Basics about creep control

Heppedihey·Oct 7, 2015·1 votes·579 views

Hi guys (and girls)

I'm silver and know nothing about creep control. Where would I go for basic knowledge about how to use creep manipulation for control of the map?

4 Comments

HangsterrOct 7, 20152 votes

IDK much either but basically if you ever want your lane to push itself just kill the big cannon only and let your wave of minion with the big cannon push itself and that lane will be a winning lane....(that just what i do)

and when your winning your lane and your opponent is scare of csing, freeze wave by only last hitting minion with their lowest hp possible to deny farm, and when your near to destroying your enemy turret and your lane have huge minion wave, don't rush destorying the turret, let it kill the minions to deny the enemy even more farm

DarkwindOct 7, 20152 votes

This is a pretty good video on slow pushes. THere's lots of videos like it out there. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2XUAduOFS8w

If you're looking for lane control during lane phase i could find something on that too.

HeppediheyOct 7, 20151 votes

Very good advice and very basic. Thanks both. xDarkwind, something about lane control would be great too.

Also, in LCS they always talk about setting the waves up for objectives. Is that basically just setting up the minions for a slow push or is there more to it?

DarkwindOct 7, 20151 votes

Setting waves up for objectives means AT LEAST preventing the enemy from having a slow push. So at a minimum, you want both side waves to be even so that you aren't at a disadvantage when taking the objective. Having a slow push in one or more lanes yourself is even better, as this forces your opponent into a lose-lose decision, but it's not mandatory to do so. Also, keep in mind that in solo queue, people often won't be coordinated enough to properly abuse the minion wave. What I mean by this is it takes some time for the slow pushed wave to actually kill the tower. You should be trying to stall around at dragon/baron/whatever when the wave is shoving, but most teams will just try to instantly take it. That gives the enemy team the opportunity to go pick up all the creeps in the side wave, and will actually give them a small advantage, because you denied yourself more creeps than they were denied.

Anyway, here are a few resources on wave managements: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bPmducL1JRU https://www.reddit.com/r/leagueoflegends/comments/2jj6pf/a_series_in_creep_wave_management_the_even_minion/ https://www.reddit.com/r/leagueoflegends/comments/2jlx1w/a_series_in_creep_wave_management_the_uneven/ https://www.reddit.com/r/leagueoflegends/comments/2kqbsv/a_series_in_creep_wave_management_creating_an/

Note that all of these are geared towards top lane, but they apply to bot lane as well.