@SomeGuySomeWhere said in Melee damage subtype:

@adek183 Every attack that's not a projectile/explosion/beam it's a melee attack. I think there's no need to specify which attacks are melee, the logic just follows the irl meaning of the term "melee".

While it's true that you can use logic in most cases there are some werid exceptions one of the examples is Terminus' Massacre Axe like M3rc3n4ri0 said. Heck it even counts as "area damage" for some bizzare reason. There are a couple other cases that I can't remember off the top of my head but like I said it's a low-effort thing that would be a good Quality of Life change.

It would be nice to include an information what counts as a "melee attack" for the sake of abilities like Terminus' siphon, Andro's reversal and anything else that is affected by melee attacks in some way. There's no need to change any code just simply add a note in brackets under the main damage type. Example:

Spite
Direct damage
(Melee attack)

As you can see all EM needs to do here is add two words and it'll clear up A LOT of confusion especially for new players that for example have no idea why some attacks can in fact go trough the power siphon and reversal.

@HeartQueen said in Ranked needs a complete nuke:

Match-making in general needs an overhaul, including in casual matches. They need to pair people by individual elo and try to make matches that way. Match-making now is unbalanced for me. My level is high and my rank is diamond. I also think ranked affects casual matches to a certain extent. Like I notice that it expects me to carry 2+ bots who don't even have basic gamesense. Like not buying cauterize, and some don't buy items at all. Like a recent match where match-making expected me and 2 other people to carry a bot Grover and Fernando, both of whom were extremely new (account level 31 and 27), against a grandmaster 5-stack. Like wtf??? Now, I know that grandmaster 5-stacks are hard to find a good match for, so it throws match-making off. But for fucks sake, could match-making at least TRY. They literally just pull names out of a fucking hat at this point.

Ranked is also trash as well. Match-making in ranked literally expected me to carry a 3-stack of qualifying players, all with an account level under 40, against other diamond players. Ranked be like "maybe this guy with a level 3 Lex and barely any other champions could potentially be a diamond player." Who was the genius that made this match-making and ranked system??

The problem is that your level / hidden elo doesn't even seem to matter because the script responsible for matchmaking prioritizes fast queue times instead of a fair match. I myself got matched with the exact same people multiple times in a row. Ok maybe 1-2 people were different but most of the time it almost feels like I'm pressing a "rematch" button. Either I get the same people in my team or the people who literally were in my team last match are in the enemy team now. It almost looks like the script goes like that:

1. Pick 10 random people
2. After match ends swap out 1-3 people
3. Repeat

I don't like the "delete everything and start over" approach to things but ranked really needs a complete reset and re-write from the ground up. First things first as much as it'll hurt a lot of people in the short run we NEED a complete hard reset of players ELO or whatever you're using as a skill measurement then and only then you can actually make matchmaking bearable by rewriting the code completely. I get that it'll suck for everyone to lose their ranks but it's for greater good of everyone and yes I'm aware of the "low playercount" excuse but if the matchmaking won't get fixed or at least attempted to get fixed the playercount will keep dropping untill nobody will actually play ranked. So please understand that we need a blank slate to start over from and this time put Quality over Quantity. I'll gladly wait 10+ minutes for a fair match than play 2-3 matches where i'm getting stomped by GM veterans that played this game for years and know everything. I'm aware that there also could be smurfs in lower ranks but as long as there won't be a situation where GMs/Masters play against SILVERS people will survive. I'd rather get stomped by a smurf than somebody who I never even had a chance to win against from the start.

Only issues with Raum that I have is that his soul armor for some reason isn't affected by wrecker and he generates enough of it to be able to withstand A LOT of focused fire in early rounds. Especially if there's a supporter backing him up.

Alright listen up. I know that flickshots with Andro are a skill-based manuver (Well as skill-based as you can get with these gigantic hitboxes) but Lex for example has basically a downgraded nether step and his camera locks down untill slide is finished. Sure it feels super bad but I doubt that you want to be spammed with almost perfect accuracy by a sliding Lex. Come to think of it Talus, Koga, Willo and Lian also have camera lockouts during their movement abilities. They all (Ok maybe except SMG Koga) can deal heavy burst damage just like Andro and only Andro doesn't have to deal with any lockouts which give him a massive advantage during duels. Not only he has no lockout but his dashes also don't interrupt the weapon shots so I'm asking: Should Androxus be able to do flickshots? Just for a moment discard the "flickshots require skill" excuse and think about it from balance perspective.

Drogoz already deals massive damage with fussilade. There's no need to buff his health either. His ultimate is powerful on its own even if you do a 1 for 1 trade having an option to delete a frontline is very good it's like Zhin's guillotine except you don't need a talent for it. Salvo has long cooldown because of its oneshot potential when paired with firespit (For some reason salvo rockets have MASSIVE hitboxes for firespit detonation) and it doesn't need a buff either. Giving Drogoz a damage reduction card is also a big no-no because it's already hard enough to hit him in the air if you don't use a hitscan champion. If anything he Deserves a nerf to his fussilade talent since it allows you to pretty much 2-shot most of the champions.

Alright I know i've been making a lot of threads of different topics but it's just that I have a lot to say lol. Also there's really not much movement on this new forum anyway so might aswell make some.

So this topic is about Maeve's pounce hitboxes as you might have guessed already. I think they're WAY too big. The most obvious example where hitboxes of the pounce actively screw you over is when you're trying to run away from a frontline champion best example is Terminus when he gets into melee range you most certainly want to pounce away from him. The thing is you can't because for some unknown reason the pounce hitbox is actually IN FRONT OF TERMINUS yes not ON him IN FRONT OF HIM which leads to a situation where you can't get out of the melee range because Evil Mojo said so. That's one of many cases but frontline class in general is the most egregious example. Many champions have a pounce hitbox almost TWICE the size of actual characters. I'm assuming that the core of this issue is the hitbox itself and lazy programming on the devs side so I'm asking for them to at least make the pounce hitboxes smaller. Like WAY smaller. Anybody who played Maeve for more than 15 minutes probably knows what I'm talking about.

Champions like Viktor, Vivian, Tyra, Androxus and a few others deal consistent damage too easily. This lowers their skill floor to the point of requiring to point and click at the generic direction of your opponents and thanks to the gigantic hitboxes you have a decent chance of hitting your target even if your aim is a little off so what I suggest is:

Change the hitscan weapons to fire fast bullet-like projectiles instead of just a point and click mechanic. It's an incredibly simple change that would actually make Vivian require more than two braincells to play and it would nerf hitscans in a way that won't touch their dps. And it would open up another opportunity for balancing hitscan champions based on their bullets speed, you could also add some cards to make the bullets travel faster and all sorts of fun stuff.

@KicsitCsicska Generally value of revealing enemy's position goes up as the teams become more skilled because then positioning is crucial if you don't want to get yourself killed. When it comes to Midnight like I said all you have is scare factor and you can still spam blindly and have a pretty good chance at hitting something if there's a big fight going on. There's just too much counterplay to the Midnight vs Scout. Strix can fire a flare, Tyra can literally mark the Maeve while casting the ult, Vivian can throw the wallhack drone and the ages old Cassie counter-ult. I don't mind resilience affecting the duration but more than half of the champions pool has some way to become cc immune for a moment to wipe the blind completely which again completely removes the value of the ultimate which is supposed to be a "strong ability on a long cooldown" at least on paper.

@ZVVLuxx367 I'm basing it on Scout vs Midnight matchup because that's the most common thing that happens and both ults basically do the same except one gives you vision and the other takes the vision away from the enemy I already said above that many champions can become cc immune in one way or another and Scout always gives value because there's no way to get rid of it except becoming ethereal which can only be done by Koga and Mal Damba while Koga can do it in at least two ways and even if you do get rid of it Cassie still has a speed boost which is never a bad thing. It can be used to either engage into a fight or retreat.