[GAMEPLAY] Shaco Deceive Bug

sasara·10/30/2015, 2:30:35 AM·2 votes·335 views

I've been playing shaco recently, and I found a bug that involves his Q (Deceive).

I found if you auto too fast right after you cast Deceive, you don't get the added damage.

I've tested the damage to see if it wouldn't just show the critical damage icon (like pulsefire ezreal Q not showing gold when you kill it), but you just miss the damage all together.

I first noticed this during an early game gank when there was an enemy very close by and I wanted to Q for the extra damage to auto kill (about level 4), but the Q didn't give me the extra damage I needed to properly kill. As well as the mastery of gaining 5% attack speed for every critical hit you deal.

The reason why this is so annoying is that Shaco misses out on a portion of damage in the early game ganks which is needed because he lacks damage to kill a laner entirely.

The sequence I do when recreating this bug is: right click, q, right click. All very fast. Shaco must not take a step for the bug to happen. Once you deceive, you must be right on your target.

I'm not sure if this is working as intended, because the skill itself says: "Shaco instantly blinks to the target location and stealths for up to 3.5 seconds, also causing his next basic attack within 6 seconds to Critical strike icon critically strike for bonus critical damage. " With that as context, it's saying, if you deceive at all, you get the critical strike for the next 6 seconds.

Thanks for reading.

1 Comments

Roy Fokker10/30/2015, 2:32:17 AM1 votes

Indeed, this is a worrying trend.