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[GAMEPLAY] Vi Q bug - Assuming caused by Viktor

The Luckster·10/3/2014, 2:06:38 AM·2 votes·854 views

I decided to play Vi for the first time in about half a year (I think), around 5 minutes or so to the end of the game, I was charging my q, then got hit by some sort of cc that also killed me. The cc could've been from Thresh and Viktor hitting me at the same time with Viktor's q and thresh's flay. I understand that I may sound dumb, since I do not know what exactly caused it, but any of the following could've hit me (I wish I had a recording): Caitlyn, Thresh, Viktor, Renekton, and Lee Sin. I haven't seen anything about this bug yet, so I am assuming it is new and somehow caused by the Viktor.

Basically the bug made it so my q was completely inactive for the rest of the game, any time I tried to use it I heard the sound of the game notifying that I hit a skill, but nothing would happen. The key was not unbound, nor was I hitting the wrong key, and as you could see throughout the post, my Q key is working. So yeah, no clue what caused it, but it was most likely the Viktor rework having some sort of bad interaction with Vi. However I do not play the champion often so for all I know this bug has always existed whenever she dies to cc or something.

If any rioter sees this and possibly knows what it could've been that would be a great help, although I don't think I will be playing her for some time.

2 Comments

naitohikari10/3/2014, 3:52:32 AM1 votes

It isn't a new issue (in fact it's been there for years, along with Warwick and Varus's skills). I main Vi (almost 100 games with her now) and it's happened to me more than ten times already.

What I think triggers it is if you get killed AFTER your Q is interrupted while channeling by any sort of CC, though I could be mistaken. Ever since it first happened I've been paying closer attention to Vi whenever I get in a teamfight and while I'm using my Q - sometimes it works after being CC'd, sometimes it doesn't (usually after respawn and with the ability off cooldown). If this is true (I haven't tried a custom game to pinpoint the exact cause or test this out), I think it has to do with the game registering her Q as being interrupted and on cooldown, and if she dies while it's still on cooldown, the game thinks she's still being CC'd. Just a theory though.

To fix it, put Q on smart cast, smart-cast it (it'll be unresponsive for a bit but then it'll work), then take it off smart-cast and you should be good to go. The method's worked every time when it happens to me.

I really hope Riot does fix this though, it's such a common bug and with it being Vi's main ability it renders her essentially useless the rest of the game.

InvalidGuest10/3/2014, 3:53:51 AM1 votes

There are a lot of bugs with different champions who permanently cannot use abilities if they are cc'd when channeling them