Is Split Pushing also called a distraction?

Your Home Dog·Jan 4, 2016·1 votes·559 views

Ok so I understand what split pushing is, you snowball a lane while your team keeps the rest of the enemy team OCCUPIED! Their ATTENTION is AWAY from you because their FOCUSED on your team. Their not paying any mind to you. So anyways, my friend and I are arguing whether or not split pushing is also called a distraction. I told him it's the same thing, just being called in a more strategic way. He says their not the same thing. So how is a distraction and split pushing not the same? I need help.

6 Comments

Ale non è maleJan 4, 20162 votes

He is right and you are wrong Splitpushing works also as a game strategy on his own... it CAN be used as a distraction, but it is not automatically it, you can use to purposedly win the game

Your objective is to take down nexus, and to do this you got to take down lane turrets, than inhibs, than nexus turrets, and then nexus, the strategy to do it doesn't really matter Win team fights is a way to have a free time window to take down turrets, but you don't have to necessarily take down turrets this way. You can sneak unnoticed on a lane and push tower down, and that's what splitpushing in. You can draw attention to you while splitpushing free the map for your team to take objectives...when you splitpush you are not automatically the distraction, you can be the main threat enemies have to fight, and the team can use the fact you draw attention to keep up in farm or do something else

Call it a mere distraction is silly, because you can use the splitpushing strategy in many different way... Example: Past lane phase, your teams is losing fights in a game, the enemy group and take mid inhib and while you are forced to defend against minion wave, they go back to then take an objective like a dragon/baron. You can't literaly reverse the push direction in mid lane by the time they take the uncontested objective. How can you try to win the game? While the enemy is taking an objective and your team is defending, you can go on a side lane, take a tower down, and open a way for the enemy inhib-> nexus if you win next figth or for a backdoor/base race

Here the splitpushing is not a distraction to allow your team to do something, it is a way to trade some objective while the enemy get theirselves an objective getting a big advantage and try to not get too far behind and build a possible way to success

Slamurai JackJan 4, 20162 votes

It can work both ways. That Tryndamere or Yi sneaking in to backdoor your base while their team fights? That's their team distracting for them. Yi pushing bot while his team does Baron? That's him distracting the enemy team away from a key objective.

EndlessSorcererJan 4, 20162 votes

Both the team and the split-pusher are distractions.

You apply pressure on two points to force a response from the enemy team.

If the enemy team sends 2+ people to deal with the splitpusher, then their team will have a numeric advantage in a teamfight.

If the enemy team sends 0 or 1 people to deal with the splitpusher (who should be a duelist), they should be able to win and continue pushing.

Z StatisticJan 4, 20161 votes

And if they can't win, a splitpusher needs to be mobile. So long as they can still pressure that one person to stay in that lane, your team has an easier time sieging their tower, not even necessarily having to engage upon the enemy. Sometimes a threat is more powerful than the actual event.

Nanuk PihoqahiakJan 4, 20161 votes

I think it's the other way around. You create a distraction by splitpushing to attract 1-2 members of the enemy team. Some characters that splitpush could even fight one or two people, like Riven or Tryndamere.

It could be called either. Seems like he's arguing for the sake of arguing. I had a friend that argued tanky characters couldn't be called tanks because they couldn't taunt enemies and force them to attack them. Lol.

SnazzyTheMisterJan 4, 20161 votes

the idea of split pushing is to apply pressure similar to a "fork" in chess where you threaten two objectives. one being the towers in the side lane being pushed, the other being a teamfight if more then one enemy leaves the main grouping. so hopefully the person split pushing is a big enough threat to draw 2 people to deal with them and when that happens your team can engage on the remaining 3 players and win 4v3.

so its a bit of both, its a strat based around the dividing a team.