Why do minions get random speed boosts?

Lets also not forget that now and again, for literally no reason at all, minions will teleport forward

minions seems pretty buggy nowdays

its to prevent creep blocking

if one minion gets to far away from where it is supposed to be it will speed up to make sure that players cant hold up waves

I thought it was me lagging lol

Here's why, and this also happens with champions too: When 2 units target the same location and then go right next to each other, they bump into each other and then try to overtake one another, but since they are going the same speed and targeting the same location, they just get a buggy speed boost. This also happens if you do this with a friend and target the same location, both of your champions will eventually bump into each other and speed up and teleport a little bit.

It happens to me the front 2 fighter minions speed up really really fast for a few seconds and run way ahead of the group. It really messes up pushes sometimes.

They just get really excited when they see an enemy tower or enemy minions and they just can't wait to get there. Minions can have feelings too!

It usually happens when you are behind them...

I think it's because they are afraid http://orig03.deviantart.net/7394/f/2012/100/b/b/133401370497744_by_uchihaclanrock-d4vqeye.gif

To prevent the champions to boddy block them at the start of game Mechanic there is in dota2

because certain split pushers would be incredibly powerful and be able to make a monster wave a bit easier if those two minions were to stay and hold up the enemy minions.

I saw it in the middle of an lcs match, and neither of the casters acknowledged it. It was pretty funny just having these sudden 500 ms minions out of nowhere lol

what you see and what the server sees are different. servers says, "hey stupid client you are wrong again" Client then pushes the minions faster or teleports them to match what server says.

That's what you call pingspike.

I've missed cs because of that damn teleporting. and that "catch up to their wave" stuff is bs. Why then do only the melees do it...while they are ahead of everything else

For me it seems to be 2 minions in the group that speed up really fast from the rest of the pack when I'm approaching the second enemy tower after destroying the first. It's especially awkward because they tend to have low health bars, so I need to wait for the other minions to catch up.

Waving your mouse over them also causes this I found out

I thought it was the front Warrior minion that would charge at the enemy minions if they're down by one or two so that they could push a bit further and not inevitably lose since they're down by a minion.

Minions gain bonus movement speed if a nearby champion has an appropriate item or buff on them. For example, if a champion had an Elixir of Ruin buff on them, they'd gain bonus movement speed. Also, if a champion had a Hand of Baron buff, minions would also gain bonus movement speed. I believe they have a hard cap of 500 movement speed.

I think it's some sort of mechanic they're meant to have, kind of like the Point Runner passive on or something, like, if you're near a wave and it's just starting to move the minions will get a little speed boost to get ahead of you so they can be first into the fray, first to take tower aggro, etc. I see it in pretty much every game, I've kind of just come to accept it. Though I still wonder why it happens. That's my best guesstimation.

minions get random speed boosts because at the begining of every game the time skips a few seconds, NOW if you put this over to minions they are technically ahead/behind so they get random spurts of speed trust me

True, sometimes a minion that I am running next to will just start moving way ahead of the wave with me, like it's being pushed.

There was a video on this before,it happens when a slower minion (or champion) is passed by right over a faster minion (or champion) right in front of them,and so the slower minion (or champion) is boosted in front of the faster minion (or champion) and so the process continues.