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I'm having a Nelson Mandela moment. For the longest time I thought the Weaver swarm bugs died to AoE magic damage even if they were generally untargetable. I swear I would see their HP bars go down quickly during teamfights and nobody was attacking them, so I just assumed they died to AoE shit. But today I watched a low HP carry died to a full HP bug they never attacked. I didn't think they'd die to the bug because they had a Radiance on so it was just a "ehh whatever" sort of deal but the bug never took damage from Radiance, and the carry died (lmao).

Wiki says they're magic immune, testing in demo proves that's correct, and they also don't take damage from physical damage spells. So...I guess the bugs are basically immune to all spells, and I don't know what was killing the bugs previously. So either the enemy team dropped everything to kill the bugs first (which explains why we won fights so easily) or there was something else attacking them during fights that I missed.

I don't remember which games I saw them "die" to AoE shit so I guess I'm not going to get to the bottom of what was killing them until I see it happen again in a different game, or I go through all my replays from the past month, or do an exhaustive autism checklist of spell interactions which I don't want to do.

Though now that I think about it, I guess I should check weird interactions like seeing if the bugs die instantly inside a Mars arena, and if shit like Undying zombies would attack the bugs. And also definitively write down which cases are bug-immune and which aren't (e.g. I can't tell you if Winter Wyvern targets are bug immune right now. Probably not?). Ahhhh I hate doing research.