Inviting Friends in Practice Mode

Real Sexy Yoona·12/12/2017, 4:58:57 PM·36 votes·2,394 views

Inviting Friends to be allies or enemies in practice mode would be nice, while keeping all of the settings (add gold, cd reduction, infinite regen etc) intact.
Here are some of the many cool things I could think of:

  • Practicing Fiora Riposte while your friend is attacking you. I find it hard personally to riposte Darius's E (Apprehend) but it is possible. There are so many animations for all sorts of skills and practicing to read and react fast enough would be awesome.

  • Practicing insec Lee Sin mechanics on a moving target aka your friend to create more realistic scenarios.

  • Practicing to dodge Alistar W, with ward jump as Lee Sin. Could be crucial in ganks. Or just practicing to Flash an Alistar W.

  • Practicing J4's E+Q+ Flash on a moving target aka your friend for cases where the initial E+Q knock up misses (because enemy dodges) but you flash to knock them up anyways. Relatively hard mechanic that would require practice to perfect.

  • Practicing Shen's E (taunt)+ Flash Combo. While most people might use this to gap close unpredictably, you can also use it when the enemy side steps or preemptively flashes. The taunt still connects if you flash behind them- even in weird angles. Would require a moving target for this scenario.

  • Practicing Yasuo's W (Windwall). Cancerous mechanic to most, extremely important mechanic to Yasuo mains. Certain skill shot projectiles are faster and harder to read. Trying out new things like blocking Ornn's ult. Even trying to block Lux's ult and failing- cuz you can't block it lul.

  • Practicing Janna's Q (Howling Gale) to stop so many different engages/gap closers. Jax Q, Lee sin Q, Alistar W, J4's E+Q, Talon's Q etc.

  • Practicing to react to a Malphite Ultimate by flashing.

  • Landing a CC on Zed after he reappears from his ult behind you.

  • Dodging skill shots with Master Yi's Q (Alpha Strike).

  • Practicing to use QSS immediately as an ADC to any CC from a Sejuani Ultimate to a teemo blind. It feels so good to immediately remove a cc and outplay your opponent. I recall this one time where I Qssed a TF yellow card perfectly to the point where the "suppose to happen stun" didn't even disrupt my auto attacking animation. Legit Frame Perfect.

_And the list goes on. _

While I think playing real games with people is the best way to learn the game in a general sense, this practice mode could be really useful and time efficient to practice+repeat micro mechanics. Learning to understand Macro game play and doing objectives will win most of your games, but it's important (rewarding) to execute any of the things mentioned in the list perfectly as well.

7 Comments

OneGodLoveWay12/12/2017, 5:10:45 PM10 votes

Pleeeeeeeeeeeeeease. This would be so awesome. I'm too scared to try out high risk high reward mechanics because it's too costly if I fail in ranked games. People even flame in norms. Because I'm too scared to try it out, I never get the practice I need to ever do it.

Real Sexy Yoona12/12/2017, 5:18:21 PM4 votes

I remember when I use to play Dota Allstars (aka Dota 1: Warcraft 3 Frozen Throne mod) with my friends, we would tell each other what to do to try out crazy things in a practice match. If you typed in a certain code at the start, you could enable a mode (it was wtf mode I think) which reduced cool downs by 100%. [sg-miss-fortune]

Fargo7912/13/2017, 9:54:10 AM1 votes

Being able to have friends in a practice mode could be beneficial to more then just friendly practice... Teams can also use it to try certain things out without having to go into a live game.. instead of having to play out 25-30 mins to get full build and lvl 18 ucan do it in a flash and try out item builds faster and see how they do against a live player doing the same..

Barkley12/13/2017, 10:20:53 AM1 votes

I want this so bad, but I can also see a lot of valid reasons why Riot wouldn't do it.

Namely, people using practice tool as some kind of weird cheaty 5v5 map for weird in-house bullshit games. Particularly for a mock URF mode-style game. Could possibly detract from the actual competitive queues.

Nevertheless, if they found a way to prevent that kind of behavior, I'd love to see practice tool be open to more than just yourself.

Ahri Baka12/13/2017, 11:15:08 AM1 votes

Yeah , I also wanna add 5 enemy bots so I can penta kill with Janna even at least for once