Minion Block

Coxi Normis·Oct 1, 2018·4 votes·1,999 views

I've had a lot of frustrating moments in the game involving minion block where I literally can't move my character because I'm horded by either ally or enemy minions. It seems that the only purpose of minion block right now is to allow things such as phantom dancer, kassadin's passive, and ghost to have a purpose. It feels like minion block is annoying and frustrating to a lot of players, and doesn't contribute much to the game aside from frustration. Please share your thoughts. Do you agree? Disagree? What do you think minion block adds to the game? As an alternative maybe ghost could give a bit more movement speed, phantom dancer could have a different passive, and the same goes with Kassadin.

5 Comments

5050BSOct 1, 20182 votes

I think when Riot changed Minion black is when the game took the downhill turn. Minion Block was a stealth addition and riot tried to say nothing had changed when in fact they had rewritten the whole minion code.

KOGMIDONLYOct 1, 20181 votes

Wats minion block?

DuskDaUmbreonOct 1, 20181 votes

Minion block has the good outcome of punishing people who don't plan ahead around the same thing happening every 30 seconds during every single game.

The minion is going to be there again every 30 seconds on the dot. Minions are, for the most part (Until Malzahar presses W and the enemy minions flip their shit), incredibly predictable. Their behavior, in nearly all cases, is regular and predictable.

If you can't play around the same thing happening every single time, then honestly you deserve to take that free damage it gives the opponent.

JKLOct 22, 20182 votes

Minion block is not 100% predictable.

DuskDaUmbreonOct 22, 20181 votes

Not 100%, true (Again, I still get caught in it occasionally because of me either failing to account for something happening, or there just being too many minions), but nearly 100% if you're competent.

It shouldn't cause an issue for you more than once per game. Most of those issues should only be incredibly minor (You get caught up in a minion on the way back to lane and lose a second or two), with major issues being closer to once or twice per season.

If you get caught in them more frequently than that and don't main Cho'gath, you're objectively terrible at the game.