Why does Scryer's Bloom ping intent to attack?

Blue Card Ganks·Dec 1, 2016·4 votes·917 views

This is a small thing, but when the vision from a Scryer's Bloom hits an enemy, it pings them as if they were pinged by an ally who wants to target that enemy. To me it seems like this could potentially disrupt communication within the team, especially if you only hear the ping once it happens. While it is probably not too likely to affect too many games, I feel it definitely contradicts Riot's policy of gameplay clarity. I'm thinking that they should at least remove the audio from the attack ping. Does this seem like something that should be be changed or is it not significant?

4 Comments

TormentulaDec 1, 20162 votes

It would make better sense to auto ping "enemies are missing" where it finds enemies. Targeting can be ignorable, for example bot lane might think your jungler is pinging a lane to gank, but it was actually the plant spotting a jungler on their way to bot lane ganking them.

Draco IcarusDec 1, 20161 votes

I think using the neutral ping, as if you had pinged a point on the map, would work better. It communicates that something is at the location, but does not imply a decision that should be made about whatever is there. However, the neutral ping wouldn't create a chat message with the name of the enemy that was found. So if someone didn't look when the ping happens, they would miss the message. Using "Enemies are missing" also does not give the name in chat.