Devourer on Mordekaiser's Q

Need Gold 4 Tent·Nov 4, 2015·1 votes·566 views

Don't know if intended or not, but Phantom Hit does not proc Q3 on Mordekaiser, although it does for Xin.

I initially thought the mechanics behind phantom hit not proc'ing standard sheen effects was that in the 2 hit attack, the first one consumed the sheen effect doing its normal effect, thus the phantom hit for that attack no longer has a sheen effect to proc.

But for cases like Xin, his Q effectively gave him 3 "sheen procs", the first activated via a normal auto, then the second one via his next auto and third including the knockup by Phantom Hit, which is why he knocks up in 2 hits. For some reason, this does not work for Mordekaiser, you still have to hit 3 times to get Q3. Why the inconsistency?

3 Comments

darkchan5Nov 4, 20151 votes

they choose to have the inconsistency for balancing purposes

kagepaladinNov 4, 20151 votes

they didnt want to to have it work with devourer could you imagine a third Q proc dealing 1k damage get doubled.

Need Gold 4 TentNov 4, 20151 votes

it was not meant to double the damage, duh. i know very well that would be broken.

i meant, it why didn't it shorten the counter to Q3? Xin doesn't get double Q3 either, he just procs Q2 and Q3 on the same autoattack thus the knockup in 2 hits. besides, it doesn't even give him his base basic attack anyway. with regards to balance, it just makes it easier for him to get Q3 off at the cost of:

Jungling which he's not very good at in the first place
Buying attack speed which is not a stat he uses
He has to afk farm jungle for it (admittedly, I tried and with Q it's not too difficult. but you're useless as a ganker).

i don't even play Morde though, it was just an interesting idea i thought i'd try for one game.