Do auto-attacks serve any meaningful purpose?

[Azlith]

Removing auto attack would enable them to make our active potency higher, and it would feel like we are in control of our entire output. I agree that they are meaningless and I would describe them as archaic.

crit direct hits say hello.

[HikariKurosawa]

Oh man, I'm actually PRAYING you'll become better at this game than me, because 1) it means that your posts will have merit now that you have actual experience to draw from 2) you'll get to find out how shallow endgame is and realise that maybe the people you've spent this past month shouting down had a point. Then you too can know the joy of being shot down by casuals for daring to ask the game to be more engaging.

No guarantees about 2), but 1) alone is enough to make me genuinely hope for your success. Do not disappoint me.
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I've nothing more to add to the main topic, so I'll take my leave before I derail this thread any further. Apologies, LilimoLimomo.

I just killed titan in UWU last night and I can't say I'd ever call endgame shallow knowing what it's like to scratch the surface of the ultimate system. I am 100% certain my opinions will stay the same and my position will inevitably increase. You haven't cleared a single ultimate yet, and I am inevitably going to clear UWU now that I've begun the grind.

crit direct hits say hello.

I play with damage numbers turned off so I couldn't care less about stuff like that. You're getting into semantics heavily here too, as we're still the ones activating the ability with an input regardless of whether it crits and direct hits. Where auto attacks are just automated entirely.