can we get all the ability descriptions to one level of clearness

SkZ DoPe·6/25/2017, 8:56:13 PM·113 votes·6,607 views

every ability or passive in this game has a description, but not every description is as detailed as another.

For example, I used to play a lot of , her R description tells you how much damage each wave of bullets will deal and the maximum amount of damage it can do

http://imgur.com/Oc3wlUU

Now I played a lot of lately and saw that his R only tells you how much damage each wave deals, not the total amount that is possible

http://imgur.com/NL6P0rB

same goes to many descriptions, some champs are newer than others but can we please have clear descriptions on all champions

62 Comments

RiotRiot Stashu6/26/2017, 10:25:42 PM25 votes

Yep, I could see why this is confusing. The reason for lack of consistency here is that there's a surprisingly high cognitive cost for putting lots of numbers in a tooltip (simply, the tooltip becomes harder to read), so it's to be avoided where possible. That said, some abilities benefit disproportionately from including a specific number, and so the payoff can be worth the cost. In the case of MF ult, the player needs to know that it's worth it to stop basic attacking and channel the ult, and since the effect does nothing else but damage, that number is very relevant here. GP ult, on the other hand, is less of a mathy calculation since he can still attack while the ult is in effect and since it also has other benefits outside of damage (it's global, it slows, etc.) to make it satisfying and powerful.

Since this stuff is hard to measure, the decision of whether or not to include certain numbers can be pretty subjective, but those are some of the factors that go in to making these calls. Hope that helps explain a bit!

420 grams6/25/2017, 9:45:06 PM22 votes

Or how a teemo blind is different than quinn or Graves, Or how death fire touch says it does x damage over y time, but it says y time is reduced for different types of abilities. I've heard others say that the damage is actually also reduced if the time is reduced, but there's no clarification if this is true or not.

Siegfriedx16/25/2017, 9:05:42 PM10 votes

Bump. I still can't understand why I have to check wikia all the time because description inside the game(and even outside) sucks.

FilDaFunk6/25/2017, 10:56:20 PM9 votes

There are also loads that actually give no detail - one that comes to mind is "slows briefly". There are better examples, but none come to mind immediately.

Leonerdo6/25/2017, 11:07:11 PM5 votes

They change tooltips like they do everything else - on a case-by-case basis. They're not going to do a massive tooltip sweep to make sure every champion has equivalent tooltips; that would take forever, and 80% of the tooltips are probably good anyways.

But good job on pointing this one out. It looks like an easy fix, as long a Rioter sees this post and they agree that GP's max ult damage is a relevant number to know. (Personally, I don't think it's as important for GP as it is for MF, simply because GP's ult takes a lot longer and is less likely to do full damage.)

My Waifu Vanilla6/26/2017, 7:34:04 AM5 votes

I don't remember (haven't actually moused over the ult in awhile), but GP ult also does not update the tooltip whenever you buy an upgrade and you have to mouse over the upgrades to see what the effect is. That being said I am PRETTY sure getting Fire at Will still causes the tooltip to say 12 waves over 8 seconds when that is 100% fake news.

FurriesAreHot6/26/2017, 4:33:29 AM3 votes

I need to know how cancer my FULL AP GANGPLANK is.

The Darius King6/26/2017, 12:54:48 AM3 votes

I'd like for on darius's ult it will show you the damage with 0 stacks and the max damage with 5 stacks but i'd like to see the damage for 1, 2, 3 4 stacks of his passive as well

KoKoboto6/26/2017, 1:51:15 AM2 votes

It's because different people work on different champions that we get all these random ass tool tips. Honestly Rito needs to hire one person who has a nice British accent do all the tooltips.

Yi Bencheikh6/26/2017, 5:02:31 AM2 votes

as a gp player i agree

Fairyfleur6/25/2017, 11:21:21 PM2 votes

Ivern R

jama6556/26/2017, 11:47:45 AM2 votes

Took me a while to realize that kled has a cooldown on skaarl before he can get it back SKARL I DONT NEED YOUUU!!!