Ward Attack Speed?

Ignis Ex Caelum·Jan 30, 2016·45 votes·3,809 views

I noticed a while ago that wards have an Attack Speed of 0.625 (Rounded up to 0.63 as shown in the picture) http://imgur.com/YLVtcjs I would really want an explanation to this.

46 Comments

ZT XperimentorJan 30, 201642 votes

To intimidate champions from killing them XD

SeductiveGrandpaJan 31, 201626 votes

https://d1h69ey09xg1xv.cloudfront.net/wp-content/uploads/2014/05/trinket-ward.jpg What the fuck are you looking at?

You wanna get fucked up?

Lost HpJan 30, 201620 votes

Wards are classified as minions the 0.63 was probely the lowest attackspeed to that time

Ignis Ex CaelumJan 30, 20168 votes

Ok but why not just make it 0 for wards only then? :P

BetaDude40Jan 30, 20164 votes

Eh, not much of a point. Unless a champ comes around that benefits from enemy attack speed, then they'd have reason to change it other than consistency

Snake TownJan 30, 20161 votes

Can malphite slow ward attack speed?

BetaDude40Jan 30, 20164 votes

Don't think his E damages wards. Therefore, I'd assume not.

Mighty LycheeFeb 1, 20161 votes

they r uneffected by anything other than single target abilities that specifically say move to target unit minus Braum :(

Shield VillainJan 30, 201627 votes

Spaghetti coding

TyaldanJan 30, 20169 votes

You cant have poor defenseless wards! They zap the mosquitos and keep the champs from catching malaria! How are they gonna do that with no attack speed?

Mighty LycheeFeb 1, 20161 votes

it was general number for all targetable "units" as wards could be "ward" hopped to LeeSin Jax , they could become untargetable Bard , and generally were considered to be immobile minions. Rito would have to go in and change it manually, would u want to have to go thru all that code? also sometimes rito just leaves little easter eggs for fun

EDIT: thats also y they have that reward when destroyed, they r considered minions

DorkunedAurasJan 30, 20161 votes

Graves has about .4something.

Lost HpJan 30, 20161 votes

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has about .4something.

graves is a champion not a minion probely complet diffrent coding

beside what did he have before the rework?

World EnderJan 30, 201619 votes

Baron has 300 movespeed.

Embrace the SPAGHETTI CODE

Snake TownJan 30, 201621 votes

http://www.michaelbtager.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/01/contact.jpg

praise be to the spaghetti

KyrrionJan 30, 20163 votes

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Baron has 300 movespeed.

Embrace the SPAGHETTI CODE

Hey, just because he has movespeed doesn't mean he has to use it!

FastAsHeckJan 31, 20162 votes

Hey, just because he has movespeed doesn't mean he has to use it!

KogMaw [slayer-jinx-wink]

SerlthreeJan 31, 20166 votes

Closest thing you can get a moving baron nashorhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hPZaH5AyDSA

8Hz98hmIDGJan 31, 20161 votes

HAHAHAH that is the best thing ever.

EDIT: Wait, why did pros never think to use this tactic to setup a baron defense at an inhibitor or something o.o

TeCoolMageJan 31, 20165 votes

Actually, Syndra used to be able to drag Baron along with her, and throw it at people. It was much quicker than poppy slowly pushing Baron.

HorusEyeJan 31, 20161 votes

Probably the movement speed for Baron to jump out of his Void Hole at the 20 minute mark.

WolfBVJan 31, 20165 votes

They have attack speed because they're biding their time. Waiting. Waiting for 1,000 hours in where they get 6k AD.

PROJECT MaXymJan 31, 20164 votes

give wards some ad maybe then low elo people will use them since they will do damage.

The Taco KatJan 30, 20163 votes

Almost certain they used to have 15 AD as well.

AlëkJan 30, 20163 votes

Same attack speed as Jhin O_O

kaltenashesJan 30, 20162 votes

Wards hurt

Count ZubatJan 30, 20162 votes

Maybe a leftover from when everything was programmed like a minion and they just didn't want to fck around with removing it because it has no influence on gameplay? Just speculating.

SirHeavyScrotumJan 31, 20162 votes

"blah blah blah something about coded as minions blah blah blah"

Lost HpJan 30, 20161 votes

spaghetti code

maby a fixed parameter in the game maby someone copied it and forget it to change maby you need it for the animation maby the number is a placeholder maby a relic from the the alpha

TeCoolMageJan 31, 20165 votes

Maby

Lost HpJan 30, 20161 votes

Attack speed of buildings 2,00 Nexus towers 0,83 Normal towers

Attack Speed of Jungle Monster 0,63 Gromp 0,49 Blue 0,63 Wolfs

0,67 Raptors 0,60 Red 0,61 Krugs

0,64 Scuttler Crab

0,50 Dragon 0,67 Rift Herold 0,75 Baron Nashor

Attack Speed of Minions 1,25 Melee 0,67 Caster 1,00 Canon

Wards 0,63 Pink + Yellow Trinket

RavenstikerJan 30, 20164 votes

[{quoted}](name=Lost Hp,realm=EUW,application-id=cIfEodbz,discussion-id=I9l1NhBf,comment-id=0005,timestamp=2016-01-30T20:01:59.223+0000)

Attack speed of buildings 2,00 Nexus towers 0,83 Normal towers

Attack Speed of Jungle Monster 0,63 Gromp 0,49 Blue 0,63 Wolfs

0,67 Raptors 0,60 Red 0,61 Krugs

0,64 Scuttler Crab

0,50 Dragon 0,67 Rift Herold 0,75 Baron Nashor

Attack Speed of Minions 1,25 Melee 0,67 Caster 1,00 Canon

Wards 0,63 Pink + Yellow Trinket

Wards = Gromp Confirmed

JariJan 30, 20161 votes

Everything back in the day was coded as a minion. Even Jayce's range E was minions, and it let Azir have an odd bug to give him CS for attacking near it.

So in this case, because it's coded as a minion, it gets attack speed.

SSJTribeJan 31, 20161 votes

I remember they had to fix jayce's acceleration gate because someone in LCS was able to teleport to it

JariJan 31, 20161 votes

Goodness. That sounds like it was really awkward.

ADepressedLeonaJan 30, 20161 votes

SHHH

We can't let the wards know they can fight back...

LOL SpammerJan 30, 20161 votes

Because everything in league is coded as minions.

Streetlight ManJan 31, 20161 votes

Wards op please nerf

Swae7Jan 31, 20161 votes

Is that really an issue????

EcodeathJan 31, 20161 votes

they used to have movespeed

CullMeMaybeJan 31, 20161 votes

The attack speed is their refresh rate.

XonraJan 31, 20161 votes

a laziness or unwillingness to fix all the random crap in the game like that.

Numerous objects that aren't their own entity, like wards not even being entity ward, they are entity minion coded to be stationary and have x amount of hp. Just like towers aren't entity tower, heimerdinger turrets aren't their own entity, and so on. It has also caused issues with things like that (is why Shen's tp was borked for so long and they had to completely recode it from scratch, because they took actual tp and just spaghetti'd the code around).