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PSA from your Bot Lane

Josh Sand··4 votes·3,138 views

Everyone likes to talk shit about "feeding bot lanes," but the truth of the matter is that a 2v2 is going to happen, and if you lose that, your lane is basically blown unless your jg intervenes. But really, you don't even have to 2v2 to lose the lane.

Sometimes you collapse on an invading jungler to protect your own jungle, but then lose out on some XP, so the lane is blown.

Sometimes one of you gets to the lane late and doesn't get to level 2 in time, so the lane is blown

Sometimes you take a little bit of damage during a level 1 skirmish and you arrive to lane hurt, so you get pressured off the wave, and then your lane is blown.

Once that advantage is given, unless your jungler comes and ganks, there is very little you can do to change the direction of the lane, unless your opponents royally fuck up. Oh and while you are behind, you have zero lane priority, which means that the enemy mid laner can invade the shit out of your jungle without punishment, or they can just 4 man the dragon while you are stuck at tower. Another fun bonus is that you arent even able scoot out of the lane long enough to ward against the guaranteed 4 man dive headed for your ass.

TLDR; The slightest ripples will completely tilt the bot lane in or out of your favor, and it's insanely hard to pull things back to neutral. This has never been the case for all that I can remember, and a lot of players haven't adjusted to this busted ass lane snowball.

So yea, bot lanes feed, because there's almost never an even lane there anymore, thanks to the fact that the slightest breeze will fuck you out of your CS and your tower, and there's fuckall you can do about it.

9 Comments

Tr4shB4NSYST3M5 votes

Lost botlane is fine, but for the love of god lose gracefully, 0-3 adc but still getting some CS w/ 0-3 support ok thats fine! its the 1-9, 0-7 botlanes that just straight run it down once they lose and just keep fighting and fighting or even pushing the lane when they know the junglers been camping

Malix Farwin1 votes

Well depends really, a lost bot lane is one thing. I look at a lot of different things in that regard like the amount of pressure they were getting for example. But a game where they are both 1/3 are imo salvageable. A feeding hot lane however is one that starts feeding seconds into lane and consistently feeding throughout with 0 mid or jungle pressure. That's a different story entirely and the more common ones.

Crispy0Snake1 votes

Yeah getting blue side and losing...

Tri brush is the entry point for your restaurant; and you're feeding EVERYONE that comes in

You literally can't do anything either, I just buy mobies and sprint top sometimes and accept that bot lane is fucked, I mean it lets the ADC get solo xp from the waves that go to tower, and tilts their toplaner "what is the Alistar doing in my lane reee"

And if it's low elo their mid won't go to the sidelane when their botlane rotates mid. So their mid, ad and supp all soak xp midlane while your adc gets solo xp bot, your top gets ahead etc, and so you can claw back games that way

2Charmnot2Charm1 votes

Sometimes you collapse on an invading jungler to protect your own jungle

Enemy pushed minions into your tower? Don't leave lane unless you like to auto lose the game.

Sometimes you take a little bit of damage during a level 1 skirmish and you arrive to lane hurt

And this doesn't happen to any other role because?

which means that the enemy mid laner can invade the shit out of your jungle without punishment

I fail to see how bot lane has anything to do with enemy mid lane having priority or not, enemy mid is going to be roaming with jungler so by the time you even noticed it's already too late.

arent even able scoot out of the lane long enough to ward against the guaranteed 4 man dive headed

Enemy mid laner isn't on the map and no known whereabouts of the enemy jungler? Back off then.

But honestly if adc/support only died 4 times combined within 10 minutes there is no issues, however when they both died 10 times before laning phase is even over we have a problem. Doesn't matter if player is autofilled or not cause even the ones that main the role pull of this stupidity unless their opponents are even dumber.

XanderthePancham1 votes

It is extremely hard to come back in a lost bot lane (assuming your enemies are good and don't give you a free double to fix everything). But it's not difficult to let yourself be carried. Just stay safe no matter what and allow your teammates to do what they can until you have the opportunity to do something. It's much better to have a behind bot lane than a fed enemy bot lane.

What IS frustrating is when your lane partner feeds nonstop and is 0-5 by the time you first die. Then you get flamed when you start dying to ashe arrow + fed kayn.

ZXImmortal1 votes

PSA from toplaners its ur job to ban vayne

Doge20201 votes

I don’t care if you lose bot and “feed”. Mainly because I am constantly in the same position as you and have lost lane horribly lots of times, have also won lane by a landslide and won the game a few times. The only thing I ask is that you be respectful, play smart and do everything in your power to avoid dying more and to contribute to the team.

If you die to the fed Zed I will respect you if you were actively fighting him or if you were running away and got unlucky (example: Ashe R hit you which let zed kill you after you blew flash + heal). What I won’t respect is if you constantly flame and harass me and my team mates when you were the one being a dumbass and refusing to admit it. Tbh I would still be kinda mad at you at losing lane because it makes the match harder to win. I would be even more mad if you are being toxic about it and refusing to contribute or adapt.

Vlada Cut1 votes

Support match up is more important than adc match up unless it's Vayne it's freelo. Sick and tired of getting autofilled supports or first timers as my supports while enemy adc gets actually dedicated support mains.

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