At what point do minions become mini blackholes? Adjust Creep Block during the Preseason please!

Hexs Fortune·Oct 27, 2018·20 votes·8,758 views

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZxL8Lq0YX04

Minion block is so bad right now, I had to flash to get around it

7 Comments

HethaleanOct 27, 201814 votes

Pathing has gotten absolutely craptastic the last few patches... or I just come across those extreme cases more.

DeusVultOct 27, 20182 votes

In this case its pathing and not minion hitboxes

You were clicking to attack the enemy champs (either Kindred or Garen) which means that since you are out of range, pathing tries to find the quickest path to them. The thing is that pathing autocalculates to constantly find the quickest route, which means that if it changes, your pathing will change. Since the enemy minions are moving towards you, and the enemy champ that you are targeting is moving away from you, pathing is constantly recalculating the fastest route to either side of the minion, which slows you down. And in this case, their aren't even a lot of minions.

So in reality, nothing out of the ordinary is happening. Yes, it feels bad that it happens, but there are things that you can do to avoid it. For instance, you could click on the ground just on the opposite side of the downed turret to move away from the minions and towards the enemy, while not having pathing change because of the enemy moving and causing the pathing to recalculate because of that. Then, once you are either around the minions or in range, you right click the enemy champ. Its tough to think of doing that because at that moment you probably have some adrenaline after coming off of a teamfight where you are chasing down low health members to finish them off, and it happens to the best of us. But those little things are what separate great players from good ones

Heos00Oct 27, 20181 votes

one time 2 minions blocked my champion in the same spot until the enemy team came to kill me.

AXayahAccountOct 27, 20181 votes

I threw a thresh lantern at my feet when next to a wall and I got snared until the lantern disappeared. I couldn't move at all for like the whole 6 seconds, I then died because the enemy found me. It was so miserable because I was not even surrounded on like all sides minus one. It was literally wall next to wraiths that goes towards middle. So it wasn't even a straight wall, it was curved FOR me.

HungryAngry2SPPOct 27, 20181 votes

Honestly, you deserve worse.

Not only because you play MF, but also because you could just turn right/left

ThefrostyvikingOct 28, 20181 votes

Other people wrote more in detail but it was not minion blocking that was the issue, it was pathing.

You clicked to attack a moving enemy champ, game tries to plan the quickest route there but between the minions moving around and enemy champs also moving the path rapidly changes which causes the "path calculator" to just flip out.

You´d most likely not have this issue if you just clicked on the ground nearby instead of directly on them, especially not if you adjusted your path just slightly to not directly collide with minions.