League-of-legends – Why does Event Horizon affect Vladimir while in Sanguine Pool

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Why does Vlad get stunned of Event Horizon (Veigar E) while in Sanguine Pool?

And are there any other Area of Effect Crowd Control spells that can affect him during the duration of his Sanguine Pool?

Sanguine Pool
(Active): Vladimir sinks into a pool of blood becoming untargetable for 2
seconds and slowing enemies above him by 40% for 1 second. Additionally,
he deals magic damage every half second to them and heals himself for 12.5%
of the damage done.
Cost: 20% of current health
Radius of AoE: 300

As far as I know, it's the only spell in game that can affect Vladimir during Sanguine Pool.

Best Answer

It affects him the exact same way any other non-targetable Crowd-Control effects would affect him, aside from Knockups and Displacements, like Malphites' Ult, Alistars' Q and W, Blitz's and Nauts' Pulls, etc.

Stuns and slows still affect him while he is in his pool, as stated in the ability description Mindquake provided. Similarly, On-Hit spells that apply a CC effect (Morganas' Dark Binding, Frozen Mallet, Phage, and Rylai's Procs, etc) will fail to apply them as he is untargetable. However, if a Proc or an on-hit effect lands before he goes into his Sanguine Pool, he will be affected by them still.