POTENTIAL BUG DISCOVERED (SHYVANA, 6.4.16_02_22_17_11)

FluShots·3/2/2016, 3:51:03 PM·1 votes·1,618 views

Hello,

I believe I have discovered an in-game bug with Shyvana

The bug is 100% reproducible and has to do with her Twin Bite (Q).

As per the skill-text :

"Shyvana strikes twice on her next attack, dealing X physical damage on the second attack. The bonus damage is equal to 80% of Shyvana's Attack Damage. Basic attacks reduce the cooldown of Twin Bite by 0.5 seconds."

According to the in-game and store ability text, Shyvana's Q cooldown will be lowered by 0.5 seconds for every basic attack that she performs. However, attacks against the Nexus, Towers, and Inhibitors will not proc this 0.5 second CD reduction.

After doing some digging around online, I found Shyvana's old/outdated ability text which contains the following : "Shyvana's basic attacks against non-structures reduce Twin Bite's cooldown by 0.5 seconds."

Essentially this means one of two things ;

Shyvana's in-game text was simply overlooked and it wasn't noted that basic attacking structures did not reduce Twin Bite's CD, Or Shyvana's Q was meant to be changed so that all basic attacks would proc a Q CD and the feature was not patched in.

My video of this can be found here : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TduvNjSA94U (0:43 Seconds) Notice that, per usual, Shyvana's Q will proc a 0.5 second CD after attacking a minion, but basic attacking a tower will not have any affect other than the base cooldown being shown.

Thanks for your time.

2 Comments

Alpha Gray3/2/2016, 4:16:51 PM2 votes

Check to see if Master Yi's Q cooldown is reduced by attacks against structures. If it's not, this is probably a consistent behavior across all champions with this sort of mechanic and it was deemed best to simplify the text. In general, permanent on-hit effects don't count against structures unless the source of the effect has no other benefit. Meaning on-hit damage or an on-hit effect from an ability that also has an active component wouldn't proc against a structure. E.g. being things like Master Yi's actual Innate Passive, which obviously counts upward when you're hitting a tower.

It used to be that almost universally attack modifiers, skills that buffed your next attack, would at least inflict their bonus damage against structures (Trundle Trundle Chomp, Yorick Yorick Omen of War, etc...) with the exception of Vayne's Tumble. They seem to be going back in the other direction on that one.

Short answer is that its function was probably never intended to be changed and they just put it in an "inferred rule" category, because the extra CD for hitting a tower probably doesn't come up in a large portion of Shyvana's games, so more tooltip text wasn't helping anybody, especially when, broadly speaking, Shyvana's tooltips were stupid long before.

ZenQQ3/2/2016, 4:03:51 PM1 votes

same story with wrong akali passive description...RIOT will ignore this as they are ignoring akali passive from 3 or 4 months, but thats nice there are still people that care about such things, gj bro, but they will ignore u as they did many times before with akali