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Can we please rework the death recap to make it more informative?

Bismuthinite·10/12/2014, 11:06:37 AM·170 votes·13,102 views

tl;dr: Not only does it only show 3 sources of damage, but it is extremely buggy as well.

Take a look at this screenshot: http://i.imgur.com/jcSiBMd.jpg Out of all the damage dealt to me, it only shows 30% total. Should I be buying MR? Armor? I don't even know.. Also, why do minions take priority over other damage sources?

Example #2: http://i.imgur.com/Pc5pZMS.jpg I don't even know what happened here. Sunfire Cape's damage is shown as "revive". And apparently some minion caused 45% magic damage with basic attacks. Wukong seems to have caused this (his true dmg burn is being listed separately), but where is the magic damage coming from?

Example #3: http://i.imgur.com/OVCtKpN.jpg This death recap left me confused as well. Again, it only shows me a portion of the damage I received, 42%, but there are some unnamed damage sources (5 magic damage caused by Heimer). I'm assuming that's coming from one of his masteries, but why is it not labeled as such?

My suggestions:

  1. Stop listing the damage caused by each individual ability.
  2. Add 3 graphs: Physical damage taken, magic damage taken, true damage taken. This alone would make death recap 100x more useful. Oh, and please remove "mixed damage", for clarity.
    • include 3 optional graphs per damage source (champion A, champion B, ...)
    • differentiate between damage caused by champions and minions/monsters
  3. Add a few more statistics, such as:
    • amount of time you suffered from CC affected by tenacity (should I buy Mercs?)
    • amount of time you suffered from CC not affected by tenacity (knock ups, ...)
    • amount of damage taken from basic attacks (would Ninja Tabi be worth it?)

70 Comments

AHeroNamedHawke10/12/2014, 11:57:56 AM38 votes

Nah the death recap is great

Lee clearly assisted himself with this kill

http://i.imgur.com/4b2xux2.png

Luigi Tortellini10/12/2014, 2:41:57 PM17 votes

Why would you need a functioning death recap when we have e$ports casters to tell us how cool this game is.

Hayaishi10/12/2014, 1:41:10 PM10 votes

It's a joke that this game has had a bugged death recap for about 2 seasons now.

SpiritSpartan10/13/2014, 12:26:03 AM9 votes

I personally rarely use it since I primarily check the enemy items and build accordingly. But, it is still an important tool to a lot of people who use it as a directive to what should they build next in order to take less damage.

The current system seem to have all the data needed to help the players. But, the main problem come form the presentation of this information (along with a few bugs).

I think the best way to keep thing simple and informative would be to simply show the total of every type of damage (physical, magical...) from all sources (champions, neutral monsters, towers...).

Maybe they could add a small "tips" to help players build the right defence. Like if 90% of the damage taken was magic, it would say "buy some magic resist items". If you already had a lot of magic resist it would say "buy some hp items".

Here's a small design I made to show my vision of a simple and informative death recap.

A0 SHIN10/12/2014, 6:34:55 PM7 votes

Yah. Unfortunately death recap is pretty useless right now. Half of the time it gives you wrong information, the other half it doesnt show where any of the damage came from.

Shosuko10/12/2014, 10:39:42 PM6 votes

I think it should also be available after you respawn. When the re-spawn timers are low it can suck to lose this information.

Jib Jig10/13/2014, 1:04:42 AM5 votes

Like when it tells me I helped in killing myself with true magic damage in the first time it happened.

Or when I not only help kill myself once, I kill myself TWICE as TWO DIFFERENT CHAMPIONS.

Marenjii10/12/2014, 11:14:22 AM4 votes

Yeah death recap sucks total ass. I look at it just to look. I get no real actual, valuable information from it. The person who did the most damage to me won't even show up on it, if more than 3 people were wailing on me at the same time. Still need to see how much individual abilities did so that newer players familiarize themselves with a champions more dangerous abilities.

Ghost Killer 42010/12/2014, 11:38:01 AM4 votes

Recently on Death recaps Specifically on ARAM for my example i have seen that i did true damage to myself and the true damage was purple like magic damage but listed it as true and the source was myself and it wasnt from a sunfire or thornmail and i also wasnt playing anychamps that used hp to cast spells/skills

Junkο10/12/2014, 5:29:02 PM4 votes

I had Zed kill me with magic dmg death mark with Morganas Soul Bind icon few days ago. If only i had screenshoted that

Potatofaktman10/12/2014, 5:42:13 PM4 votes

This is so needed, in fact this was needed ages ago, fix plz rito...

BeQuickOrBeDead10/13/2014, 4:15:07 AM4 votes

Yes, please fix the Death Recap.

Izento10/13/2014, 4:44:29 AM4 votes

Wow, never realized how bad the death recaps are. Bump to get this reworked so it can be useful. Maybe that's why I never noticed this, cause it's not currently useful.

tau4310/14/2014, 3:45:40 PM3 votes

Don't forget zepherslamentburn.

TheHarbors Riper10/13/2014, 6:17:43 AM3 votes

I agree with this, id really love a revamped death recap, with the new rift comming this would be epic.

BasilShadowreave11/7/2014, 8:34:14 PM3 votes

One part of the issue might also be that It only shows you three sources, even if you got killed by the entire enemy team.

Carry This Scrub10/3/2017, 2:10:23 PM2 votes

3 years later... still broken gg riot

Emperor Cynric10/12/2014, 4:40:10 PM2 votes

wouldn't it be great if it showed a mini playback of how you died so you can see where you went wrong to prevent the same kind of play from happening?Nautilusitem 2048

Killer X 1211/28/2014, 7:59:35 PM2 votes

Can we please rework the death recap to be informative*

Can 1v1 someone and then your death recap will show them doing only 67 damage to you over 17 seconds...okay, riot.

WHO IS TIRED10/13/2014, 6:11:29 PM1 votes

Why remove "mixed damage" there are champions that actually do a mix between both AD and AP damage with 1 ability.

Vakabiel10/13/2014, 5:28:18 PM1 votes

Question: Were you at 100% HP when you died? If not I'm wondering if the 42% is because you were at 42% of 100% HP and it couldn't account for the missing health.

ButtersBBG10/13/2014, 8:32:41 PM1 votes

I never use death recap. What the point of it?

Genova Fearbane10/14/2014, 2:40:03 AM1 votes

It usually only shows a small percentage of the damage because too much time as passed for it to correctly calculate the rest of the damage you received due to HP regen or self-healing. However I do agree the death-recap does need an update.