Talk:Tahm Kench/@comment-27544025-20170927042247/@comment-29964258-20171201193809

I think the main reason they have the delay, rather than immediately letting you out is for the same reason they add slight buffers before you can break some channeled abilities by moving: it is too easy to accidentally cancel. If I was running away, and an allied tahm eats me to save me from an incoming jinx ult, without that delay, there is a chance that the move orders I am issuing may immediately jump me out of the eating, killing myself through no fault of kench(and barely my fault at that point), and also putting devour on cooldown to do literally nothing. the cooldown is to let people who need to be saved realize that they are eaten and stop clicking to run and let tahm carry them away