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Bot lane power needs to be toned down a little

XxDRAGONsAK47xX·8/17/2018, 2:19:46 PM·4 votes·1,466 views

Bot lane is the most influential lane in this game, next to jungler. Feeding the enemy bot lane is almost a death sentence if the enemy team is just somewhat competent at playing the game. Why? Because there are 2 people bot. In normal lanes like mid, top, and jungle there is only 1 problem, so shutting them down is much easier. But when it comes to bot lane there are 2, whatever bot lane wins will most likely have 2 fed players now, while your team has 2 behind players. Not the normal 1 fed and 1 behind.

There have been games where I can go 4/0 in mid lane, jungle, or top, but because the enemy adc is 5/0/2 and the support is 2/0/5 it makes it much harder for me to even do anything with my lead against 2 players who are ahead. You may say that the support being ahead doesn't matter, he's just there to babysit the ADC. That's the problem. A fed Braum/Leona/Tahm will be almost unkillable with their lead to everyone but you as the fed player of your team. or the Janna/Lulu/Soraka have so much shielding and healing/cc removal power that it becomes impossible to even touch the adc. Then you have to worry about the fed ADC who will do most of your HP while the tanky support is cc locking you or the healer is keeping them below full hp.

The game essential turns into a 2v1 for all intents and purposes, unless your team has good macro and can our maneuver and outplay the fed bot lane. Which never happens in low elo and not often in mid elo.

I dont know how anyone could fix this problem without destroying the whole game in terms of balance in the bot lane, but its just kinda annoying. I dont like losing 80% of my games because the game turns into a 3v4.

15 Comments

DuskDaUmbreon8/17/2018, 2:27:52 PM6 votes

Dude. It has as much power as it does because it has two people in it.

Get the fuck over it. Bot will have a lot of power as long as it's where the support goes.

OtterlyLost8/17/2018, 2:39:27 PM1 votes

And how would you suggest power be toned down? Even when the champions in bot lane were dog shit, the game still revolved around that lane. Because whoever or what ever was down there was still playing as a pair. When when the boards just get over this hard on for hating bot lane when it makes perfect sense for it to be the most influential lane. It has two people in it, so 40% of the team is in it. It's close to dragon as well, which is the most important buff in the game and, unsurprisingly, attracts the jungler to that side of the map most often(bringing that 40% up to 60%). And it has the weakest tower in the game, making it a glaring, open wound for the rest of the map.

Honestly, what champions are bot doesn't matter. It could be double mages, it could be a yas bot, it could be bruisers, tanks, whatever. It doesn't matter what is down there.

You wanna shift some power out of the lane (which is funny because ADCs themselves have very little agency in lane or outside of it; they're just walking mini turrets that a stiff breeze could kill) then start by buffing the bot tower. Maybe even moving dragon away from bot lane to a more centralized area. Encourage the jungler to be somewhere else other than bot and mid. That would help top laners feel less isolated and allow bot lane to feel less pressured.

saltran8/17/2018, 3:34:19 PM1 votes

Good.

Hexs Fortune8/17/2018, 4:03:59 PM1 votes

The real power is in the frontline. A 6-0 botlaner remains squishy and still needs a front liner to enable them proper usage of their range advantage

A 6-0 mobile top laner can usually just beast through everything as they gain greater defensive and offensive stats from their level advantage

JuneShowers1/16/2019, 8:39:27 AM1 votes

isn't bot lane meant to be something like 1 and a half of a champions effectiveness before it was 2 and a half from doublelifts opinion.