[Gameplay] Nautilus flashes after Q, when clicking flash during Q animation.

RobinHoodPT·12/20/2017, 12:15:04 AM·1 votes·602 views

Hello,

Was recently doing some random stuff in Practice tool and noticed a interesting interaction but not sure if it's a bug or intended. If I click the flash button during Nautilus q animation, when the animation ends it flashes.

Steps to reproduce:

  1. Pick Nautilus with flash(I have it on d key, didn't try on f)
  2. Use Q(grab), it doesn't need to grab anything.
  3. Click on the flash key while the animation of the grab is going(It should be blocked out, and you will not be able to flash).
  4. Wait for the Q animation to end, and then nautilus flashes.

Tried it out in custom, bots and practice tool. Happens in all of them. It happens always when doing the following steps.

Below is a gif of what happens. Unfortunately it's hard to understand but I only click the flash button during the q animation. Not at the end of it. (in the one I didn't flash I forgot to click the flash button during the animation of the q)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DZeC3Hu4IDk&feature=youtu.be

(nvm the music, forgot to turn it off when recording xD)

For me it seems like the flash is put in some kind of queue, for when the q animation ends it flashes.

1 Comments

Professor Ward12/20/2017, 12:18:30 AM1 votes

This is called "flash buffering" and is a perfect example of it.

This is actually something known by riot

i main naut, and flash buffering his q isnt the most useful, but there are many champs where this is pretty useful when used correctly. Lux ult for example.

A good use on naut, is to q into terrain while fleeing, buffer your flash, and when you land you will flash the wall really fast with pretty decent success.