Kindred's passive tells you when Quinn switches to Valor

MegamanEXE79·10/19/2015, 2:19:31 PM·29 votes·1,488 views

It was suggested that I make a Bug Report about this to get a proper response.

Original Thread here

Kindred and Garen's passives use recycled minimap icons. This means that their icons get switched when Quinn and Gnar transform into Valor/Mega Gnar. This happens even if the enemy Quinn/Gnar is not visible to Kindred/Garen's team.

In the case of an enemy Quinn, this gives a lot of free information to your team, since it tells you all that a 140sec CD ultimate has just been used. Said ultimate is generally for either roaming quickly picking off low HP targets by surprise, and the consensus in the original discussion is that it seems to be an unintended function of Kindred's/Garen's passives. I think the intended use was that a villain/marked Quinn or Gnar would only have their standard icon in use, even if they switch into Valor/Mega Gnar.

4 Comments

Jack º10/19/2015, 3:19:19 PM1 votes

Going to bump this ...

Ignis010/19/2015, 3:58:38 PM1 votes

Riot should respond to these so we know they are being looked at for the next patch.

DeynaTaggerung10/19/2015, 9:02:32 PM1 votes

Seems important even if it's niche case. Bump

Valor Bot10/19/2015, 9:16:18 PM1 votes

{quoted}I think the intended use was that a villain/marked Quinn or Gnar would only have their standard icon in use, even if they switch into Valor/Mega Gnar.

I wouldn't mind the icon thing so much if Kindred/Garen had vision of Quinn/Gnar during their transformations, but if they don't then they really shouldn't have the icon swap.