Lash Death Slam ultimate is range capped when above roof

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Lash's Death Slam ultimate ability has a range in the shape of a vertical cylinder, which when using the ability is visualised by everywhere outside of the range being significantly darkened. However, it seems that this cylinder only extends downwards to the first floor surface below Lash's position, with areas below this surface but still within line-of-sight being considered outside of the range of the ability. The attached video demonstrates this, you can see that when just barely to the side of the roof the dummy can be targeted by the ability, and the ground around the dummy is not darkened. However, when moving slightly further back to be just barely above the roof, suddenly the dummy is no longer targetable, despite clearly still being entirely within line-of-sight, and you can also see that all of the ground around the dummy becomes darkened, indicating that the effective range of the ability is being cut significantly short because of the roof.

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[bigwingbeat]

I've decided to revisit this briefly, and have discovered more weird behaviour that occurs if you buy ability range increasing items. It appears that the maximum height and radius shrinks(?) if you are standing comfortably on a roof versus standing on the very edge of the roof. In the two attached videos I have Improved Reach imbued on Death Slam. Without that item the behaviour is still consistent with the first video in this thread, despite the multiple patches the game has had since that post.
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