[GAMEPLAY] Lux Permanently Losing Lucent Singularity (E)

Equalitie·9/20/2015, 12:21:05 AM·4 votes·571 views

While playing as Star Guardian Lux in a ranked game on Summoner's Rift, I placed my aoe skill, Lucent Singularity (E), on the floor and immediately proceeded to detonate it. Instead of damage, the AOE effect disappeared off the floor, caused no damage, and removed (E) from my skill set for the entirety of the game. (In a ranked game, in EARLY game, you can imagine this was very upsetting as a solo midlaner who uses (E) for nearly all my damage output and minion kills.)


As Lux: Lux

  1. Use E and place the attack.
  2. IMMEDIATELY press it again to detonate.
  3. Skill disappears off the rift in both particle and effect.
  4. No damage was incurred by targets in the area of effect. No "burst" sound effect was played.
  5. On future attempts to use the skill, it "cannot be cast at this time". Notably, it also is listed as having no skill cost.
  6. Attempts to disconnect and reconnect will NOT restore the skill. This was attempted.
  7. Death does not restore the skill either.
  8. Switching the hotkey used for the skill does not resolve the issue either.

  1. Proceed to be upset and cry on the inside for the rest of the game.
  2. Suffer a defeat even though you had been winning your lane prior to losing YOUR MAIN DAMAGE OUTPUT.

Further attempts to recreate this have not been made because it is absolutely DREADFUL to play an entire game without your skills, and it is unfair to your allies that you cannot perform at your best.

At the time of the glitch, my only items were: item 2041 item 2004 item 3174 item 3340

1 Comments

AntonioT9/20/2015, 5:05:33 AM1 votes

Yeah this has been known to happen (very rarely) to champions that throw and detonate a skillshot.

Ex: Gragas' barrel, Ziggs' satchel charge, and Lux's E apparently

What may be happening is that the skill is permanently stuck in the window where the skillshot is being thrown but can't be detonated yet.

ALSO THIS HAS BEEN NOTICED BY RIOT, HERE IS RiotExgeniar's RESPONSE ON REDDIT:

Please take this as an acknowledgement of the bug from Riot. I've been trying to track this down for MONTHS. And, yes, I've read all the reports of this. The problem is, when a bug is reported with no actionable leads or reproduction steps, it's difficult to fix the issue. Not having an understanding of what causes this to happen, we can't safely fix the bug and we could end up breaking the ability more.

League of a Legends is a widely played game, and we see 'one in a million' edge cases (like this bug) all the time, and it drives me crazy.

If the community can come up with reliable reproduction steps to a major bug like this, I Garen-tee that the bug would be fixed within a patch or two.

In terms of work around, I am currently working on an Azir refractor, so things are super busy. However, I have plans to look into this bug and find a way to hopefully avoid the issue the spell currently. (No eta)

tl;dr: Here is your acknowledgement. This is a one-in-a-million bug; We don't have a reliable reproduction step, nor the understanding of the different variables involved, so we can't reliably know we fixed the issue when we attempt a fix.

Source: https://www.reddit.com/r/leagueoflegends/comments/3g4646/gragas_has_a_champion_breaking_bug_that_is_being/ctv8a91

I know you tried to reproduce the bug, but they can't fix it until they know the cause. Hope this helps!