In League of Legends there is a strange bug: A revised ability of the hero Akshan causes the minions of a team not to obediently run towards and attack the enemy base as they are supposed to, but the minions suddenly turn towards their own team’s tower and start shooting at it. It seems that Riot did not implement the new update properly, but rather resorted to a trick that is now backfiring in LoL.
How is it actually intended?
- The “minions” in League of Legends obediently run along a fixed path, their lane, attacking towers and enemy minions.
- Such a “minion wave” is necessary to deal damage to the enemy base, as minions provide certain protective measures.
- In general, every MOBA determines that the minions do their job obediently and run along the lane, as players rely on killing them there to gain experience points and gold.
Approximately 20 blue minions are attacking a blue tower
This just happened in a LoL game: A user on reddit shows that it went quite differently for him in a ranked game: On the bot lane, about 20 minions gathered around a blue tower, shooting and hitting it – but the tower did not take any damage.
Nevertheless, the blue hordes treacherously attacked their own tower.
Riot likely cheated with Akshan’s ability – This is now backfiring
What happened? This is apparently a bug, related to the champion “Akshan”. He joined League of Legends in mid-2021.
His ability “E” is a hook shot that gets stuck on the first terrain it hits. He can then swing around that hook.
In patch 12.20, the ability was buffed so that Ashkan can now swing around specific structures like towers as many times as he wants. However, it seems that the code is not implemented cleanly and has these strange side effects on minions.
A user explains on reddit: The ability apparently spawns a “non-targetable minion” that drives the other minions crazy because they still want to attack it.
What happens next? Riot seems to have used a trick in how to implement the ability, which is not cleanly executed and turns loyal minions into treacherous sacks.
It is assumed that Riot Games will fix the bug soon.
Bugs keep appearing in LoL:
