If a champion had an ability kind of like a gravitational pull where a skillshot would curve depending on the distance from the gravitational ball, would this be hard in code? I just was thinking it would be an awesome ability, but it seems really hard to code that curve.
IronwallJackson2 votesLeague, for the most part, lacks a z axis, and the rest of the game is designed accordingly. That's why champions with flying animations still get hit with grounded abilities like traps and such.
Curved projectiles would add nothing except needless complexity.
TehNACHO1 votesOP's post has nothing to do with that.
Imagine if I put an orb on the ground. Any skillshot fired within x units of that orb will suddenly change course and start orbiting the orb. That's what OP is talking about.
Weathered1 votesWell, not orbit it. Depending on how close the skillshot was to the orb would cause the curve to be increasingly severe. Orbiting it would be stopping and circling. I was talking about like when an asteroid is curved slightly by passing past a planet.
Grashnim1 votesI think that would be a lot of coding.
MisterHealYoGirl1 votesI was just going to comment 
, but now I see what you're asking. Yes, this would be a huge amount of code, and it would be as buggy as living hell for months or years.
Meep Man1 votesCoders would likely strangle you if you told them to try and do that in a game where such mechanics have never been in place. The closest thing to that currently in the game is Diana.
Deep Terror Nami1 votesThey cleaned up the coding for skillshots so they can do things like this, so it should be very possible. Let me find a link for when they did that.
https://engineering.riotgames.com/news/behind-leagues-new-missile-system
Their examples are for how missiles behave by default, but it might allow for affecting them with other abilities as well.
TehNACHO1 votesI would think the Ahri Sphere and Diana Crescent would explode the game.