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"Nevermind/All-Clear" Ping when swiping up

Chikapi·3/9/2017, 8:42:19 PM·2 votes·666 views

Not sure about everyone else but I use Ctrl to ping danger (swiping up takes too long in key situations).

That means I only use three of the four directional pings, left to mia, right to brt, down to ask for assist.

But sometimes I wanna "withdraw" my ping just a second ago. Scenarios listed in frequency order:

- Enemy was mia five seconds ago but reappeared in lane (happens ALL the time)

  • I was going to assist mid as bard but my adc got chunked bot so I gotta go back to heal him
  • I thought zed was gonna dive me at top tower, so asked jungler for assistance, but zed showed up bot lane.
  • Simply misclicked (meant to click mia, clicked ask for assistance instead with jungler not too far around)

In each of those cases, I have to manually type "nvm", which can be a huge distraction in lane. Being able to "revert", or at least being able to ping "all-clear" to a prior mia call is really valuable imo.

After all, "MIA" is like "ALARM", and if proven to be false, should have a corresponding "all-clear" signal.

8 Comments

Warlord Scrap3/9/2017, 8:51:35 PM1 votes

Remove the normal ping and add this in its place. What is the point of it anymore.

AdeBug3/9/2017, 10:20:40 PM1 votes

case 1 is the only 1 I voted yes for. case 2: if I pinged otw mid, then changing my mind and path means I'm pinging otw bot case 3: if zed showed up bot lane, then just ping careful bot, the attention will go there and the jg could see it and help if they're close by; if they were otw top, they're prolly out of range anyway; this stems from zed going mia mid, so mid should ping missing then both top and bot can be on their toes. people failing to ping missing gives birth to a lot of unnecessary deaths case 4: just ping mia, even if it wasn't a misclick and you indeed needed help, if the enemy is missing at that point, you should ping mia.