Has anyone else missed a cs because of minions randomly switching aggro

koshkyra··191 votes·4,636 views

I time my auto attacks to hit the minion just as theyre about to be finished off by my minions, then suddenly all the minions except one start attacking a different target and i end up missing cs

Anyone else having this issue?

49 Comments

Wheatloaf19 votes

Sometimes they walk past my entire wave just to suicide to turret.

SpecterVonBaren2 votes

YES! This is the worst, I hate it when this happens.

SEKAI18 votes

{quoted}

Sometimes they walk past my entire wave just to suicide to turret.

Minion: " I read Boards everyday and they say towers shoot peas these days. Ha! Who needs my inting teammates when I can just solo it down and carry myself..."

Does to tower in 2 hits.

Minion: "LIIIIIIIIIEEEEEEEESSSSSSSS!!!111!1"

yay nibbers1 votes

THIS. Why do they even do this? I swear they do this all the time. It's like if turret range is right behind your warrior minions their AI changes to prioritize wizard minions. WHY???

Mogarl14 votes

I wish I could kill my minions. Not to deny cs, but as an example for the rest of those little assholes. Definitely the most infuriating thing in league.

invisiblecat16 votes

Sometimes I will auto a minion that isn't being attack by other minions, and it lives on like 5 hp, but then before I can auto again all the minions start to attack that one Happens 2-3 times a game for me

TNHA Baritone1 votes

THIS!

y tho

:(

Zed genius5 votes

minion aggro is RNG sometimes, just need to get lucky, but this shouldn't affect you a lot since it happens like at 1 minion every 3/4 waves

Critmaster Garen13 votes

[{quoted}](name=Zed genius,realm=EUNE,application-id=3ErqAdtq,discussion-id=Mvg4c8M9,comment-id=0000,timestamp=2017-09-19T19:49:06.308+0000)

minion aggro is RNG sometimes, just need to get lucky, but this shouldn't affect you a lot since it happens like at 1 minion every 3/4 waves

its still infuriating. especially the melee minions.

you walk up to him, prepare to lasthit, and the little fuck randomly decides to switch aggro, walks out of auto range and dies.

2Charmnot2Charm25 votes

it's worse when it's the cannon minion randomly switching aggro.

Squidward Dab6 votes

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it's worse when it's the cannon minion randomly switching aggro.

Idky my cannon minions just love stealing my cs or something

Melledoneus10 votes

Cannons need to get their CS score up.

Gotta get those Mastery 7 tokens.

Ariel the Cruel1 votes

Braum For the last time, I'm not a cannon minion! item 3302

RookPusher2 votes

coughitem 3060cough

Ariel the Cruel1 votes

and the little fuck randomly decides to switch aggro, walks out of auto range and dies.

Nah. That's because they realized I was hiding in brush and randomly decided to face-check it. (>_>)

Catastrop1 votes

[{quoted}](name=Ariel the Cruel,realm=NA,application-id=3ErqAdtq,discussion-id=Mvg4c8M9,comment-id=000000000001,timestamp=2017-09-20T00:00:05.012+0000)

Nah. That's because they realized I was hiding in brush and randomly decided to face-check it. (>_>)

Lmao this has happened to me too.

Cowseed54 votes

That feeling when you're farming perfectly until you miss one cs then your farming business crashes and burns :D

Bisaknosp1 votes

[{quoted}](name=Zed genius,realm=EUNE,application-id=3ErqAdtq,discussion-id=Mvg4c8M9,comment-id=0000,timestamp=2017-09-19T19:49:06.308+0000)

minion aggro is RNG sometimes, just need to get lucky, but this shouldn't affect you a lot since it happens like at 1 minion every 3/4 waves

eh wat in some games it happens several times in a row and this tilts the shit out of me

SweedishGunner5 votes

Been happening for months, ever since they messed with the minion block and minion aggro. They just randomly switch at times and I have no idea why.

I Main Swain4 votes

that happens to me all the time and its incredibly annoying

Sraeg20134 votes

All the time.

Me: Look at that juicy minion with 40HP nobody is attacking. *Right click* My minions: Bitch, please. *They all switch to the minion I was going to attack* *My attack lands* *No gold pop-up* Me: What the actual fuck.

Divewing3 votes

Nope.

I've missed 47.

Friendly Ram3 votes

My main problem is with cannons swapping aggro, haven't seen any of the others do it lately.

PhDs Nuts3 votes

My favorite is when I have the lane frozen perfectly in front of my turret, and the enemy melee minion will walk around my melee minions into turret range to attack the casters and die to turret, ruining the freeze.

KVbqbFsC8e2 votes

It isn't exactly an uncommon issue.

Very frustrating.

Yi Bencheikh2 votes

Just ended a twitch game where i basically missed like 5 cs during laning because of this shit srsly it sucks

Decrendo2 votes

It happens to me mostly with cannon minions. So damn annoying.

D2Vincent2 votes

lol you think that's bad, try doing it with a Karthus AA, much less a Q shot.

I've lost count of how much CS I've lost this way :/

Packun Flower2 votes

I have had an entire enemy canon wave just randomly stop targeting my wave and chase me up the lane to the inhib turret. The enemy laner wasn't even in late at the time.

It was so random and unprovoked. Minion ai is bonkers sometimes.

Albertoplus2 votes

It ALLWAYS happen something similar to me with Karthus. Everytime i'm going to finish off a creep with my Q, he suddenly goes after another creep and dodges my Q. LoL

sddghyufjasdklhu2 votes

your minions and theirs will switch to a target that is below a certain threshold, especially if no other minons are attacking it - and its in their attack range, they will switch to it. Thats what ive found, its annoying in my current elo when i play adc and my supp doesnt know about this and they make me lose cs when we shove or are flexing.

The DrBonjigollo2 votes

This, and when they all suddenly gang-bang on a single minion.

CudyDarkyz1 votes

I once had a melee minion stop attacking another melee minion do a lap around my caster minions then when't back to the melee minion he was attack.

nyx19981 votes

I have urge to buyitem 3301 oritem 3303 and ignore minions everytime this happen

DarwinTheory1 votes








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Sorry guys I know it looks like I'm spamming but the asterisk's are there so this post doesn't get lost in the deluge of responses. Like you I used to think it was a bug BUT IT ISN'T. This is by design.

I'm probably one of RIOT's biggest detractors on this board, I speak my mind all the time I am no RIOT fanboy but the reason they put this aggro change in was GENIUS!!! Of course I don't want to say why because the reason for this aggro change will put those who know how to use it at a disadvantage but feel free to check my MMR over the past 3 weeks. RIOT games have done something marvellous.....FOR ONCE!

Massive props to this small, subtle but significant change. Yes, it's annoying to know your minion is going to change aggro as you go to last hit it. But there's a reason RIOT changed the code that's existed for 5 odd seasons.

This is a rare occasion where I say well done RIOT. This is a good thing you've done.

TopperH1 votes
TopperH1 votes

Happens to me all the time too, I get so annoyed I start to flame the minions and report them for grieving. I hope they don't report me for verbal abuse though, I like my lvl 5 honor flare.

Rito Staff1 votes

it's so annoying and so frequent

Pandemic Punch1 votes

I wish they left minions alone before they added minion pushing.

DuskDaUmbreon1 votes

Actually...No. I actually can't say I have.

I lose a lot of CS to other reasons, first of them being my own incompetence at CSing, second being the existence of my minions, third being the existence of the enemy laner, but I never lose minions to odd aggro swaps.

Yordle Xayah1 votes

Yeah, it's super annoying (and farming is the most boring thing in the game) even if It now happens less to me but regardless.

Xenomancers1 votes

It's even worse when it blocks your skill shot because it switches aggro - makes you look like an idiot.

Catastrop1 votes

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It's even worse when it blocks your skill shot because it switches aggro - makes you look like an idiot.

As a former Karma main, I am all too familiar with this. It's like they're just waiting for me to RQ everytime.

AninLegions7771 votes

Happens all the time. Don't know why Riot made their Aggro random.

Frontline Fury1 votes

This is extremely frustrating, especially when all minions are just standing still and im not taking hits from the enemy laner.

Marshbouy1 votes

multiple times in a game.

Raiyza1 votes

Yes.

I think it's because of minion pathing. If they get bumped by another minion/unit, their positioning goes slightly another way and their aggro changes.

SB Arneeman1 votes

This exact thing makes it way harder to get perfect cs. Another problem i have is when multiple minions attack a minion at the exact same time so it dies without having any time window where you can last hit.

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