Playing defensively doesn't mean give every objective to the enemy team

Lost R·10/31/2019, 6:17:49 PM·2 votes·3,119 views

I don't know how else to word this, and I've worded it in several tens of trillions of iterations. If you are an all assassin team, you aren't going to be able to properly defend even yourself, much less anything else. And if you, as an entire team, do nothing but teamfight the jungle camps for ten minutes straight, all you will get out of it are three dead inhibitors.

Playing defensively doesn't mean abandoning every objective to the enemy. It's about PREVENTING them from taking objectives. If your only line of defense is a fucking utility support, then you have already lost.

I don't know why this is so impossible for people to comprehend, no matter how many tens of millions of times they make this exact same mistake.

15 Comments

The thigh guy11/1/2019, 7:08:07 PM2 votes

And please. Tell me how you are suppose to defend say. Dragon, when you know full well if you even touch the river you die INSTANTLY and without counterplay?

Fuhrer Usagi10/31/2019, 6:23:20 PM1 votes

That depends on the enemy. I have lost games before because someone made the other members of my team who were melee's and assassin's play defensively against a poke/siege comp.

It does not work if they're ahead since they will just poke you down under your turret then all in and kill you all if you're low health. Same with if you back out to go heal, they will just take the objectives anyway.

A better strat I seen in soloQ is to make people buy control wards and ward as many bushes and places as you can then have someone split when the enemies not nearby to draw aggro while you try to make picks like 3v1 until enough of the enemy is dead that they cant stop you from turning it around on them.

Essentially force them to separate and divide and conquer.

I do agree going in the enemy jg at anytime with out it already being warded or you being ahead is a bad idea. Don't know why people do that one.

Saezio11/1/2019, 5:54:34 PM1 votes

Errr, some teams can't play defensive. They only ever succeed by playing on the offence constantly. So, IDK why you wouldn't mention that. Especially assassin teamcomps need to repeatedly stomp their enemies to succeed. If they try to play defensive they might as well FF and go next

musixxal11/1/2019, 6:03:54 PM1 votes

if anyone says to play defensively, just go next the game is over.