Dealing With Splitpushing

AcidTheWarlock··1 votes·272 views

First of all, splitpushing is completely viable and though it's a pain in the ass, it's a perfectly acceptable tactic and I don't judge you for doing it.

I play top and mid, often teamfight champs like Ryze and Rumble. Now today I had a Rumble game against a Jax in top. He didn't really know how to fight me and their jungler was never around, so I shoved him under tower, warded, shoved some more, killed him (although he got a first blood on me :P) and fought when he went to stun and trade, usually winning. I was going to get ganked by jungle and mid (Riven and Ziggs) and managed to get some kills from that, coming out of lane 5/2/2.

I thought I won, so I TP'd bot to help out our Jhin and Lux, who were doing horribly. Got their Vayne and almost Janna, but I lost top turret. I figured "ok, good trade, get Jhin back on his feet." Jax took another tower when I went bot again and I got jumped when I was hiding in a bush. By now he had about equal gold to me and was the same level. I chased him off then went mid to fight. By the time I saw him again, he was massively fed from splitpushing, and I couldn't really shut him down with my 1 slow.

My question is, how do I stop splitpushers as a teamfight character? I prefer fighting rather than farming, as you can tell by my champ choice, but most characters I play (with the exceptions of the few Fiora and Zed games) don't have huge potential to take towers or move to stop splitpushers.

Thanks!

[slayer-pantheon-thumbs]

3 Comments

Sahn Uzal1 votes

Example Scenario: You have 5 people in mid. The enemy team has 4 people in mid and a Trondlemire splitting top.

Now you can either try to engage on the enemy team because it's a 5v4, or you can send 1 or 2 people to kill Trondlemire, and have the remaining players on your team back off and stay safe.

Aptest1 votes

the short answer: you don't.

For the longest time top lane meta was go Jax and play Rat dota. The whole class of "duelists" are what kept top lane from having team fight champions and "tanks".

The thing that eventually broke that meta was Lulu who was not a good split pusher and was a good team fighter but could wreak jax and his ilk.

now that she's nerfed to the ground as a solo laner? you're going to see a lot more "chase the tryndamare" games.

Linna Excel1 votes

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mkKP6AfInYU

Ideally if their top is splitting, your top should always mirror him.

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