^^^ This so much. People advocating for some sort of melee version of precog for landing a kick are so out of touch. The mini game between the kicker and the kicked is always vastly in favor of the kicker, it’s the entire reason precog exists in the first place.
You realize as long as you have kick caster is at a disadvantage? Every single global that the caster cancels without juking kick is 1 global the kicker is now ahead in APM. The longer you just sit on kick the better it is for you. Every global they waste trying to juke is a net gain on your behalf.
So if caster fake casts twice and you don’t kick, and you get juked on the third attempt to fake, you realize it’s still a net gain for the kicker? It’s now taken the caster 4 globals to get your kick out of the way even though you missed, and he’s been pressing globals the entire time.
Precog might need to be looked at for sure i’m not saying it shouldn’t, but to pretend like the mini game between kicker and kickee doesn’t inherently, VASTLY favor the person with the kick is insanely delusional / you haven’t played a caster ever