CLEANSE needs new text

Foxwaffles··4 votes·719 views

So, the other day, I was playing a ranked game against a WarwickWarwick and a MalzaharMalzahar , so naturally I thought that grabbing cleansesummoner 1 instead of flash summoner 4 would be more beneficial (thinking I can just cleansesummoner 1 out of their ult and get away) (I was jungleNocturne ). So I go in to fight MalzaharMalzahar , and to my infinite surprise cleansesummoner 1 did not get rid of his ult. I then proceeded to look up on lolwiki what they said the effect of cleanse was, and on lolwiki it says:

"Removes all disables (excluding Suppression) and summoner spells debuffs affecting your champion and grants 65% crowd control reduction for 3 seconds."

however, in game it says: "Removes all disables and summoner spell debuffs affecting your champion and reduces the duration of disables by 65% for the next 3 seconds."

In my honest opinion I would think that an ability that prevents movement and casting of spells would be considered a disable (hence suppression) therefore I feel very cheated by the text of cleanse when no where in it does it mention that it does not remove suppression. That has brought me to the conclusion that the in game text for the summoner spell really needs to be clarified to help prevent future people from taking a summoner spell that is considerably less useful in the situations that I needed it in.

3 Comments

qetzel3 votes

Actually, if you have a look here:

http://leagueoflegends.wikia.com/wiki/Crowd_Control

Suppression could be removed by Cleanse if you could cast it while supressed. Cleanse is not badly worded, suppression is poorly understood.

Foxwaffles1 votes

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Suppression could be removed by Cleanse if you could cast it while supressed. Cleanse is not badly worded, suppression is poorly understood.

Well the text from the wiki says that cleanse does not remove suppression here: http://leagueoflegends.wikia.com/wiki/Cleanse

I am just saying I think that Riot should put that in because it is unclear which abilities you can use while in supression, such as Olaf ultimate and Alistar ultimate. With that in mind I think it is completely reasonable for anyone to think that cleanse could do the same taking into account the information that is given in game (not on the wiki).

Not to mention that cleanse removes silence, stun, taunt, and polymorph; all of which are abilities that prevent players from casting spells. Even if you forget all of this but just take stun into account, if cleanse can remove stun then I would imagine it would be able to remove suppression since the two are almost identical in effect, unless stated otherwise by the spell.

Provengreil1 votes

Voted no. It needs removal, not new text. it's a trap, like level 2 runes.

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