[GamePlay] 6.8: Taric Q recharge not being accelerated by auto-attacks

Skeenx·4/20/2016, 2:31:03 PM·0 votes·743 views
LoL Patch 5.8: bug in Taric Q cooldown refresh - Streamable

Update: this is not a bug, see below. Please ignore this report.

Server: NA

Type of Bug: Champion ability: Taric's auto-attacks do not speed up the 2nd or 3rd charge on Q.

Description: Taric's passive Bravado recharges cooldowns with every auto-attack. The tooltip on his Q, Starlight's Touch, says "Bravado-empowered attacks reduce this recharge time by 5.00 additional seconds". However this cooldown reduction only seems to apply to getting the first charge on Q, the one that makes it available to cast. It does not seem to accelerate the building of a second or third charge on the Q. If this behavior is intended, then the tooltip on Q is misleading.

Video / Screenshot: see link above

Steps to reproduce: Start a game as Taric. Take Q first. Go to scuttle crab, cast Q, then observe the recharge time as you auto-attack the crab. (The problem occurs on any target.)

Expected result: Q goes from grey/unavailable to available with one charge after 2 or 3 attacks. Then goes to two charges in 2 or 3 attacks, then three charges in 2 or 3 attacks. The whole recharge should take ~10 seconds (9 or fewer autoattacks.)

Observed result: Q does go to one charge after 2 or 3 attacks. But then auto-attacks do not speed up getting to two or three charges. The whole recharge takes 30+ seconds.

Reproduction rate: 100%

System specs: Mac client, 2011 iMac with a high end GPU.

2 Comments

Sodursah4/20/2016, 2:59:14 PM2 votes

The recharge rate increase is only based on the empowered auto attacks from the Bravado passive. Look at the Q within the first two auto attacks, it recharges 1 full charge, this is to prevent an over spamming of his heals. Especially if someone where to make a tanky Taric build with additional attack speed from something like bork, which would create a hyper damage tank with AOE heals based on health. Which is scary...

Skeenx4/20/2016, 3:08:27 PM1 votes

Thank you, you are right; there's no bug. I just misunderstood how it worked. I confirmed that if you cast E to generate Bravado, the subsequent auto-attacks do speed up the Q charging as expected. Thanks!