Overwhelm hits the nexus when hitting a follower with barrier

agamjolnir·10/20/2019, 2:36:57 PM·1 votes·546 views

I blocked Tryndamere with a unit with barrier and my nexus still got hit and lost, this is clearly wrong!

"Barrier: Negates the next damage the unit would take."

100% wrong mechanic for overwhelm to bypass barrier.

2 Comments

DartExplosion1010/20/2019, 3:19:27 PM1 votes

what?

iMidg3t10/20/2019, 3:27:10 PM1 votes

Its intended. Barrier blocks dmg, thats true. But Overwhelm transfers leftover damage on to the enemy nexus.

So when trynda attacked a unit with a barrier, that unit recieved 0 dmg. So the leftover dmg is 8 (9 if trynda is lvled up), which means Nexus recieves 8/9 damage.

its just an interaction thats not very clear.