Why does the enemy botlane have more pressure than us every game

coreym11·Jun 24, 2019·1 votes·1,069 views

I'm a Jinx main and iv'e been climbing very fast through silver and reached gold 5 promos recently. Only thing that's been annoying me is that about 75% of the time bot lane is getting bullied. I'm farming and throwing rocket launcher hits, but my support is usually behind me because for some reason I never get matched with lux or brand or some high damage mage, its always like a thresh or a blitzcrank. So they don't really do anything besides sit behind me. Does anyone have any tips or suggestions? Cause this actually annoying. I recently played a game vs a caitlyn and a lux bot and it was probably the most cancer unfun and impossible lane to farm in. The only time we were able to do anything was when we got ganked.

2 Comments

ThingamajigJun 24, 20191 votes

if you want thresh and blitz to be effective every other wave clear the backline and stall the melees allows way more pressure for your blitz and thresh even if they won't throw their abilities

Dorans PantsJun 25, 20191 votes

If you are constantly pushed in by an overaggressive lux, brand, vel etc. with a thresh, blitz and your jgler ignores that for longer then he is straight up trolling you.

In a hard engage-mage match-up you run into the problem that your early engages are fairly risky. Your burst, even with ignite, is limited and if someone messes up and you don´t manage to burst one of the enemies down a good engage can go south-pretty quick with how much more consistent dmg a mage lane has compared to a tank lane. They don´t have to look for a way to engage anymore since the tank support did it for them and as long as they barely survive they can counter with even more burst.

In this sense, it is not uncommon for engage support to play more passively at a certain point to wait for the jgler to make use of their superior engage potential. Just don´t forget to prepare the lane for a gank.

freeze
pink warding at least one entrance
stay somewhat healthy so you can fight
ping like a mad man because 90% of the time the jgler will prioritize farm over your lane matchup and gank potential.

success is not guaranteed. Some matchups just suck.