[Gameplay] Shaco can make the Dragon stop attacking.

Wubbles·Dec 14, 2014·21 votes·1,993 views

By using a dash or blink to reposition yourself closer to the dragon than your box, after the Dragon has initiated his attack and having the box expire before the dragon's attack completes, you can force the Dragon to just stop attacking until gets a new target (i.e. someone gets closer to him)

Reproduction steps:

Lay a box outside of the activation range for the Dragon.
Aggro the Dragon and pull him into the box.
After the Dragon begins his animation to attack the box a second time, use Deceive to blink closer to the Dragon the the box (He should turn towards you).
Have the box expire before the Dragon's attack completes.
Have a staring contest with the now friendly Dragon.

Theoretically this isn't unique to Shaco, and that anyone with duration based pets (Yorick, Annie, Zyra, etc) could pull it off. It is just easiest with Shaco as the boxes last almost the perfect duration.

Edit: Works with Annie & Heimerdinger as well, so it does work in any scenario where the Dragon's target despawns / dies before the attack goes off (after another target gets closer than the original target).

8 Comments

stokasticDec 14, 20142 votes

Dat 2 minute drag fight

junglerboy16Dec 14, 20141 votes

Woah, that is even more broken than pantheon or Fiora solos. +1 for visibility.

MeleeNukeDec 14, 20141 votes

This hasn't been fixed yet?

Urdnot EntarDec 15, 20147 votes

{quoted} This hasn't been fixed yet?

You act as if Riot is known for their bugfixing abilities...

MeleeNukeDec 15, 20142 votes

Shaco's fear at one point disabled some champions spells. Now that drag's attacks are considered spells, the problem comes again.

WubblesDec 15, 20141 votes

This is actually a different bug! It has to do with the Dragon's target despawning (or possibly dying?) before his attack goes out, while he has already acquired a new target (i.e. someone is closer)

It should work with anyone that uses minions / pets (and can either time their despawn, or forcibly despawn them) but I only had footage of Shaco (& Now Heimerdinger & Annie )

It seems possible to do so with Vladimir's pool as well, but I need to do some more testing with it.

AFK PushDec 14, 20141 votes

This reminds me of how shaco used to be able to do this to certain abilities on champions like Sion or Xerath's Q. For the rest of the game neither of them could use the ability unless it was set to smartcast.