I don't know how it works but when Ivern got his blue, it left another blue for someone else to get. My friend briefly passed by inside (very close to the outer rim) the circle but didn't get the blue, and I got the blue buff.
Maybe because the view for League of Legends is isometric and my friend wasn't actually in the circle (it just looked like she was in the circle) but I thought it was weird she didn't get the blue buff.
Simply to explain further how it works, as long as Ivern is at least level 5, when he frees Red or Blue, a sapling will remain in that location for up to 1 minute after. If a teammate walks inside of that circle they gain the buff. Alternatively, if one of his teammates kills Red or Blue, a sapling is left for only Ivern to pick up within 1 minute.
I would assume that you are correct about the isometric view causing some issues with your friend being able to pick it up, but it is obviously difficult to know. It is entirely possible that it was a bug. You may want to give some sort of indication as to what game you are referring to in case a Riot employee tries to check out the replay.
I can't remember which game I played, it was a few days ago, or maybe even yesterday.
Trying to remember anything about it will might just mislead you guys because I probably will remember it wrong.
The only thing I can recommend is for people to watch out for this and maybe provide a more detailed point of view if this happens to them. Or the riot employees can test this out too.
