I lost a promotion due to the same bug and wrote up a ticket that I was told to post on this forum, so here's my bump and ticket contents:
I played a game as Kalista with a Blitzcrank support. Eager to get out of the fountain quickly, I accidentally bound myself to Volibear using the Black Spear item. After binding to him, I bought another Black Spear and caught up to Blitzcrank and tried rebinding. There had been a scuffle in the jungle and Blitz was on his way back to base via recall when I threw the spear, yet it was consumed and we had the visual tether that showed that we should be Oathsworn. However, the Sentinel passive was not activated by Blitzcrank's basic attacks, rendering my 12% max hp damage null for the entire game. We tried getting another spear and rebinding but it was past 3 minutes in (which I believe is the rebind time limit). The strange part is that the visual tether and ultimate still worked as intended, but we were unable to activate Sentinel's passive. It seems small, but this Oathsworn element is the lifeblood of Kalista's kit and we were rendered practically useless in lane due to the difficulty (In a fifth promotional game, but that's besides the point).
As far as I can tell, these are the following steps to reproduce the issue, however I have only had this problem once and have not yet tried to reproduce it:
- Playing Kalista, bind to a champion as you would regularly (i.e. at the beginnng when all are still in the fountain)
- Purchase another Black Spear and attempt to bind to another champion that is currently recalling (Not 100% if the recall was what did it, but this was the case for me), so that when Kalista finishes the spear-throwing-animation the other champion has already returned to the fountain.
(Note: Not realizing that my support would be gone when the animation finished, I attempted to cancel it by right clicking the spear afterwards while the 'soul sucking' animation was still playing. This prompted a 'channeling bar' with the title "Drain" but I don't think this is related, but worth noting.)
- With this new bind, the 'tethered' effect should be lost from the first champion and now attach Kalista to the second one, however neither of the bound champions trigger their half of the Sentinel passive. Kalista's basic attacks will mark the minions with the half-arrowhead above them (and I'm guessing the crosshair on the support's screen), but cannot be activated.
- Upon reaching level six, Kalista can use Fate's Call to pull her support (the second champion she bound to that has the tether, Blitz in my case) to her and the support can activate it again with no problems.
To any Kalista player, it should be obvious that this is a game-breaker for her as the 12% max HP damage and last hit transfer are a monumental part of any good engage or poke, like when Blitz lands a Rocket Grab and Power Fist combo, granting huge damage in lane that is otherwise missing entirely from her kit.
Additional Notes:
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As far as I noticed, I didn't have any problem using the active part of Sentinel.
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I repurchased the Black Spear a third time when I got my first recall, which was definitely after the 3 minute mark for rebinding to a champion. Upon trying to rebind to Blitz again, the cooldown of 8 seconds would apply to the item and the bell sound effect would play, but no animation and there was no change in the Sentinel passive.
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Using the launcher, I also saved a copy of the logs just after the game which I sent as a part of my ticket. I wasn't sure what kind of data they contained so I was hesitant to attach them, but if they would help I have them.
Thank you very much for reading, and I hope this problem is sorted out soon as it makes Kalista's lane very difficult.
