[GAMEPLAY] Dying wards activate Shrooms

Shakhath·11/13/2015, 2:11:23 AM·9 votes·1,492 views

In game, when placing Teemo's mushrooms near a dying ward trinket activates the mushroom.
TO REPLICATE: Place the mushroom on or near a dying ward, wait, and watch.

It seems like the moment the ward trinket dies it becomes an invulnerable "object" momentarily before becoming rubble. I have been testing out what else can interact with the object and the following is what I have found or theorized:

It can activate mushrooms and possibly traps.
It can stop and roots and possibly and roots.
It can stop or interact with hook and grab and possibly blade, tongue, and dredge line.
I believe it could also interfere with ultimates.

Of course the timing would have to be perfect but the fact that in can interact at all with any champions' abilities may cause problems during gameplay and especially team fights where wards could be hiding in the midst of it all.

8 Comments

Rebel Phoenix1711/15/2015, 8:00:05 AM3 votes

So I've looked into a few things. I first noticed this in a game as Kindred, luckily I was recording it.

Teemo : Shroom triggering when I kill a ward.

Then after finding your post I looked at your notes. Thresh : Hooking a dying ward Nidalee : Traps trigger it too

After trying Thresh hook I realized maybe Nid Spear would also get stopped. Nidalee : Nid Spear

And then it occured to me that what was happening was simple. For a brief instant (less than a second) ward debris becomes a targetable, but invulnerable object. I realize the best way to test this would be with a targeted spell. Something that normally should not have any interaction with wards. Brand Conflagration Now, the spell doesn't complete and as such doesn't go on cooldown, but the animation started playing when I targeted the ward.

This bug could cause huge problems for almost any champion in the game since it interacts with both skillshots and targeted spells.

eXtreemo11/13/2015, 6:57:09 AM2 votes

I don't know bout all other stuff mentioned above. But I can 100% approve that dying ward activates Teemo's shrooms .

EternaI Love11/14/2015, 3:47:38 AM2 votes

Nidalee confirmed that the trap "trapped" the dead ward

Shakhath11/14/2015, 10:22:43 PM1 votes

Thanks EternaI Love (NA) for the Nidalee confirmation. If anyone else can also confirm the other champs, where I put "possibly" that would be great. You'll also see me commenting on other people's similar posts and leaving a link; the reason is I'm trying to increase the views on this post rather than having them spread out across other posts so that it can draw some attention for anyone at Riot to take notice.

USEternal11/15/2015, 7:07:12 PM1 votes

I can confirm this, it happened at least 8 times in my last game.

Moreover, Mushroom ticks no longer trigger Spellthief's Edge like it used to as they still should.

xtomraiderx11/16/2015, 1:13:27 AM1 votes

pls do something about it couse its very anoying and really disrupts games