Deathfire Touch Keystone on Ezreal

Idaho·12/4/2015, 12:27:56 AM·2 votes·1,130 views

So the description of the keystone is "Your damaging abilities blah blah numbers numbers over 3 seconds". In other words, damaging abilities cause a DOT. This must include Ezreal's Q because it is a damaging ability yet it doesn't proc the DOT. Bug or intended?

4 Comments

ViashinoWizard12/4/2015, 12:29:56 AM4 votes

Q counts as an autoattack, not a spell.

dunkeroni12/4/2015, 12:59:50 AM1 votes

His Q also will not proc Luden's Echo.

Zombiemaster12/6/2015, 10:05:28 AM1 votes

Here's how this works.

In this game, there are on-hit effects and spell effects. On-hit effects are applied when a basic attack lands and spell effects are applied when a damaging ability lands. Of course, there are some exceptions to this, and although I will not go into all of them, the main one is that there are abilities that specify that they apply on-hit effects. Examples of these abilities are Ezreal's Q, Gangplank's Q, and Irelia's Q. Now, you can only apply one or the other between on-hit and spell effects, not both, and since these abilities already specify that they apply on-hit effects, they DO NOT apply spell effects.

Now, for the mastery Deathfire Touch, yes, the tool tip does say that "damaging abilities" will apply it. Basically, this means that Deathfire Touch is considered a spell effect, so it will apply on damaging spells. However, because Ezreal's Q specifies that it applies on-hit effects, it will not apply spell effects, and since Deathfire Touch is considered a spell effect, Ezreal's Q will not apply it.

This is working as intended, and is also the reason why Ezreal's Q will not apply Luden's Echo's bonus damage or Rylai's Crystal Scepter's slow.