Let's Hear it for Minions Pls

quiffsplitter·12/9/2015, 3:49:28 PM·2 votes·576 views

Dear Riot, can we get an animation or mini-game that shows what it's like from the minions perspective? I think they are waaaaay underappreciated. Minions are fearless, determined, and get no glory for all their many accomplishments. That minion that last-hits the enemy adc doesn't get a raise, does he?

Some things you could highlight are:

  • What it's like to go into battle as a minion. What's it like to be the last minion in line and see the heads of all the minions in front of you popping off one by one as Sivir's boomerang blade shoots up the line? What's it like to be evaporated with the rest of your minion wave by a single critical hitting stattik shiv shot? Or to keep hammering away at other minions while they stand in the middle of Brand's Pillar of Flame? What's it like to be picked up and used as a projectile by a friendly Syndra?

  • What motivates minions. What kind of pep talk to minions get in the few seconds before they materialize on the rift? It must be a pretty darn good one. Do they get a completely honest summary of their job and their chances of survival, though? Do any minions second-guess their role in life as a minion, and have any of them ever decided to sneak quietly out of the end of the line, hop the wall, and strike out on their own in the dragony meadows that lie outside the Rift?

  • What minions are like. Are they empty little automata that wallop away at the enemy in front of them because that's what they are programmed to do, or do they have hopes and dreams and friends? Do they question why they are always fighting? Do they yearn to be like the champions that stomp over them, kill them, and sometimes heal them, sometimes throw them?

3 Comments

quiffsplitter12/9/2015, 3:58:24 PM1 votes

What if for a day we had the option of choosing to be a champ in a regular game, or a minion in someone else's game? Imagine a game with a bunch of player-controlled minions running around the map scouting and...failing to take objectives.

ModThe Djinn12/9/2015, 4:50:59 PM1 votes

To quote Riot's lore:

--Minions are magical constructs, summoned specifically for use in battle.

--Minions are not fully sentient beings.

So it probably wouldn't be a particularly exciting game. They're closer to, as you put it, "empty little automata that wallop away at the enemy in front of them because that's what they are programmed to do."