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Bard Cosmic Binding is cut short after casting through alistar

SausageFingers·12/8/2017, 6:55:56 AM·1 votes·345 views

There were several times during game that as I cast cosmic binding and it hits alistar it often times does not proceed what seems the appropriate distance to a second target. It is effectively cut short and times that I should be landing a stun result in no stun at all. I noticed it happened especially after alistar casts a headbutt pulverize combo. I do not know if it happens with other champions.

I have downloaded examples from my game (a couple that appear normal length against other champions/prior to hitting alistar and couple of hitting alistar and the after effect falling short) - not sure how to upload them as it asks for a link but they are on my computer as a file.

I uploaded them to youtube, here are the links

https://youtu.be/OW35rzEqMtc I could have lived.... why Bard

https://youtu.be/rBUMg-TGBKs normal length prior to hitting alistar

https://youtu.be/o3Gv5BojzKo normal length prior to hitting twitch

https://youtu.be/IA1luNMz6RU shortened length after hitting alistar

https://youtu.be/49d7VcKvtrw another shortened length

2 Comments

Modesta12/8/2017, 4:18:09 PM1 votes

What looks like a bug to you might just be the lack of clarity when it comes to the spell itself. So in case anyone else sees this and wonders what is going on above: the initial projectile of Bard's Q has a range of 950. If his Q hits a target, the first projectile ends and NEW projectile goes behind the target and potentially anchors onto something to stun the first target. So, here is the lack of clarity: you might assume the second projectile also has a range of 950 but it does not! It only has a range of ~450 or so? And it doesn't matter how far the first part of Bard's Q: if the enemy is exactly 950 units away from Bard or only 100 units in front of Bard, the second part will ONLY go 450 units from the struck unit.

TL;DR - I don't think your videos show any bugs on Bard's Q. Because Bard's Q goes 950 units, you assumed it should go an additional 950 once it struck a target. But in reality, the only goes about ~450 units behind a struck target. This is just all a big misunderstanding/lack of clarity in the spell description. Cheers ;)