Why can Singed's (and probably Cassiopeia's) "grounded" effect disable Lee Sin's W? WHY is such a thing even possible? Lee Sin is NOT allowed to shield himself inside the poison field? Heck, why does this grounded effect even exist? Aren't 40-60% slows enough on poison fields?
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Dig all the down votes and hate towards Lee...
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Because Grounded stops you from using any mobility. That's it. That's all it does. If you don't like it, don't stand in it.
Anyone else find it funny that a Lee sin main can't see the obvious counterplay added to the game
Because it stops dashes. And his W is a dash.
someone has no idea what the "grounded" debuff does... complains about said debuff [zombie-brand-facepalm]
Your point could be presented better, but I agree with you.
To answer to you question: because of technical reasons. You can use your W to dash on a target, so it's tagged as a mobility spell, and Grounded disables all mobility spells. The system doesn't make a difference between self-cast or target-cast if a spell has different effects, it just disables a spell as a whole.
For the records, it's the same for Braum, you can't use his W to buff your own Armor. And it's the same thing with Roots. I hate playing as Braum versus Morgana or Lux support because of that.
I think we could convince Riot to make the distinction between self- and target- cast if there was more than 2 cases, but as it stands, I think they don't care, it's not big enough of a problem.
It is a spell with mobility tied onto the effect.
You also can't ult with Darius btw.
There's a lot of abilities that make no sense for them to be affected by "grounded" the way they are, but riot doesnt care.
I mean if anything more spells should have grounding attached. Smacking the opponent into the ground aught to keep them there a bit.
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