can certain skin animation cause higher ping?

Doctor Awsome·1/20/2016, 2:37:00 AM·1 votes·1,372 views

so i recently played a game against a blood lord vladamir, first time i played against someone with this skin. Usually when i play my ping sits around 35 but the whole laning phase whenever vlad was using abilities around me my ping would randomly shoot up to like high 50's even 60's. I just wanted to know if it was even possible to do that or if its a bug of some kind. Ill admit my comp is pretty old but this is the first time ive experienced anything like this.

Also when i was out of laning phase and didnt actually see vlads abilities on my screen my ping stayed at a usually 35 or so

5 Comments

Dies lrae1/20/2016, 2:51:38 AM1 votes

I don't know about ping (mines at a steady 30, much like yours) however I do know my FPS drops with certain skins on champs. The challenger skin for Nidalee drops my FPS by 10 only when she switches to cougar and vice versa. Also Surprise Fiddlesticks ult drops my FPS by roughly 5 during the whole duration. When everyone has a skin, I noticed how useless I can be when we all ult, my FPS is close to 20 when that happens :c

Gated D Latch1/20/2016, 2:53:15 AM1 votes

Ping is based on your internet connection soooooo probably just a coincidence

Also 50-60 is nothing at all. I average 100-200 ping per game, shoots up to 500 - 1k sometimes

Paroe1/20/2016, 2:55:01 AM1 votes

Ping is not effected by FPS drop. Whats probably happening is the effects are to much for your compy to handle; causing your computer to skip a beat (which drops everything for a moment). try lowering your graphics settings to low in everything.

Doctor Awsome1/20/2016, 3:18:14 AM1 votes

idk i feel like a skin shouldnt really have that much of an affect on ping or fps tho you know. but thank you for all of your responses, very helpful :D

ExoNautic1/20/2016, 3:23:56 AM1 votes

you guys have some serious toasters if skins are making you drop frames.