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Can we get a start-of-game reminder for Pyke's ultimate please?

Shinjusuke·10/1/2018, 11:43:55 PM·1 votes·834 views

I saw this post: https://boards.na.leagueoflegends.com/en/c/player-behavior-moderation/LwmUcQRl-im-not-lying-someone-actually-said-this

And the first comment (which has been downvoted into oblivion) made me face-desk and sigh. As a self-proclaimed Pyke main, this kind of dumbass bullshit is more common than it has any excuse to be. People are just outright too ignorant to bother reading the abilities of champions, way too often.

It'd be really nice if we had one of those popup reminders at the start of the game that said something like "Reminder: Enemies executed by Pyke's Ultimate provide kill gold to assisting allies".

As far as abilities go, that interaction is 100% unique out of the champion roster, so just reminding people who might not be super familiar with Pyke that "hey, don't be an asshole, there's literally no reason why Pyke killing an enemy with his ult is a bad deal for you" would (hopefully) mitigate a bunch of ire.

As someone who plays a fair amount of Pyke, it's annoying going into a game knowing it's a coin flip as to whether I get someone who can't be bothered to read his abilities and refuses to listen when I say "you get literally the same gold that I do", and instead opts to whine like a little bitch about their CoD KDA cuz they're in denial about League not being a Team Deathmatch game.

Just a QoL improvement I'd like so hopefully at least some of these people go away.

P.S. This is just one way to solve the issue, there's probably plenty of others. The core problem is just people can't be bothered to actually learn the game, and the blowback ends up falling on Pyke players who frankly shouldn't have to put up with getting flamed for doing nothing wrong.

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Hotarµ10/2/2018, 12:12:41 AM1 votes

** Just a straight repost from before. I'll just copy and paste my response as well. **

I mean it in the nicest way possible, but it's not my/our/Riot's job to make sure or remind other people about what my abilities do.

I wouldn't mind if the message was added, but people who flame and lack common champion knowledge should get absolutely no sympathy. The person in question on that post quite literally could have just asked "Why are you taking my kills?" before resorting to raging and AFKing.

Response to someone saying Riot does a bad job of clarifying abilities:

You're right, it is Riot's job to let people know how skills work.

That's why, on or before release, they have champion spotlight videos. They also do special web previews, like this one here for Shen. You can try the champion on free weeks. You can check the in-game client or website for ability descriptions and video previews as well.

That's not even counting the amount of videos and analyses created by the community such as Redmercy, Yassuo, Nightblue3, and many others.

So no, don't say Riot has done a poor job when there are more than 4 official sources of information, and many more popular/opinionated ones on social media sites. It's not hard to take a second in game, ask what a champions ability does, and carry on in your game with that knowledge. Not Riot's problem.