Minions on Summoner's Rift
Minions are allied or enemy units that spawn automatically to charge into battle with the purpose of attacking enemy units in the lanes they are assigned.
Lore
Minions are magical constructs, summoned specifically for use in battle. Earliest recorded use of minions for battles was at the battle field known as Summoner's Rift, where ancient sides the Protectorate (Stag crest) and Magelord (Owl crest) summoners fought against each other.
The process of minions spawning needs constant and massive amount of magical energy to be sustained. Minions are not fully sentient beings, rather they are controlled by the summoners who use nexuses. The Nexus structure focuses enough magical energy from powerful crystals for sustained minion spawning and its destruction disrupts and stops the summoning magic.
There are many ways a minion body can be magically constructed, ranging from animated magic scrolls, animated sand, magically animated bolts of cloth, and even sound.
Necromancy is a minion summoning technique that uses dark magic to reanimate 
corpses. Like ordinary minions they are not fully sentient and are completely controlled by the user who summoned them. Most known practitioners of necromancy come from the Shadow Isles.
Also, while not magically constructed, living minions share many traits with magically constructed minions. Voidlings summoned through 
portals are controlled by those who have necessary magical power to use them; one of such known persons is 
Malzahar. A Celestial Being known as 
Bard is frequently followed by minion-like spirits known as that aid him in his tasks (though they are more like companions than outright minions)
Gameplay
Main Stats
The blue and red team minions start spawning at 1:15 and every 30 seconds afterward from the Nexus in order to support the champions. Every 90 seconds (3rd wave) the minion waves will grow stronger, with every type of minion gaining different stats. Minions deal 50% increased damage to Turrets and deal about 40% reduced damage to enemy champions. An enemy turret's armor is reduced when minions are near.
All minions have 325 movement speed. All follow the same Behavior Set and walk in a line until they encounter a target. Spawn order is: Super Minions (if active), 3 Melee Minions, Siege Minions (intermittently, change to Super Minions if that lanes opposing 
inhibitor is destroyed), 3 Caster Minions.
Each type can be buffed. Detailed Buffs are noted below, but general buffs are listed within each sub-section.
The 
Banner of Command permanently grants the following to any minion promoted:
- Greatly increased attack damage, health, armor and magic resistance.
- Immunity to magic damage.
- Turret Shield (reduces damage taken from turrets by 30%).
- All gold gained by the minion goes to the champion who promoted it.
Super Minions cannot be promoted.
The grants the following to all minions near a champion with the Hand of Baron aura buff:
- increase speed to match 90% of average movement speed of nearby champions, capped at 500 movement speed
- resistance to slow effects.
- Non-super minions have 75% damage reduction versus area of effect, damage over time, and persistent effects
AI Behavior
Minions and turrets will only deviate from their standard behavior to come to the aid of an ally under duress. Whenever any unit is under attack, it generates a ‘call for help’. Minions and turrets have slightly different reactions to a call for help.
Under normal circumstances, a minion’s behavior is simple. Minions follow their attack route until they reach an enemy to engage. Every few seconds, they will scan the area around them for the highest priority target. When a minion receives a call for help from an ally, it will evaluate its current target in relation to the target designated by the call. It will switch its attack to the new target if and only if the new target is of a higher priority than their current target. Minions prioritize targets in the following order:
- An enemy champion designated by a call for help from an allied champion. (Enemy champion attacking an Allied champion)
- An enemy minion designated by a call for help from an allied champion. (Enemy minion attacking an Allied champion)
- An enemy minion designated by a call for help from an allied minion. (Enemy minion attacking an Allied minion)
- An enemy turret designated by a call for help from an allied minion. (Enemy turret attacking an Allied minion)
- An enemy champion designated by a call for help from an allied minion. (Enemy champion attacking an Allied minion)
- The closest enemy minion.
- The closest enemy champion.
Minions will only reevaluate their target every few seconds. This means that if a champion initiates an attack against an enemy champion, the attacking champion will continue to be viewed as the most threatening target for a short time after they have broken off the attack. This is true even if one of their allied champions has joined the fight, since minions always prioritize their current target over a new target of equal priority. If a targeted champion leaves the minions' sight, the minions will automatically reevaluate their target and will carry on walking or attacking something else. Because they are continuously reevaluating their target, minions will lose interest in an enemy champion if that champion breaks off an engagement with them, provided that there is any other target left for them to choose within range.
Types
| Melee Minions | Caster Minions | Siege Minions | Super Minions |
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Blue Siege Minion Red Siege Minion |  
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Interacting Items
The following items interact in unique ways with minions. Each item can be improved to continue working more effectively:
Ancient Coin: UNIQUE - FAVOR: Being near a minion death without granting the killing blow grants 2 gold and heals for 5 health.- Relic Shield: UNIQUE - SPOILS OF WAR: Melee autoattacks execute minions below 200 (+100% AD) health. Killing a minion by any means heals you and the nearest allied champion for 40 health and grants them gold equal to the kill. These effects require a nearby allied champion and consume a charge. Recharges every 60 seconds. Max 2 charges.
- Spellthief's Edge: UNIQUE - TRIBUTE: Your next damaging ability or autoattack against a champion or structure will deal 10 additional damage and grant 5 gold. You generate one charge of Tribute every 10 seconds, storing up to 3. Killing a minion disables this passive for 12 seconds.
Interacting Buffs
Minions can be buffed to varying degrees.
- grants a buff as an aura.
- Destroying an Inhibitor will grant all allied minions of that lane a slight buff as well spawn Super Minions in that lane.
- Banner of Command can promote a minion, granting increased attack damage, health, armor, magic resistance, reduced damage from turrets and immunity to magic damage. Additionally, all gold gained by the minion goes to the champion who promoted it.
- Many champion buffs and heals will work on minions, but generally prioritize champions.
- PUSHING ADVANTAGE
- If your team's average level is higher than the enemy's:
- Your minions deal 10% bonus damage to enemy minions. If your team has taken more turrets, this damage is increased by a further 10%.
- Your minions take 1 + (turret differential × level differential) less damage (flat) from enemy minions.
- If your average level is at least 3 levels higher and you've taken 2 more turrets in a single lane, your minions become Enraged:
- The bonus damage is increased by a further 90%.
- The flat damage reduction is increased by a further 7
- If your team's average level is higher than the enemy's:
Champion Buffs
Champion buffs that work on friendly minions:
- Blood Boil (Movement Speed and Attack Speed)
- Command: Dissonance (Movement Speed)
- Creeping Death (Armor/Magic Resist and Movement Speed if running towards him)
- (Movement Speed)
- Triumphant Roar (Heal)
- Stand Behind Me (Increased Armor/Magic Resistance and a dash)
- Time Bomb (Delayed AoE)
- Monsoon (Heal)
Champion spells that can be used on friendly minions but do not buff them in any way:
- Help, Pix! (Reposition Pix)
- Shunpo (Blink)
- Safeguard (Dash)
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Creep Score
Gold is granted to the champion that deals the killing shot on any minion or monster. This is known as a "Last Hit" and is considered one of the most important skills in League of Legends. Last Hitting will increase a champions "Creep Score" (CS) noted at the far right of champion stats in the tab stats, or top right corner for the player's champion. CS includes kills of Jungle Monsters and Champion Pets. In the early and mid game, CS can be used as a gauge for comparing how well a player is doing against their respective lane opponent along with KDA. Many champions will use their autoattack (AA) to Last Hit, but several champions, especially AP champs, also have low cost, low cooldown target or area burst spells to last hit. Melee minions can take two tower hits and be easy to AA for most ad champions. Caster minions are best to hit once before taking a single tower hit, then hit again for the Last Hit.
Game Terminology
The following are other terms used in league to quickly explain a situation or method involving minions.
- Lane Momentum: The direction and strength a lane's minions are working toward without champion aid.
- Pushing: Attacking the minions before Last Hitting so as to keep allied minions alive and allow them to move closer to the enemy turret.
- Freezing: Stopping the enemy minions from pushing the lane any further without pushing back.
- Monster Wave: A wave that builds up to a very large number of minions and can take out most if not all of a turret without champion aid.
- Free Farming: When a champion is left unopposed in a lane to kill minions for the purpose of gaining gold and experience.
- Proxy Farming: When a champion goes behind an enemy tower to kill enemy minions without the aid of allied minions.
- Split Pushing: Pushing a lane's minions forward for the purpose of taking out a tower while the allied team is else where on the map.
Trivia
- If the champions do not interfere in the battle, one team of minions will eventually win the game. Which team will win is completely random, depending on which team focuses the enemy minions better.
- When minions scan for a target, it is possible for a champion to pick up aggro multiple times from a minion. Minions can constantly pick up aggro from you and can follow you through the jungle.
- By default, minions and bases in Summoner's Rift are colored as blue bottom and red top. With later patches an option was added that changed the color of the minions and bases so that the allied side was always blue colored and the enemy red. This does not change the minion or base models, it only gives them the appropriate colors. This has no ties with the lore and is a purely aesthetic option within the game.
- Minions are sometimes called "Winions" if minions are destroying enemy turrets, Nexuses without the help of an allied champion or being able to sufficiently kill an enemy champion.
Media
Patch history
V5.8:
- Visual and Gameplay Updates on Howling Abyss map (to match Summoner's Rift).
- Minions no longer gain magic resistance over time.
- Minion health gain over time increased to compensate the loss of resistances.
- Cannon minions no longer have base armor.
- Super minions now grant nearby allies minions bonus damage and resistances.
- NEW BUFF - PUSHING ADVANTAGE
- If your team's average level is higher than the enemy's:
- Your minions deal 10% bonus damage to enemy minions. If your team has taken more turrets, this damage is increased by a further 10%.
- Your minions take 1 + (turret differential × level differential) less damage (flat) from enemy minions.
- If your average level is at least 3 levels higher and you've taken 2 more turrets in a single lane, your minions become Enraged:
- The bonus damage is increased by a further 90%.
- The flat damage reduction is increased by a further 7.
- If your team's average level is higher than the enemy's:
- Melee minion
- Initial gold increased to 20 from 18.5.
- Gold growth reduced to 0.125 per minute from 0.17.
- Caster minion
- Initial gold increased to 17 from 13.8.
- Gold growth reduced to 0.125 per minute from 0.17.
- Siege minion
- Initial gold increased to 45 from 36.8.
- Gold growth reduced to 0.35 per minute from 0.425.
- Minions no longer gain armor or magic resistance over time.
- Cannon minions no longer have base armor.
- All minion health gain over time has been increased to be roughly as durable as when they had resistances.
- Visual Update on Summoner's Rift map.
- Lane minions are no longer worth more experience based on game time.
- Damage from lane minions to champions reduced by about 15%.
- Personal score on Dominion: minion kill reward increased to 2 points from 1.
- Fixed a bug where minions were not properly displaying stat growth over time.
- Cannon minions now spawn every 2 waves after 35 minutes instead of 20.
- Cannon minions and super minions now reduce turret damage by 50%, down from 65%.
- Minions now deal 50% more damage to turrets, down from 60%.
- Minions now deal 60% more damage to turrets, up from 40%.
- Melee minion magic resist now increases by 1.25 per 3 minutes, up from 0.5.
- Ranged minion armor now increases by 1.25 per 3 minutes, up from 0.5.
- Cannon minions:
- Armor and magic resist now increase by 3 per 3 minutes, up from 0.5.
- After 20 minutes, cannon minions now spawn every 2 waves, up from every 3 waves.
- Cannon minions and super minions now reduce turret damage by 65%, up from 50%.
- Fixed a tooltip bug with cannon minions and super minions.
- Removed mana from all inhibitor minions.
- Twisted Treeline super minions:
- Health increased to 1200 from 1000.
- Base damage increased by 30.
- Gold from minion kills increased by 3 for all minions.
- Melee minions:
- Gain 2 additional armor every 3 minutes.
- Gain 0.5 additional magic resist every 3 minutes.
- Gold bounty increased to 22 from 20 on Summoner's Rift and to 26 from 24 on Twisted Treeline.
- Caster minions:
- Gain 0.5 additional armor every 3 minutes.
- Gain 2 additional magic resist every 3 minutes.
- Gold bounty increased to 16 from 14 on Summoner's Rift and to 19 from 17 on Twisted Treeline.
- Cannon minions:
- Gain 2 additional armor every 3 minutes.
- Gain 2 additional magic resist every 3 minutes.
- Gold bounty increased to 27 from 25 on Summoner's Rift and to 19 from 17 on Twisted Treeline.
- Super minion gold bounty increased to 27 from 25 on Summoner's Rift and to 32 from 30 on Twisted Treeline.
- Improved minion turning when they appear from fog of war.
- Twisted Treeline:
- Melee minion gold per kill increased to 24 from 22.
- Super minions:
- Health increased by 200.
- Damage increased by 20.
- Fixed minion pathfinding.
- Minion kills now display the correct values.
- Super minion movement speed aura removed.
- Minions no longer clear the player's bounty.
- Super minions and cannon minions now have new portraits.
- Cannon minion health boost per 3 minutes increased to 27 from 25.
- Super minion magic resist reduced to -30 from 0.
- Minion corpses now fade out when they disappear instead of popping.
- Super minions:
- Base health reduced to 1500 from 2000.
- Health scaling increased to reach the current values at 30 minutes (exceeding it past that mark).
- Base damage reduced to 180 from 250.
- Damage scaling increased to reach the current values at 30 minutes (exceeding it past that mark).
- Super minions:
- Health scaling increased to 150 from 100 every 180 game seconds.
- Added a 30% multiplicative movement speed boost aura with a 800 radius that affects both minions and champions.
- Minions no longer have health or mana regeneration. This will help the game run faster.
- Cannon minions:
- Health increased to 700 from 600.
- Spawn rate increased to every 3 waves from ever 4 waves.
- Fixed a bug with ghost minions. They will no longer be present when you reconnect.
- Siege minions:
- Red and blue cannons now have Turret Shield (receives 50% reduced damage from turrets).
- Red and blue cannons now deal 100% bonus damage to turrets.
- Fixed an issue where minions were not giving players full credit for kills in the announcements.
- Damage minions deal to champions increased to 70% from 60%.
- Inhibitor bonuses:
- Melee minion bonus damage increased to 10 from 8.
- Ranged minion bonus damage increased to 18 from 15.
- Cannon minion bonus damage increased to 25 from 20.
- Added a new passive to mech minions
- Turret Shield: damage taken from turrets is reduced by 50%.
- Brightened the new mech minions and cannon minions.
- Corrected the collision sizes of the new mech minions and cannon minions.
- Removed aura from rider minions.
- Basic minion gold yield growth reduced by 50%.
- Added new rider minion and super minion models.
- Destroying an inhibitor no longer causes the enemy team to gain less experience and gold from minion kills.
- Duration between minion upgrades increased to 200 from 180.
- Damage minions deal to champions increased to 60% from 50%.
- Minion gold bounty now caps after 30 minutes (10 upgrades).
- New melee and ranged minions for both blue and red teams.
- Super Minions:
- Armor reduced to 40 from 50.
- Critical strike chance reduced to 0 from 10.
- Health reduced to 2500 from 4000.
- Damage increased to 250 from 150.
- Minions should no longer be able to get killing streaks.
- Archer minion health increased to 280 from 260.
- Melee minion health increased to 445 from 425.
- Minions no longer give half gold and experience when you have lost an inhibitor.
- Minion health bars are now brighter.
- Melee minion gold bounty increased to 26 from 22.
- Ranged minion gold bounty reduced to 18 from 22.
- Minions now spawn after 1 minute instead of 1 minute and 40 seconds.
- Minions now spawn from the Nexus instead of inhibitors.
- Minions can no longer be denied.
- Reduced the selection radius of archers and riders (ranged and siege minions).
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