if I roam post after 5min mark to gank a side lane I lose half my tower
like am I being rewarded or punished for playing like a team mate? because it seems that the laner that sits in lane and auto pushes gets rewarded more
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That's kind of the trade off you make for roaming. Granted, some matchs up are far better to roam in, If you push to turret and they're trying to farm under turret then you'll prolly be able to roam and get back in time to catch your farm or at the very least before it takes to much damage.
You have to roam when you know you're not busy farming or dealing with the other mid laner. If you push the lane and force the other guy back to base, that's when you can roam for a moment and not lose much tower health or gold. You obviously don't want to randomly leave lane when you'll lose more than you gain.
When the conditions are met, that's when you'll be allowed to leave lane, gank someone, and type in all chat "I AM HERE!"
I really want to try and write out what I understand about wave management, but I don't fully understand it myself lol. It is really difficult to find any useful resource on this too.
One thing that I know that doesn't always make sense is that it isn't always best to push the wave as fast as you can. If all of the minions die under tower before the enemy's reinforcement wave arrives, the lane will reset instead of bouncing. Then when the enemy laner shows up they only need to push one wave to get to your tower instead of two.
It's matchup dependant