Morgana's Black Shield does not work on Caitlyn's Yordle Snap Trap

sproga2··2 votes·816 views

Caitlyn 's Headshot passive says that her next basic attack against enemies rooted by Yordle Snap Trap is empowered. Rooted is the key word here, only enemies rooted will trigger the passive.

Morgana 's Black Shield prevents disables during its effect. Root is a type of disable.

The bug occurs when Morgana triggers one of Caitlyn's Yordle Snap Traps while Black Shield is active. At first it seems to work as intended, in the fact that Morgana can walk over Caitlyn's Yordle Snap Trap without being rooted. The bug occurs in the fact that Morgana is still revealed, and Caitlyn's auto attack is empowered.

TL;DR Since Caitlyn's trap and passive say that her autos are empowered only whilst an enemy is rooted by Yordle Snap Trap, and Morgana 's Black Shield prevents disables, root being a disable, Caitlyn's auto's should not empower, and Morgana should not be revealed, yet both happen.

Note: As a Morgana player, this is incredibly confusing and counter-intuitive, in the fact that I will often just pop my Black Shield to get rid of Caitlyn's traps, forgetting that i can still be Headshot from across the map.

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Breaku2 votes

I don't think it's counter-intuitive.

Sona Ping2 votes

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Caitlyn's Headshot passive says that her next basic attack against enemies rooted by Yordle Snap Trap is empowered. Rooted is the key word here, only enemies rooted will trigger the passive.

Morgana's Black Shield prevents disables during its effect. Root is a type of disable.

The bug occurs when Morgana triggers one of Caitlyn's Yordle Snap Traps while Black Shield is active. At first it seems to work as intended, in the fact that Morgana can walk over Caitlyn's Yordle Snap Trap without being rooted. The bug occurs in the fact that Morgana is still revealed, and Caitlyn's auto attack is empowered.

TL;DR Since Caitlyn's trap and passive say that her autos are empowered only whilst an enemy is rooted by Yordle Snap Trap, and Morgana's Black Shield prevents disables, root being a disable, Caitlyn's should not empower, and Morgana should not be revealed, yet both happen.

Note: As a Morgana player, this is incredibly confusing and counter-intuitive, in the fact that I will often just pop my Black Shield to get rid of Caitlyn's traps, forgetting that i can still be Headshot from across the map.

That is not a bug.

It does not say that; it says nothing of the sort. It says that a headshot is empowered on champions who have been hit by her relevant abilities; nowhere is it said nor implied that the target must be actively under crowd-control at the time when the shot is fired.

Furthermore, Morgana's Black Shield does not negate spells. Black Shield blocks magic damage and prevents the target from being crowd controlled. Nowhere in Black Shield's description does it state that it is supposed to block spells, nor is it supposed to prevent spell effects, reductions, debuffs, etc.

MrNhbdy1 votes

Morgana has been my true love for a while now and I have noticed the reveal (didn't pay much attention to the empower, but I believe you). I believe the traps do AD damage(Morgan's shield only absorbs Magic/Ap, along with preventing CC) which is why you still get the reveal, but I completely agree on the empower.

DarkRitual2 votes

Cait traps actually deal no damage now. They just root and give the headshot emplwered attack range. Morgana's shield does indeed stop only the root or other CC. Either Cait's passive needs to be reworded to match what happens, or the empowered headshot needs to be tied to the root to match how it currently is worded.

I think how it works on live is fine balancewise, so would be fine with it going either way.

Sona Ping2 votes

The passive is already worded to match what happens; The OP has misunderstood what is occurring and when he wrote this, he worded the ability to match his belief. Nowhere does the word "rooted" appear in Headshot's actual description in either the game or the website.

DarkRitual1 votes

Ah, okay. I'm on mobile at work so couldn't check the exact wording easily. Thanks for clearing it up though.

Weathered1 votes

This bug has been reported before.

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