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There is a misused piece of the scoreboard that you probably aren't aware of..

Cognitive Gear·5/21/2017, 11:55:27 AM·6 votes·684 views

What I'm talking about is this

This Question Mark that appears alongside the slots of enemies that you can't see has been there since they updated the scoreboard with the ability to ping various summoners and rearrange the order of players. With the ability added to ping summoners and even the champion portraits to show that they are alive or respawning soon, I feel like Riot missed a really good opportunity to add a proper MIA ping. Seeing as this only applies to champions that are out of vision, I feel like this is a prime opportunity to allow the ability to show that specific champions are missing.

The only way currently to make your team aware that an enemy is missing from your vision is to either do the classic "MIA" ping or ping their portrait in the scoreboard to let everyone know that they are indeed, 'Alive'. This current method isn't very specific and I feel it's completely ineffective comparatively to what it could be.

Using the champions from the screenshot above I want to create an example.

Using either the MIA ping or the champion portrait ping you get these messages in chat:

  • (Maokai) signals that enemies are missing or
  • (Warwick) - Alive

Compare this to:

  • (Maokai) signals that (Warwick) is missing

Just an idea I had to add a more specific MIA ping. What do you think?

9 Comments

Grymmstrike5/21/2017, 1:31:32 PM3 votes

But Warwick is always missing until you walk around a corner at 5% hp...

Oleandervine5/21/2017, 1:42:28 PM1 votes

I think to make this work, you need visual access to all of the enemy summoner portraits and their spells, outside of the tab scoreboard. It consumes way too much time to open the scoreboard and ping from there.

Additionally, I would LOVE if we could ping our team's thumbnails on the regular GUI to tell them to fall back, etc. It's such a pain in the ass to have to visibly see someone to be able to tell them to back off something.

bigmatti7/18/2018, 7:15:39 PM1 votes

Necro, but this is something I'd really like to see. Simply make it so that you can click on the question mark beside the hero picture and it will result in a missing "this hero" ping.