[GAMEPLAY] Taric W causes stuttering on his walking animation when paried with an ally.
After casting W (Bastion) on an ally as Taric, your walking animation becomes bugged and starts to stutter or skip. When bound with an ally using W on Taric there is a link displayed on the floor between Taric and his paired ally, but there is also a minor animation that comes with this link. On Taric's Pool Party Skin there are some bubbles that spawn as part of this visual link. The animation starts next to Taric and the bubbles travel from Taric to his ally and then the animation ends and the bubbles disappear. From what I can see tell this animation repeats roughly every 2 seconds. I believe that the start of this animation is what causes this bug. In the video I linked as part of this thread you can see my walking animation is smooth and the bug is not present before I link to an ally. When I link to an ally using W you can see the bug occur as the bubble animation starts. Although the video only shows me using the Pool Party skin this bug is not unique to the Pool Party Taric skin and happens across all skins belonging to Taric, including his base skin. On Taric's base skin, instead of bubbles this animation has dots that spawn between Taric and his ally and a line runs through the dots and connects them. Whatever this texture is replaced with for the rest of his skins will also cause this same stuttering issue. I experience this bug every time I play Taric. This bug is extremely easy to reproduce.
Step 1. Simply walk before casting W to see what his walking animation looks like. Step 2. Cast W on an ally to experience the stuttering bug at the start or the bubble animation.
This bug does not occur when you walk out of Taric's W range and break the tether due to the fact that when you walk out of W's tether range the visual link is no longer displayed between you and your ally, therefore the bubble animation that seems to cause the issue will not spawn.