Million Dollar Idea

Dr1ve·May 11, 2019·40 votes·13,849 views

Put a ping test button (or Live Ping) in the launcher client window so we can see what our ping will be once the game starts.

Currently, I have to start a game before I know what my ping will be. Usually I have to do an ARAM first to make sure my ping is playable, and if it's not then the game will only waste 15-20 minutes. Often, I start a game and find out my ping is 110-300 and then I'm stuck playing a no-chance game, dragging my teammates down. I'm not the only one with unreliable internet. But if I knew what my ping would be before committing to a game, I could either wait it out (saving my team from a useless teammate, them yelling "feeder!" and "report!") or I could troubleshoot the ping before the game starts.

While it's nice that the loading screen shows pings, by that time you're already committed. Show us our ping from client window! Or give us a button to test our ping before we play.

Admittedly, this won't make you a million dollars. But it will help players who don't have permanent gigabit internet, which I'm assuming is a vast majority of your clientele.

24 Comments

FlashesMay 11, 20199 votes

You can actually open up command prompt and use the ping -t function to find the time it takes for your computer to connect to the server, and get continuous ping feedback.

Copypaste this into command prompt right after the little >

ping 104.160.131.3 -t

This should give you the ping it takes to connect to League's IP address.

This only applies to NA btw. Other servers use other IPs, and I don't know those IP addresses sorry

ManBearPig916May 11, 20195 votes

I open up a 1 v 0 custom SR game, look at my ping, then abandon the game.

Jennifer420May 11, 20191 votes

used to do that aswell. for some reason my ping in a 1v0 custom is ALWAYS fine.

SõnaMay 11, 20194 votes

meanwhile dota2 have that function years ago, but we know dota2 didn't have as much player as League of Legends Dota2 have hundreds of staffs but Riot has thousands of staff worldwide. Hmm I wonder where all the moneys go to.

SylaelqueMay 11, 20191 votes

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meanwhile dota2 have that function years ago, but we know dota2 didn't have as much player as League of Legends Dota2 have hundreds of staffs but Riot has thousands of staff worldwide. Hmm I wonder where all the moneys go to.

As old Dota 2 player I think League improving way more better and has way more content in lore, music etc. Valve only cares about their TI but Riot also listening words of community and stick with them. Also Valve manage to make a moba game p2w example there is Dota Plus lets you choose your Role before Ranked Que or Normal Que and you will match against people from Blind Pick that don't have Dota Plus and they usually argue about who is midlaner like "mid or feed" or no one picks sup etc. Dota 2 has disgusting community with a very bad report system a lot people able to punish you because of a bad game. [sg-ahri-1]

SõnaMay 11, 20193 votes

Despite dota2 has as much bad as you said, at least they have better client, no crash, better shop experience with skin previews. When you look at league's clients, it's what board say "hot laggy garbage" after 2 years and still not trying to make it better. Buggy

5StackUltOneShotMay 11, 20192 votes

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Despite dota2 has as much bad as you said, at least they have better client, no crash, better shop experience with skin previews. When you look at league's clients, it's what board say "hot laggy garbage" after 2 years and still not trying to make it better. Buggy

Yah, Im an ex Dota player you can try out any skin no matter the rarity for however long you want in a preview tool

SylaelqueMay 12, 20191 votes

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Despite dota2 has as much bad as you said, at least they have better client, no crash, better shop experience with skin previews. When you look at league's clients, it's what board say "hot laggy garbage" after 2 years and still not trying to make it better. Buggy

Dota 2 don't have a client and it has game coordinator errors and most skins in Dota 2 don't have special animations and effects like in League. Better shop experience, huh? Did you see how many player scammed in Dota 2 and Valve always refuse to refund anything from Dota 2 transactions. You can't even add people as friend without pay in Dota 2.

SõnaMay 13, 20191 votes

Dota2 doesn't need to have any special animations for skins. I take Dota2 as example showing how the client should work. Not asking you to take their skin for comparison of quality. Also, people get scammed because of themselves willing to trust some scam source, not because of Dota2. By shop experience I mean they differentiate the custom skin into specific type of categories very neatly, having features to preview skins, and test the skins by players. Meanwhile in League's skin shop?

Simple ping functions, simple skin preview, no such "bugsplat" crash occur, are very basic things that dota2 did it. What about League of Legends? are you telling me that Riot's client design team actually put their effort into fixing the client yet? It's been two years, and I see nothing fix aside from buggy loot page, unresponsive clicks and high consume of CPU usage.

GoldsmithSmartyMay 11, 20191 votes

All true apart from community. League has the most toxic community out of any game period. Valle doesn't care about the game, only money. Unfortunately Riot took a lesson from their book a while ago.

Haze97May 11, 20191 votes

None of those mean shit when the quality of your game sucks ass.

GlaricionMay 11, 20192 votes

https://deepfocus.io/lol_ping.php

Quite close to what you'll get in-game. edit: Usually works for me, but seems to be buggy atm, try it tomorrow?

Origami BirbMay 11, 20191 votes

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https://deepfocus.io/lol_ping.php

Quite close to what you'll get in-game. edit: Usually works for me, but seems to be buggy atm, try it tomorrow?

I used it and it said my min ping is 141 and max 210 or something for eune i play on eune and have a very good constant internet in-game I get like, 40-50 ping. So is this accurate? It's a great tool if it works for other servers, but I'm not so sure.

GoldsmithSmartyMay 11, 20191 votes

It said that my ping is 6k, ran it multiple times. something is not right)

rtbf247626423May 12, 20192 votes

or yknow fix the game and remove mmr

Neekoo Neeko NeeMay 11, 20191 votes

This is already a feature in the Chinese server, I doubt they will bring it to other regions lul

ﬂooMay 11, 20191 votes

If you have inconsistent ping all the time, go on a discord/ts3 server and look there. If it is in correlation to the game only, start a practice tool game and move around for some minutes.

rawiazam1May 11, 20191 votes

I start a game and find out my ping is 110-300 and then I'm stuck playing a no-chance game

damn, my usual ping is 100-105

GoldsmithSmartyMay 11, 20191 votes

My friend, my ping, on a good day, is 200. If I get lucky it goes down to 198. Even if I have ~300 ping I am not really dragging my team down, it is playable. On the other hand, if you get 200 ping in Dota 2 - you're done.

radetariMay 11, 20191 votes

Well tbh there is a Practice Tool Might get downvoted for this but some people are just that lazy

Dr1veMay 11, 20191 votes

What I'm hearing is that you all have the same issue, with a wide variety of solutions that take work and time. That's why this solution I propose should be considered! It solves the problem without people having to jump through hoops.

Doctor CamilleMay 12, 20191 votes

I guess you can go into practice tool. It would be helpful though

ClarryAnceMay 12, 20191 votes

You couldn't be any more right! I wish we had this option and I hope this happens. I reside in South Africa and play with an impossible ping at times and find myself using the most unreliable websites to test my ping. A in-client ping would be the best thing since sliced bread for me.

Please hear this man out and apply the relevant buttons to make our experience that much more enjoyable <3

Thank you!