[GAMEPLAY] Pantheon's Aegis Assault blocks AOE abilities behind him

Luxury BaII·Sep 30, 2019·1 votes·833 views

's "E" reads: "Pantheon braces his shield and engages enemies in a chosen direction for 1.5 seconds, becoming immune to damage from that direction and dealing X physical damage over the duration."

I see it says immune to damage from THAT direction. This seems to work even with aoe abilities. An issue I ran into was while playing Throwing a Lux "E" BEHIND him while he is in his duration still manages to negate all damage from it. I was in front of him and his Aegis Shield was facing me. Figured a well placed "E" behind him should still damage him but it did nothing.

Have Pantheon cast Aegis Assault while facing Lux
Throw a Lux E behind Pantheon
Detonate the E doing no damage

Here is the video of my instance of it happening.

6 Comments

KazekibaSep 30, 20191 votes

The source of the damage is from that direction. The missile that detonates the AoE is from that direction.

Luxury BaIISep 30, 20191 votes

So in other words, you're telling me that if say Karthus or Gangplank ults Pantheon, as long as he knows which direction they are in, he can cast "E" and be immune to the entire thing no matter how far away they are on the map.

ShyImagoghnarSep 30, 20192 votes

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So in other words, you're telling me that if say or ults Pantheon, as long as he knows which direction they are in, he can cast "E" and be immune to the entire thing no matter how far away they are on the map.

yes. braum works like this too. braum and panth also work like this with zed ult.

KazekibaSep 30, 20191 votes

Go ahead and test it. Go into a custom game v. Karthus Bot with Pantheon.

Alternatively, think of it this way; Varus E and Corki Q launches a projectile into the air and leaves a splash zone on the ground, but only deals damage in that zone. There's no questioning Hail of Arrows or the Incendiary Bomb damage is traveling, and so Pantheon's Aegis of Zeonis would block it, but the arcing projectile is just a visual and doesnt interact with the code really. Yasuo's windwall would block all 3 projectiles (not Kathus R because its ground-targeted AoE, treated as a debuff rather than projectile. Similar reason why it wont block old Kayle's E autos or Annie W)