If you can make a projectile wall, you can make a believable clone

Wingling·9/15/2014, 5:32:20 PM·2 votes·1,236 views

I don't really understand why it's always been so easy to tell when a clone is fake or not. Besides the whole "Does it have red buff/exhaust/ignite/ping marker/etc.?" that everyone knows, there are a whole list of tells unique to Wukong to know if he's used decoy:

  • Decoy resets minion aggro
  • Decoy will interrupt targeting and AA/spell animations
  • The clone will always start in the same position; there is no transition from walking to stopping
  • Even if you're smart and press S before you clone, the idle animation always starts in the same position. There's still a jerk in the animation.
  • Incoming projectiles don't hit the clone
  • If he's taking damage and has that red bar on his HP, it will instantly disappear when Wu decoys
  • This is more of an edge case, but if you stand around for long enough, you go into your other idle animations like sitting on a cloud

So to summarize, in order to juke a player who knows their stuff, you have to stop first, your idle animation has to sync with the clone's, you can't have buff/debuff particles, minion aggro, incoming attacks/projectiles, you can't have taken damage in the last second or so, and you have to hope they didn't ping you. Notice how you only directly control one of those things? This is what is required for a Wukong to do the thing he was designed to do, and he's been out for over 3 years, and some of these problems have existed for even longer with Leblanc and Shaco.

7 Comments

Teddie9/15/2014, 5:40:23 PM4 votes

A wall and a clone are very separate things bb

RockyXY9/16/2014, 6:14:01 PM1 votes

I think the fact that clones are a little obvious to point out is their entire purpose. In order for someone to be skilled at using a clone, you have to know how to properly manage all the things you listed in your post. If they made the clones believable, that would a great buff to all those clone champs, which might mot necessarily be a good thing.