How do I push a lane advantage?

minimite1·10/29/2019, 3:40:37 AM·1 votes·1,502 views

If I’m ahead in CS and able to solo my laner (specifically as Top), what should I be looking to do? Should I keep farming? Should I rotate to mid/bot? Should I rotate to try to force towers and dragons? I feel like if I rotate I lose a lot of farm. But if I don’t rotate then my team will just feed their brains out. This is low elo, so lane swapping isn’t an option.

3 Comments

Pyrosan10/29/2019, 3:42:52 AM1 votes

lane advantage is about dominating your lane you convert your lead into other lanes if you're a mobile champion who can afford the roams like Kled or you can just take teleport if you're interested in helping other lanes out

if you're an immobile champion like lets say Urgot you just want to hold them hostage in the lane with you while denying them any gold/experience so while you gain they lose

dominating your lane is about denying cs and communicating with your jungler once you've got a lead you should be looking to freeze the way near your tower side so they're threatened with being ganked while also being unable to walk up to you because of your lead

if you don't know how to freeze as you said low elo just make sure you keep 4 of their missions alive and don't hit the minions until it's a last hit, the wave will push towards you due to minion advantage and then you just hold it at your tower once your minions die pull the wave back by walking behind the wave into the closest bush to deagro so you dont take pointless dmg until your waves back and bam

you deny them out of the entire wave coz they cant step up to you depending on champion

TehNACHO10/29/2019, 4:00:18 AM1 votes

Okay so wave macro generally goes like this, assuming you have the wave clear and power to work the waves.

If the wave is pushing towards you, freeze the lane, farm, and starve the opponent. If you're winning and have a frozen lane, the enemy Top Laner shouldn't even be able to walk up to you, let alone grab any CS.
If the wave is pushing out, try to push as slowly as possible until the second minion wave comes to grow your wave, then shove the combined 2 waves into the enemy tower. Sometimes you can even combine three waves, but it really depends on how many cannons there are and if minion targeting allows for it. Once the minions are securely under the enemy tower, you have a lot of options. You can roam to gank mid, establish vision, or take herald with your Jungler. You can tower dive, or threaten one so the opposing laner gives up the tower to you for free plates or even the whole tower. You can even run right past the opposing laner to proxy farm or steal the enemy Jungle, and start being a major headache for two players on the enemy team.
The last point continues even as the opponent's tower falls. The goal is to build up a gigantic minion wave and crash it into the enemy's now Tier 2 tower. This makes Herald incredibly easy, and in general buys you WAY more time to roam. If you can successfully crash into the enemy Tier 2, and you can't just keep stomping them under tower or outright killing their Tier 2, this is when you can gank bot. Otherwise, Roam Mid, Roam Enemy Jungle, Take Herald, and generally dominate that quadrant of the map. In my opinion, there's no point in forcing Tier 2s if the Tier 1s are still up. In other words only tower dive if it's easy for you.

The big problem with this advice is that it's exceedingly champion and matchup specific. Not just your own Top Lane matchup mind you, but you need to know the gankability of the other lanes, you need to understand what your Jungler wants to do vs what your opponent's Jungler wants to do. You need to know how well you and your Jungler synergize in tower dives and how well the enemy Jungler and Top Laner synergize at chasing you around. For now, I'd focus on the first two tips the most (freezing and crashing) as they are the most universal tips you can apply to Wave Macro.

Gamma Sector10/29/2019, 4:41:34 AM1 votes

Depends, what champ do you play? On a dedicated splitpusher like Tryndamere, Jax, Yasuo (kinda) Fiora, Nasus, etc, you want to farm, freeze the lane when you can and force your laner off of the minions. Let the wave build, then shove, and threaten a tower dive or roam to take herald if your jungler is up for it (they should be, you now have superior lane pressure). If you cant just 2 shot them under their tower, or take herald, then steal every bit of the enemies JG camps that you can before the wave hits middle of the lane again. Rinse and repeat. Look for TP plays (usually bot) Or, if youre SUPER ahead, and your team mates are absolute monkies, IGNORE ALL OF THAT ADVICE.

If your team mates are dog shit, then take your lane advantage, use the first bits of advice to make your laner hate their life and blame their JG for not ganking, and then proceed to run it down top for the entire game.