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Mid Fiesta

Semia·4/18/2017, 8:42:56 PM·1 votes·453 views

I need help on what to do in a situation like such:

  • My bot lane first outer turret goes down (FB turret)
  • My top lane first outer turret goes down soon after
  • The enemy team converges in mid and proceeds to poke at my outer turret but only the jungler and support from my bot lane comes and my ADC and top laner don't even care about coming to help.

What is the best course of action in such a situation? I'm not in any position to defend the turrets with just my jungler and support as the enemy team would be able to just tower dive us. We can't stall enough for our top and ADC to grab their respective turrets. And top and ADC only notice the mid lane when it's too late and our inhib falls down and the enemy team proceeds to take Baron or Drake.

This situation also results in our enemies snowballing harder because they will often take the 2 outer mid turrets and then go top or bot and get free kills and it doesn't matter whether I ping them or ward it they just simply refuse to react. Please help a struggling mid laner ;-;

8 Comments

Erockandroll4/18/2017, 8:56:34 PM1 votes

Honestly, as a midlaner, you probably should have more tools to hold off a siege that what you claim to have. (at least long enough for the other two to push. )

The main thing you want to do is make sure you are always clearing the minion wave. If the minions are gone, the turret get's it's back door plating, and makes it a lot more difficult to take. (and in that scenario, requires someone to tank turret shots) Make sure there are wards near by. It's possible the Top lane wants to collapse on the enemy, but can't because he doesn't have a TP target.

Worse case scenario, make sure you stay alive and able to poke, and also remain mobile. With that, you might be able to respond to a rotation and prevent a collapse on the side lane.

Malfectious4/18/2017, 9:07:48 PM1 votes

It sounds like top and bottom lost lane pretty hard. If there under fed they may be worried about being ineffective and are trying to get a little stronger. It sounds counter intuitive, but if they just come to mid and die without doing any damage...They aren't making things any easier either.

Frightning4/18/2017, 9:52:59 PM1 votes

Short answer: Wave clear. The top laner and ADC are doing what you should expect of them (catching the wave and farming it to stay in the game gold- and xp-wise). Your task is to stall the enemies in mid long enough that they can shove the lane out and either threaten to take the enemy outer tower (and thus invite them to rotate back) or so that they can leave and join you on the defense while the minions split push the side lane they were farming earlier.