[Gameplay] Syndra Ulti cancels W. Major Bug.

CityBlazer19·11/11/2017, 3:44:52 AM·2 votes·473 views

As a player who used Syndra to climb out of Silver this season, I am pretty used to the quirks of the champion. There have been a fair share of bugs but none have impacted gameplay as much as this one. When you press W to throw a sphere as Syndra, and then press Ulti as the sphere is flying, the ulti will grab the sphere and the W will deal no damage. This means you effectively lose your most damaging (Post level 13) basic ability. This is important because the standard one shot damage combo for Syndra has you pressing the buttons in this exact same order to get all your abilities out quickly. So far every time I've done the combo this has happened. It would be one thing if it was a nerf but there are no patch notes detailing this at all so I assume it's a bug. I hope it can be fixed soon because Syndra is already bad with new runes and she doesn't need a large bug making her worse.

To reproduce: Put a sphere on the ground with Q Grab sphere with W Reactivate W to throw sphere Activate your Ultimate (R) as W is travelling

This bug has occurred 100% of times for me.

Video Evidence. https://gfycat.com/gifs/detail/ImpressivePlasticCattle https://gfycat.com/gifs/detail/CavernousKindlyGecko https://gfycat.com/gifs/detail/ShrillJitteryCoypu https://gfycat.com/gifs/detail/TheseAggressiveAfricanporcupine https://gfycat.com/gifs/detail/FamiliarWelldocumentedCurassow

All of these occurred within the same game whenever I did the above steps. The last clip shows me becoming aware of it and trying to time my Ulti to be right as the W landed but the bug still occurred.

Here is an explanation of what exactly occurs and why it is a bug, courtesy of Kyle Crane https://youtu.be/VF23EOLW6qk

3 Comments

Vicenza11/11/2017, 6:49:49 AM1 votes

YESS! I am a syndra main also and I already did a bug report of this. Hope riot fix this asap cuz rn syndra is unplayable.

VergubaDstryr11/11/2017, 8:08:38 AM1 votes

looks like it is being picked up and landing behind syndra mid-ulti. I wonder if it still does damage

Discarded Doll11/11/2017, 5:47:51 PM1 votes

Your ult uses all the balls that currently exist, what you're doing is pulling back the ball with your ult before it lands and does damage.

The only way to rectify this is for riot to make it so that balls being thrown by w aren't used for the ult, which sounds like a good idea, but for now you should probably wait for your ball to land before you ult