Talk:Apollo, God of the Sun/@comment-60.53.65.249-20141017113620/@comment-58.111.164.242-20150222094706

^ Good question, while I am not OP my guesses is that Minamoto has a hidden skill with ML to change enemy to dark and increase damage dealt against them.

Other reasons are probably conversion purposes, if you remove Minamoto you basically don't have anymore converters aside from Yan. Since Yan removes the probability of hearts dropping you have absolutely no way of healing, Minamoto also acts as a pseudo heart converter to solve that problem.