I think it's related to the riposte. In an earlier patch, reducing phase 1 Malenia to 0 hp with a critical would cause her to enter phase 2 with 1 hp. They didn't actually fix the bug, instead changing it so that Malenia could only go down to 1 hp from a critical hit. I think because your friend hit Malenia during the riposte, it activated the glitch, since she was reduced to 0 hp during a critical. Iirc she also wouldn't start with Scarlet Aeonia if glitched like this, but idk how that carries over to what happened in your phase 2. Very interesting!
I think it's related to the riposte. In an earlier patch, reducing phase 1 Malenia to 0 hp with a critical would cause her to enter phase 2 with 1 hp. They didn't actually fix the bug, instead changing it so that Malenia could only go down to 1 hp from a critical hit. I think because your friend hit Malenia during the riposte, it activated the glitch, since she was reduced to 0 hp during a critical. Iirc she also wouldn't start with Scarlet Aeonia if glitched like this, but idk how that carries over to what happened in your phase 2. Very interesting!
It’s not glitch…it’s the ping
Either way, it was something to experience lmao