Lvl 2 ganks in top lane
So there is this strategy, its happened to me enough times now that I'm actually fuckin sick of losing lane because of it. The enemy jungle and top lane start the red buff, whether its on your side or if they're on blue starting yours.
I thought about this the other day while I was at the gym. If you're on red side this is why you need to stand in the brush behind your red to make sure someone isn't doing this.
If I'm on blue side, I'm now just warding my own brush at about 1:10 because then it lasts long enough to stop a jungler red then gank crap. Then you have a trinket back at 3:10, so that will cover most jungler lvl 3 gank. You might think oh but enemy jungler clearly started blue if their not lane appeared to leash, but bot lanes will just fake they leashed even so you can't really count on that unless your team warded the bot side buff to see the jg start.
Even if that is a late time to have your trinket back, cuz I mean they could just hit you when you go to ward at that point, it is less damaging to your landing phase than losing flash at level 1, because
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Your own jungler will at least be nearby at 3 minutes, so possibly you get a counter gank,
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The enemy jungler will lose more tempo at this point in the game if he stays to try to repeat gank after getting your flash, especially if they don't get a kill,
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At least you had a chance to manage the wave or poke your enemy down low enough by this point in the game that the gank might not even be viable.
Anyway, that is my take on this shit. Tired enough of losing to cheesing strategies that I thought of some way to mitigate it.
