Malzahar Ultimate vs. Cleanse

Camuroi·6/1/2016, 3:06:55 PM·3 votes·36,820 views

Hey,

a friend of mine played against Malzahar as Ahri in several games and we found an obvious Bug: Malzahars' Ultimate Ability is not removable by the Summoner Spell "Cleanse" . Seeing as the description of Cleanse reads: "Removes all disables and summoner spell debuffs affecting your champion and lowers the duration of incoming disables by 65% for 3 seconds" this quite obviously can't be correct or intended. Steps for recreating:

Play Ahri (not tested with other champions)
Play against Malzahar
Malzahar uses Ultimate Ability on Ahri
Cleanse is greyed out and can not be used

I hope this will be fixed promptly. Thank you for helping out your community.

4 Comments

Shadòw6/1/2016, 3:11:25 PM2 votes

summoner 1 never removed supresses

No flash no life6/1/2016, 3:24:23 PM1 votes

suppression falls under the category of crowd control but not disable - just because it also disables its target doesn't mean it counts as a disable.

Same reason why nasus W doesn't decrease master yi's attack speed when his R is active. Just because it also slows down attack speed doesn't mean it counts as a skill that decreases attack speed; it's considered a movement slow and since master yi's R makes him immune to all slows, that entire skill's effects are negated, same goes with using exhaust on master yi with R active I believe.

Void Nargacuga6/1/2016, 5:13:11 PM1 votes

NOT A BUG! Suppressions stop you from using spells and abilities as well, which includes summoner spells like Cleanse.

Cronovey6/2/2016, 12:24:03 AM1 votes

Cleanse has never removed Suppression abilities. Malzhar, Warwick, and Urgot ultimates all count as suppression instead of normal CC and you have to purchase a Quicksilver Sash if you want to cleanse off their ultimates. This has always been the case.