Why do we have to go to League of Legends Wiki to read champion abilities?

a baby kangaroo·Jul 8, 2019·51 votes·13,373 views

Either that, or we have to go into practice tool and hover over the ability to read its details. We should be able to read these stats in the client.

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Livin like RivenJul 8, 201913 votes

Worst part is they could literally get a fucking intern to write the code to parse the wiki for all this information and update the client with it, and he'd have it done by lunch. For free. There's literally no excuse.

RipReviveFkRitoJul 8, 20195 votes

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Worst part is they could literally get a fucking intern to write the code to parse the wiki for all this information and update the client with it, and he'd have it done by lunch. For free. There's literally no excuse.

INDIE COMPANY BLAAH BUY MORE LUX SKINS!

xXSpearmint69XxJul 8, 20191 votes

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Worst part is they could literally get a fucking intern to write the code to parse the wiki for all this information and update the client with it, and he'd have it done by lunch. For free. There's literally no excuse.

Why would they parse a 3rd party wiki if they literally have all the info themselves?

YiffMeImAFurryJul 8, 20195 votes

It'd be fucking nice for sure.

So many champions have things that aren't explained in the limited descriptions of the ability videos in the client. It's honestly mind boggling.

For example for Syndra's ultimate, the way it is presented in the client makes it seem like only the three spheres around her are thrown, when in reality it's any created spheres as well.

Nor, IIRC, does it explain what Irelia's marks do (refund cooldown if Q is used on marked target)

Honestly it just needs a big update overall. Some of the descriptions are flat out wrong. Especially the ones that list ultimates as doing "massive damage".

I think it would be very beneficial to update the videos and descriptions with more in depth info like scalings, damage type, damage per each level, etc.

ThubanJul 8, 20192 votes

It clearly states she throws "all" of her spheres. I don't see the confusion here. And I fail every level of English.

and ingame it says, "the 3 spheres orbiting her, in addition to up to 4 previously created"

I fail every level of reading comprehension, and I understand this just fine. I find it extremely profound that you see a problem here.

The hardcore mafs have always been 3rd party. It is a lot easier to put it on the Wiki than the client. Like, ridiculously easier. It's also much easier to read on the Wiki

ThubanJul 8, 20192 votes

Irelia is explained as well. https://imgur.com/iCeW77b

JanakinJul 8, 20193 votes

https://imgur.com/Xed7GE1

NielarkenJul 9, 20193 votes

Why do we have to use a third party site to see in game character models, expecially for skins?

Why do we have to use a third party site for an actually function and detailed match history.

Why do we have to use a third party site to read detailed patch notes for both live and pbe severs before the change is live.

The answer is its stupid and easier than riot actually implementing useful things into the game.

Cind3rkickJul 8, 20192 votes

You can do it when viewing champion info?

Ya know... client-> collection ->champions->champion

TheorexJul 8, 201941 votes

Detailed Stats. % ad/ap ratios. Base damage. Functionality. Things it counts as doesn't count as.

Etc

No, it doesn't.

All it is is a tiny text box telling you a description of the ability.

That is all.

No numbers, no functionalities, no anything. It is the death recap of the client.

Same with the league champion, page.

AIQJul 8, 20193 votes

Shyvanas abilities video are wrong in champion info. lol

ChanchiJul 8, 20196 votes

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You can do it when viewing champion info?

Ya know... client-> collection ->champions->champion

Let's get an example, Lulu's Q:

GLITTERLANCE

Pix and Lulu each fire a bolt of magical energy that heavily slows all enemies it hits. An enemy can only be damaged by one bolt.

Let's analyze that.

Starting off: Cooldown? Mana cost? Range?

heavily slows

How much is "heavily"? For how long?

An enemy can only be damaged by one bolt.

First time this says it deals damage. Anyways, how much damage? Also, that's actually not true, this is how it actually works (from the wiki):

If an enemy is hit by both bolts, the second bolt will deal no damage if the first bolt dealt full damage to them, or 30% damage if the first bolt hit another unit before them.

JuiceBoxPJul 8, 20192 votes

This please rito.

Jennifer420Jul 8, 20192 votes

and if you dont play on the english version, its not that uncommon that in client stats are just wrong/showed buggy.

its a perfect picture of how riot presents their game online. lazy and sloppy. BUT as long as lol reddit keeps sucking riots d, they are happy and wont change a thing.

i mean look, even skinspotlights dont exist. there are youtube channels that have nothing to do with riot, that present riots money making in a better way than riot does. that is how much riot cares.

Jerry SeinfeIdJul 8, 20191 votes

i mean look, even skinspotlights dont exist. there are youtube channels that have nothing to do with riot, that present riots money making in a better way than riot does. that is how much riot cares.

that's honestly false.

afaik they have never done skin spotlights and thus the yt channel resposible for most of those now exists. But these days riot often creates small twitter videos in which the skins are shown, thus pretty much being skin spotlights.

aside from that most skins get small trailers these days.

Jennifer420Jul 8, 20191 votes

wow... small twitter vids... damn. that sounds like the level of a small indie company. like it really does lol

Jerry SeinfeIdJul 8, 20191 votes

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wow... small twitter vids... damn. that sounds like the level of a small indie company. like it really does lol

it's 4 abilities and a recall in most cases. idk why you'd need some long ass video for it.

Luther King Jr VJul 8, 20191 votes

not know how the world works..kinda ironic coming from a gal who thinks having pool party zoe skin is paedophilia, and getting mad is breaking the rules have fun with that "funny" world view you have

Jennifer420Jul 8, 20191 votes

ah its you again lol. never said breakign the rules is fun, but your type begs to get trolled ingame to make you flame and then get you punished for your own stupidity.

Luther King Jr VJul 9, 20191 votes

i didn't get punished in months? not even a chat restrict oh wow you are really mad

Jennifer420Jul 9, 20191 votes

[zombie-brand-mindblown] [zombie-brand-facepalm] never said you did.

Luther King Jr VJul 9, 20191 votes

you are acting as if i only care about this because i am still getting banned and not over the low bar of requirement to not be toxic enough to banned, no sorry i am not selfish i want this shit system to be done over, i don't want to hear about any toxic people when riot banning system is such BS and one sided af , lacks enough consistency and can get manipulated

Jennifer420Jul 9, 20191 votes

i alrdy said it to you once but i say it again one last time: you are the type of person who would never accept the fact that their knowledge of how the system works and is "manipulated" is wrong. even if god himself came down to tell you youre wrong, you wouldnt accept it. so please stop answering me about this cause no matter what i do or say, you will still think you know how the system works better than anyone else.

ChocolateMistJul 8, 20191 votes

You can? Collection > Champions > Learn More > Boom, abilities

ExplodingFist66Jul 8, 20195 votes

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You can? Collection > Champions > Learn More > Boom, abilities

No such thing as a "Learn more" button, can't even find it

Jack EronJul 8, 20191 votes

I never needed that in my life. Those stats what i can read about ingame or at my collection is enough. When i like a champ or i want to counter someone, or i just want a useful pick in my team these stats won't change a thing. Never heard that it would be a problem for anyone and im playing for 5 years...

InfernapeJul 8, 20191 votes

Well we had one. Then Riot's spaghetti code struck and they removed it.

ThubanJul 8, 20191 votes

Because their client is poorly designed, and too cheap to get any intelligent use out of it.

ThefrostyvikingJul 8, 20193 votes

Its not actually poor design,,,,problem is that it cant be upgraded without making it unable to support all the operating systems that it is currently.

Which is why, at long last, Riot decided to cut the support to windows XP.

We´re getting a new client&death recap not too long from now, recap was even promised the next patch if nothing goes horribly wrong.

LeetriJul 8, 20191 votes

Well it's more that Google finally cut XP support for Chromium so now Riot doesn't have to support it as well.

PaladinNOJul 9, 20191 votes

Why do we have to go to League of Legends Wiki to read champion abilities?

For the same reason we have to use Google to find anything on these Boards, I guess. Everything is eternally beta here - the Boards, the client itself, and all of the game modes.

Remember, it's a small indie company.

KanzlerJul 9, 20191 votes

It's the same for many games to have 3rd party websites with a lot of information you cannot find on the developer's client/website.

Dont get me wrong, Riot has an awful client for many other reasons, but this isnt one of them.

Densetsu BananaJul 9, 20191 votes

Well when they released this client, during about a month skill descriptions were those given in game with ratios etc...but they removed that idk why (maybe a full a bugged scripts revelations problem)