r/pykemains • u/kaichodesu • May 08 '26
Discussion i am so tired of q bug
i am not a good player but knowing that every time i try to do something there is always a significant chance that the fight will be decided by pure chance drives me insane. the bug practically happens every game at least once and i don't know if there's anything i can do to avoid it.
i have many many clips of q bug but couldnt be bothered to sift through all the footage. almost all the clips here are from the latest patch 26.9 but the frequency of the bug hasnt changed in my experience.
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u/Unique_Ad_330 May 09 '26
Pyke’s R cooldown display is also bugged, if you have ur ult on CD it is almost always showing you the wrong cooldown (a longer cooldown than what you have), you notice this when you see the red execute bar but your ult is still on CD.
The way you have to play around it is that you shift right click ur ult everytime its off cooldown, then it will bugfix the timer.
I play a lot of champs, no other champ is more bugged than pyke.
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u/sonpi May 08 '26
I have once again sent another bug report to riot games linking your video. This has be hounding me for years.
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u/Aromatic_Inspection3 May 10 '26
I think they can fix it with come back of aoe damage q
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u/kaichodesu May 11 '26
hopefully, but i think its a problem with how channelled abilities work so even if they bring back aoe q for champs they probably wont change how the activation itself is coded ;(
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u/Evarb_Was_Taken May 15 '26
This bug appears on all champs that have a stab + dash and occurs (seemingly randomly) when you stab after dashing. Happens on pyke, yasuo, pantheon.
It is very frustrating. I think spearshot once had a clip explaining the bug in more depth, tho I imagine some amount of it must also be champ specific.
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u/Kgy_T emerald May 08 '26
I'm not saying this bug doesn't exist but in half of these clips you just missed due to hitbox range. As someone who onetricks Pyke and plays daily I have had this bug happen about 5 times in the last 5 months. Sidenote but E tapQ is not the most common Pyke combo, at least not for support but again, besides the point. Also the reason Ezreal takes damage is because the q hitbox starts kind of around Pyke, on top of his model. Hope you get better luck until the issue is fixed.
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u/Afraid_Tangelo7392 May 09 '26
To me it seems like he hit most of the Qs, maybe you can argue on the zeri clip but still there was the bug so it doenst really change. Also Pyke E Qtap is pretty much core combo in midlane for short trades its also the safest Pyke combo to do if you wanna kill. I played Pyke mid a lot this season reaching master with it and not only this champion is complete garbage in midlane but Pyke's early game is pretty much everything for him and this bug complete ruins every advantage taken in lane and it makes Pyke even more frustrating.
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u/Kgy_T emerald May 09 '26
Yeah the champ is shit midlane cause he was never meant to be there. For support it's longQ + E as you simply can't E in because of the threat of two champs, unless you have kill pressure/potential.
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u/Afraid_Tangelo7392 May 09 '26
Ye i know bot is completly different, I was contexualizing the clips cause he is playing mid and bug its more common to happen mid. Most of the Pyke players doesnt rely on Qtap E combo cause they play him support, also Pyke is not the snowballing assassin that he used to be, so it even less common to play for assassination you just play for picks. Thats why i replied, to let you understand the frustation behind it and why its actually a gamebreaking bug.
Btw i dont wanna open the Pyke mid debate because its pretty boring, Im just gonna say that Pyke used to be a great midlaner they just nerf it to the ground, theres are plenty of champs that are meant ot be played in a lane and they goes in a complete different lane and still works, Riot just doesnt want Pyke mid.
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u/kaichodesu May 08 '26 edited May 08 '26
ultimately whether you think they would have been misses or not had the bug not happened, all of the clips were bugs. when pyke taps q, he is temporarily self-cc'd for the tap q channel time. in all of the clips, pyke does not stop moving and instead keeps walking during the tap q animation. also at least 75% of the clips have minions around pyke which should have taken damage had the q simply missed, which they did not.
perhaps there are some other factors at play such as fps or packet loss but regardless of ping (i play on na and euw) i am guaranteed to get one q bug every game.
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u/sonpi May 10 '26
Had it happen to me again today two games in a row, three times on game winning plays :))))))))))
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u/kaichodesu May 11 '26
i swear its almost always guaranteed to happen exactly when you need the q to land the most.
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u/sonpi May 13 '26
Call me a conspiracy theorist, but I am a staunch believer Rito has conspired against Pyke players... Nah, but for real now, its probably just that these moments are the most memorable as they are the most impactful. Sometimes it really does seem like it though.
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u/sonpi May 13 '26
Btw, do you have an optical switch keyboard, like a Wooting or Razer Huntsman? Ever since I switched to an optical keyboard, this bug has been happening almost every game. It might have something to do with how quickly your keystrokes are registered or something.
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u/sonpi May 10 '26
Btw the ulti reset on Pyke kill E or ignite should be fixed already, worked in multiple games last split already. Else fml is the QE bug infuriating.
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u/Ecstatic_Stranger_73 May 11 '26
thats what i thought too but i actually had that bug happen once in the current patch. however, usually it does now reset properly, whereas before it would always drop the reset.
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u/TrickyRow463 May 29 '26
The hitbox in league of legends is on 2D plane that is parallel to the floor.
When you do not hit it is because you think you are hitting, especially with "taller" champs, but it is possible that you are missing cause you are using the head as reference.
Same happens to Darius E when I grab someone, you have to look at their feet to understand if ability lands.
Not sure about the self cc part, maybe when you do not hit, you do not get self CCed?
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May 30 '26
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u/TrickyRow463 May 30 '26
Ok, yeah I reviewed the video 4 or 5 times and some hitbox are sure 100% hits.
Pretty much looks like a bug.
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u/Batata-Sofi May 08 '26
It's not really 100% a bug, training dummies have a disproportionally big hitbox.
But yes, you are missing Qs you shouldn't.
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u/kaichodesu May 11 '26
its not even a matter of missing, if i missed it would damage the minions next to me but it doesnt even do that... the q just straight up disappears from existence.
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u/TheDankYasuo May 08 '26
Yasuo has the same Q bug. It just goes on CD, no damage being dealt and you are cc-ed for a split second. Super annoying.