Possible bug: (not blood pool related) Vlad temporarily untargetable by Trundle's ultimate
We're not talking about his blood pool, here. The usage and effect of Vladimir's blood pool is well known. This is something else entirely. This also isn't the first time I've remembered being confused by this while playing against a Vladimir, and I can't say whether this happens with other champions or just Trundle, or even only against Vladimir. This has also seemed to happen both in ARAMs (such was the case today) as well as in Summoner's Rift. It was also noted that silencing abilities (i.e. fiddle's silence, cho's silence, malzahar's, etc) were not present on the enemy team at the time. The ability I was trying to use on Vladimir was also not put onto cooldown (as you would expect from a spell shield of any kind). After snowballing onto Vladimir, I then Q'd him, he pools, he comes out and then is untargetable several times by my ultimate. I did not spam the R button on him, but tried it.. didn't work, tried again, didn't work. So at first I was confused, thinking that I'm just not pressing it hard enough. But when it happens minutes later in the same game, I then notice that when I was trying to cast my ultimate upon him he was mid-animation of casting a damaging spell of his own. When he was retreating (and not casting) this was when I could effectively use the spell. Also, because I know some will wonder, I was not stunned during these times, and was free to move around, though I may have been ignited each time (should this information prove helpful towards solving this). This player was also using the default Vladimir skin. I was using the Worldbreaker Trundle skin, this game, and I couldn't tell you which skin I was using in the past when experiencing this. Being a Trundle main, I have still not experienced this very often at all, which is why I am only now wondering whether something wrong is going on, code-wise.
TL:DR >> unable to target Vladimir with Trundle's ultimate, momentarily
- happening after vlad blood pool, not before or during
- not stunned (could still move)
- no silencing abilities on the enemy team
- Trundle's ultimate ability was not put onto cooldown (as you might see with a spell shield)
- happened multiple times
- may have been ignited each time? (i know this would normally never affect the ability to cast, but am mentioning it for the sake of bug-hunting)
- default Vladimir skin used
- Worldbreaker Trundle skin used