I saw the perfect quote today to explain why animation canceling shoudl be removed

Gubaguy·May 26, 2017·1 votes·231 views

http://i.imgur.com/nOYpPut.png

"The community has always strongly leaned towards the idea of fixing exsiting problems, rather than building on top of them."

I don't know what it's from (Found it randomly on reddit), but... Yeah. Animation cancelling started as a bug, that instead of being fixed, got worked into gameplay, rather then being fixed. So, why do that? Why Build characters to abuse a known bug, rather then fix the bug? (Riven)

Not trying to start a fight, but i will point out that you removed a lot of champion attack reset and animation cancelling, but leave the bugs themselves still in game, stop building around it and jsut fix it.

8 Comments

VisionovaMay 26, 20171 votes

You'd basically have to completely rework Riven at that point, since I'm pretty sure she'd be complete garbage without animation canceling.

UnboundHadesMay 26, 20171 votes

isn't it bad that a champion is only good because of a bug?

VisionovaMay 26, 20171 votes

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isn't it bad that a champion is only good because of a bug?

Combos were originally a bug in Street Fighter, weren't they?

Riven is designed to be like a fighting game character, so the animation canceling fits her design in that regard.

That's how I see it, anyway.

UnboundHadesMay 26, 20171 votes

but still if riot hasn't made it a mechanic officially in her kit it shouldn't exist and if shes terrible without the bug she is due for a small rework

GubaguyMay 26, 20171 votes

she was reworked to work WITH animation cancelling, so revert that change, and retool her to not abuse a bug to be usable. The fact is riot is so lazy they cant be bothered to fix a bug, and decided to jsut build champions around the bug instead. Thats the whole point.

VisionovaMay 26, 20171 votes

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she was reworked to work WITH animation cancelling, so revert that change, and retool her to not abuse a bug to be usable. The fact is riot is so lazy they cant be bothered to fix a bug, and decided to jsut build champions around the bug instead. Thats the whole point.

There are so many more champions that need a rework than Riven, though.

GubaguyMay 26, 20171 votes

So fix them all? Thats the whole point of the statement here, dont build around the bug, fix it.

VisionovaMay 26, 20171 votes

Riven's not even the only champion with animation cancels, just the most notable user of it. As far as I'm aware, no champion that has them has it indicated directly, let alone the fact that you can cancel some animations using Tiamat's active (which as far as I'm aware is fairly important to know as as Renekton).