Dr. Strange Signature Ability Question
"The Sorcerer Supreme automatically counters enemy Buff Effects with countermagic. Spell effectiveness 60%"
This is how the description reads with 60% thrown in as a nice rounded number for conversation's sake.
In combat, I understand how this mechanic works. If the enemy has a buff, sooner or later Dr. Strange will nullify it automatically without any effort on the player's part. The question is how EXACTLY does this mechanic work?
If Strange is fighting a champ with a permanent buff, it's not as if he has a single chance to nullify the buff. As I stated before, eventually he will nullify that buff; a failed counterspell doesn't make the buff safe, it just delays the inevitable. Typically speaking, the higher the spell effectiveness, the more often buffs are nullified.
This leads me to believe that there is a timer in the background that starts at the beginning of the fight and every...5 seconds???...or so, I'll have a 60% chance to nullify the buffs. Any buff that makes it past the first round has another 5 seconds before countermagic attempts to nullify it again. Or perhaps it works this way, but every buff gets a unique timer starting whenever it's activated.
The mechanic has always been a useful one, but it's always been a little mysterious to me. Does anyone know for sure exactly how Dr. Strange's signature ability works?
