[2022] Why does riot turn targeted abilities from pc into skillshots in wild rift?

This is a big part of it, but it still depends on the ability. By default your abilities will prioritize champions and both Annie and MF Q are frequently used for last hitting and it would be painful to need to target these at minions that frequently. Skill shots also have some nice gameplay to them that we like, and allow us to put more power into these abilities. Tap targeting does a lot to lower the skill floor of our controls, though there are plenty of times where you want to aim, and we feel that accounts for the added skill that these being targeted adds.

In Kassadin's case we knew his laning phase couldn't be as punishing as it is in LoLPC and thus he wouldn't be using this as as much of a farming tool. It being a skill shot also allowed us to make it a silence due to it inherently having some unreliability.

We always want to evaluate what is best for Wild Rift when making a champion and that might result in changes to abilities.

Maybe today, maybe tomorrow, maybe never, maybe he's been in the game since the beginning, maybe the entire Wild Rift takes place inside the dream of the Volibear. You gotta stop thinking of time as a linear thing. Each choice that is made could create another universe, imagine a universe where everyone is Volibear. We gotta be careful we don't make a mistake and wake the beast.

I will not be bribed into buffing Twisted Fate!

This is something I would love to improve on, but I don't think we can without reworking the passive or doing something funky with controls. So really what you want to do is swap targets by dragging your attack button, but that is a bit more tedious than we would like.

We don't want to add more buttons to the game, but a similar approach would mean replacing the minion or tower button, but that is the funky controls part I was talking about.

You are able to make 2 custom layouts so we don't do a lot to preset those for players. But you are able to customize your own, including button size and location.