Early Game Laning

Kalidic·Feb 7, 2016·1 votes·400 views

Hi there LoL Community,

I have a question about the early laning phase that I've seen a lot of players do.

So far, I've been doing the advised "freezing the lane" in the early game. Minions come up, wait for them to get low: last hit.

However recently, I've seen pro esport and other high-tier players push the lane as soon as the first minion wave comes up. I've heard that this may be to get the level 2 "power-spike", or to unlock abilities.

Why/when do players do this?

1 Comments

FakerrFeb 7, 20161 votes

Really depends on which lane you're in. If you're botlane, with Leo, Braum, Lucian, Thresh, Kalista, Alistair, you probably want to rush lvl 2. Mid and top lane, it usually doesn't matter. The reason why it's important in bot lane is it's additional stats on 2 champions and it also means you have 2 extra abilities so that lvl 2 all-in can be lethal especially with leo and alistair.