Honestly, what on Earth are hitboxes?

OatheSworn·Jul 23, 2018·3 votes·1,507 views

I know there are many, many misleading animations to hitboxes in League but this one was just simply ridiculous.

https://imgur.com/uPXn6zW

https://imgur.com/ngjkN3o

https://imgur.com/T77OdAe

There is a clear gap and I still got hit. Actually what.

8 Comments

Zone of EndlessJul 23, 20185 votes

small indie company

KhristophorosJul 23, 20185 votes

Diana's Q has a circle at the end actually. If you play her you can see it in the indicator. The problem here is the visual effect doesn't match it at all.

OatheSwornJul 23, 20184 votes

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Diana's Q has a circle at the end actually. If you play her you can see it in the indicator. The problem here is the visual effect doesn't match it at all.

That's extremely misleading.

Seer of MindJul 23, 20183 votes

The animation for her Q doesn't show the circle that is supposed to be at the end of the skillshot. Small indie company btw.

SEKAIJul 23, 20182 votes

There is no element of height in the LoL's mechanic calculations, only east-west coordinates and north-south coordinates. LoL is coded as a 2D game, as in, in the system's eyes, LoL is a completely flat game like a chess board.

The "hitbox" of anything in the game, is an invisible circle UNDER the unit, used to calculate if a for instance, directional targeting (skillshot) or ground targeting (AoE) hits the target, by checking if the circle hitbox under the unit is hit.

To balance the size of the hitbox circle under the unit can be tricky, not too big and not too small, just right. But then again, we have Riot's particular brand of hitboxing that often leaves people scratching the heads, but oh well.

OatheSwornJul 23, 20181 votes

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There is no element of height in the LoL's mechanic calculations, only east-west coordinates and north-south coordinates. LoL is coded as a 2D game, as in, in the system's eyes, LoL is a completely flat game like a chess board.

The "hitbox" of anything in the game, is an invisible circle UNDER the unit, used to calculate if a for instance, directional targeting (skillshot) or ground targeting (AoE) hits the target, by checking if the circle hitbox under the unit is hit.

To balance the size of the hitbox circle under the unit can be tricky, not too big and not too small, just right. But then again, we have Riot's particular brand of hitboxing that often leaves people scratching the heads, but oh well.

Fancy explanation or not, that ability hitting is a joke. It was happening all game and the only time Diana ever missed the Q was either when she was aiming for something else or if out of range. That insane hitbox made side-stepping impossible.

Lucian WaifuJul 23, 20182 votes

Diana's Q DOES HAVE AN AOE attached to it's end, additionally the AOE probably hits if it hits the edge of a character's hitbox, along with the bad animation for the spell not showing the AOE attached to the spell.