Strongest Ethereal Weapon User: Bugged Interaction with Gangplank ?? | League Arena Gameplay

patch 14.15 pls

[@KingNidhogg]

i seriously have no clue what the cause of the runecarver bug is but it's hilarious. i can only attempt a guess which is the "needs new target -> hits someone other than the barrel" thing.

[@kaleinyo]

If it's after chain lightning, I suppose you're triggering the chain lightning on the barrel (because you still deal 1 damage on it), which chain on the nearest target, which is a valid target for passive, which counts for runecarver.

[@naldothadeus6310]

Bro legally cheating

[@Joemoe_]

​@@kaleinyo it was doing it before he even had chain lightning

[@loiclegoanvic8028]

maybe it has to do with the fact that sometimes with the good timing you can (could ? idk if it has been fixed, i tested it last month) farm golds on the dummy while shopping. Like it only happened if you Q'd it really fast just when the barrel reached 1hp left, and it looked like it when you succeed to do wifi runecarver so idk

[@y0ted999]

Commenting again because im worried that my last comment wasn't seen, if you are unaware Laser eyes can crit if you have vulnrability! Fun interaction thats very worth trying IMO

[@lngun]

Just an observation, it looks like the barrels aren't actually applying the passive burn unless the barrels are at 1 HP. This kind of makes sense as the Ethereral Weapon proc is being triggered on the barrel so it doesn't hit the enemies. Overall cool but Riot needs to sort some of this stuff out.

[@GSenna37]

Actually I think that's pretty fair, either you risk 1 hp or get a safe 2 hp but no passive

[@carterjones3622]

I thought it was when he chained the barrels that it was applying rather than just one barrel because the cd wasn't reset until after the barrel hits if it is only one

[@theangusschmaloer]

Yeah, GP is balanced cuz his melee passive mixes bad with his q and barrel range. so if a barrel procs his passive on range and the barrel resets the passive is op af. We all know the 6k HP Mundo burst barrel Aa rest combo

[@mattmacdonald5458]

Ap Gnar with ethereal does crazy damage, 1 auto double stacks his w.

[@KingNidhogg]

sure but imagine ethereal gp where i build real damage

[@lucasveley5400]

@mattmacdonald5458 AP gnar with ethereal and guinsoos so every proc is his passive

[@sateddevourer5422]

Imagine if he didn’t go mega in 6 autos and then be useless.

[@calebwilliams586]

​@sateddevourer5422 you can do it in 15 if you don't use abilities and don't insta transform

[@ryu_lidu]

@@KingNidhogg You did the clowniest GP build I've ever seen and it still did 1 bajillion damage lmao

[@krmlou]

i wonder if the light purple numbers were the result of the red, blue and white numbers popping up at the exact same time, great vid btw

[@user-fi2ie1wq9p]

Yeah i've noticed they added it kind of long time ago.When i played old corki similar colors would pop out for mixed damage. Also it might change its purpleness or redness based on ratio between physical and magic damage

[@user-tu5yi4pe2z]

@@user-fi2ie1wq9p Ah ok, my assumtion was it might have been the shadowflame crit but that makes sense and is a cool addition with the different hue depending on the more prevalent dmg type

[@davidhybui]

Take the amplified and the reversal, then smash together those two different expressions of infinity to create and push out imaginary mass...

[@keepyourselfsafe3931]

the gall of a diana kennen comp whos only game plan is to flash forward and button mash every round calling any other comp aids is insane

[@drvinylscratch1936]

The nidhogg special: rune carver, money gains, and applying things twice or more

[@vinifalleroliveira]

"I'll just get crit chance from stat shards" *procceeds to low roll every crit chance shard*

[@KingNidhogg]

they heard me

[@DarklingReborn]

Firstly if you look at 4:30 it’s pre-chain lightning but it’s still jumping to the enemies. My only guess is some weird interaction with Gangplank Q, ethereal weapon, and the barrels but honestly I have no clue about that one. Secondly at 4:30 it seems to somehow go for both Garen and Sona, it could be unintentionally activating static shiv’s energised effect with runecarver. Lastly at ~12:33 despite having 10 runecarver stacks, only 3 hit Anivia (3 shots of 59 dmg). What I think happens here is that since runecarver can proc on just the barrel, it eats some of the stack before it dies, but when it dies it throws the rest at the nearest enemies.

[@el-nathan]

it's purely a runecarver thing, the runecarver tries to hit the barrel but since it's dead, the runecarver instead hits the nearest enemy

[@omarg1471]

Udyr with etheral weapon applies on hit on Q/W/E/R auto effects so basically every auto is double on hit

[@afterlyte]

"okay, i'm chilling...nope i'm not chilling, i'm not fuc-" *+2250 gold in lobby* it gets me every time lmao

[@Kaxxaa]

There is something weird with runecarver redirecting to other targets. I’ve noticed this with shaco boxes. When you kill a box with an ability and runecarver is up it changes to shoot at another box if there is one visible and/or close by

[@nlaranjeira01]

I think at some point Riot made GP's Q work like a ranged auto attack. Since auto attacks apply the passive, they must have hardcoded to disable it for Q.

[@whatthefrancium]

This is it

[@FenrirAlter]

No gp passive is coded as an empower on next attack like gragas w. His q proccs on attack, on hit and also deals 0 spell damage instance to proc spell effect like ludens. But since ethereal is kinda coded to work with any on-x type spells/damage it applies passive

[@user-bl4kb7uf5l]

@@FenrirAlter I think it is coded as a range auto and not as an empowered melee auto since they made it proc grasp as a ranged attack

[@FenrirAlter]

@@user-bl4kb7uf5l his on-x proc all use ranged modifiers, but that's it. It s still an ability.

[@M0th3ater]

You are half right, its not a ranged auto but it is hard coded to not apply the passive. Its still melee in regards to everything that matters, its just also a missile/projectile

[@SikGamer70]

Ethereal Weapon with Vuln would actually be unfair, you could just ulti them at the start of the round for like 2k unavoidable true damage, even more if you combo it properly by refreshing passive with barrels. Pirate Karthus

[@alucard3294]

Good camera angles on the Khartus, and nice video!

[@tolerk1303]

Me and a friend got Pyke/Jhin with chaffeur, double homeguard, with haste and shadow runner. Almost 4k movement speed. Best high roll I've hit so far, more to come.

[@thebean8106]

after finding your channel the thumbnail of most of the other arena videos i see deter me from them. cause their like " this crazy build breaks arena" and its just a relatively normal build

[@alextygesen3101]

Runecarver applies to the most nearby target if the original target is dead. Either that or the barrels exploding with the Q triggers some kind of hidden damage on the opponent. But that does not matter to know for the interaction. You also need to be near them and have vision of them for this to apply.

[@himwiththesquaretoes9461]

Insane Q yesterday, Erick! The peel on him was insane though nothing you could do, shouldn't have left your barrels in the car though. Best of luck next time!

[@XeroKimorimon]

My favorite rune carver interaction definitely still has to be Katarina's Ult, it applies ever tick + per enemy hit, so you get to insta stack it so quickly after one 1 ult.

[@primusavem934]

Watching your arena videos gives me hope when I load into a game and see people playing for goofy interactions like this instead of just stacking damage on damage on damage. I know that's fun for some people, and it's definitely fun for me once in a while, but silly things like this are what make the game for me

[@tolga8291]

I think your prismatic augment causes apply runecarver i mean the barrel is enemy and whenever the barrel is closer enoughly to enemy to activate augment, runecarver works too

[@tolga8291]

just like stacking runecarver with kill the barrel

[@daboss4318]

Purple numbers are used to come from riftmaker back when it was mythic, dindnt know I missed this light purple damage numbers that much until now...

[@6DarthSion9]

This phantom 1 true damage on abilities coded as an AA is so funny and nostalgic. Zilean had similar thing for his bomb for the countdown, so he dealt always bomb damage plus 6 true damage.

[@nonsenseorbit7212]

i think since Q already applies on hit riot hard-coded it to not apply passive for balancing reasons

[@primusavem934]

Gangplank Q is hard-coded to not apply his passive, yes

[@arty5906]

The fact that your third chapter in this video is called „Secret service“ is funny and wild

[@UchhItachi]

also while playing gp there is an interaction with the training dummy while it's 1 hp you can farm gold with e q combos. I think it is a bug but I don't know.

[@DragoMangos]

The grape Kool-Aid damage, let's fucking go dude.

[@uselesswater2113]

hi nidhogg ive been watching your arena videos for a while and had a video idea. theres a briar build that i run thats really funny that includes high rolling mystic punch, mirage blade, and cdr for your q or just ability haste in general. (the dream build that i was able to achieve once was dashing, mystic punch, earthwake, and bread and butter for my q) the idea of the build is to be able to infinitely stun with your q with your teammate being taric or a support thats able to keep the other player busy while you make the main person unable to move. if you have any question lmk ive been wanting to see people run this more because its really funny. keep in mind that mirage blade is necessary and mystic punch as well (moonblade is a decent alternative as well)

[@surrealllama]

15:10 I think you were about to say it before you moved on to a different train of thought but yeah pink/purple numbers are when you do both true and magic damage, it will become more white/pink or more purple/blue based on if you do more true or magic damage respectively when you do DoT. I think it has to specifically be caused by the “same” source, like Swain ult with old Riftmaker or Vel’koz passive with ulti. Meanwhile Amumu passive just pops up as a separate source of damage entirely.

[@GrimmBones]

So, people may have mentioned this, but the reason why Runecarver jumps on them is because you DO proc it, as you've said, by hitting the barrel. And you know how when you proc it on an enemy, it kinda jumps on them and their ally, if they're close enough to each other? Well, same thing happens if they're close enough to the barrel. And since the barrel is dead, the entirety of the Runecarver jumps on them, if they're in closer proximity. As in, it has nothing to do with Chain Lightning. Or even Ethereal Weapons. As long as you get Runecarver on GP, this will happen. As for the 1 True Damage you saw on the barrels, my guess is that the way Ethereal Weapons is coded is to make your abilities do a bonus 1 True Damage, and then code that 1 True Damage to proc on-hit. That way they don't have change manually every single champ for Ethereal Weapons. They just add 1 bonus True Damage, and make it proc on-hit effects. It would explain why abilities that already proc on-hit effects proc them twice. Once for the ability already, and once for that 1 True Damage. In fact, if you look closely, every ability you do (after the 1 sec CD of Ethereal Weapons ofc) deals that bonus 1 TD.

[@flochristim9316]

I loved this run. Decided to hunt for the ethereal weapons myself because I would love to see how funny this looks with navori!

[@conneryechout7143]

15:10 i have been noticing these lighter colored numbers too in my games, there's also an ugly colored brown for physical damage and I'm pretty sure it has to do with perplexity's double % penetration, lmk if you've found anything different

[@yechielmmichaels2645]

Hi Nidhogg, love the vids Just wanted to let you know that I don’t mind repeated video ideas the classics are always great

[@verylemons34]

Could you do a video where you go full items and try to go for the prismatic stat shard. Is that possible? Would love to see it 🤩

[@logans4789]

Theorycrafted a build the other day of AP Gnar with Blade Waltz/Guinsoos and/or ethereal weapon to proc his passove and oneshot

[@Ochmanbb]

If you are running out of video ideas, I just played with a weird bug on Udyr where I got master of duality and ADAPt on a second augment. I got like -70 AD on start of the game but after I got like 3k AP. This might be common knowledge for you, but, well, it wasn't for me. So there u go

[@ulhvm]

have u tried gp withe jeweled u will crit for over 10k but u need to stay under 50% crit chance or it want work for some reason

[@Lunaire2103]

12:21 there's some projectile flying to Anivia tho, that's runecarver

[@boneless70]

Purple damage is 100% magic and true damage combined, I play a lot of gwen and whenever you hit her center q (which converts some of the magic into true) it's purple cuz it deals both

[@KEINNAME..]

i cant explain purple numbers perfectly but on talon passive with first strike there are purple numbers so its just 2 burns one truedmg one ad/ap

[@geraldmoares1422]

just tried brand with ethereal weapons, my runecarver got to crazy amount of stacks (40+), this augment is so much fun to play around with tbh.

[@pabloich3482]

Imagine this: the barrel is coded as a minion (just like everything else) and spreads chain lightning to enemies cus of it :P

[@crazyjakjak8311]

I wonder how good shadow flame would be with gp passive or if his passive already technically crits?

[@pokemon100200]

My assumption would be that you did 1 damage to a barrel, which caused you to chain lightning near by enemies for 0.5 dmg, it didnt seem like riot even considered this enough for a dmg number but still counted the dmg for runecarver.

[@zacharywong483]

Super fun build and video, King Nidhogg!

[@Chromodar]

That ok boomerang is not messing around

[@Thr111ce]

Ye the light purple numbers are true damage AND magic damage, gwen's Q is an example normally.

[@robofluff1449]

Hey Nidhogg, you may or may not see this, but i thought of a combo. Camille with force of entropy and orbital strike

[@beahero6138]

the purple damage is just damage over time true damage that exceeds like 600-700. It's pretty hard to get after riftmaker had its true damage passive removed

[@cashmoney3801]

imagine thieves gloves but all items become adaptive force and all anvils become at least 1 AP and 1 AD in selection

[@perep_]

the weird runecarver interaction was happening before chain lightning,, idk why

[@cashmoney3801]

im guessing it does 1hp dmg chain and chain triggers rune bc of ethereal?

[@asthn1]

very good idea on the gangplank barrel! you are so fucking smart in arean good video :)

[@troythewibu2674]

Imagine solarbaca found this video

[@theangusschmaloer]

Q is indeed coded not to apply, cuz it counts as aa for all normal aa procs

[@Jetlef_B_Toast]

purple is the color for mixed true and magic damage btw

[@N3versaw]

"I should be ok" MOOOOOO

[@sjoerd5225]

ethereal weapons also works with tahm Q, when u hit someone they get 2 stacks

[@oscurd3753]

tahm kench with etheral also applies 2 stacks with his q

[@loukendioS]

gragas probably uses this better considering he only needs lich bane to use it effectively

[@Ramasho]

Would be nice if gamba anvil had the "7th item slot" effect added to it.

[@Ramasho]

Also, put "purple damage" in your title and viva views.

[@Rojo9149]

Once we got chain I wanted to see Shiv to go with the runecarver so ult shotgunned em harder But this was better

[@mamu._.]

i think maybe you have to have vision on them for the runecarver to bounce off of your barrel? not 100% sure but it seems like when you have vision on them and they are close enough it will proc but when you didnt it wouldn't. not really sure but thats the only difference i can really tell from the inconsistency. edit: also at 12:20 if you notice it looks like it was slinging runecarver at anivia until you walked away and lost vision so it stopped.

[@KingNidhogg]

odd, you typically dont need vision for runecarver to hit. maybe for the "redirection" part of it

[@CarnivorousRoach]

That purple numbers might be Shadowflame crit damage.

[@michalsejak]

15:10 yeah that's actually mental damage the opponents are taking

[@TwinrovaXD]

I played ad gp some time ago with ethereal and vulnerability it was a lot of fun even tho sometimes it felt like it wasn’t working I had sword of the divine tho so I’m not sure what happened

[@SmaSh1231]

Vunerability would have been so bonkers, passive crit

[@mysticmuffin2198]

vulnerability here would have been nuts.

[@jabarri1]

Split screen view was 10/10

[@scottbarr9618]

ethereal weapon is nuts on gragas, his abilities apply his w and one shot champs

[@mehmetkaanpuran6851]

how you play every champion very well amazes me

[@yaphetkotto7516]

Lore accurate gangplank

[@theangusschmaloer]

That prurle looks like, critting true damage to me, witha passive and shadow flame, wont see it often as gp rarely buys it

[@Sheeshyessirski]

Posts video playing gun shooting character when a shooting happens at the same time oh how the world weirdly aligns sometimes 😂

[@madobricktw8533]

cant wait for next patch its gonna go so crazy

[@BonkBomk]

i dont understand ppl like that diana, goes to arena ( a supposed fun gamemode) instead of trying goofy synergies, goes full assassin ap nuke diana with a full assassin ap nuke kennen and complains when someone outplays them, i cant imagine what would be playing with those ppl on summoners rift.

[@vigilante1431]

better barrels than solarbacca?👀

[@nicktsitinis]

You should try catsle with raid boss its funny as hell

[@CyberGhostArt]

yep, the violet numers are magic + true damage

[@sockket6821]

I cant believe jhin missed his W on grump

[@peterellison3284]

bluetooth barrels

[@wojciechwalczak3222]

Bro, when you gonna be back streaming arenas?

[@tommyleejoneszkalibrem200w5]

Check master yi deck with glorious evolution, funny otk. Also pretty good winrate, at least at low elo

[@leonmau7169]

I won an AP gp game with ethereal and now I know why i was doing so much dmg haha

[@olgolgolg2]

those "purple" dmg numbers are for mental dmg

[@ffrostangel7354]

Not in range, u have to be in line of sight to attack them with runecarver

[@salimgereev2384]

My man got that purple dmg xD

[@Dazulolwarrior]

GP's expanded Q description mentions that it can never proc trial by fire, so there's your answer. (otherwise he'd be broken as hell in SR)

[@KingNidhogg]

yeah i read that part which is why i mentioned the hard coded part. wouldve been nice to change it for arena if given ethereal

[@Dazulolwarrior]

@@KingNidhogg Oh yeah definitely, I just find it weird that the workaround is hit your E too lols

[@KingNidhogg]

@@Dazulolwarrior i suppose it's because it becomes a whole different ability just with the damage from Q transferred over

[@davidhybui]

Brother just hit them with hollow purple wtf

[@YEPCLOCK69]

"Aids comp", bro is playing hybrid GP and Jhin with nesting doll as a teammate. The fk he means aids comp 😭

[@rafagargar8341]

5:03 this is MF DOOM

[@madmanis12345]

Orbital + ap gp?

[@ebobab9564]

13:35 didn't expect this clip to NOT be cut lol

[@ObsidianLiger]

WTF is purple damage? hello? stop hacking?

[@mysticmuffin2198]

Bluetooth Barrel Gangplank

[@ikras6686]

actually its "arma hetera"

[@devinhohtx]

maybe Hellfire hatchet wouldve been funny

[@threshix251]

Just wanted to say you're by far the best Arena content creator and I really hope the gamemode stays forever just because of your videos

[@golom1408]

nesting doll Kled ?

[@wikhyy2759]

most fun augment