Ardent Censer Bug

Snurly··6 votes·6,241 views

Ardent Censer had an undocumented change in 9.15 which allowed it to be applied to yourself via self heal or shield, eg. Skarner W, Diana W, Udyr W etc...

The self shielding portion seems to work as intended. However, this does not seem to be true for self heals, eg. Nidalee E on self, Sylas W, Bard W on self etc... despite the description stating that both heals and shields proc it.

(Note that in the case of Nidalee, Bard, and any other champ that can heal either themselves or allies (but not both at once), the item works as intended when healing your teammate, it simply doesn't work when healing yourself).

This can be tested in practice tool:

  1. Pick a champ with self-heal, such as Nid or Sylas
  2. Buy Ardent, use your self-heal ability
  3. Auto-attack the Enemy Dummy. The expected result here is for blue damage number to pop up (the magic on-hit), but it doesn't

This is replicate-able 100% of the time.

Additional steps:

  1. Spawn and heal Ally Dummy
  2. Note that you DO get the buff for healing the ally, so this works as intended. (Works 100% of the time). This makes it clear that the bug is for SELF-heal only.

8 Comments

Spaceman711 votes

Ardent Censer/Nashors/Guinsoos melee carry Diana?

Relatedly, are we sure this isn't intended?

Snurly1 votes

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Ardent Censer/Nashors/Guinsoos melee carry Diana?

Relatedly, are we sure this isn't intended?

It is intended for self shields and heals, however the self heal part doesn't work, only the self shield

Tarakiel1 votes

This is not new. It's been like that for a while.

Shirvallah1 votes

The self-shielding bug has been around since at least June I’d say. No fixes yet, despite multiple people bringing it up. The unique passive is ONLY supposed to apply when X champion heals OR shields Y ally — NOT when X champion heals/shields X self.

Snurly1 votes

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The self-shielding bug has been around since at least June I’d say. No fixes yet, despite multiple people bringing it up. The unique passive is ONLY supposed to apply when X champion heals OR shields Y ally — NOT when X champion heals/shields X self.

https://i.imgur.com/AM3yS1b.png

Seems intentional to me. Problem is the self-trigger only works on shields, not heals

Shirvallah1 votes

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https://i.imgur.com/AM3yS1b.png

Seems intentional to me. Problem is the self-trigger only works on shields, not heals

As someone who’s mained support for the five years I’ve played this game and used Ardent Censer in its old and new forms (in patch 7.19 the old to new form changed from healed/shielded allies receiving hp on hit and attack speed to healed/shielded allies and the heal/shield caster (who casted the heal or shield on an ALLY — NOT THEMSELF) receive attack speed and damage on it), I can tell you without a shadow of a doubt that this was a bug that started happening around June when all of the in game changes with the old to new death recaps occurred. It is NOT intentional.

SSmotzer1 votes

I found a good work around with Overheal, as the heal would push you over your max health and give you a shield, procing Ardent.

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