let me tell you a story

let me set the stage here. im playing yorick top into sion. my mid and bot are both losing REALLY hard and my jungle is doing what they can but is obviously struggling to keep up.

im winning lane against sion by outfarming and taking a plates when he backs but i havent been able to kill him and he hasnt been able to kill me, even with jungle help.

around the 20 minute mark i realized i wasnt going to win this game without really pulling off some nonessential shit. so i started directing my team. it was fairly obvious mid and bot were mechanically outclassed but they were not tilted hard enough to be unreasonable. so i started sorting them around the map, getting them to group and defend while i was off doing yorick things.

at about the 30ish minute mark my plan had started to come to fruition, the other team did not have the tools necessary to take inner towers without sion, and every single time sion left to group, i was getting farm fed and taking their base.

35ish minutes and i am without a doubt the strongest player in the game right now, they had to send a minimum of 3 people to stop me. not kill me, stop me. i would rotate to another lane and instruct my team to go and take something.

50 minutes in everything is in place i have 8 super minions about to enter their base, i have tp ready as does my jungler (he took spellbook).

theyre about knocking on our nexus turrets at this point. i managed to push them off and said one thing to my team. "do not let them back even if you have to die to stop them" and tp'ed in. with my jungler.

unsurprisingly my other teammates die, however they did exactly as instructed and stopped 3 from backing. it came down to the actual wire. we only just barely won by a fraction of a second. if i canceled my auto or anything we would have lost that game.

after this game i felt like some god damn master of 4D chess, i was so damn happy that everything worked out just as well as it could. then it hit me. the reason why that game felt so damn good was because i haven't had genuine strategy in this game for about 4 or 5 years now.

everything has just been twitch reactions and making people explode in a fraction of a second and that is not an exaggeration. people are dieing faster than it is physically possible to react between human reaction time and latency.

actual strategy being used is so far and few between nowdays that league not a strategy game anymore.