How to make your lane ACTUALLY gankable

5000000000000000·4/14/2018, 7:13:03 AM·15 votes·9,531 views

While it can be funny to joke, I thought I might share some tips. Do share your tips as well!

#Burn enemy's key abilities. This is generally their summoner spells, but a lot of champions also have abilities that allow them to escape. For burning basic abilities, it should be more for when you're about to get a gank. If you burn a 20 second ability while your jungler is doing a camp, it would probably be back up by your jungler comes around.

summoner 4 At 300 second CD, burning this can make the gank a lot easier. Tristana at rank 1, Rocket Jump has 22 second CD. Ezreal At rank 1, Arcane Shift has 19 second CD. Gangplank At rank 1, Remove Scurvy has 22 second CD. Camille At rank 1, Hookshot has 16 second CD. Gnar At rank 1, Hop has 22 second CD.

#Have your abilities available. Be ready to lock down the enemy laners to make the gank easier. This generally means saving the ability while your jungler is coming, but also to have enough mana available for when you get a gank. Summoner spells like summoner 3 summoner 14 can also help.

#Track/Remove enemy vision. If your opposing laner leaves your vision/heads towards river, they're probably warding it. If you see the enemy laner coming back from base and has a control ward, but when you see them again they don't have it anymore, then you know the control ward was placed. Try to figure out which possible gank path is warded, so that your jungler can avoid that route. Also, you could use your own control ward or sweeper (if you're the support) to get rid of enemy vision. Another tip: if there is an enemy ward near your control ward, you could use that as bait for the enemy to try to clear it.

#Let the enemy overextend. Let them push the wave, or freeze it in front of your tower if possible. Ganking an overextended enemy is a lot easier than towerdiving.

#Start fighting/bait the enemy into fighting you a bit before the jungler arrives. By forcing your enemy to commit to a fight, you can burn a lot of their key abilities right before the jungler arrives.

#Ping/use chat if you've done some of these things. Especially in low elo, we can't really expect the jungler to know all these things. Let the jungler know what abilities are down or which paths are warded. Let them know that the enemy is overextended, and that you have abilities up to make the gank successful.

12 Comments

Verxint4/14/2018, 9:02:51 PM4 votes

As a laner I love how often I burn the enemy's flash in the first 4 minutes, spam ping it, and they continue to push and my jungler is busy smacking his krugs

Baron of Bread4/14/2018, 6:27:47 PM2 votes

Worth noting about baiting the enemy laner into using abilities on you before your jungler swings in: if they can kill you before the jungler gets there you should just wait for the jungler since they aren't going to 1v1 your laner when you are dead.

Ionian Vulpix4/14/2018, 7:45:47 PM2 votes

Don't play Katarina after your jungler has selected Yi.

Snowman Arc4/15/2018, 12:22:17 AM2 votes

It's very frustrating when players, especially lower elo, don't ping when the enemy used summoners. It's ok to not ping if they used their R, but when they use flash, just ping it or type it. It's VERY important to do so.

If for example your enemy Darius burned flash, letting your team know will:

  1. let your jungler know that Darius is now an easy gank
  2. any TP play by Darius / roaming will be easier to defend, since he doesn't have flash to be aggressive or escape
  3. has a timer so you know when it's back up

(same goes for the used TP / Ignite / Cleanse etc)

Don't expect your jungler to gank you, if your enemy laner has flash up. Even worse, don't flame them if they do not have flash but they do not know about it.

Ariel the Cruel4/14/2018, 7:20:50 PM1 votes

How to attract ganks: Play Twisted Treeline.

Our map is tiny. If you don't gank, you don't win.

princeblumpkin4/14/2018, 11:17:41 PM1 votes

Wow, a thread that actually tells you how to make a lane gankable instead of just saying "don't push lul".