Hello everyone. I have been playing this game for almost 12 years and I still don't know the meaning of the icons that show in the "kill feed". There are like a autoattack icon, an ultimate icon and like a sword moving.
Are these random? Do they have a special meaning?
External link →This comment is correct. Source: this was one of the first systems I worked on when I started a Riot... a long time ago! I am impressed by the longevity of this system and we carried over something similar on Wild Rift as well.
To give you a look behind the scenes at the design intent, the meaning of these icons never needed to be obvious to players. The primary information we needed to convey was that a kill happened and whether it was good or bad for your team, plus who died, and who got the kill. Secondarily, kill participation was valuable so that you could feel some recognition for assisters and also understand where assist gold was going especially for supports who may not be visibly doing a lot of damage, but may be buffing/healing.
The kill streak and shutdowns were all things that we already message in other ways (especially shutdown bounties in the chat) so it wasn't necessary for it to be super clear here. We included different icons for these states to be complete, and we knew that it might not always be clear to players what they meant. Like... how do you come up with a good icon that screams "kill streak" to a player who doesn't know what a kill streak is? That was OK though, as long as you understood who killed who.
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