Why Does Kassadin automatically attack Minions over Champion?

Iron Wu··33 votes·1,944 views

I've been having this problem lately when in lane phase, I use Rift Walk to close the gap on my enemy and im fairly close to him where Rift Walk damages him. I then E to slow him but when I use W to chunk his damage it auto targets a minion if close by. This is absolutely game breaking, why is it doing this and how can I correct this? If nothing can be done, Riot needs to make it prioritize closest Champion rather than minion.

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winteriscoming9713 votes

That's why it is much better to turn auto target off.

h5LYF41Lam3 votes

who even plays kassadin?

Iron Wu6 votes

I think he's great. Probably my main champion come to think about it. You have to play passive til 6 and he doesnt start to glisten til 11 mid game but come late game you become a god. I can't tell you how many times I've helped my team win team fights by waiting for the enemy to engage, i rift walk from out the shadows into the backline and can combo any squishy to death instantly.

ADC's and Mages are fodder, even late game, I can chunk tanks very well turning the tide of the battle into my teams favor.

Tattersall1 votes

This guy gets it.

h5LYF41Lam1 votes

kassadin:the assasin who can only kill himself.

Iron Wu2 votes

I love the surprise panic on a Vel Koz when his ult gets shut down from your Q

Tattersall1 votes

The "silence" also works on AurelionSol's stars, W active or not. Even though the Q only stops the "channel," the animation for the stars getting sucked in and coming back out is enough time to save a life.

Supreme Senpai691 votes

Tbh any form of CC will do that to the poor guy

Tattersall1 votes

Yeah… I guess the Kassadin Q discovery was just a nice surprise. Plus it's more spammable than a lot of other things that can shut down Sol's stars.

NGNL Asian1 votes

[{quoted}](name=Iron Wu,realm=NA,application-id=3ErqAdtq,discussion-id=J0xpNoVZ,comment-id=00050000,timestamp=2017-01-24T21:42:58.932+0000)

I think he's great. Probably my main champion come to think about it. You have to play passive til 6 and he doesnt start to glisten til 11 mid game but come late game you become a god. I can't tell you how many times I've helped my team win team fights by waiting for the enemy to engage, i rift walk from out the shadows into the backline and can combo any squishy to death instantly.

ADC's and Mages are fodder, even late game, I can chunk tanks very well turning the tide of the battle into my teams favor.

He doesnt actually have to play passive till 6. cause your punishing power before 6 is still VERY STRONG.

NichtHurz1 votes

Maybe, but any competent ranged mid laner will just poke him to death if he's not careful pre-6 and Kassa's base damage on the Q and E (which is also reliant on spells being cast) is nothing to brag about. Kassa pre-6 is super weak if the enemy doesn't come near you so you can also use your W.

Rukaji1 votes

[{quoted}](name=Iron Wu,realm=NA,application-id=3ErqAdtq,discussion-id=J0xpNoVZ,comment-id=00050000,timestamp=2017-01-24T21:42:58.932+0000)

You have to play passive til 6 and he doesnt start to glisten til 11 mid game but come late game you become a god.

Azir ?

morris11 votes

They are completely different roles and accomplish different things.

KiritoErenMikasa1 votes

^

FacerollKatarina2 votes

Do you have auto attack turned on? I don't really play kassadin so idk...

Iron Wu1 votes

I turned Auto Attack off just now.. I will test it.

FacerollKatarina2 votes

[{quoted}](name=Iron Wu,realm=NA,application-id=3ErqAdtq,discussion-id=J0xpNoVZ,comment-id=00010000,timestamp=2017-01-24T18:25:35.153+0000)

I turned Auto Attack off just now.. I will test it.

Howd it end up working?

Iron Wu1 votes

It worked but then again this Lux had bad positioning and I caught her out many times.

EndlessSorcerer2 votes

I've never seen this, but I've had 'auto attack' disabled for years at this point.

Iron Wu1 votes

I just turned it off and I am loading into a game now to test it out against a Lux lol

Jeanne fan club2 votes

You probably have auto target on. Kassadins W acts as a auto reset, and one with an immensely quick animation. Even stoping for a second with auto target allows the W to go off instantly without any control over canceling it.

MLDzXnRRR1 votes

Check the settings page. There was some option for targeting champions.

Pierce The Veal1 votes

I've had this happen myself. It doesn't matter if you click right on top of the enemy champion it seems to still end up hitting the minion in quite a few cases. I could probably figure out what causes it in practice mode when it comes out.

THE RlVER KlNG1 votes

Same with how Devour still doesn't prioritize champions

Epicanian1 votes

turn off auto target

Supreme Senpai691 votes

Not to be rude but I'm pretty sure this is a case of auto-attack and not a bug. And I've never played Kassadin. So it's weird this has any upvotes. But I could be wrong I dunno. Hope you find out what's causing it

Photos of Ghosts1 votes

Autotarget shouldn't switch targets, now should it?

Supreme Senpai691 votes

It would if a minion is closest, I think. I don't use it. I'unno. Just seems like that would be the cause

Spaceman5pff1 votes

You could try binding the "target champion only" key to spacebar.

That way it is easy to reach while doing a combo.

cyberchade1 votes

i have never had ths problem but to be fair a few patches of passed from when i last played Kass it may be a bug

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