I think Riot should remove minions from the game entirely and rebuild them from scratch

Trap or a Trick·1/7/2020, 3:45:50 PM·3 votes·1,431 views

It is evident that minions dont work in nearly any scenario, Minion block is atrocious, minion aggro is atrocious and sometimes they randomly stop walking or walk in random directions for no reason.

Its no secret that everyone (except fizz and Kass mains) have complained about minion aggro for several seasons now, many people have died under tower because they literally cant move at all when either surrounded by minions or 1 singe creep decided to follow you around. This is because minions have MASSIVE hitboxes (slighlty larger than their model) and champions seem to have the a much much smaller one, this is why its nearly impossible to body block people, even as a 20 stack cho with lulu ult, steraks and elixer of iron, you still have a hard time making teemo move around you. People have asked for this to be fixed forever and it honestly just seems to be getting worse.

Minion aggro is also absolutly awful, there is supposed to be a "call for help" mechanic where different scenarios cause different minions to ask other minions for assistance. But this only seems to work when you auto attack or use a single target spell on an enemy champion. The range on this is so fucky that half the time if a ranged champion hits a melee champion they wont get aggro at all or they will get aggro for half a quarter second, realize they arent in range to auto and the creeps will go back to hitting the other creeps until the next ranged auto attack hits. This is most evident with Super minions, have you ever been dead and watched a super minion try to finish off a tower? it doesnt happen, ever. This is most likely because of the previously mentionned call for help thing, They turn around and go for a walk, go grab a hot dog and oops, their dead, and the tower is still standing with a sliver of hp. Why is a tower not one of the highest priorities for a minion? Is their goal not to win? Are they greedy fuckers and only want the gold from last hitting?

Lastly why do minions get glued in towers? or why do they randomly do pirouettes? i dont have much more to say on this topic since their really isnt much i even understand about it. just, how??

If you want to read more here is a post from 3 years ago, Riot Reinboom made a thread talking about minions and explaining what things are and how they work, in theory they might work, but if you play a game of league you'll see that it doesnt quite work out as intended.

https://boards.na.leagueoflegends.com/en/c/developer-corner/qRHotV9k-minion-ai-rules-documentation

1 Comments

Support Position1/9/2020, 5:55:48 AM1 votes

They did that with the client. Look where it landed.