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If you use Deluge, which gives your Nexus "Your elemental spells and skills have 1 extra damage" during a match, and then:

1)You use a spell or skill, whose damage is being increased.

2) Your opponent responds with a spell of their own, such that it would destroy your Nexus.

3) You have no answer to it, and so their spell will resolve first it the stack.

Then once your Nexus is destroyed, the extra damage effect is lost, and your spell deals its normal amount of damage.

Riot, did you code the Nexus as a minion and just had it receive an Aura Effect every time we get any Permanent Buff effects?

Completely inconsequential, but truly a certified Riot Moment.

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7 months ago - /u/RiotTerra - Direct link

Originally posted by Big-Conversation1159

Poro snax and cosmic inspiration buff units everywhere rather than being an aura, which is why destroying the nexus doesn't remove them. If poro snax said "Grant your nexus 'Allied poros have +1/+1'" then destroying the nexus would remove it.

You're both bring up some good points!

The way everywhere buffs work is like this:

  1. Give the buff to everything exists right now (what you called out)
  2. Put a script on the nexus which handles any future things that should get the buff, that don't currently exist. A new poro is generated by a card, it'll get the buff from this nexus script.

So everywhere buffs are technically not aura effects, but they do have that additional listener on the Nexus for things that haven't come into existence yet.

There are other effects that are persistent auras (some Path of Champion powers, persistent auras like Deluge, Zoe's effect, etc...) and those are scripts on the Nexus, and just like any other aura, if the holder card dies... the aura drops off.

7 months ago - /u/RiotTerra - Direct link

Originally posted by Big-Conversation1159

Oh, I wasn't thinking about the created later but when I made that comment. I suppose if your nexus was destroyed, then you created a poro somehow, it would not get the buffs from snax then? Really cool to get a riot response!

Yep! That is exactly right. I'm trying to think of a scenario that would repro that... I think something like:

  1. Your Nexus is 1 HP and you have a Braum.
  2. Cast Poro Snax
  3. Enemy casts Death's Hand on Braum, which will deal damage to Braum, triggering a Mighty Poro to summon, and also deal killing damage to the Nexus.

The Mighty Poro might not get the Poro Snax everywhere buff. It depends on if the everywhere buff on the Nexus sees the Mighty Poro summon event before the Nexus is marked for death. TBH it probably does, but I'd have to go look at the code to know for sure and it is Friday night so I'll probably pass on that :)