Please Riot, Fix Pathing

rebound2·May 8, 2015·6 votes·891 views

You're low on health, running away from an enemy champion, constantly running back towards your turrets. Everything seems to be alright, you're going to make it back to the turret! They surely won't chase you through there. Then suddenly, while you're clicking frantically to move towards that turret, you walk backwards into the enemy!

You have been slain!

You stop and wonder for a second, "HOW DID I MOVE BACKWARDS? WHAT THE HECK?"

You did nothing wrong. You did not walk backwards on your own. It was a bug in the system, a problem with pathing. Pathing is a broken mechanic. While it usually works, that's just not good enough. Please, I beg you Riot, fix pathing. One mistake can make or break a game.

8 Comments

TeemoJenkinsMay 8, 20155 votes

Meh, I kinda like clicking to go to top lane and having my character hump the shop... other people don't like that?

KazaashiMay 8, 20154 votes

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Then suddenly, while you're clicking frantically to move towards that turret, you walk backwards into the enemy!_

I highlighted your mistake. Everytime you click, they pathing system rerouts you to the shortest path it can find as fast as it can find it. Sometimes those paths are on opposite sides of a minnion/turret/peice of wall/etc, and your character turns to path in that direction. You have to trust that one click will get you where you need to go.

I will admit that sometimes it has an odd choice of where to path you, though.

rebound2May 8, 20153 votes

Frantically clicking or not, this happens to me, and to everyone I know. It was added in for detail, but it perhaps might have been the wrong choice.

thePandevMay 8, 20152 votes

Yup, it is true, also need to fix minion block with that as well, a line of them is basically an Anivia wall

Drunk RummateMay 8, 20152 votes

That feeling when you win a trade in lane, and then horrifyingly realize you're stuck in the minion wave and can't run away. Try as you might, there's nothing you can do as the enemy thresh approaches you, minions humping at your thighs. Finally, you try to flash in desperation, only to realize that it was actually on cooldown from the last time this happened 45 seconds ago.

SirsirMay 8, 20152 votes

How long have base gates been in the game? Cuz thats how long you stutter when walking through them. Cost a teammate his life last game :\

Plus I sat in the fountain for like 15s once trying to go top lane.

PæanMay 8, 20152 votes

I was playing vi jungle yesterday and was falling back after a failed gank, I came across the enemy rumble and I tried to run past him but it had me walk into him... I'm clicking away and vi is almost spinning back and forth to each side of rumble trying to follow the move command. I spent about 2 or 3 seconds stuck on rumble unable to do anything and ended up dying.

SunstoneMay 11, 20151 votes

Yeah.

I've been playing this game for 4 years, and i can count the times i've actually died to pathing on one hand, untill recently.

Pathing is broken. Recently they must've changed something because now in atleast 1 out of 10 games i die due to pathing, where my champion just takes a completely unnatural turn, that i didn't want.

Please Riot, this is a major issue, fix your game before u patch/nerf champions.