Check Your Ping BEFORE Your Match!

Eleaf·Apr 28, 2015·9 votes·1,760 views

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I know, you can't! It makes me sad, too. I wish there was a way to do that. It would save me a lot of wasted time and spare me from the anger and frustration of both my teammates and their flaming, and the constant disconnects. If I could see that my ping is >9,000 before I get into a ranked match that decides if I get from Bronze V to Bronze IV, I wouldn't play at that time and wait until my ping is a much more reasonable 89. Anyone who plays League understands the frustrations that involve hearing the lady go "A summoner has disconnected!" Immediately we think "If your ping is so bad, why are you even playing?" Everyone knows that it's impossible to have constant tolerable ping (unless you have 5 modems next to your computer) so, disconnections are bound to happen and unfortunately inevitable. That issue could be solved with Viktor's new creation "The Ping-Checker" (it was late, he ran out of ideas)! I think it's about time for Rito to lead The Glorious Evolution by integrating this feature into the client. Rito plz

Sincerely, Viktor, TheSouper, and the League of Legends community

P.S. Who knows, maybe even Amumu would be happy about this addition? Isn't it worth a shot?

13 Comments

GroundRuleDoubleApr 28, 20151 votes

Google search "Ping Test" and you'll find many sites that you can test your ping. Also, you can just go into a custom game and play it for 5 mintues to test your ping as well.

KonidiasApr 28, 20152 votes

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Google search "Ping Test" and you'll find many sites that you can test your ping. Also, you can just go into a custom game and play it for 5 mintues to test your ping as well.

Not sure you understand how ping works... Testing your ping on some random website does not tell you how your ping to the Riot servers will work out.

ProvengreilApr 29, 20151 votes

To be fair, you can get a close enough check by pinging anything in SOCal. While it may not be your fault or within your power to fix, most of the issue is typically local.

GroundRuleDoubleApr 30, 20151 votes

I know exactly how Ping works. Like the previous comment says, you can tell if you're going to have problems or not. Most people assume that high ping is Riot's fault, and if people take your comment out of context, that'll add fuel to the false fire.

WaaaowApr 29, 20151 votes

Man Custom Games won't show your ping. Ping test won't reflect the true ping either, since you are not able to ping Riot's PVP servers on Ping Test.

GroundRuleDoubleApr 30, 20151 votes

Custom games show your ping just fine.

WaaaowApr 30, 20151 votes

It won't. In my case, every single time i created a custom game and tried to test ping. It would be 90 or 85 all the time at first 5 minutes then it went high up to 300, which is normal for my PVP games.

Casi YApr 29, 20151 votes

I've been hoping for such a thing for years now. Just make an obligatory connection test and block ranked for anyone that cannot first prove to have a stable connection. Players with a constant ping of >250ms or frequent disconnects (or fps drops due to CPU instead) are unable to play competitively, simply because they lack requirements, be they as skilled as possible. If you can't react timely to anything that might happen, there is no way you can play a game that requires reaction and decisionmaking.

Not saying it's necessarily the player's own fault - but it will be very annoying to their teams and ruin any competitive aspects of a match. Playing with someone who has constant laggs or disconnects multiple times is nowhere better than playing a straight 4 vs 5.

If someone does not manage to get a stable connection for whatever reasons, they ought to play custom matches or maybe normals but definitely no rankeds. And one ought to be forced to do so aswell, to the interest of the average player who is trying to enjoy competitive gameplay on a MOBA game. Also, Riot reveals, at least implicitly, that they consider the average player's experience more important than the interests of people who disconnect frequently or simply go afk by featuring a leaver-buster system.

The leaver buster only works repressively (as far as it works). Obviously a system is required that also works preventively. Just imagine there was no crime prevention in your country, just punishment. Not a state most would wish for but it's the same thing basically and not such a far-fetched comparison if you think about it.