everything is fine and she acts normally. But once she gets her Power Chord up she will do whatever is in her might to get rid of it as soon as she can. She will literally attack a random minion just to lose her Power Chord and then continue being passive again.
it is extremely frustrating when planing to engage as you have to avoid minions like the pest, once you are close to them she might just throw her Power Chord away on a random minion and deny you the extra burst damage. Keep in mind that autoattack, movement prediction etc.. are turned off. But she does it anyway once she gets all the stacks.