First thing to do after you get ganked

Zero Skill Tank·Oct 16, 2016·5 votes·401 views

blame your jungler

OK that was obvious but 2nd thing to do:

Ask yourself if that gank is repeatable, and if so, under what conditions?

Was the gank possible because you were at low HP? Put extra care to not stay in lane with low HP. Maybe it required enemies to use summoner spell, or an ult? Put extra care to time that one - you probably can safely farm until it comes back of cooldown, but should start freezing the moment it's back up. Maybe it was specific gank route that allowed this, and you would be safe if gank came from the other? Ward the dangerous one.

Even if that won't necessarily win you this game, it will make you less gankable in the future on the champion you are playing.

But srsly, point 1 is way, way more important. 70% of ganks are your junglers fault.

5 Comments

Could not careOct 16, 20164 votes

I don't ever find it jungler's fault that I'm getting ganked, but when I look at the map and see that he didn't do shit while the enemy jungle camped us, then I get a bit salty. Or, more than a bit.

oSEXYPLATYPUSoOct 16, 20161 votes

i usually just ward

but thats me

Furor NexisOct 16, 20161 votes

As someone who lanes primarily and jungles secondarily, I can say that your first point is disagreeable and inaccurate at best.

If I'm in top jungle, and the gank is happening in botlane, I expect 3 things: Map awareness, knowing when to push lane and warding. If you're not warding and you push a lane aggressively, it's your fault for letting the gank be utilized. I can't instantly teleport down to bot and save your ass if you messed up.

If I know a certain lane is being ganked over and over, that gives me 3 choices: Splitpushing, invading the enemy jungle or ganking other lanes and helping my other laners snowball. If I'm securing an objective and you're screaming about how I did nothing, that's your fault for letting yourself fall into the position of an easy gank. I'm also not going to gank a lost lane either. I'd rather not add to the gold pile of the fed enemy laner without serious back up and catching them out. Obtaining Dragon/ Rift/ Baron is far more favorable to my team than trying to save one person from getting killed, as that means their jungler is trying to get a kill and gives me ample time to do other things.