Baron Empowered Cannon Minion

FacerollKatarina·6/27/2017, 6:50:37 PM·20 votes·1,001 views

If you have a cannon minion and its empowered with baron buff, it can stand outside of turret range and attack the tower, which is all fine and well, but if all the other minions are dead can the cannon walk up so your team can continue to attack the tower? As of now it'll stand outside and just throw attacks out, but if you go to attack the tower you'll draw aggro since the cannon isn't in range.

10 Comments

Tobias Brackner6/27/2017, 7:38:27 PM13 votes

Cannon minion not walking up to tower is arguably stronger. In most scenarios it moving up to the tower means it can get picked off by the enemy team. It standing that far away means the enemy team has to leave the tower to deal with it.

Jo0o6/27/2017, 6:58:33 PM6 votes

Heh, I'd like that too.

Cannons sieging from outside turret range seems great on paper, but I rarely find it useful in practice. I'd rather have something tanking the turret while I can get in there and do something real.

3TWarrior6/28/2017, 3:56:51 AM2 votes

buy item 3060 and watch it melt the tower XD

actually, that would be hilarious, buff the cannon minion then just go to another lane and work on that one XD

Paroe6/27/2017, 9:17:56 PM1 votes

Why.... arent you using your marksman to kill the empowered cannon minion like you should be?

Critmaster Garen6/27/2017, 9:22:38 PM1 votes

ever seen a promoted and baron upped cannon? that shit is ridiculous. he can sit near the inner turret and shoot the inhib turret. :D

Kyunsei6/27/2017, 10:56:04 PM1 votes

I would love that too, well at least could he apply the backdoor debuff ? He try to hit the turret but he himself deals 66% damage less.

SpecterVonBaren6/28/2017, 1:22:36 AM1 votes

Riot specifically remade the Baron buff so that it would obliterate bases, which I don't agree with by the way, but having it so the cannon minion attacks from outside tower range is part of that design decision so don't count on them changing this. Having the minion never get in turret range means the enemy team has to either expend a lot of spells to kill it or move closer to it which puts them in range of your own team which is the one that's been winning the game.

Clementine6/27/2017, 9:16:35 PM1 votes

But I like using my item 3060 on it so it can take the tower but its self!