Hi, since Fiddler gets additional MOV and defense as long as one minion is not deployed at the beginning of his actions step: Would it be possible to remove the minion before this passive gets activated to get the bonus since he can remove minions at any time during the actions step? I would say no since the beginning is the very first 'phase' of the step. But the question came up in a match recently.
Minions can only be remove during action step, and you only get additional MOV and DEF at the beginning of the action step, so this happens before you can actually remove any minion.
Yeah, the timing on the "remove a minion" would have to ALSO be "Beginning of the Action Step" but it's not, it's "During the Action Step" which is too late. Because it happens at the "Beginning" the calculation of Movement will happen before you can pull a Minion back in.