(Video) 'Imbue' items are bought without imbuing any ability if replacing an existing item in a full inventory.

[SardineS]

In multiple recent games I've had 'imbue' items not apply their imbue effect. I think this is because the 'imbue ability' window becomes skipped if you're replacing an existing item due to a full inventory.

In the attached video (Match #14608831) you can see that I bought Surge of Power for my Flight, but noticed that none of my abilities became imbued, so I sold it back and bought it again. The only reason why it was easy to tell is because Flight was not already imbued by another item.

Related thread. In that thread I did not benefit from the Mystic Reverb imbue effect. I could not tell it did not apply to Goo Ball because Goo Ball already had other imbues applied to it, so 'Ability Imbued' was visible either way.

 

[Fire]

Believe this happened to me in my game too with Mystic Reverb on Yamato. Match #15810689

 

[bigwingbeat]

Just encountered this in a match, and testing in sandbox confirms it is easily reproducible.

1. Fill all your spirit and flex slots with items
2. Buy an item that imbues onto an ability, and select an item to sell
3. When selecting which ability to imbue, press esc or select cancel instead
4. You will still have bought the item, but it hasn't imbued onto any ability

View attachment ability_imbue_bug.mp4