Predator pops against minions? But the minions get no warning? SAVE THE MINIONS!

needHymn··5 votes·5,222 views

I noticed that if you walk past a minion and it just so happens that you have any kind of ability active that creates AoE damage, and any of those minions take any damage from you as you pass, it instantly cancels Predator.

Come on Riot.

Please make Predator only pop against enemy champions (or clones). It should not pop against a minion.

Because it's very likely when ganking that you'll need to walk through a minion wave to reach your target, and if any of those minions take any damage from you, it cancels the predator.

For example, Nunu with a snowball... as he rolls the snowball through the minions it deals damage to the minions. That minion damage instantly ends predator. Not that predator is any good on Nunu, but this is just an easy example to visualize. It's not possible for the Nunu to NOT damage the minoins, it happens by accident as he's rolling the snowball to get to his real target.

Predator is all about enemy champions. Nobody uses predator against minions. Nobody wants predator to be unleashed against a minion.

If you really intended predator to smack up minions, then why don't you put the predator icon above the heads of each minion, just like you do above the heads of champions? HMMM?? At least give the minions a FAIR WARNING that they are being hunted. They deserve a warning just like any champion. SAVE THE MINIONS.

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True Garen1 votes

It's always been this way. Predator has a "steep learning curve" in Riot own words. I don't know why they made it like this. There must be a lot of Predator junglers with Cinderhulk...

Anyway, Predator users learn how to avoid these things...

Maybe it's because you can proc Predator on a minion... I mean, you can Pred to dragon and get the extra damage on the first hit, for example.

But as you said, no reason to do that. They should have Predator ignore minions, of all Keystones, this is the one that you least want to use against minions. Above was the only niche example, where maybe a JG with smite down could still steal an objective with it.

Conceivably, they wanted the rune to be unattractive to laners. I think Garen the only non-jungler that uses Predator in lane normally.

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