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How to Counter Roaming

Dráze·12/20/2014, 7:14:10 PM·19 votes·4,624 views

I've noticed that in my games people get mad when people roam and get kills. For example, the enemy mid/top laner will go bot and get a double kill. Then bot lane will start to get mad and rage. Coming from me who mains adc and mid, its leaves a facepalm on my face for the rest of the game. I thought of a way that will let you counter roaming. You might be saying "WHAT, NO WAY, WOW , OMG, COOL STORY BRO 1v1 me fgt" This is how its done

  1. If your lane opponent starts roaming. Dont go after them, PUSH YOUR TURRET This is especially goes goes for you if your mid and playing a strong pusher. Get the turret or work that turret. if your jg comes to help you, you might even be able to get two turrets. Now this leaves space for you to go roam other lanes and help push other lanes and get dragons
  2. GET WARDS if your at botlane, and you have wards that allow you to see that enemy katarina or fizz coming to your lane, you can stop overextending and stop them from getting an easy double. If your low, back cause if you stay theyll get tower, AND two kills. ( not to mention a potential drag) Uhhh thats all i have for now. Dont have to listen to me cause Im just a silver 3 sooo uhh chose who u open ur ears to (im trying to make famous quotes. dnt hate) Any suggestions, criticisms, or comments or welcome (not really i'll prolly get salty) If your high elo, then you can laugh at my ignorance and keep going through the forums Bye

28 Comments

Kuroi8612/20/2014, 7:28:36 PM12 votes

Wait wait wait...

You mean people should actually... learn to play good... instead of just blaming their team for their failings???

Report this noob AD! No clue what he's talking about!!!

(FYI I'm joking and you're awesome.)

Spacesuit Spiff12/20/2014, 8:58:50 PM11 votes

Your options are basically to follow them (unless they're strong enough to cheese you, because some champs just pretend to roam and sit in the bush to cheese), push turret, or gank the other side lane. Always make damn sure your botlane knows the mid is coming so they get under tower.

ShakySurgeon12/20/2014, 7:48:41 PM8 votes

You're absolutely right. Sadly such simple information like this is always missed by many players. It's small subtle things like this that can really improve a player and help the team overall.

Oh. . PING MIA!!! I hardly see people do this sadly.

Starkìller12/21/2014, 12:31:35 AM3 votes

Look at your minimap every few seconds no matter what lane you are or whether or not you're overextended. Don't rely on your teammates to ping MIA; if any enemy is missing, ping 'Missing' twice on the lanes that are halfway down their lane or further, then on the lane that is 'Missing' so they know that the enemy may be roaming their way down / up.

It's saved my bot lane countless times when they realize "Oh shit, Fizz left lane at full health about fifteen seconds ago and they're going aggro on their side of the lane."

The Whamboozler12/21/2014, 12:34:15 AM3 votes

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Khell DarkWolf12/20/2014, 7:29:48 PM3 votes

Thats what you're supposed to do.

If you can't counter the roam then push in as hard as you can.

Plus if you know their mid champion or what have you has a high potential to roam then get a get pink in your jungle so you can watch when they try to roam that side.

exiledFromBadmen12/21/2014, 7:52:49 AM2 votes

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alaskaneagle12/21/2014, 9:02:53 PM2 votes

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Hate to brake it to you but #1 takes courage to do and most of the stockholms in the game fall on the floor in the fetal position and have a seizure if you tell them to push mid turret while their opponent is ganking bot. Also I've found that the jung is more than happy to help you clear those minis but as soon as it's time to hit the turret he leaves cause he might get 20 less gold for taking that turret than farming his jung, and despite how much it might help the team "screw the team I'm here to jung carry".

So yea it's great in theory and would work great on a team, but in solo queue... it just never happens.

SleepyLionCub12/20/2014, 8:19:03 PM2 votes

This never seems to work for me. :/

I push, but the tower is so tanky I cant blow it up by the time the other laner gets back.

Squeaker10112/20/2014, 8:32:20 PM2 votes

Yea, people in Silver really need to read this. Too many times have I seen them either; 1. Freeze the lane, or 2. Follow them, and usually accomplish nothing.

SecretAgentHulk12/20/2014, 11:03:35 PM2 votes

Pro support tip: BUY A FUCKING PINK WARD and put it in the tribush. Then use Sightstone to keep the river bush warded at all times. There is no excuse for their mid popping out of the river and surprising you.

Junkο12/20/2014, 11:52:01 PM2 votes

item 2044

problem solved.

hell a item 2043 in a river bush is usually enough since surprisingly not many people check for it.

Bresn12/21/2014, 1:08:28 AM2 votes

The easiest way is to simply use vision to collapse on the roamer or choose another roaming champion.

I main Nasus and Singed TP top because those two can die all they want, TP in whatever lane the enemy roamer is at and kill him, kill the laners at the lane he is in and push free turret.

PatMcGroyn12/21/2014, 8:55:03 PM1 votes

How to counter roaming? Vision, pinging MIA, following your enemy laner if you can 1v1 them and know where the jungler is, or push your lane. If you do your part, and your team didn't listen to your pings, that's their fault and you do your best.

MattAkhavan12/21/2014, 12:15:29 AM1 votes

Sit in a bush and wait for them to come back and kill then. At this point they lose 2-3x more if they fail roam.