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Adaptive Damage "default" isn't working

Eeyore·12/6/2017, 7:40:10 AM·1 votes·525 views

Runes like Press the Attack, Electrocute and Arcane Comet deal "Adaptive Damage", which means they deal physical or magic damage based on whether your bonus AD or bonus AP is higher. Apparently, the default is based on the champion you play.

In case of a tie, each champion has a default they will go to based on what that champion usually prefers. Reference

Reproduction has found that the default is always physical. This is regardless of whether the champion's profile states they are Physical, Magic or Mixed champions.

I encountered this bug while testing what the "default" of Mixed champions were - and they were all physical, including champions like Corki whom I expected to be magic. I then thought, "wait a minute" and tested some mages. It always defaults to physical.

Reproduction steps:

  1. Select any champion that doesn't have bonus AD or AP on spawn.
  2. Select Press the Attack in conjunction with other runes that don't grant bonus AD or AP on spawn.
  3. Trigger Press the Attack.
  4. Observe that the bonus damage is always physical with no bonuses.

Press the Attack is the simplest way to test because the Domination and Sorcery keystones come bundled with the bonus AD and AP, and thus contaminate the Adaptive Damage results. I'm now patching the PBE to test the new Grasp of the Undying. You could also try to have equal amounts of bonus AD and bonus AP - but this was difficult to reliably obtain, whereas 0 and 0 was easy.

EDIT: The new Grasp of the Undying on the PBE also produces physical damage by default.

6 Comments

Ominarous12/6/2017, 8:11:47 AM1 votes

Considering I play Katarina, and start dorans shield in some games, yet still have AP, you're wrong. Like, clearly, one-hundred percent wrong :)

Cocho12/6/2017, 8:11:54 AM1 votes

If you take press the attack, it gives you attack speed. Doesnt matter what your secondary is.

Primary precision = attack speed sorcery/domination = ad/ap adaptive resolve = health inspiration = ? forgot, I think this looks at your secondary. Then gives you some potion bonus iirc

Eeyore12/6/2017, 9:36:58 AM1 votes

"AD damage" doesn't exist. AD is a stiatistic that can produce any number of damage types - including magic (Corki, Shyvana) and true damage (Olaf). "Physical damage" is the clearest way to write it, and if you do not understand what that means then... well, this is the Bug Reports forum and it's not my responsibility to explain basic game mechanics. My original post is very explicit that I'm talking about Adaptive Damage from runes. However, I've added:

Runes like Press the Attack, Electrocute and Arcane Comet deal "Adaptive Damage", which means they deal physical or magic damage based on whether your bonus AD or bonus AP is higher. Apparently, the default is based on the champion you play.

To hopefully avoid any future confusion. Although I genuinely have no idea why you thought I was asking about the bonus stats you get from picking paths, except that I mentioned I picked Press the Attack to avoid getting any bonus AD or AP.

EDIT: I initially called you a smart ass. I apologize if you saw that before I edited. I didn't not notice which Katarina chibi I was replying to - the one above you was being a smart ass.