Once this option was discarded, only one remained: to offer Excel a remake. It’s still early in 2021 so the model might be a bit off due to dragon changes. Using end-of-2020 modeling, the game state at the time of the XL vs FNC pause is a 91% win probability for Fnatic. Nevertheless, in this concrete case, this tool could not be implemented, so the competition managers had to apply the rule book.Īt first, they talked about applying the win probability, but the criteria used by this method was obsolete since its modeling belonged to 2020. Through Chronobreak, teams can retake a game at the same point they left it before the exact moment where the “error” happens. This continued damage ended with a new kill for Fnatic after Excel’s Gangplank died in this play.Īll these together caused an immediate pause, that developed into a Chronobreak, a tool created by Riot Games to deal with this kind of situations where bugs appear in important competitive games. As you can see in the video above, the bug occurred due to the combination of Samira’s ultimate and the Guardian Angel, which made the champion’s ability to continue dealing damage while resurrecting.
