Remove all point and click abilites and replace with skill shots.
Its do-able. Just do it.
Its do-able. Just do it.
Maybe not all of them, but a lot do need to go..
Riot is doing this, it just takes time due to the large balance considerations plus required kit reworks.
What's wrong with the melee range ones?
It's really just the point-click heavy cc abilities that are the problems.
Some kits need point and click: abilities that lock on are actually very important abilities because of their counterplay to dash-in-dash-out champs like Ahri, Lucian, and Yasuo, etc. And they spell a lot of power: Annie would not be viable if her Q wasn't point and click.
Point and clicks also give new players a lower point of entry into the game. If you invited someone to play league, who would you tell them to pick up first Annie or Zoe? They're part of the game that fills a niche purpose, and while in the past riot relied too heavily on them, I feel the games at a good balance between PaC and SS.
Removing all point and click? Why do you think mobility creep happened, OP?
All-skillshot design works in games like Battlerite because it has no gameplay aspects outside of teamfights (no laning, items, roaming etc whatsoever), and because mobility is also nowhere as spammed in that game as it is in League.
If you think about it really hard everything is a skill shot at the end of the day, they have to have the skill to both point their mouse at you AND press a button at the same time.
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