Why do some people with Relic Shield prioritize ranged minions?

RenownedWheat42·Jul 11, 2017·1 votes·355 views

In a lot of the games I watch with a support who has the Relic Shield line of support items, you'll see people grab the caster minions instead of a melee one they could still easily get. Early-game, this makes very little sense - at least, to me. Why do that when you can just use all of your charges on melee + cannons for maximum efficiency?

In some cases, it'll make sense. Either you're about to roam and don't want to waste charges, or maybe you're about to back so you just want all the extra gold you can have on you. But I'm even seeing some first grabs - and occasionally the first TWO charges - on caster minions.

Any reason for that?

4 Comments

TheLastShadow45Jul 11, 20172 votes

Killing the caster minions first helps you freeze lane if done properly.

Truly not GayJul 11, 20171 votes

It is to get it on cooldown so a charge is back up by time the cannon minion comes on the 3rd wave. I personally only go for them if I need the heal now or I am trying to push, but that is the only explanation I have that would make sense.

RenownedWheat42Jul 11, 20171 votes

Well, if you're leashing for your jungler, by the time you get to lane all three melee minions should still be alive, but below half health. So unless your ADC is a complete twat, you can nab at least one. From then on, in the laning phase, it's REALLY easy to only hit cannons and melees as far as I'm aware.

Is it a lane dominance thing? I mean, I guess it could be, but when I see it happen it's not always in a winning lane.

oSEXYPLATYPUSoJul 11, 20171 votes

as a support player when you get to lane 1st after a leash or you know the enemy jungler started their bot said making their bot lane leash. getting to lvl 2 as fast as possible is a great power /threat in lane. so if i can see we can do that faster by flat out procing and cracking minions to get the wave pushed towards us... ill go for it. some times that early wave control and the 1st to lvl 2 is all it takes to get 1st blood in bot lane