Last week, Patch 13.10 was released in League of Legends with many item adjustments and 4 new items. Statikk’s Shiv also returned to the Rift after over 2 years and causes a bug with an interaction involving its own minions.
What happened? The user refuzeiv posted a video on Reddit, showing how he kills his own minions with the passive ability of the returning item Statikk Shiv. He does not gain gold or experience from this.
You can see the Reddit video by refuzeiv here:
Killing your own minions is not actually possible in LoL and could specifically be a serious error, as it could deny the opponent farm and experience.
The bug requires a specific interaction
How can the bug happen? Riot employee Phreak suspects a connection between the ultimate of supporter Renata Glasc and the passive ability Electroshock
of Statikk’s Shiv. When targeted by Renata’s ultimate, you fight against your own teammates for a short time and can also deal damage to them.
If you then do not trigger Statikk’s Shiv with an auto-attack, abilities can cause the effect on allied units. But only abilities that interact with your own minions and can trigger on-hit effects.
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In the Reddit video, Katarina jumps onto her own minions with her E, and Electroshock
is activated. But you can also see how Renata receives the gold and experience from those minions, indicating the interaction with Renata.
Will the bug be fixed? As Phreak writes under the post, he wants to fix the bug as soon as he has looked more into the mechanics of Energize
.
He does not see the problem as particularly urgent, as a specific combination of champions is required to trigger the bug, and it does not happen all the time. Furthermore, with the error, you are more likely helping the opponent than yourself, as Renata gets the gold and experience.
If the error occurs for you, you can simply perform a fully charged Statikk Shiv
-auto-attack, and the bug should disappear.
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