[2021] Suggestion: targeting options for support heals and shields

This was actually part of our reasoning for doing it this way. The other reason for making tap always select your self is to give tap a consistent outcome that you can learn to play around. League supports tend to have more complex targeting than other mobile MOBAs (Nami being an example) where they can target enemies or allies (or turrets) with the same ability which creates even more pressure for there to be predictable outcomes to your inputs across different champions.

The cost of doing it this way though is that simpler situations where there’s just one ally to heal/shield on your screen requires the player to swipe the ability. We felt in these scenarios asking players to learn to swipe would be okay because it’s relatively easy to select a single valid unit since you just need to swipe in their relative direction. Ofc this can balloon if there’s more allies all stacked on top of each other but we felt that tends to be the exception and not the norm.

I think we are open to exploring a setting if enough players want it, but adopting models similar to other mobile MOBAs would make it harder to select yourself in the heat of the moment. Many supportive abilities in other mobile MOBAs tend to be AOE or always affect yourself to avoid that problem.