Magic Carpet Stops Working When Lil Helpers Attack Opposing Creep When They Are Equipped To Friendly Creep

[Ruk]

This can be easily tested. Go to sandbox as Rem, Equip Magic Carpet, Go to Lane Minions (Creeps) and use Lil Helpers on them, Use Magic Carpet, When the Lil Helpers attack the Lane Minions Magic Carpet Will Stop.

 

[weebstrangler]

I wonder how many new heroes will have to be affected by this before somebody cares to make a change to the item.

 

[Ruk]

I think this extend to any thing (other heroes included) in distance of creeps that have lil helpers attached.

 

[bingo bango]

I hope they consider it a bug and not intended.

 

[weebstrangler]

I hope they consider it a bug and not intended.

It is obviously a bug as the behavior is highly inconsistent from hero to hero. Seemingly random which spells break it and do not. For example Ivy's tether auto-latching onto any allied target nearby used to stop it and some dev graciously took the time to fix that last year. Ivy's Kudzu and Geist's DoT left on the ground after bomb do not cancel carpet. This spell does, Paige's DoT left on the ground after Conjure Dragon does. Lots of others, and the rules for when a spell does and does not cancel the item have not been stated anywhere.


see also:

Thread 'Magic Carpet Hero Interactions and inconsistencies'

Feb 1, 2026

Video demonstration

Essentially the rules for ability damage occurring during Magic Carpet being allowed and disallowed is inconsistent between certain heroes.

Examples:
Ivy, Mcginnis, Kudzu and Turrets respectively don't trigger the magic carpet cancel
Seven, Paige, and Graves Lightning orb, Conjure Dragon, and Deadheads/Borrowed Decree all do cancel magic carpet

Warden Ult damage cancels magic carpet (This one is obviously an egregious error and must be fixed asap).

I went through all the examples I could think of. Apparently Rem's 3 on a minion hitting other...

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[bingo bango]

It is obviously a bug as the behavior is highly inconsistent from hero to hero. Seemingly random which spells break it and do not. For example Ivy's tether auto-latching onto any allied target nearby used to stop it and some dev graciously took the time to fix that last year. Ivy's Kudzu and Geist's DoT left on the ground after bomb do not cancel carpet. This spell does, Paige's DoT left on the ground after Conjure Dragon does. Lots of others, and the rules for when a spell does and does not cancel the item have not been stated anywhere.


see also:

Thread 'Magic Carpet Hero Interactions and inconsistencies'

Feb 1, 2026

Video demonstration

Essentially the rules for ability damage occurring during Magic Carpet being allowed and disallowed is inconsistent between certain heroes.

Examples:
Ivy, Mcginnis, Kudzu and Turrets respectively don't trigger the magic carpet cancel
Seven, Paige, and Graves Lightning orb, Conjure Dragon, and Deadheads/Borrowed Decree all do cancel magic carpet

Warden Ult damage cancels magic carpet (This one is obviously an egregious error and must be fixed asap).

I went through all the examples I could think of. Apparently Rem's 3 on a minion hitting other...

• HopDodge

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It seems like most stuff stops it though, which makes me think that is the intended behavior and the exceptions are the bugs. But I think it feels very frustrating and the carpet shouldn't be canceled by abilities that were cast before using the carpet.

 

[Ruk]

Yeah, lets pray to god they can fix this as soon as possible. Being kicked over the carpet for something that happens lanes aways blows.

 

[weebstrangler]

It seems like most stuff stops it though, which makes me think that is the intended behavior and the exceptions are the bugs. But I think it feels very frustrating and the carpet shouldn't be canceled by abilities that were cast before using the carpet.

If that was the case don't you think "dealing damage will dismiss the carpet" would be in the items' description?

As it stands right now "doing any action will dismiss the carpet" reads to me like most of these are due to incorrectly categorized functions on spells, which are treated as if the player is taking action. In reality the player is not "taking an action" when these effects are happening, as they can still occur while the player is stunned, cursed, or dead. All of these things can still occur while channeling a rescue beam for example, without interrupting the channel.


There is a thread from 2024 where Ivy had a similar interaction which was fixed.

Thread '[FIXED] Ivy's tether causes Magic Carpet to cancel when flying in range of an ally who has previously been tethered.'

Sep 21, 2024

When Ivy uses Watcher's Covenant, allies you have targeted are automatically re-tethered if Ivy walks out of max range & subsequently walks back inside the spell's range. This behavior should not be considered an action that interrupts Magic Carpet while playing Ivy. The tether being re-established causes Magic Carpet to end due to its status as an interrupting action.

[UPDATE - This has been fixed as of the 12-6 update. THANK YOU!!!!!!]

• weebstrangler
• Replies: 7
• Forum: Bug Reports

 

[Ruk]

This has not been fixed as of the 2/12/2026 patch.

 

[Ruk]

This has not been fixed as of the 2/17/2026 patch.

 

[Ruk]

This has not been fixed as of the 3/6/2026 patch. Yoshi Please I need this to be fixed.

 

[weebstrangler]

Magic Carpet did not need +50% buff duration to be a solid item. It needs to not get dispelled for no reason on half of the roster. Today's patch gives it way more buff duration than necessary and it will still be bad on half of the heroes in the game.

 

[Ruk]

Hopefully they can fix this issue as soon as possible.

 

[Luxemas]

Yeah came here for this, feels really bad that the helpers cause it to end

 

[Ruk]

This has not been fixed as of the 3/7/2026 patch.

 

[Ruk]

Thanks you devs for fixing this bug. I greatly appreciate it.