Can we add snowballing back into the game?

Junkο·Nov 2, 2014·4 votes·300 views

Currently this is how every game is: -You win your lane and get feed -All your advantages become nonexistent late game -Somebody dies, the other team pushes mid and wins

9 Comments

RenailleNov 2, 20142 votes

"Wow why can't I carry games when I get a few early kills? I'm a pantheon main btw"

KingsgraveNov 2, 20142 votes

You have to work a lot harder to keep your advantage. You can't expect to get like 2 kills and then be a god for the rest of the game. You have to deny farm, keep them cornered, keep them dead, roam and spread the love etc.,

Ive seen so many people just showball early and do nothing with it while I just farm and help my team with objectives. Easy win at that point.

JunkοNov 3, 20141 votes

I had a game once where i snowballed every lane and we had a huge advantage..... we lost with a 30+ kill lead because Cait got caught out of position once. Now if Riot didn't try their best to remove every trace of snowballing, we could have at least killed half of them and died and slowed down their push down the mid lane.

Skia AsteriNov 3, 20141 votes

I had a game once where i snowballed every lane and we had a huge advantage..... we lost with a 30+ kill lead because Cait got caught out of position once. Now if Riot didn't try their best to remove every trace of snowballing, we could have at least killed half of them and died and slowed down their push down the mid lane.

But did your team manage to turn those kills into objective taken? When you kill off two or more of the enemy team and are ahead you should be taking to one or two objectives. If you are not, then the game will drag on and your advantage will eventually disappear.

Here is a game where I was on a team that had good objective focus and used our early lead to win: http://matchhistory.na.leagueoflegends.com/en/#match-details/NA1/1617819930/218693738

Eight turrets in twelve minutes. That is how you snow ball: get some kills so they cannot contest objectives without giving up more kills, and take the more valuable objective available until their nexus explodes.

From the sound of it your games are more like: http://matchhistory.na.leagueoflegends.com/en/#match-details/NA1/1616475611/218693738

We had a gold lead the entire time, but failed to convert it into objectives taken till that gold lead did not mean anything and we lost. Eight turrets in 30+ minutes. And yes, that is a 6 item Jax on the other team.

TL;DR

Gold lead and kills only matter if they are converted into objectives.

AtheosisXNov 2, 20141 votes

Are you for real?

Lord DusteonNov 2, 20141 votes

...It's still in the game.

Otherwise, lategame, when everyone is full build, of course your advantages early game don't matter, A full build assassin 20 minutes in can easily snowball you. A fed assassin 40 minutes in can't.

SS EnforcerNov 2, 20141 votes

Uhm, have you ever heard of "cs"?

JunkοNov 3, 20141 votes

i usually have the highest cs in my games (sometimes beaten by either ADC if i decide to roam though). when i have 2-3 times the cs of the enemy laner i should be able to easily kill him and punish him for being bad at csing, that doesn't happen