Skillshots and Point-and-Clicks

Yellow Diamond·9/28/2015, 3:28:30 AM·2 votes·873 views

What is your guys's opinions on a hypothetical time where riot changed most of the point-and-clicks to skillshots? As in Teemo darts and Pantheon spears were no longer point-and-click? I understand that champs like Liss and Syndra can't really change their ults from point-and-clicks to skillshots, but I'm really just questioning if the game would be more fun if most projectiles became skillshots. Like the good old risk vs reward that riot used to care about, way back in the day. Opinions? Thanks! -Boom

26 Comments

Mathbalnase9/28/2015, 3:34:33 AM2 votes

Do you want all of the Teemo darts and Panth spears (/etc.) out there to hit harder, more often and/or from farther away?

LaserDeathBlade9/28/2015, 5:08:57 AM1 votes

Game much better without point and click.

It's not just about raising the skill floor of the game, it's also about improving balance by making matchups based more off of champion mechanics rather than straight numbers which are incredibly hard to balance. For example old Ryze was oppressive AF but when Riot attempted to balance him they missed 'balanced' and dropped him straight to virtually unplayable because no matter how they tweaked his base stats, he'd just be OP in some matchups and UP in others because his kit was so binary.

Not that I think new Ryze is the epitome of balance, but he now has a much larger range of stats that fall within 'balance' because he's outplayable which means he's not going to completely shit on any particular matchup as long as the other guy dodges a few skill shots

The Sword Saint9/28/2015, 5:41:52 AM1 votes

Don't confuse skillshots for automatic counterplay. Often the counter to a highly mobile champion happens to be a point and click spell. For example, vi's ult is tailor made to be reliable even against mobile champions with a lot of peel... and yet if all spells were targeted you'd have a hard time avoiding the ball of stats problem.

That's why the game needs both targeted and skillshot abilities, a mixture of reliable and unreliable spells make for a dynamic and interesting interaction between champions and team comps.

Ralanr9/28/2015, 6:16:06 AM1 votes

Ryze is mostly point and click.

Personally I hope Pantheon's spear stays point and click. Seeing it travel to meet its target is awesome. But his W shouldn't be point and click.

GawnMower9/28/2015, 8:22:30 AM1 votes

cant believe they nerfed blitz's pull to a skill shot, it was fine on point and click ...... Blitzcrank