Death Recap update is overdue.

Priestelar·2/6/2019, 1:19:15 PM·84 votes·17,931 views

The deathrecap screen has a few inconcistancies and it looks like it contributes to how people misunderstand what happens when they die.

For example: Took 2000 damage from Yasuo's Q Person reacts to this: wtf yasuo does 2k damage with 1 q Me: no you dingus, it takes into concideration the total damage from several q's!

The interface looks old too, It doesn't display how many times 1 ability was used and basic attacks are not considered as magic damage or true damage only pure physical damage without any crits.

And there are lots of cases where certain things are left blank like: [ ] took 44 damage from [Player name] BUT LIKE WHAT DID THIS DAMAGE.

Thoughts and suggestions please! We need to work together with this not against one another.

41 Comments

jocomotion2/6/2019, 3:25:50 PM23 votes

Death recap bugs I’ve had so far

Vayne isn’t even in my game, how did silver bolts help her get an assist on me?
Ah yes, I was killed by (insert Icon XX), I’m thinking “insert Icon XX” needs to be nerfed Riot.
No riot, Gnar’s auto attacks deal physical damage and the THIRD hit does magic, not all doing mixed.
How did dragon get an assist on me from topside?
New: Aparently, Viktor can now use Jhins curtain call to get an assist on me.

Hethalean2/6/2019, 1:57:54 PM11 votes

They're never going to do it. The foundation of this game is atrocious and you can see it in the bugs that seep out of every crevice of it each patch. I don't think they're willing to put that sort of investment into the game because there's no R.O.I. on it for the accountants imo.

Malix Farwin2/6/2019, 1:22:13 PM9 votes

Not gonna happen unless they do a major overhaul of the game, they talked about death recap and why they couldnt fix it a while ago.

DUDE BRO2/6/2019, 5:25:18 PM7 votes

I have a screenshot somewhere where anivia killed me with 53 damage from Rebirth (her passive).

ThyLordAngel2/6/2019, 8:53:54 PM5 votes

yes! there are so many issues with this! they seriously need to fix this!

Zedthul2/6/2019, 3:05:57 PM3 votes

I really wish they would just add time stamps like other games where you can see exactly what happened, who did what, etc. Time stamps are also very valuable when trying to figure out if you actually did a cancel animation correctly on champs like Riven's fast Q.

LeftyRaydy2/6/2019, 5:39:06 PM2 votes

I had a sion in my death reacap who assisted himself with 200 true damage somehow. Its incredible and so interesting when you open the death recap. sometimes it doesnt add up to your max health and other times it shows more damage than your max health. its so..... great

Monstermushmush2/6/2019, 5:50:07 PM2 votes

Yeah it's pretty useless.

Axzarious2/6/2019, 10:01:42 PM2 votes

I think it's actually impossible for RIOT to update the Death Recap. From what I remember hearing earlier, it's because that the recap is embedded in some core part of the game that makes changes nearly impossible because of what I can only assume is spaghetti code. If they change something in it, it's liable to break hundreds of other things and cause some serious bugs in things you'd never reasonably expect, so they just decided to leave it as is.

JeaneGreene2/8/2019, 12:30:42 AM1 votes

500 true damage from Soraka Passive

Dethflash2/6/2019, 10:35:06 PM1 votes

Yes death recap needs a rework / improvements. I personally would love it if the death recap clearly told me what the final ability or whatever killed me like: Killing blow Corki Q. The game has had so many changes the past few years that it baffles me that the death recap hasnt had ANY noticeable improvements. Not to mention i personally think that being able to clearly see what killed you, from who, how much damage it did would, can help players improve slightly at the game. Like in your example, yasuo clearly didnt do 2000 damage from a single Q, but if the death recap showed Yasuo Q 4 times for a total of 2000 damage, people could understand how much damage a single yasuo Q does, and hey if you have 1000 hp maybe you should heal first before trying to fight yasuo again because you clearly now know he does around 500 damage a Q. All in all, i think death recaps is something riot should work on improving, like i said the game has changed a lot the past few years, but death recaps remain largely the same, and i cant forget about all the bugs death recaps have. Like not showing what abilities the enemies hit you with you just see damage numbers and no champion name either, or sometimes it even says my teammates hurt me, yeah Riot my Vi jungle on my team totally did 300 damage to me because that makes sense. Death recaps NEED bug fixes and improvements

Ferrymąn2/7/2019, 12:06:19 AM1 votes

80% damage reduction, takes 1200dmg from vladimir Q. Deathcap says i took 300 from Q and died while having ~1300hp

AetherArising2/7/2019, 12:06:40 AM1 votes

Last i checked, taliyah's Rock Surfing passive shouldnt do 80 dmg to me.. seeing as it doesnt do ANY damage.

Goon Smurf2/7/2019, 5:40:43 AM1 votes

I took 2.5k damage from an Ornn's flash one time. That was interesting.

The King Diamond2/7/2019, 10:23:22 AM1 votes

Remember about bugs in recap. In last game Janna dealt me 75 unknowd dmg with her ult. Hmm

Jennifer4202/7/2019, 11:38:11 AM1 votes

the entire thing is a fucking bug. just like mordekaiser. and i doubt riot will fix it this or next season, they just love to ignore such things.

i think not a single time i was able to open it and see what actually happened without some random bullshit like "kassadins passive did 121 true damage to you" even tho his passive doesnt deal any damage EVER

AbbacchÍo2/7/2019, 8:30:07 PM1 votes

Ill never forget this one game i was in , i got one shot by a really fed fizz , and there was no one around him. and it said 'soraka starcall 189 magic damage' the soraka was on my team.... and lets never forget 'ahh yess dragon crit me with stattik shyv'

lolipopevelynn2/7/2019, 9:59:08 PM1 votes

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The deathrecap screen has a few inconcistancies and it looks like it contributes to how people misunderstand what happens when they die.

For example: Took 2000 damage from Yasuo's Q Person reacts to this: wtf yasuo does 2k damage with 1 q Me: no you dingus, it takes into concideration the total damage from several q's!

The interface looks old too, It doesn't display how many times 1 ability was used and basic attacks are not considered as magic damage or true damage only pure physical damage without any crits.

And there are lots of cases where certain things are left blank like: [ ] took 44 damage from [Player name] BUT LIKE WHAT DID THIS DAMAGE.

Thoughts and suggestions please! We need to work together with this not against one another.

its over due by 5 or 6 seasons now. maybe in season 15, maybe...