UI buff idea for Janna: A team-visible indicator of what direction her Q will go in

darkdill·Mar 30, 2019·1 votes·1,327 views

Anyone else find it really annoying that you can't see what direction your teammate Janna is going to send her Q? Maybe she has something sneaky in mind and plans to fire it sideways rather than straight at an enemy. For instance, she's near the bot-lane river brush and readies one up; she could either fire it toward the enemy bot-laners or at the brush because of the jungler hiding in it. But you, her teammate, won't know. Frustrating, right?

It'd be nice if the UI could show Janna and her teammates (but not the enemy) what direction her Q is going to go in. This sort of thing is hard to communicate with voice chat (or at least is inconsistent), and typing to communicate a direction... you get the idea.

This wouldn't help her out the way stat changes would, but would help out with coordination and teamplay.

2 Comments

ADC YuumiMar 31, 20191 votes

As much as I want to agree with this... so goddamn much... even a slight indicator can change the whole situation. If it indicated where it went, allies would ready up and lure opponents into the knock-up. This would also mean based on your allies movement, they would suspect a tornado coming in; and make the ability useless.

Kinda like how someone at low health runs into a brush instead of under their tower, because there's a Nunu channeling in it and a Rengar ready to get a kill. So instead, they won't follow him and kite the brush to see if there's someone in it.

It's like why no-one can see Yasuo's Q indicator, which would do much more good for him than harm.

Just an indicator can make or break an ability.

darkdillMar 31, 20191 votes

That sounds more like a problem of you and your teammates doing predictable stuff and/or telegraphing what you're doing.