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[GAMEPLAY] Devourer lulu spawns extra wolves

Leaf of the lake·7/23/2015, 10:35:07 AM·3 votes·2,336 views

Description: While jungling normally, lulu will start to spawn extra wolves after a while. These wolves usually end up overlapping each other and thus may not be all that noticeable, but sometimes they will split into different directions. Upon hitting sated, only one of the wolves is actually consumed, leaving behind ghost wolves that follow lulu everywhere. If she has amassed a significant number of them, it can disrupt her pathing and potentially cause her to get stuck on the wolves.

Image of the bug at 29 devourer stacks: http://imgur.com/ghpu8Nq

Image of the bug at 30 devourer stacks: http://imgur.com/BYx4UCI

It's a little hard to tell on the 30 stack one, but there are actually multiple wolves stacked inside each other there.

How to reproduce: Play jungle lulu with devourer, exact details unknown. Just in case it matters, I was using blasting smite at the time, and I think the bug has something to do with pix interacting with the monster death somehow.

Frequency: I've only tested it twice, but was able to replicate it both times.

3 Comments

NighHelpful7/24/2015, 4:54:33 AM1 votes

Oh, my friend posted a video where that bug happened to me. You can see all the wolves spread out as I come into lane.

http://plays.tv/video/55b1c0ec989c7c2a41

Normally when I jungle Lulu, I see a maximum of three wolves...this was the first game I saw sooo many following me.

NighHelpful7/24/2015, 8:13:29 PM1 votes

My friend and I did some more testing about this bug in a custom game, so I have a few more clips.

The wolves seem to spawn after you use a consumable: health and mana pots, elixers, and wards both pink and green. My friend and I think it has to do with how using a consumable clears the stacks icon near the character info, since when the icon comes back, that's when a new wolf spawns.

http://plays.tv/video/55b2925c1bc495db39 A wolf appearing from a health pot

http://plays.tv/video/55b2939c0ac5eeef94 A wolf appearing from placing a pink ward. Trinket wards don't clear the Devourer stacks, so they don't conjure new wolves.

We also discovered that the wolves have two ways of following the player--either overlapping or spread out. The spread out wolves makes it hard to move (I comment on this in the next clip), but we found the wolves spread out when the enemy has vision of you.

http://plays.tv/video/55b29657edc320b59a My friend (on the enemy team) placed wards randomly in my jungle. The wolves clearly spread out near these wards. They also spread in front of enemy scuttle, and near enemy minions.

I really hope this glitch gets fixed. It might not be a big deal for Lulu junglers (cry) since that's not exactly meta...but apparently Shaco encounters this bug too. My friend and I think it has to do with champs that have pets: Lulu has pix, Shaco has his clone. If this is true, presumably Devourer Annie would also encounter this glitch. The fact you could use the wolves's spreading out behavior to detect if the enemy has vision on you would reveal either enemy champions or enemy wards.