How to lock a winning game

forésight·Dec 20, 2018·2 votes·2,356 views

Hi guys I'm a new to this forum thingys and stuff. So I just wanna ask those who play at higher elo how do you lock a winning game? Because you know how sometimes a game is very very winnable and then suddenly you fffing lose because of reasons that I don't know.

So let's say I'm the carry of the game. I'm 6/0 I'm the most fed carry in my team. How do I keep it from losing?

Next scenario is what if our adc is the most fed carry in our team? How do I keep our team from winning even If I am not the carry?

Thank you.

4 Comments

BigFBearDec 20, 20182 votes

People often start to play trollish when they think game is won anyway because it's 18:7 or something like that. They start to make risky solo plays 1 vs 2 or 1 vs 3 or in case of Yasuo even 1 vs 5 because they think they are immortal heroes now just because they are fed.

Just stop that and end the game clean and safe together. If you have people like that in your game make clean announcements in chat what to focus next.

Another mistake is to try to end the game too fast or not fast enough.

-- Too fast:

Let's say you have enemy mid inhibitor but on sidelanes you have only one tower each. And enemy team is to respawn in 10 seconds. Many people try to kill Nexus towers now. They overstay and die. Better back up and push sidelines instead it's a save win. If you have no minionwaves but 2-3 enemy's are dead for 20+ seconds (including Jungler) do Baron. Or you can fake Baron to force a teamfight if only one enemy is dead.

In general the "lawnmower" tactic is the best. Do T2 towers only after all T1 Towers are down. If your botlane kill enemy bot turret they swap top, after that mid. If you have all T1 Tower you do all T2 Towers and so on. If you just push one lane (i.e. mid) it's very risky to get flanked. If your bot is fed and killed their first tower tell them to swap to top.

-- Too slow

The other extreme is when people don't realize they can end. Don't do Baron or Drake/Elder when you could kill 2 Inhibs or even Nexus. Group and end that shit instead of farming your jungle. Port back (to shop) as team and not one after another so you have to wait everytime because always someone is base. If you are winning don't waste time and dawdle around. You have to be effective. Every minute you waste is a minute for enemy's to catch up. Remember: your XP lead is worth nothing when they reach lvl 18 too.

SanKakUDec 20, 20181 votes

Can't tell if this is a serious question but if it is, you should be asking for us to look at certain replays. If you're playing on a completely new account, why would you ask this question? You haven't got to the point yet where you should worry about how to win games but should be learning the champions first?

Just read what your allies ask of you and do that?

Vlada CutDec 20, 20181 votes

Take objectives every time enemy players are dead and waiting to respawn. Always do this when you ace them. And when ahead force fights with them while you still have the upperhand. This is how you close the games.

RatpieDec 20, 20181 votes

You need to learn the champions. You may be 6-0, while the other team may have started slow, it may be just because they havn't hit their power spike and once they do they just get more gold for killing you because of the awful reward gold. Figure out who are the early game vs late game champs. If you have mostly early game, you need to push hard to win quick, and if you are late game you may need to draw out things to hit your power spike. One of the mistakes I had to learn was to be patient on late game champs. I would be outfarming and feeling dominant and get overly aggressive, before my champ was strong enough to do what I wanted to do, and get killed doing something dumb. Once I figured out when my champs hit their power and when the enemy champs do, I was better able to gauge when I could go for an all in push vs the enemy team and when I needed to hold back.