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Does Petricite Affect the Void, Chemtech, and Hextech. If so in what way?

Altronza·1/6/2019, 11:16:21 PM·10 votes·9,144 views

The reason I'm asking is for a multipart story that I want to make and I'm looking to see the degree that the Demacian stone affects magic. Reason being that while I've seen that it affects magic, there aren't many instances of Demacians fighting against the listed attributes and their respective lore regions.

  • I'd expect Hextech to be nullified or completely extinguished, but Hextech from what I've seen is more along the lines of Chemical and liquid-based meaning that I could only see it maybe dampening any energy based effects it has.

  • The void, on the other hand, I haven't seen many influences of this conflicting with the material in the lore if any at all and if I had to guess conclusions that I can make would have the Demacian stone act like a poison to the creatures. Or not affect them at all, but as the void energy is like a living thing I believe that it can be affected by it. However I have no evidence and as such, this is why I'm asking as to find an accurate foothold.

  • My reason for looking into it so much is not really much, but there is an important aspect that my story will conflict with the various magical attributes on Runeterra due to its nature and I want to accurately describe it.

Thank you for reading, really the question is in the Title. But I wanted to give my own perspective and reasoning for asking as well.

17 Comments

Spideraxe1/7/2019, 12:16:03 AM6 votes

I don’t think it’d work on Chemtech since like you said it appears more chemical based, I think Hextech might, depending on its effective against the Brackern and I don’t think it works on the void since its like an other worldly power

Jeoster1/6/2019, 11:47:40 PM4 votes

Petricite has it's limits, If I recall in the most recent story/short story "Demacian" heart a piece of Petricite was used to nulify magic and afterwards was destroyed. Aside from that there was a story long ago about Mordekaiser killing a demacian and If I recall in it mordes magic couldn't initially affect the soldier much because of his armor but on the other hand the soldier couldn't strike down Morde either and eventually died and I believe did turn into a spectre afterwards.

As far as void is concerned I would assume because of it's the void it's either uneffected or you need too much petricite for it to work. As for hextech, would probably interfere with it in some fashion, but it's an assumption and there are no sources.

Placentas1/6/2019, 11:51:58 PM2 votes

This kinda raises the question as to whether the void is a realm of magic, or if it's more "'science" based, or an interesting mix of the two.

Jerry SeinfeId1/7/2019, 12:28:54 AM2 votes

Hextech

I agree on this one. The only loophole i could see is guns. i can remember a riot ask explaining infinite ammo as hextech. I didn't find it the last timei brought this up so i won't claim this to be correct. But. if only the process of making it is magical the bullet itself would just be a regular buller. Same goes for if in lore reloading is needed.

Chemtech The problem here is that it's never really defined as science or magic. Singed was originally a head alchemist of zaun. But even if we base it on a form of alchemy which some games use (potion crafting most of the time) then it's still questionable if it's magical as it would be made of natural components. Is nature magical? or do they just happen to have plants that have other effects on people than we do? I see chemtech as a more science driven form of alchemy in fantasy games and thus in the end comes down to how magic actually works in runeterra.

Void if the void is just all consuming it would probably be affective against it. Either way the creatures seem organic so it again comes down to what exactly magic is in runeterra.

Warlord Rhinark1/7/2019, 7:41:08 AM2 votes

I like to think of Petricite as magical sponges.

If it gets hit by anything, anything magical in nature, it should absorb it.

Therefore, Petricite should, in theory, absorb both Hextech and Void magic.

However, since Chemtech isn't magical in nature, it will presumably not do anything to nullify that.

RyzeTheSmurfMage1/7/2019, 8:13:49 AM1 votes

Hextech: Probably hextech doesn't work around petricite since it uses magical crystals as energy source Chemtech: It uses chemicals so it shouldn't be affected by petricite Void: Srsly I think it depends on the Voidborn. Most of them are organic and use plasma tho so Petricite shouldn't be bothering those.