Someone enlighten me on what I can do to survive the party in bot lane.

Aimléss··1 votes·294 views

I'm not a lucky person when it comes to matchmaking, so more often than not, my team will be the ones who are late to help, and get outplayed etc.

We all know how it goes, lane is relatively even and then the enemy JG comes, they maybe don't get anything, but then they come again and again until you're probably dead and if not, you're huddled up under tower out of fear. Meanwhile, your JG mainly CS's and ganks top occasionally, yet top is still behind lol. The instant your jg comes to gank bot, they get counter-ganked and you're all fucked, or they only get flashes then don't come back till exactly 5 minutes to get flashed on again... You're behind now, but it's not over yet, you have some kind of a chance, but everything changes when their jg comes to tower dive you with the mid laner and you're annihilated with your tower. Now the 4-0 spoon fed enemy ADC, waltz to mid lane to take the rest of the towers and end the game.

I've put so much effort into learning how to lane and to see it mean next to nothing cause the better gankers/TPs win the lane is disgusting. There has got to be something I can do to survive it that doesn't involve maining Tristana and Ezreal, or standing under tower all game. Warding is effective at only delaying the inevitable since any decent jg will kill your wards, wait for them to expire, or just wait till 6 to dive you with the mid laner. It feels like if these mofos want you and your tower and are better at macro than your mid and jg, you can bet that eventually they're gonna get your ass and that fucking tower and there's nothing you can do about it.

It's funny because even when I played mid my bot still got camped, as their jg proceeded to out macro mine, but because I was mid and got top and mid ahead, we were able to get the Jinx to late game. Had I been ADC I would've rolled over and died with the Nexus at the 20 minute mark because I have no say, I'm just at the mercy of their jg/mid and my jg/mid. It's like the only counter-play is to hope the rest of your team knows what they're doing.

TLDR; There isn't a damn thing you can do as bot laners when this shit happens besides rely on your teammates, imo, but if you guys think you know a way then please enlighten me. If there isn't one, then Riot needs to freakin' step in ASAP, this shit isn't even fun.

2 Comments

Partholonian1 votes

If you're asking for ways to outright win a 2v4, when your team doesn't show up and you're not at your tower... yeah, nobody's going to be able to tell you how to do that. Because it isn't, and shouldn't be, possible unless the enemy screws up severely.

Same for a 2v5 where the enemy mid roams down, yours stays in lane, plus a gank and TP at the same time -- just concede the tower and don't die, and hope your teammates are getting something done on the rest of the map. If their mid and top give up waves and a summoner and don't get kills out of it, even first tower is probably not going to be enough to make that worth their time.

If at least 3 of your teammates are significantly worse than the enemy, there's a good chance you're going to lose that game, no matter what you do; even if you personally are better than your direct counterpart it might not be enough. That's inherent for a team game with random matchmaking. If you want a 100% consistent quality of teammates every game, the only way to get it is ranked 5s. Riot can't change that.

So the best advice is probably the boring stuff you already know: Don't get too far from your tower if your team hasn't seen the enemy jg in a while (or has seen them bot side ofc), yours isn't nearby and enemy TP is off CD. Yes, sometimes that means settling for a farm lane and giving up a few cs and/or turret damage. Better than dying to a clown fiesta.

Sonasaurous1 votes

Easy: Play safe and stay under your turret, because obviously your turret will protect you from tower dives--wait...

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