When casting Nunu's W oppenents can see your snowball on the map, through fog

Colshot·Sep 23, 2018·13 votes·7,823 views

[GAMEPLAY] Nunu's giant snowball (W) can be seen by enemies on the mini-map

This one is fairly self-explanatory. Only the snowball can be seen on the map by the enemies, not the character. The enemy team confirmed this by telling me which camp I was at all game, and they were predicting all my ganks as soon as I pressed W.

I watched the replay of my last game from the enemy perspective and confirmed this is true. Heres the enemy team's perspective: https://youtu.be/MkH9IgKy7P0

I was using the Nunu bot skin. All of today's replays of my Nunu games have shown the W snowball on the minimap to enemies.

How to reproduce:

1.) Press W as Nunu 2.) While rolling the snowball, the enemies can see the snowball on their minimap through fog

4 Comments

HethaleanSep 23, 20182 votes

Yeah, I saw this recently as well. We double killed their lane, and when they returned, there was a snowball following them. Turns out though after review... Nunu was way way far away on the other side of the map.

Then half the time, Nunu will not render until he's halfway into the lane and far from the bush if he has Snowball on.

tldr; they can't get even reworks right.

Warlord RhinarkSep 24, 20181 votes

I have a slight suspicion that this is intentional.

Bugs like these don't just happen by accident.

ColshotSep 24, 20181 votes

I don't believe so....that means the enemy can track you at all your camps throughout the game. Nunu's W is necessary when clearing and navigating around the jungle, especially early. Nunu already has the lowest win% of all the junglers. No other champion can be tracked through fog on the minimap like this.

Also, you can see Nunu's character (not just the snowball) briefly pop up on the map in the video. It just seems fishy.

crippler38Sep 24, 20181 votes

Maybe if it were you being able to see the snowball growing when you mouse over it (like they do with Shaco's poof unless they got rid of that recently), but it being on the mini map would majorly bone people by letting you know Nunu's jungle clearing.