New Unintended Interaction Between Alistar and Displacements

Metalrichdog··1 votes·659 views

Alistar's combo of headbutting his target into a pulverize was buffed in this patch such that you can "buffer" the pulverize while doing your headbutt. This is great for anybody who's ever played Alistar and just kept making people go flying away which the team of the Ali player would then give grief for. There is just one** pretty big new interaction** now when it comes to interactions such as Draven's Stand aside ability, which is a displacement ability. Pretty much if you decide to knock Alistar out of his headbutt,** regardless of what point he was in it,** Alistar will immediately pulverize the moment its over. In contrast to the past, if Alistar was knocked out of his headbutt by a displacement ability, he wouldn't just autocast his pulverize thus allowing alot more leeway for people with displacements to avoid his combo all together. Now it's literally just like Malphy's ultimate: unstoppable.

I can't tell you how much more annoying this is for a Draven player since it makes Alistar an even greater counter than he should be (Displacements usually stop all form of ability to cast abilities, but this literally goes through due to the buffer thing)

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Best KhaZix Void1 votes

you just have to stand aside sooner

Metalrichdog1 votes

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you just have to stand aside sooner

Trust me when I say I know this match up really well. It's pretty different due to the buffer forcing Ali to pulverize regardless of a hard CC displacement ability that should interrupt.

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