Why Are Low Elo Bot Lanes "Trapped" Bot Until Both Towers Are Gone?

Zyniya·2/20/2020, 5:23:26 PM·1 votes·2,416 views

I'm a low elo sup/adc main whos be playing a lot of fill so JG lately. I didn't notice this issue as badly while BEING the bot lane but since I'm not the bot lane anymore I notice this issue A LOT.

Team A gets Team Bs bot tower -> Team B stays bot to try to get Team As tower -> Team A stays bot to defend said tower 10-15 mins go by Team A & B bot lane and still just hashing it out in bot lane over that tower until one team tosses more teammates at it to "free" up their bot lane.

Like at what point do you just forget about that tower group and push another lane or is blindly defending/trying to take the tower more worth?

Had a game the other day the other bot lane was TRASHING my bot lane but my bot lane somehow got the other teams tower. 25 mins into the game Mine and their bot lane where STILL bot trying to take down and defend that bot lane tower while my top mid and myself were bashing on the Top & Mid inhib towers.

[zombie-brand-mindblown]

I've now noticed I do this as support and adc too rather than going to see what other objectives I can take I just prio keeping my tower alive.

7 Comments

ProphetOfDraven2/20/2020, 5:35:54 PM4 votes

Normally your top laner goes and solo defends bot tower while the adc and sup sieges mid or takes his top tower for him.

smurfinsexay2/20/2020, 7:48:32 PM1 votes

In low elo players tend to just stay in their lanes and then blame the jungler whenever someone comes to their lanes and kills them. And players pointlessly die to defend turrets or try to get a cs or two for no reason. A big part of it is people focus solely on trying to "win their lane." Who takes more dragons/baron is a the biggest indicator of who wins games though, as these objectives give you a marked advantage. Swapping your bot lane to top is NOT a good idea unless drake is not spawning for several minutes.

Smiling Frog2/20/2020, 7:48:40 PM1 votes

or bot lane trying to take t2 tower and die to 4v2 and fucking type in all chat: 4v2 so bad.