PSA: When you're behind just stall and don't fight

LegitBacon66··41 votes·1,763 views

The more you stall, The more gold you get via farming, The more the gold you get, The more you start scaling, The more you start scaling, The more you can fight later, The more you fight back, The more frustrated the enemy gets, The more frustrated the enemy gets........... . . . Ez win.

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Brain Errör 40417 votes

PSA: Towers are shit. Stalling is no longer an option. Stop the bleeding before it gets worse or snowball another lane harder because stalling is impossible.

If I die once. Tower diving begins.

Teemodanegro2 votes

Step 1.) if you're ap, get zhonyas and bait players into diving you to take a couple of extra hits.

If you're adc, switch to apc and follow step 1.

venomous frost13 votes

psa: if you are behind you have to make plays, stalling the game will just grant you a lose since the enemy takes your entire jungle

Teemodanegro1 votes

Jungle doesn't give any advantages other than vision, blue means shit and red is watered down.

venomous frost1 votes

and a shit ton of gold, xp, objective control over baron and drake

Teemodanegro1 votes

Okay, shit ton of gold / xp is being a bit drastic here... I've already stated its just vision.

Asayake 5150glow6 votes

Unless you get outscaled/vs a hypercarry, in which case you gotta ward and try to make picks.

LegitBacon664 votes

Or splitpush

skyskee0086 votes

Stalling won't win you the game. Yes, don't fight 5v5s, but the key to success is OPEN YOUR EYES. If you see 2 top without TP and 3 sieging mid, force the 3v5. Or send 3 people to sit between top and mid and catch the 2 mid rotation. Once they die force the 3v5 (other team will still try to salvage because they are ahead, but most times numbers advantage will pull through).

If you sit 5 mid they will just choke you out, take drakes or force baron. Eventually leading to them diving you and GG.

Teemodanegro1 votes

I believe that is what OP means, there is more success in stalling a game out and looking for opportunities than just blindly fighting a 5v5 like a bunch of morons.

its pretty fucking obivious if anyone 5v5's and you're behind 10k gold you're gonna lose.

Troll for Trump3 votes

You can't stall anymore, snowball is too strong. You try to stall but you'll end up losing. Riot admittedly doesn't like the stalled out games of the farm meta in s2/s3ish and forcefully made anti-stall mechanics(minion snowballing, for instance).

They want you to take action and do some flashy comeback play, or lose the game

Segius1 votes

Not true, Ive had many games where we won because we stalled

You just have to not give up kills and catch them out

Troll for Trump1 votes

Team game.

If it was 1v1, sure, it'd work.

Segius1 votes

Well if your team cooperates..... yeah I see your point

ZT Xperimentor3 votes

That's assuming they won't dive you or proxy you; if they do then you're kind of screwed, since the towers don't give coverfire, and you're already several levels & thousands of gold behind.

Kitty Clarissa2 votes

if they have a KogMaw Tryndamere Vayne Yasuo ETC stalling may hurt you since they will just scale and destroy and HA try stalling vs Caitlyn Ziggs they will siege your tower with high range and damage

Enloct2 votes

Man...a full build Ziggs can actually 1 shot towers. I didn't believe it until I saw it.

GigaPube2 votes

PSA: if you're losing, just surrender. all the koreans do it which means you're a scrub if you dont, because games already lost and you're wasting everyones time just cos your dad said thats your last game and you're trying to get as much play time as possible

Smart Girl2 votes

Amen!

Segius1 votes

The stupidest thing ive read all day, hope this is a joke

DunkinNoobs2 votes

I only recommend this with champs that scale really well or against teams that scale really poorly. Otherwise, you're better off trying to turn the game around quickly rather than let the lead slowly balloon out of control. Better to lose at 20 than lose at 35 imo.

Aptest2 votes

PSA:

the ahead team will, if they are any good, choke you away from farm and the rift will just extend.

need to take some risk, find some picks, do some rotations and try to open the game up or at least dazzle the other team out of choking you.

The Deckowner1 votes

My body is telling me yes but my mind is telling me no.

Surrendering and starting a new game is usually a better choice than trying to stall the game, because if you lose a game that you stalled for so long you get tilted a lot more. and stalling is often not even an option due to snowballing meta.

Segius1 votes

Unless its ranked you bronzie :P

The Deckowner1 votes

lv9 account calling people bronze? It took 2 seconds to find out you are OP's smurf.

Segius1 votes

lvl 9?? Im lvl 30??

deadlychuck1 votes

And then the diver subclass exists

Gaddafi1 votes

This season, if you are behind you are behind and no one will let u walk in front :D Anyways, being many kills behind before 20 min mark is so bad that you do not deserve to win at all, sad truth.

Azuregore1 votes

http://matchhistory.na.leagueoflegends.com/en/#match-details/NA1/2409005405/37358633?tab=overview

This is why you stall. :) EDIT: Forgot to mention the 'teemo adc' was int feeding cause the support auto'd a minion.

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