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Smart Ping Revisited for Season 4 <3 (New Ping Ideas)

MilkshakeGuru··22 votes·2,186 views

[I would really love too see Smart Ping revisited.] I want the ability to ping OOM, low HP, and Wards.

Being able to ping OOM or low HP will help prevent really bad situations from going down. It could also create great opportunities and plays. For example lets say the enemy jungler ganks you. He fails and takes a beating. As he runs away into the fog of war you could ping on him OOM or Low HP. Anyone nearby like perhaps your jungler can head to cut him off knowing hes in a bad spot to defend himself. This could allow any of your teammates to make a viable play and pick up a kill and be more map aware of the enemies situation. Could also save your life and others if you ping for yourself or teammates. Your teammates are less likely to start a fight if you ping yourself OOM or Low HP.

Being able to ping where I want wards placed on the map will remind people that we need to be warding. This could also help people who don't know how to ward and teach them how to place them in proper areas. Also there needs to be 2 separate ward pings. 1 That says Enemy Warded and one that says Place Ward Here. Would be great to have thanks.

[At the end of the day we could have the following pings on a quick and easy to use octagon.]

Danger, Missing, On my way, Assist me, OOM, Low HP , Enemy Warded, and Place Ward Here.

As for how it could look. Keep the original pings in the same place on the octagon. Add Low HP and OOM to the top right and left corners of the octagon. Add Enemy Warded and Place Ward Here in the bottom right and left corners of the octagon.

Now you have a complete octagon of smart pings ready to use and make communication easy and effective. DO IT RIOT PLEASE! If nothing else add the Ward pings. Vision is so important in this game and these pings will help improve how teams handle going about getting it.

31 Comments

ploki1226 votes

My idea is that we keep the 4 pings, but we make it so the 4 pings have dual meaning, one for ctrl/V and one for alt/G (if they are the hotkeys... can't quite remember).

So we'd have 5 ping : Target (simple click), Here, Movement, Ward and 1 other option.

If you're pinging with alt (aka the aggressive ping) that means :

  • Target : Normal blue ping (ground) or Target this (champion/objective).
  • Here : Come Here (ground), aka request help or Sighted (Champion/Objective)
  • Movement : On my Way
  • Ward : Ward here or Kill ward (on a ward).

If you're pinging with ctrl (the caution ping) that means :

  • Target : Caution (ground) or fall back from this (champion/objective).
  • Here : Enemy missing in action (ground), aka request help or (possibly) Sighted (Champion/Objective)
  • Movement : Careful for ganks, aka enemy going this way
  • Ward : Enemy warded here or Leave ward alive (on a ward).

What do you gusy think.

EDIT: It's worth noting that I believe that the current system is better than the one I proposed. 6 pings is enough for quick communication in nearly all cases, and all 6 have very different ways of tegling them, making the use quite easy.

Void22583 votes

Hitting Alt and Ctrl in the middle of a battle is very hard for some people, myself included (which is why I have mine bound to extra mouse buttons, but not everyone has those to bind). It requires pulling your fingers very far off the skill keys, and can lead to bad resetting (for example coming back and not realizing your pinky is on tab instead of Q).

ploki1221 votes

Like Abiwon said, what yo udid is simply re-bind the V/G hotkeys, that doesn't break my proposition in any way.

AbiwonKenabi2 votes

I'm pretty certain the hotkeys are just G+click and V+click for retreat ping. I've never had to use ctrl or alt for pings before, and I play with mostly default settings (other than smart cast).

MilkshakeGuru1 votes

This is not a bad idea either.

ploki1222 votes

I just thought I'd mention it, but overall, I believe that the current system is better than the one I proposed. 6 pings is enough for quick communication in nearly all cases, and all 6 have very different ways of tegling them, making the use quite easy.

SmokingPuffin5 votes

I would kill people for ward pings.

Today, I use the neutral ping to indicate where a ward has been placed, but many people don't get it. I also don't have any efficient way to ask my support to ward a particular brush.

ploki1221 votes

I actually use retreat ping to get the timer from chat...

Solan Stonewhip1 votes

clever

MilkshakeGuru1 votes

I agree with this completely. There are luckily a couple good ideas on this page starting to float around. Maybe riot will actually take one into consideration if people keep talking about it!

MilkshakeGuru3 votes

Glad to see some people actually came to discuss some ideas about this. I don't care if my exact idea gets noticed at all. I want people to discuss it and modify this topic until it becomes viable for the whole community. I really wish they at least make the ward pings for sure. I think that's the best part of my idea really >.<

DocSmoothJew2 votes

They should do a/b testing with it. Give half the community one set of pings keeping the ones everyone's already stated they like and the other half some experimental ones and see how much the usage goes up.

MilkshakeGuru1 votes

That would be a pretty cool idea. I guess I understand people may not want all 4 of these pings. But keeping the Ward pings makes the most sense to me for sure.

DocSmoothJew1 votes

Yeah, I love the ward ping idea. I constantly ping and say "warded" or "plz ward there instead of so close to lane"

Josiahfied1 votes

Yeah the ward here/warded is a really neat idea!

Eyrgos2 votes

Easy method of retaining the ease-of-use with the Ping-Wheel... make separate Wheels for G & V Pings (G-Wheel could have assist me, moving here, ward here & another; V-Ping could have enemy missing, I'm leaving, retreat & another).

MilkshakeGuru2 votes

Ya this is not such a bad idea either!

Dicerson2 votes

Have two ping wheels.

If you hold (smartcast on) or hold click (smartcast off) the retreat ping button, a wheel comes up with the pings.

Low HP on the left, Out of Mana or OOM on the right, Danger Inc or Gank inc on the top, and Enemy Warded Here on the bottom.

If you do this same action for the Aggression ping (Blue ping), it will instead Have.

Enemy is Low on HP or shorter phrase on the left, Enemy is OOM on the right, On My Way on the Top, and Ward Here Please on the bottom.

The Aggression pings would be blue, so its normal meaning would be what the BLUE assist me ping already is, with the normal targeted variants for defend here or attack here, or retreat from here.

Freljordan1 votes

and then you need enemy missing and assist me still. You could make it 5 pings on each maybe?

AbiwonKenabi1 votes

I definitely like the idea of ward pings or low HP/MP pings. The only problem I see though is ease of access; you'll be wanting to ping on the fly in quick, intense situations, and you don't want to accidentally ping the incorrect ping. With more pings on a single circle, chance to hit the wrong one goes up. Maybe instead assign smart ping to both ping options (the regular and retreat ping) so that there only has to be 4 on each wheel.

But good idea! You definitely have something here.

Eyrgos2 votes

People abuse the V-ping so much that it's often ignored... I think an "I'm OUT" ping would do well.

Easy solution to better access: add either a separate wheel for V-Ping or add an F-Ping with its own wheel.

AbiwonKenabi1 votes

Yeah separate wheel for V ping is what I was meaning. (four ping types on each) You can't use F though because the default for one of the summoner spells is F >.<

Freljordan1 votes

maybe they could use t? that has no binding as of current

sarcasmsmurf1 votes

my 2 cents.. the 4 pings i tell my team mates in solo Q most often..

this is warded, be careful, I am on my way, need assistance... i would personally like to see these 4 be the 4 staple pings

Gonsea1 votes

I think Assist ping is useless, use attack ping on yourself or the location or the tower make same meaning. Replace it with Ward ping then we good to go.

lllLOOPDAEDlll1 votes

my only problem with this idea is the fact that i don't see the 4 new pings used very often in game at this point.

MilkshakeGuru3 votes

Do you play a lot of ranked as opposed to normals? Because I am only Silver and I see pings constantly.

Sagnard1 votes

love the idea octagon.... total support

MilkshakeGuru1 votes

Thanks >.<. Originally I wanted to make the post only about the ward pings. But then I thought about the shape of the wheel it would be on. So I came up with octagon and added in the idea of Low Hp and OOM pings as well to balance it out I guess.

Flonker1 votes

Yes please. All of these things.

This could so effectively help close a communication gap in solo/duo.

NintenMoney1 votes

I am really hoping that Riot implements this for the upcoming season. Honestly, it wouldn't take much.

Personally, I have specific pings bound to specific keys on my keyboard...I think the thing that people want the most with this idea is simply the option to have the ability to use these. It's not like you have to use all of them, but having the option to use addtional specific pings would be really great.

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Especially the "Please put a ward here" and "enemy just warded here" pings. If nothing else, I'd love to have these.

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Blessings, NintenMoney :D

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