Backdooring
What are your thoughts on the strategy of backdooring? Whats your favorite champion to do it with, and what build?
What are your thoughts on the strategy of backdooring? Whats your favorite champion to do it with, and what build?
I like to backdoor with Yasuo, because late game he can do really devastating auto-attack damage, and has enough survivability to take some damage and escape for an entire team. With bloodthirster I've even killed an inhibitor turret without losing more than about 10% of my actual health, and that's with no friendly minion wave to take any of the turret shots for me.
To be fair, I think it had some damage on it before I got to it, but it was still an exciting play for me.
I also like to backdoor with Caitlyn, just because she gets similarly insane auto-attack damage the way I build her. Though in her case she either needs a tank to soak some tower hits, or she just backdoors already exposed inhibitors.
with 600+ stacks and triforce.
I've backdoored at least 3 Nexus's with Nidalee. Usually with IBG-> Shiv/Botrk -> tank or just Triforce -> tank.
A couple of them were incredibly close too with them pushing our base. Only proper stutter stepping and maximizing sheen procs got me the win.
The godyr
I don´t really like it as a strategy, as it´s kinda low risk - high reward if executed well (4-1splitpush). best Champ to do it though is Tryn hands down: fast push, god in 1v1/2 and really good in escaping aswell later on.
For sure my favorite split-pusher/"backdoorer" has to be the one and only
His passive makes him extremely OP for taking towers/inhibs/nexus' plus if built right can out put tons of damage while taking little thus providing a better chance at a badass escape or even taking the objective before they can kill you
Commander Olaf, at your service. I've had some awesome games where I run Olaf with TP and Ghost. Deep jungle wards, TP in, ghost your way through to base, and BAM. I've done the same with Malphite. It's something about the AS/AD steroids (respectively) that make them so much fun to take objectives with.
Backdooring, and by extension splitpushing, is a highly overrated strategy in my opinion. Without massive early leads, it's actually quite difficult to assemble a four man squad that can adequately support the splitpusher and deny both teamfights and objectives from the enemy team. There are certainly instances where using a champion like Zed to create side lane pressure is helpful, but the SoloQ style of "I am Jax. This turret killed my father. I shall never leave this lane until it is dead" is pretty stupid.