Why does the client show your ping so you don't have to go into a game to find out you have 600 ping

Qerv·Sep 5, 2015·62 votes·2,517 views

I feel like it would help a lot because people wouldn't enter a game just to dc or find out that they have 600 ping and cant do anything. Granted you could create a custom game but that just take a while and it would be much easier to just see it on your client. It could be just like in game and just appear right next to the "click to edit your preferences" on your client. It would help a ton with dc's, rito pls.

24 Comments

EvilMerodachSep 5, 20158 votes

I think that would create problems with server load. As everyone in client would always be connected to the server. And possibly not all the accurate either. Simple ping test to server probably won't reflect game level load, so you could read a good ping from the client, then go in game and still have a bad ping. When in doubt...try a costume game.

QervSep 5, 20151 votes

Yea I see what your saying but it would help those people who have no idea that they have bad ping until they enter the game because it would say right on the client. For example if 9/10 games you play on 30 ping but one day your ping is up to 300 for some reason you probably wouldn't think to enter a custom match to test your ping. So then you would enter the game to find out you have 300 ping then that match would basically be a 4v5 for the other team making it really hard to win.

Stars ShaperSep 5, 201518 votes

That can be solved with a fast "Check ping" option that would briefly connect you to the server in a space devoted for the sole purpose of connection infos.

MyCarIsADragonSep 6, 20152 votes

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That can be solved with a fast "Check ping" option that would briefly connect you to the server in a space devoted for the sole purpose of connection infos.

note that this should be severely limit the amount of times that this could be done to prevent possible abuse.

Stars ShaperSep 7, 20152 votes

Ofc, give it a cd of 40 minnutes - 1h so that I can be done in between 2 games.

JoshTheLobsterSep 5, 20152 votes

It's almost the like other major MOBA has this feature and their servers are entirely fine. OuO

SearingspearSep 5, 20155 votes

"ping 104.160.131.1 -t" go to command prompt and run this to check your ping pre game (without quotations). It's not 100% accurate, but it's good enough

Sinister SnailSep 7, 20151 votes

how does this not have more upvotes.

I'm going to do this all the time now, thank you forever.

Kal Vas FlamSep 5, 20152 votes

I don't generally have ping issues except ping spikes (happens a lot lately), but I agree this should be a thing.

LordzqyxSep 5, 20152 votes

Pingtest.net is a great tool to check ping outside of games. A quick ping checker as part of the client would be nice though.

RottedApplesSep 5, 20152 votes

i definitely think that the client needs this, but if you are worried about your ping then go into a custom, add a bot, and then play ezreal and go bot. ezreal has skillshots so you should be able to get a feel for your ping really quickly and see if it's playable or not. plus you can just leave the game since it's a custom and you are the only actual player, the game then just disappears.

DogIsGodSep 5, 20155 votes

No one is gonna go into a custom game every time before playing and it could still happen after the custom as well.

RottedApplesSep 5, 20151 votes

well if you know your ping isn't super great then you can do it to see if it's playable before actually playing.

Tails DollSep 5, 20151 votes

Riot hears ya, Riot doesnt care, buy some RP.

Ignis0Sep 5, 20151 votes

I use LSI for a ping estimate but this would be a lot easier.

Silents429Sep 5, 20151 votes

Because the client isn't using the same server games are on, and checking your ping for a second won't tell you much of anything unless you ping the server constantly to get the average. And even then, Ping can only get you so far, disconnects can occur even with 50ms.

AviousSep 5, 20151 votes

This has been requested several times. Riot is working on a new client so I think you should post this again when they begin testing it. Having said that, I believe they will ship it with this feature included.

UiruSep 5, 20151 votes

You must be new here.

I wish I could maintain that level of faith in Riot.

AviousSep 6, 20151 votes

Definitely not new. Just noticed that they value the players' opinions lately, even when not necessary cough Skarnerreworkcough

TyvaniSep 5, 20151 votes

If they could figure out a good method for checking, I'd love to have it. It just a bit of a chore to create a custom game just to check.

3TWarriorSep 6, 20151 votes

actually, you can't even create a custom game anymore without suffering leaver buster.

I tried it a few weeks ago, patch 5.16 I think, and now it tries to hit you with leaver buster if you leave a custom match that has no one in it XD

gg git diffSep 6, 20151 votes

Riot already answered this multiple times. If they added this it wouldn’t be very accurate because the routing your connection takes would be different once you get in game.