[gameplay] Poppys new Ult issues

dangerzaun·12/29/2015, 10:36:07 PM·1 votes·739 views

I noticed two things about PoppyPoppy's Keeper's Verdict.

The first is a bug that I have only experienced once. I was fleeing as PoppyPoppy from an enemy Malzahar Malzahar. I slowed him with my Q (putting the field that he had to walk through it) and started to charge my Ult. He probably has already ordered his Ult on me, but was out of range just a bit so he continued floating after me. When I let my Ult go, he was hit by it and moved in his knocked up state approximately the distance of two Poppys towards his base, where he suddenly stopped. He was instantly on the ground and had me suppressed with his Ult. When I hit him with the Ult, he probably had flied a bit into my direction (since we were running not perfectly parallel to the river) and I am certain that his Ult did not go off before he was knocked up. I assume that he was able to pull of his Ult because he ordered it before getting knocked up and got into range shortly after that but I have not tried to reproduce this jet.

The other thing I is actually not a bug but a strange usage of smart casting the Ult. Usually, you charge the ult (first cast) by holding the button down and let it go (second cast) by releasing the button when using smart casting. Sometimes, when I got cc'ed and want to use the fast version of the ult right afterwards I press the R button multiple times while cc'ed. Since the last command is usually remembered I stop pressing and clicking so that the first thing I do is knocking people up. But then, to my disappointment it seams that smart casting does not apply to that situation as I see Poppy charging the ult freely and thus forcing me to either disengage or wait for 4 seconds as I did not realize in time that I am now expected to press R again to smash people up. While this is a good thing when not using smart casting I believe it was in this situation more natural if you would let the ult go immediately after you broke the cc and keep on channeling the ult only if you had still pressed the R button down while the cc ended.

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