Ult timers

Aither·Aug 8, 2014·33 votes·1,078 views

I know there are the green dots on the left side of the screen to show your teammates ults are ready, why not give it a timer? Not with numbers but a clockwise motion timers that items get when on cooldown. Just a suggestion~

22 Comments

John BerserkAug 8, 20148 votes

I think this would be a great, small addition to the game that would potentially do wonders for team communication and coordination. +1

GypsyleeboyAug 8, 20145 votes

I agree, greendot is getting old. Perhaps with the summoners rift update they could add a new timer for team mates ult. Maybe even a ult bar, like how the health bar is.

Pika310Aug 8, 20142 votes

Indeed, it's a pain having to ask your teammate the remaining CD on their ult. Perhaps as they did with jungle timers, exact cooldown numbers can be provided on the stats menu. Whilst items will tell you of their full CD while hovering over them, it's a lot more difficult to keep track of 120 ults and their CDs at each rank. Eventually, with all the clarity changes progressively being made, in-game may provide as much info regarding your own team as a spectator receives, without the time-delay of course.

cshakesAug 8, 20142 votes

Having something like that for summoners would be nice, too.

ChaosThiefAug 8, 20142 votes

I think that it would be good to have a timer, but it could also work to fill the circle like a clock, depending on how much time is left.

Either way, good idea.

PikmintsAug 8, 20146 votes

That's probably one of the smoother options for them. But I feel like champs with longer cooldowns could have their circle be almost full and have their teammates mistake it for being full via a quick glance. Perhaps they could make the circle yellow while it's filling, and click green once the ultimate is fully off cooldown.

ChaosThiefAug 9, 20141 votes

That sounds good!

soylent shipmentAug 8, 20142 votes

I would expect Riot to make it so that your teammates can see your ultimate cooldown time because of their new focus on clarity.

PurpleKingCrazyAug 9, 20142 votes

Definitely! The new addition to the timers instead of the green dot will acquire you to look at the screen more instead of the bottom screen all the time to see the chat log and everything else. In all sense, it makes the game more fun and attractive.

The LexerAug 10, 20141 votes

Oh hello there!

PurpleKingCrazyAug 10, 20141 votes

Hey Lexer man! How's it been?

tau43Aug 9, 20142 votes

There can get to point where there is too much on the screen or too much to focus on at one time. If it was on a tab like the Jungle timers, then yeah, I'd like it.

MarthianAug 10, 20142 votes

well if stuff keeps getting added, sure. But this is a relatively minor thing: Just simply add a small number next to ally's picture.

WullfAug 8, 20141 votes

I think It would lead to many misunderstandings. Plus I do not think that one player should see cooldown of another.

PhelyAug 8, 20144 votes

Actually it would do the opposite. Having an exact time on abilities that vary from 1 second to 2 minutes would increase team collaboration much more. The information is already available, it's just not accurate or convenient.

WullfAug 8, 20141 votes

The thing is that, knowing that somebody's elses ulti will be avalibe in a few seconds, does not tell you wheter or not he will use it. You might just as well start teamfight that will loose your game.

Adrian UmbraAug 8, 20143 votes

Knowing that a player is around doesn't tell you whether his ult is even up to use. If you know his ult is up, you're more likely to pull a better play (and often a more aggressive and exciting play) than if you don't know anything about its status and have to assume it's down. Similar to jungle timers, this won't make players any dumber (just give them more information), so don't immediately assume that this will backfire horribly.

WullfAug 8, 20141 votes

You do have an indicator for allied ults.

I just do not agree on showing exact cooldown of one player to another. Next time we will get spell timers because it will incearse teamwork.

I might be wrong but it just does not feel right to me.

Adrian UmbraAug 9, 20143 votes

So increasing the amount of information available to your allies is wrong? This is something that could easily be included to the ingame hud without info overload, as it simply takes the place of the green dot. It's simple, easy, and would add a great amount more clarity than the binary green dot we currently have. If Amumu's ult is about to be off cooldown or has 15 seconds left, I want to know if I can capitalize on a situation so that I can know he can ult when he joins the fight, rather than having to back off because I didn't know it was almost up.

And spell timers would be a nice addition if we could fit them into the hud. I still don't understand why you're being so resistant to this when it's a simple change to make a little more information available to teammates. All I'm getting from you is a feeling of "I don't like my allies seeing what I can do" and "I don't like changes" rather than "This is how this would negatively impact players."

WullfAug 16, 20141 votes

I must admit defeat. My approach was not right.

Ulti timers would theoretically increase succes rate in teamfight ingages.

Still I am not crazy about it. Wheter or not this will be implemented in the game it makes not difference to me.