Does buffing grant you Turret assists?
Yes we all know that Attacking a turret will grant you extra gold when it dies.
Now my question is a bit weird: What happens if you don't deal any direct damage to a turret but you buff an allied Champion or minion that finishes off a turret? Does that count as a turret assist? I know that if you shield a turret as Janna and it finishes off a champion, you will get the kill even if you haven't dealt any direct damage to the killed champion. Is it the same for other buffs on other targets?
For a more vivid description: 3 Scenarios with Soraka (I don't like her she just has some nice buffs)
- I'm At my base and I need 50 gold. Now waiting isn't really effective but luckily Ashe is about to destroy the enemy bottom turret so I use my ult.
- Me and Ashe are mid and we're about to kill the turret. The enemy Syndra approaches and Ashe drops really low. I accidentally heal the Cannon minion that attacks the turret instead of Ashe but at least the turret goes down. (I didn't throw a banana at the turret)
- Ashe Ragequitted because I heal minions and use my ult randomly. I'm alone at the bottom turret but I don't want to go too far in So I just heal a random caster minion that is attacking the turret and then I leave. The turret dies within 10 seconds.
Now in which of the 3 above cases would I actually gain bonus gold?
Solution 1:
I assume that you are referring to the change introduced in patch 3.14 stating that turrets grant additional gold that is "split among the players who participate in destroying the turret".
It turns out, this wording is very misleading. The reality is that any champion standing within the turrets range when it is destroyed will receive a portion of the bonus gold, regardless if that champion has done any damage to the turret. The converse is also true, if a champion has done damage to a turret recently but is outside of its range when it is destroyed, they will not receive any of the bonus gold.
This phrasing makes it more clear:
Outer turrets now grant 100 global gold to each player and an additional 150 gold is split among the players who are within range of the the turret when it is destroyed.
Youtube user Kuralesache explains this well and demonstrates the behavior in this video:
This means that none of the scenarios that you describe would grant you a portion of the bonus gold (you would only receive the global gold).