Talk:Riven/@comment-31237077-20170219120017/@comment-4091261-20170225151118

I think the disconnect going on here is that there are some fundamental things that player needs to learn that can't be learned through simply watching. One major thing being combos.

combos utilize animation canceling which makes it much harder to read visually. The pace puts it at about fighter game level combos. Watching someone playing a fighter game won't teach someone to do these combos, but it will teach them the tactics to employ with these combos.

The fear here is that a player who does not yet understand these combos will try to employ these tactics and face major disappointment. Like perhaps after the player uses past the, all of their abilities are on cooldown and suddenly there is a vulnerability that wasn't present when the player watched adrian/boxbox montages.