Will tower diving help me climb out of bronze?

Hallbuster·Mar 5, 2017·3 votes·395 views

I see every LCS player doing it, should I do it as well?

P.S I main Ryze who's great for tower diving because of his ult and passive shield.

9 Comments

LauchmelderMar 5, 20172 votes

No. Never towerdive unless you know what you're doing.

If you want to get out of bronze just farm (refuse to poke unless your enemy makes a mistake: e.g Kat uses her jump on a minion and doesn't get the reset)

And ward. Warding is key. You'll be gold with those 2 tips, there's not much difference between silver and gold.

LimmieMar 5, 20172 votes

Yeah. I specially recommend tower diving against champions that are very weak against it. Tryndamere, Zyra, Lissandra, Kayle, Morgana and Alistair are particularly susceptible to it, so look to towerdive them whenever you can. It's basically freelo.

If you need tips, learn from these 3 masters: https://clips.twitch.tv/ConsiderateVainDurianDoggo

HallbusterMar 5, 20172 votes

Can't tell if this is sarcasm or incorrect :P, but aren't all the listed champions "dive proof." Tryndamere and Kayle have ult's that give them invulnerability and the rest have good stuns >.>.

LimmieMar 5, 20172 votes

The invulnerability ults are obvious, but also champions that have self resist buffs (Alistair, Trundle, Lissandra), stuns and roots (Morgana) or strong control zones (Zyra, GP), sustain champions (Swain, Aatrox, Akali), and slippery champions (Vladimir, Ahri).

Chibi BronzlifeMar 5, 20171 votes

No, unless you are able to coordinate it with your team and understand how to do it properly tower diving in bronze is one of the biggest ways a team loses/throws away a lead.

Asayake 5150glowMar 5, 20171 votes

1v1? Yes, towers are weak enough that you should always be diving to extend your lead, if possible. Since you're ranged, you could try to just poke them outta lane, but that's not as effective and you don't get as much of a lead over the other members of the enemy team, unless you get a tower or two.

You gotta prep it well, though. Need a wave, fairly healthy. You need to know how much damage you can take, and how quickly you can kill them. You have a shield, but it won't protect you from the tower if the enemy champion takes it out first.

WitchQueen AnnieMar 5, 20171 votes

No its one of the big No Nos.

Its one of the biggest ways to throw game. In fact, you should Ping your team not to do it and type (politely) for them to stop. In Bronze, you can win the game by simply not tower diving considering how many throws are caused by these supposed LCS stunts.

AlienPrimateMar 5, 20171 votes

With Ryze I would say never unless the enemy is low enough to be killed with a single combo. Leave the diving to tanks or champions like Aatrox and Tryndamere who can afford to dive due to their abilities. Follow them in after they take aggro. You should pretty much never have tower aggro as a mage.

Probably the easiest way to climb out of bronze is pay attention to the map. If you are playing top lane and the enemy middle laner is missing then don't keep on pushing. Stay back until you see them again somewhere else on the map. If you see the jungler on the opposite side of the map you can save your ward for later when they are missing for a while again. Just never push anywhere into enemy territory if all of the enemies are missing. You will die probably 90% of the time doing that. Also ping every time you see the enemy jungler on the map. This will allow others to see them too if they aren't paying attention. Try to buy a control ward every time you go back and replace any that are lost. Even if it is destroyed by someone coming to gank you immediately after you place it, that ward just saved you from dying so instead of giving them 300g, you just lose 75g.

xxxDogmanxxxMar 5, 20171 votes

No, farming CS better will get you out of Bronze. I promise you, if you can learn to just CS more, you will get to Gold at least. Right now, you probably get about 4.7 CS per minute. If you can just raise that to around 5.5 CS per minute, you will absolutely get to Gold.