The extension line of this skin rotates counter clockwise as the animation swings inward. It is misleading because other skin's hook have constant extension lines.
And to a players eyes, this line is crucial to judge whether the hook is gonna hit me or not.
That's just the hitboxes in League tho.
Look at this...
Or this... (Completely ignoring the minion that was near the hook)
Can confirm that's not right at all, and can be very misleading. I get that it fits the idea that it's a rope. Rope would most likely unravel like that, so it makes logical sense but, from a gameplay standpoint that is easily a big advantage. The hitbox of the hook isn't the issue here, it's that the rope seems to go to the right when it's unraveling, while in reality the hook is a straight line.
That is because LoL character's hitbox are a circle on the ground UNDER the character due to the fact this game is calculated entirely in 2-D and everything functions as if it's circles crawling on a board, while the animation display attacking the player on the upperbody, such as how Thresh's hook appears ON TOP OF his victim after the hook successfully lands UNDER him (by touching the circle under the feet of the character).
This is the most evident in the 3rd picture of the lineup in the OP.
This drastic difference between calculation and animation creates a giant visual angular mismatch, and is incredibly misleading indeed. This issue becomes especially worse when elevation of the terrains (that actually don't take elevation into calculation) is also involved.
Riot should either finally add in a 3rd axis, or redo the animation to reflect a better matching between calculation and visuals so this kind of issue is nowhere as extreme as this particular case.
yeah that's very misleading
LOL something is actually wrong here guys... Here's a gif of it
...and people say some in game skins don't give advantages.
Also why I always pick skins with hard to see skill shots. Project Ashe is hilarious when you fire hawk shot and they flash because it looks identical to the ult.
Extra fun when you pick skins colorblind people have issues seeing.
it's a hit, it's a skillshot. idk what's so difficult to understand.
It's a pay to win skin, IBlitz was banned from competitive because of some bullshit like this, God King Darius's W animation goes off faster, etc.
At least I know that when KT plays RNG on the semifinal Mata will be on form to use his SSW Thresh skin so no one can call him cheater.
wtf skins = wins? wow pay to win lmao
