With the new Fiora update reveal, East Coast ping is even more of a problem than ever

Drakylon·7/21/2015, 8:22:02 PM·49 votes·3,034 views

In the recent Fiora update reveal, her Riposte is stated to reflect incoming damage and hard crowd control abilities from a target direction for a fraction of a second. This means that a high to even decent ping will prevent the full use of the ability, especially at close ranges. The example is probably the best case scenario: a slow Morgana binding telegraphed from close to max range. But what about faster skillshots -- Ahri's Charm, Elise's Cocoon, Tristana's Buster Shot, etc. -- and melee range CCs? One would likely need to cast Riposte during the cast animation of the skill, which prevents people with slow reaction times or even medium (90~100) ping from using the skill to its fullest potential, much like the Insec kick.

Players on the East Coast already need higher reaction times than those on the West Coast to flash certain skills, and now they require that higher reaction time to use a portion of a champion's kit.

52 Comments

TotalJerk7/21/2015, 10:49:49 PM5 votes

.75 seconds. That's a large enough window that lag doesn't affect it worse than any skillshot would be.

iainB857/21/2015, 10:10:27 PM5 votes

Already frustrating enough trying to play Sivir on east coast... so yea.

MasterVidallis7/22/2015, 2:34:23 PM3 votes

Was on a game the other day, west coast guy who lost lane says at end screen "had 120 ping all game! what do you want me to do, so hard to last hit".

Bitch, I'm in Boston, 120 ping is what I hope for IN A GOOD DAY. I've never had less than a 100. My internet is the best money can buy. Meanwhile my friend in Vancouver has 30 most of the time...

Durzaka7/21/2015, 10:26:07 PM2 votes

Yep, glad this post is getting attention.

I don't even live on the east coast (midwest, so im fucked whichever servers a game has, east or west) but this is definitely gonna be a noticeable problem.

gubigubi7/22/2015, 6:58:08 PM2 votes

On the topic of Fioras new W it is way more forgiving than the old one to land. The window to block damage feels larger.

But on the Topic of the ping of anything higher than 100+ that needs to get fixed its getting real old real fast.

LaceUp237/22/2015, 11:06:51 AM1 votes

East coast players are going to continue to have troubles. It seems they are changing League from a strategy type game to a mechanical game, requiring faster actions and decision making. This is going to hurt higher ping players more than it has in the past.

bK HYper7/22/2015, 12:23:53 PM1 votes

82 from Ohio

ChaosThief7/22/2015, 3:57:05 PM1 votes

It's duration is 0.75 seconds if any one is curious. From the 70 ping of PBE, it doesn't seem to hard to use.

Knight SoIaire 7/22/2015, 5:45:00 PM1 votes

This means that a high to even decent ping will prevent the full use of the ability

actual lag ... yup

high ping ... not so much

those skills usualy require good prediciotn more than top tier reflexes ... so high ping might not affect you that much as far as enemy wont outplay you ... but actual lag will render you unable to do that completly

Lazypeon1007/22/2015, 6:13:05 PM1 votes

I live in Maryland and my ping is consistently 90-100. Verizon is my ISP, and sometomes my ping just randomly spikes, though idk if that is riots fault.

3TWarrior7/22/2015, 6:47:21 AM1 votes

when I ping the server, I get a 40 ms response, when I join the game, I get a 120 MS response, when I actually play the game...that ping spikes anywhere from 120 ms to 9k ms at random

it's not right XD

SpecterVonBaren7/21/2015, 10:46:23 PM1 votes

It's the same amount of time it takes for Veigar's E to land, and with how much time that gives enemies to just casually walk away from it, trust me, it shouldn't be hard to use her new w.

im s0 bad7/22/2015, 12:52:43 AM1 votes

Sucks for us east coast players with bad reaction times Skarner

Sammystorm7/22/2015, 6:36:14 AM1 votes

This has always been the case. Fiora's kit isn't new in making it hard for higher ping/slow reaction players from performing everything perfectly. A few examples would be animation canceling. Jayce combo.

A Bad Janna7/21/2015, 8:42:58 PM1 votes

optimize your pc