Swarm - The Most Gamebreaking Bugs!

[@HextechLab]

I have recorded the bugs in this video over the course of the last week or two - the Jinx E spam one is fixed by now, but all the others still work! Edit: With Patch 14.15, Briar's E applying additional AoE with upgrade Statikk and leaving the Arena will get fixed.

[@ninjahackstar7461]

you can fix the briar control bug by rebinding w

[@nicomir5997]

ah damn should have read comments before starting beach extreme with jinx XD

[@howf2676]

@@nicomir5997 lol same

[@Lunaire2103]

Does the Recall Illaoi bug work with Yasuo too? I saw Yeesuo did it with Yasuo Swarm on Summonner Rift

[@umutmesci4731]

I don’t know why they bother hotfixing such exploits in a single player mode. Like if they’re knocking out a bunch of them in a patch sure, but who cares if people want to cheat to ruin their own experience it’s their business. Riot shouldn’t be so “crack-down” on such things.

[@lemon9.9]

Riot employee: how do we disable the recall function? Just make the button transparent

[@rudaalbuq.]

I think they already fixed

[@lemon9.9]

@@rudaalbuq. That's not my point? They did not disable recall to begin with is my point

[@rudaalbuq.]

@@lemon9.9 I know that is not your point, was just an observation about that bug.

[@HextechLab]

@@rudaalbuq.It’s not fixed yet. It only works if HUD spell clicks are not disabled in settings.

[@lemon9.9]

@@HextechLab I just launched the game and I can still recall

[@Messier1071]

for the stattik one i thought it was aprt of the item

[@thelostsoul9446]

Same lol

[@kttycatii]

it is because it's part of the health category, where briar E is. It's supposed to be synergized with the other health items

[@skelet8337]

I thought it was a synergy between briar bleed and static I had a lot of fun with max area of effect + this combo I literally obliterated half the map every 2 auto attacks and this was on 4 player hard mode.

[@aarontaglucop4147]

fax

[@vergilpraiser8442]

Same😂

[@Vlaurz]

If you do Illaoi's bug and get a level up menu while spawning them, you get infinites tentacles

[@rudaalbuq.]

Tried, I think the recall is fixed. Cant do it rn

[@VirusZero0140]

@@rudaalbuq. Nope. Still works as of 07/23/24

[@Lunaire2103]

@@rudaalbuq. currently doing it lol, I don't think this can be fixed ppl have found out about it since PBE

[@rudaalbuq.]

@@Lunaire2103 really? I tried clicking it a lot of times, I can see with my mouse but can't click on it.

[@rudaalbuq.]

@@VirusZero0140 tried a lot, but can't click on it. Mouse over os showing, but not clicking.

[@danielnagy8419]

During a bel'veth trial, if the trial is to defeat something and you kill it as soon as it spawns, it basically doesn't even have time to spawn, you get the card and the gold for the boss kill, but not the gold and exps for the trial

[@fector654]

Me paso

[@thelostsoul9446]

This maybe has been fixed by now, but during the first 2 days of Swarm on live servers, any player sometimes wouldn't get the movespeed during the chase sequence on Bel'veth's map, completely removing them from the boss fight as they just couldn't reach it and would die in the fire.

[@phamhongminh1034]

My duo just got that bug yesterday while I sprinted my ass to solo the boss lul

[@vinhnguyenthanh2539]

And Riven does infinite movement speed which avoid the chase sequence start point

[@varnix1006]

@@vinhnguyenthanh2539 it's more like avoiding the knockback since a well timed Yasuo dash can also null it.

[@iMagic16]

still not fixed, had it happen twice yesterday, seemingly if im near the gates i dont get the movespeed (avoid the gates near 15m)

[@3isendrache]

@@iMagic16 yeah i had the same thing as yasuo while near the gates before the chase

[@dustinn1934]

there's a Leona bug that if you get the shield buff from Misfortune while using Leona E or used after, the shield will disappear immediately!

[@Elyukon__]

this has happened to mee!!

[@Re1dy]

Not a bug, the ability Cleary says *reapply shields", still weird interaction

[@Flechashe]

@@Re1dy Yes it is a bug lol it's not intended that Leona's E shield expiring makes the massive and very long shield from a MF boon expire too

[@Re1dy]

@@Flechashe "reapply shields"

[@Dima666Air]

​@@Re1dyits just bad code It must be coded as give X points of "liona E shield - after x second remove remaining "leona E shield" Instead they dont specify type and source of shield and code its like just "give shield - remove shield" and game do as they said, remove shield no matter what source of it

[@thelostsoul9446]

For the double cards only giving you 1 thing, note that this also works if you get a card at the same time as a level up!! It happens when you get any 2 card selections at the same time. Be careful when taking cards in multiplayer/with xayah or aurora!

[@cylee4735]

For the Reksai thing, if you run fast enough (like with Jinx), you can just run out right after the boss battle start screen pulls you in

[@XeroKimorimon]

So that's what that briar interaction I had one time.... I thought it was some sort of evolve weapon effect... or well it is, just not an actual intended effect and not on the weapon I thought it was

[@MinaB-o2n]

Yeah I was kinda confused by all the visuals as well but since I play Briar with stattiks often I figured it must be normal xD

[@dephtcore]

​@@MinaB-o2n same dude

[@blackwrathX]

You can also fix the briar bug when u lose control by unbinding your wasd>saving them>rebinding them

[@rudaalbuq.]

Nice to know, ty!

[@spawnkiller0123]

Can confirm, it works!

[@ChrisK-z4m]

The Briar Movement Bug also happened randomly to me, what helped was to go to options and put the arrow on W A S D on and off and then it worked again :)

[@imbricitor]

noted the same thing

[@thekilleryellowduck]

Lore accurate jinx

[@thekilleryellowduck]

There is no way other champs like teemo or even sett will handle a several bullets at a time

[@nenrikido2903]

​@@thekilleryellowduck teemo is a yordle, yordles are spirits with shapeshifting abilities as well as transitionning from the material world to the spiritual world at will (of course this isn't exposed in game) on top of that teemo is considered the most dangerous yordle as he's the best member of the special forces of bandle with the mission of preventing anyone from entering bandle. I think he could evade a few bullets from Jinx with ease. as for sett, idk why you thought about him as being weak, he's an half vastaya with the ability to literally absorb physical attacks (and this is even shown ingame) jinx bullet's wouldn't even tickle him. As zergling said, i think you're largely underestimating the lore accurate strength of most LoL characters if they're part of the "league of *legends*" that means there's something legendary about them after all

[@clerus3247]

Here's another one: If the chasing horse-like mini-boss spawns as Aurora is in her E the boss won't move at all. It still does damage but doesn't chase the player. You can go through him with your E as well as bump it with yuumi's summon weapon without fixing the boss. Pushing it with the car fixes him though so it seems like any actual displacement would fix him. I assume it only works solo or with more Aurora using E/dead players. You can try it by using her E at around 2:13-14 on the last map, the mini-boss spawns at 2:15 (at least on hard difficulty)

[@atedj0632]

Also works with riven e and probably yasuo e, just the timing needs to be very precise

[@ElemenTerra1]

I managed to Briar 'R' into the boss fight box of the third map, trapped right up against the lasers and had to wait until 'R' was back off of cool down before I was able to move anywhere other than up and down.

[@pina6540]

Another bug for the list, if you kill Rek's Tunnel too fast, it might get stuck in invulnerable form forever

[@mcsy98]

oh so thats what happened to me yesterday… I was trying to complete some objectives so I played solo story mode with maxed out upgrades excluding anima power. I got Reksai to half hp in about 2 seconds with Xayah then I couldn’t do anymore damage to her and the meteors and sharks just kept on coming, filling up the entire space as she kept burrowing faster and bumping into me until I died Shameful, I lost at the very first level 💀

[@AverVirJhin]

​@@mcsy98happend to me aswell. Played Jinx and melted her HP when she spawned. After that i was very confused as she was going faster and faster whitout unborrowing. But funny aswell. Just sad about the 15 minutes lost :(

[@jayvee1013]

I found a followup to leaving the reksai arena. I had one person stay in the arena while two others used the recall to escape. You can actually return to the arena by dying and having the third teammate reviving them. I don’t know if it works by running out the death timer but that can be tested I guess.

[@truenomaximo]

in the first map if you're in the circle where rek'sai spawns you don't get knocked up and you can leave the arena walking as when yu recall, but it pushes you through the invis wall

[@rakaross186]

gotta also love the briar bug when you use ult when already in the skill self taunt state, it dashes you to the location, and then cancels your E without giving you enhanced version from ulti.

[@tuey30716]

For Briar bug that can't walk. press ESC and click on 'return to default' button can fix too.

[@sirengine2548]

After you get to extreme lvl, there is a quest that unlock Yuumi quest card and what the card do is when you stand still, then you loose HP and gain AH, the more you stand the more you loose HP and gain AH. Be aware that this can actually kill you. It happend to me on Aatrox, when I killed his first form and there was long animation when you can't move... so frustrating

[@davicarvalhodesouza7260]

The unresponsive briar one happened to me in a team match. I was carrying and so everyone just gathered around me 😂 luckily I managed to fix it by accident.

[@buffoonery4649]

Couple bugs I’ve encountered so far: Aroura E ending while you are already invincible cancels the previous invincibility, presumably seraphine R does the same. Leona E will remove other shields on you when it ends, very noticeable with the shield boon, dying and respawning just before reksai boss spawn seems to make it not teleport you to the arena (happened to me on Leona, effectively softlocked the run).

[@ramazanakusbocekus9239]

I think Briar may get teleported back to the reksai's area by using her ult no matter where she uses it. 'Cause when u use Briar's ult in Rek'Sai's area she comes back to the area no matter where she uses it as long as it's out of the area

[@Eo-ms3kw]

I was wondering what the briar red aoes were. Thought it was some intended hidden part of her kit that gets unlocked through smth.

[@JPedroMedeiros]

200 years of collective experience in designing games

[@Zero221]

there was a briar bug with her max normal attack that made me bleed the whole map forever until the game finished on beachhead Attrox, post screen damage was 666 million something. I took a screenshot ofc

[@shininglight1122]

Leona also has a bug. After you've taken miss fortune's boon that gives barrier, dont press E. Because after the E duration, all barrier will be gone, including the boon effect

[@JohnWarosa999]

It’s funny how Seraphine E works fine with this, since it also gives a shield you would expect it to also remove the shield boon

[@mcswashbuckler3833]

​@@JohnWarosa999 I think it has something to do with the fact that Leona's E reapplies itself. If I had to guess, it's probably coded to replace whatever shield is currently active on her instead of just the e shield that it should replace

[@shadowstrike5692]

You can also dodge all push and pull things from every boss by dashing with a champ like riven idk if it works with yasuo i think its because they get an invicibility frame.

[@Evileoo]

I got a nice bug for you (I don't have the game in english but I'll try to explain as well as I can) When you play aurora (only works when u play alone), if the mini boss that charges you while you are in E, it will not move and will always stay where it spawned It still bumps you when you get close to him But will never charge you So if you know the spawn timing of this mini boss, you can make your early much easier

[@yugolinconnue3214]

Another thing, while fighting aatrox 1st phase, you can still flee and xp to take some levels, he will not hit harder or anything, except when you are trap by the pillar (don't know for how long but at least for 5 minutes), maybe with a friend 1 can try to recall to see what happen ( if you go you will surely be pull back but that's something to see I think)

[@yascob166]

My friend mentioned they got a level at the same time as a Yuumi augment. When that happens you can use rerolls on Yuumi augments but don't get the normal level selection. The timing is really tricky so it may be hard to reproduce.

[@oneistheloneliestnumber7026]

If you evolve Xayah's weapon, you lose all aim control on all but 1 of your daggers and the rest go off the auto aim

[@wini8626]

I once was playing the aatrox map as a jinx, and i happened to die right before aatrox spawned. All my teammates were summoned to the arena while i was dead. Once i respawned, i was locked outside of the arena. I couldn't even get near them, bc the path was blocked. Eventually, Aatrox used that move that pulls everyone up, and got back to gaming tho

[@SlemFR]

A dangerous bug to avoid : with Yasuo on the third map against Belveth you can dash with the E on the barrier and you will be stuck, but when Belveth appear you will be back on the spawn but you won't have the move speed boost (so you will die because of the zone)

[@Guyomeuh]

I think the double lvl up part can also deny a Yummi augment if you lvl up at the same time as you end the mission

[@sillykittypotato]

one minor bug that I've noticed is the spinning blade item (idr the name) reacts strangely to area size boosts, I think the hitbox scales up differently than the appearance of the blades so you can have enemies physically inside them without dealing damage.

[@veryu]

reksai arena aslo happens when u get resurrected right as the bossfight starts by autores, ur then outside of the arena yuumi pickups also will be "gone" if u level up right as u pick up the card or pick up 2 cards at the same time

[@KensBlade]

OH thats why when i played Briar today with Stattik that happend! i was wondering what all those red rings were LOL

[@mcsy98]

I had a game where a Jinx in our team died right as the Reksai boss spawned so when Jinx eventually revived, she respawned outside the boss fight pit. This made it so even if 3 of us died in the pit, Jinx being alive outside let us respawn infinitely until we eventually beat the boss lol

[@francomoreira4222]

Hey hex lab, another bug is that if you have too much MS you can sometimes avoid getting pulled by boss arena like Rek'Sai I had Riven max speed + max speed boots and just dashed through the CC spikes that Rek'Sai uses to launch you into her arena. And as you know you can't enter once you're out. Had to leave my friends fighting Rek'Sai solo. Lmao

[@pina6540]

I got out of that Briar Bug by simply pressing Esc twice, but nasty thing indeed

[@mooglemage6456]

Had a bug where for a Yuumi trial (the yarn one), we did it so fast that it said we won the trial but we didn’t get to choose a bonus from it.

[@LucasDelestree]

MAAAAN I understand now why i couldnt move with briar it happened to me at 14min i was so disgusted !! thanks now i know why, ur the best

[@danilosucominecarreira8454]

I have one more,in rek sai's fight, if you die before the fight,and your team doesn't, you'll spawn where you died, i was as a jinx out side the reksai pit and lost because of that

[@PKAdazGalaxiaz]

Yup and you will keep dying to the poison/fog as you revive

[@Mettorm]

Happened to me on reksais map as well. I decided to finish the belveth trial I died by whilst they fought relsai.

[@johnpaulursua6839]

we can also leave the reksai arena if you pick up cards before reksai comes up

[@Sagerronan]

Dang, the Briar turbocleave got fixed too. Oh well, it was fun while it lasted.

[@TheJedaly]

Simmilar to the double card and double level up bug, if u get a level up the same time u finish a yuumi quest, u dont get the augment for finishing it, this happened for me in the quest where u have to roll the furball

[@icelick6912]

The augment which makes you immolate when still kills you in cutscenes 😞

[@AstuteWanderer2000]

I encountered the briar bug where I couldn't move. My duo thought it was a keyboard binding problem lmao

[@excelbig3545]

Another bug that works the same way as the level up one: if you level up at the same time you get the reward from a yuumi tower, you only get the level up reward and not the prismatic

[@patty4449]

Try this... Yasuo with maxed Wandering thingies stand inside any of the 4 Main Bosses If you stand directly inside of them, they block the whirls inside of their own space causing them to STAY on the spot, pretty much annihilating them on any difficulty... Also you don't get affected by some of the enemy attacks at all while inside them... Like Briar push for example

[@benjainblackwoods]

Fun fact if you start in the place where rexai spawns sand as soon as the spikes show up you can leave with enough move speed

[@DynamicOST]

Another way to glitch out of reksai arena is to pick up the speed boost battle boon just as the boss spawns in. (I've had it happen twice while doing extreme)

[@MrFox-xr9cc]

Oh lol. Regarding the Briar bug i just thought her bleed was screenwide because i also had area increase and augments but this explains a lot xD

[@HuskyyPL]

with leaving the Rek'sai arena you can do it with Riven too. Well it is more like you will never teleport into it in the first place. I played with 2 people and i was in the bottom part of the map next to the bottom part of the narrow wall that is closest to the Yuumi event that can spawn there. Then i dashed close to the corner of the wall when the timer switched to 15:00 and i was still next to the wall after my friends got teleported.

[@alexclairmont]

The briar movement lock was driving me insane!!!

[@ryanyang3774]

Another bug, avoid ulting with seraphine multiple times when you have more than one. It cancels the invulnerability given from the ability, only works if used at different intervals when the invulnerable isn't active.

[@chefkochkawasaki4127]

That Briar bug happened to me yesterday, luckily a Bel'Veth Trial spawned so I ulted there and got the card

[@Mettorm]

I have gotten stuck twice outside the reksai arena, both in different ways besides the recall. Honestly, that invisible barrier haunts me now and I am scared of that map.

[@virginiacarvalho7378]

i can confirm riven breaks things when she gets too much move speed. me and my partner got locked outside of the rek'sai arena bc i was dead and he didn't stop moving so he didn't get yeeted to the arena and i respawned outside of it as well

[@Rapirys]

True. But if he would be alive, he would be in the arena and would get an easy boss kill.

[@marcoea7203]

The double card pick happens often when you play Illaoi since you melt bosses with 1 R

[@Corl296]

I played with a riven that jumped out of reksai arena just as it spawned, pushing her out of the arena basicly making it impossible to lose

[@yyeah235chen9]

Other bug: if you level up during the cast time of Sera R, the invulnerability doesn’t apply (I don’t even know if the damage is applied) and the R goes on CD, died multiple times because of this

[@shanedancer3895]

Xayah has a bug where when you evolve her weapon you can only aim 1 feather per shot and the rest are auto-aimed.

[@verum_rex_]

had the briar bug once, fixed it with going to settings and pressing quickcast all twice and saving

[@MoonBoomer]

For the reksai glitch you can actually intentionally die from the sharks and respawn back into the normal fight zone, in multiplayer obviously.

[@name5227]

In the online version of swarm, One of the players were outside of the rek sai fight and we couldn't defeat rek sai, after a couple of minutes rek sai started to speed up his attacks. We died lightning fast, but that one player was outside and made us respawn a lot of times. Rek sai got crazy and spammed his skills everywhere at light speed. My PC got destroyed with a 15 FPS.

[@YetiOnthewaynorth]

Reksai is way more harder than Briar and Belveth. Me and my friend always pick the second map for easier gold farming or quest completion.

[@name5227]

@@YetiOnthewaynorth What I've said was a bug in the game, but thank you for the quick tip anyway!

[@ViolzeTR]

The thing i like the most is, if you have leona with a statikk and yasuo in the team, in third map game just becames unplayable after evolving weapons

[@RenzerHMR]

Something similar happend while I was playing Yasuom I was dashing with E while I was about to get pulled into the Rek'sai arena and then Yasuo suddenly gets teleported to random places outside of the arena for at least 3 times. It looked like he was being pushed outside. What happened after that is similar to the "recall during Rek'sai arena".

[@Ilkanar]

3:52 when with friendo we picked up 2 cards at the same time it also gave us just one to choose from

[@janosruzsa8615]

Once I was so fast on Jinx I could run out of the spawning rek'sai walls

[@paulw7491]

I once started a Belveth trial before aatrox. It was the one we're you have to run away from the circle. This circle increased in size during the aatrox spawn animation and I instantly died after the animation was over. Also the first time I killed aatrox I quickly pressed continue in the victory screen and I didn't get the rewards and did not unlock hard mode.

[@Clarkv2]

Activating Leo’s E on MFs boost of shields makes all shield go away when e runs out so you lose MF shield

[@pawsboi3276]

I had a bug playing with my friends that resulted in me getting stuck on the left side of the rek’sai map and since it was basically impossible to die over there they kept respawning and we won

[@Zobuyta]

I only play brir in swarm and always do the statik with max hp strat it is so satisfying

[@LightRSoul]

I ran into the Briar Statik bug but I didn't even realize it was a bug was just confused as to why my AoE on attacks was so large

[@fis001r]

Here's another one: On the third map a bel'veth trial spawned right before the final boss sequence. I activated it during the chase where you run from one end of the map to the other. When I then went into the boss arena the game kept trying to place me outside of the arena, so I kept teleporting in and out of it A few extra notes. It was on story mode, I was Leona and my connection wasn't great. I doubt any of this had anything to do with it but it's riot so who knows

[@NephilPereyra]

The problem is the connection, i had a few games with lag and also happened to me Bel'veth arena doesn't load on client side, it looks steamy green and keeps trying to kick you out of the arena, but the server says you are there, so it teleports between client side and server side location

[@angysheepgul]

this happened to me also with a buddy, lost the chance to unlock the last map for him because of this.

[@Lunaire2103]

For me it's the Aatrox map, the wave after Aatrox first phase stopped half way and I thought wtf this is easier than I saw on KZbin, then I went for the loot and wasted a game with good augments

[@angysheepgul]

Also revive invulnerability doesnt protect you from frame 1 hits so tell your friends to pull the mobs so that you don't die instantly right after you get naturally revived.

[@NephilPereyra]

That isn't true, partially it does give you invulnerability, it's just that sometimes it doesn't because of a bug

[@peterkirk8510]

If you have enough movespeed, you can run out of the reksai arena before it respawns (at least as far as I know?) I've only done it with riven while spamming e as well.

[@XxAcAkimboXx]

for the being stuck as briar just press e2 again and ur unstuck

[@visenti2986]

another bug to watch out: when playing riven u can spam movement and not get caught to [bel veth] spawn phase( throws u to spawn point)] AND [REK SAI] SPAWN PHASE. I WAS PLAYING RIVEN AND I WAS SPAMMING MY WASD AND THEN I INTERRUPT THE PULLING THINGY ON REKSAI AND THEN I CANT GET TO THE RING

[@Rhyolite-hyena]

4:37 You can also rebind the wasd and that'd fix it. I've fixed it once by doing that, while my friend has fixed it plenty of time

[@DoopIiss]

you can also just leave reksai's boss arena if you're already there before the knock up tries to throw you there. then use your movement speed to run out before the arena forms. I did this on Jinx and could not get back in.

[@nguyenduyhieu7375]

If you levelup 2 times at the same time (pick a yellow exp orb at level 1,2,3) the game gives you 1 level option, instead of two.

[@nightjisoo337]

Oh, never would have thought after watching the video saying exactly this

[@ulix5045]

I killed a mini boss with Briar E2 and get stuck, but I was able to retake control reassignment wasd to another key, then you can go back to wasd and it's normal

[@vulpixma]

I found the Stattik Briar bug but I didn't know what it was at all, thought it was a part of her kit ngl

[@skywalkerjohn8965]

Wow the bug with Briar I actually got that. I was confused af

[@Ferkeshu]

Other bugs : *Immobile immolation dealing dmg to you during boss cutscenes,nearly kills you Getting two shields at the same time cancels one The ui sometimes showing you as the 5th player on the right Visual bug revive spot,even with everybody alive Riven with enough speed just not getting dragged into the Reksai area

[@guilhermepereira7924]

Immobile immolation, it almost killed me in a extreme fight against Aatrox as Seraphine 😭

[@valner255]

Also a bug when you insta complete a Bel'Veth trial you don't get either the XP & Gold or the card.

[@Flechashe]

I was wondering what the dark red particles all over the screen were. Since it's circular, I think it's not the pillory swipe attack that's being repeated, but the final E scream damage

[@notxevy]

had the doublecards bug and I thought I was just crazy

[@cbg4567]

We were in the battle bunny buff car, and were on top of where the mini-boss from bel veth event was supposed to spawn... it spawned but we killed it instantly so no reward

[@x3voo]

It's not 7 minutes on every map. On the Aatrox extreme map, I was able to have a 26:20 game. In the second phase, if you stay close to the water, Aatrox won't do anything and will just wait for you. I was stacking the Cross Country augment until I found out :)

[@sreckos6484]

For briar problem solution is to reset keys on default or quick cast too

[@Rotkehlchenengel]

6:17 when your dead while the arena spawns you r also unable 2 enter, not sure if its a bug or intented punishment

[@Jackwill2349]

I had the briar not moving bug a few days ago and was so confused! Yesterday I had the Rek’sai circle bug but I didn’t recall, it launched me to the bottom right of the map and my friend into the ring. I couldn’t help but got 2 blue cards 😅

[@Rapirys]

Had a ban on Rek'Sai as Riven. I think if you are in a Riven dash during bass spawn you didn't get dragged to a boss fight. I was chilling outside the arena while my temates sweated (with infinite lifes because i was alive) to kill the boss.

[@haivu-oj8hg]

I was having this funny bug with riven, is when i have too many speed i glitched out when rek'sai boss battle begin, instead of being pulled into the pit with every one i break free from the pulled for having too many speed so even if my teammates are knocked we can't lose

[@frostedpudding1389]

You can leave Reksai arena without Recall, if you have enough speed on Riven, one time i just sprinted out so fast the walls didnt close in time.

[@spellmann3019]

ive been using the briar one unintentionally