Bot Lane Shell Game (Thimblerig)

Elite4Runner·1/25/2017, 7:09:09 AM·1 votes·541 views

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For those of you who don't know, the Shell Game involves having your audience follow a single ball that is hidden under one of several cups (usually 3) as the performer rearranges them very quickly in attempt to fool you into losing track of it.

What does this have to do with League of Legends?

There is a specific duo that I feel could make a pseudo-shell game out of the bottom lane, and I imagine it would be pretty entertaining.

Gangplank & Ivern

It's a pretty simple concept really. Ivern sprouts several bush, Gangplank drops a barrel in a bush (or several bushes, .. or all of the bushes), and your lane opponents will have no way of knowing which bush has a barrel in it.

If they face check, and guess wrong, they get a barrel blown in their face.

Technically they can place a ward in a bush in order to see what is in it, but then they have a ward on cooldown.

I'm actually having trouble recalling if the connecting powder trail would be visible to the enemy if they would show between bushes, but even if they do, .. the enemy still can't do anything about it.

It probably wouldn't be a strong strategy, but it would be fun.

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