Goalkeeper Blitzcrank's hook animation is off by X degrees

SanKakU·7/24/2017, 4:11:14 PM·1 votes·2,357 views

I'm not sure how many degrees it's off by, but it seems to add(this means going clockwise) enough to be roughly half a hook's width. I don't own the skin, so I don't have a good way of testing it. I have an ARAM game replay I could upload if you're interested in comparing various hooks that miss and those that land, but I'm sure you guys have a better way of figuring out how many degrees it's off by.

To reproduce, simply watch him cast it on anyone. If they dodge clockwise, they can still get hit, but if they dodge counter-clockwise, they don't get it.

Animation for straight line skill shots is also bugged on other skins of various champions, I'm not sure if these skins are getting fixed and if they are, where we're getting notifications that they've been fixed, so I don't want to just keep throwing out extra champion names when I don't even know which skins they are or if the skins are still an issue. Just doing this as a one bug at a time for now.

Edit: these observations were taking from an ARAM game and Blitzcrank was on the bottom left side. These animation differences were exacerbated because of the travelling angle on that map. I believe that at many angles, the hand travels normally. However, I distinctly remember him targeting me when I was directing above him once and I got snagged because I didn't sidestep far enough(perhaps I should've gone the other way) because I thought I was already out of the way when in fact the hand's angle was being displayed correctly at that particular angle for a change.

In fact, it's not always going clockwise by a certain number of degrees, but rather 360 degrees the hand may or may not line up correctly(sometimes it goes counter clockwise) with the targeted line at any given degree. While it seems totally random, I suspect that there is an analog viewing error at play here. Originally I had assumed that my snagging directly above Blitzcrank was due to a lapse in concentration on my part when in fact it was the hand actually travelling correctly for once which took me off guard.

11 Comments

Riotmoonstones7/25/2017, 6:00:36 PM1 votes

Hey SanKakU -

Thanks for the report!

This particular skin uses base Blitzcrank's animation, so it shouldn't be any different than what you're seeing with base. Are you experiencing this issue on base as well?

Quackas8/3/2017, 7:02:50 PM1 votes

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