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How do I Freeze Waves?

Daedalus871·11/1/2015, 6:30:52 AM·1 votes·9,904 views

Laning is currently my weakest phase of the game. During midgame, I can find the farm to catch back up, but I'd rather have the advantage midgame and continue to grow it. I think that my midlane is fine, but my ADC needs help and my top is atrocious.

The biggest thing I need to work on is freezing waves. I know the theory behind it, last hitting the minion right before it dies, but I struggle in practice. When I try to freeze a wave, it seems like I take a lot of damage from the minion wave/ enemy laner, or I end up missing a lot of cs. I know I want to freeze the wave just outside turret range, but if the enemy has clear all my minions, that means I'm taking a decent amount of damage early trying to get them to and keep them at the right spot. So how do I get the wave to freeze without taking a lot of damage?

Another thing that I'd like to know is how to form those megawaves that will crush 2 towers without intervention?

5 Comments

Shac Norris11/1/2015, 6:58:54 AM2 votes

Just play lissandra

Leti the Yeti11/1/2015, 7:03:11 AM2 votes

doood... I can like.. do it I guess, I just dont know the theory behind what im doing....but I'll give it a try. Alright so this is gonna be organized very poorly cuz I'm just dumping what's on my mind out here as it surfaces

As long as their minion wave is bigger than your minion wave, you can freeze the lane. By bigger I mean ONE SINGLE MINION is all it takes to stop your lane from pushing. You kinda have to "assess" how aggressive the other laner is, higher aggressive laners tend to push the wave harder. In this case, you should kinda make an attempt to kill minions at the same rate as them. I assume you're taking alot of minion damage because the wave is fairly sizable and your minion wave is dead...if you had been trying to match the clearing of the other laner, the remaining wave of ideally 1 or 2 minions would be much safer to tank. Now that those 1~2 minions are alive you kinda just dance around outside your turret aggro range until your next wave comes. Then you sorta just repeat, trying to match their clear speed. Same rules apply to less less aggressive laners. Match their clear speed, leave 1 ~2 minions alive, wait outside your turret.. repeat.

Here's how megawaves form to the best of my knowledge. A minion wave consists of tanky minions, catapults and caster minions obviously. Honestly what you do is drive by and kill the caster minions and leave the tanky minions alive. The enemy tanky minions will slow down your minion wave allowing your NEXT minion wave to spawn and close the gap alittle. But because you killed the caster minions, your minions are suffering minimal casualties. Kill a wave or 2 of enemy caster minions and you just wait.

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Jamaree11/1/2015, 6:42:03 AM1 votes

It just takes practice. Like, you can't fully explain it and it more so a thing that comes with practice and is different for every champion. The best and easiest way to describe it is getting a level lead on your opponent, likely by killing them so that if they do decide to damage you, you can outDPS them. Second is to one again, only hit minions to last hit and not just mindlessly push the lane by attacking.

As for mega waves, just kill say two or three minions when waves are even, then leave the lane and let it naturally push. Because your side has more minions, minions will build up to fight and because your side has more DPS, your side will eventually out push the enemy minions but continue to gather to fight them until they make a massive wave.

Kouga11/1/2015, 6:55:00 AM1 votes

Guide to lane freezing