If I roam botlane, it's not because I want to

ALL MłGHT··4 votes·2,368 views

Originally my mentality was get ahead in my own lane and stay ahead to do the most for my team. Now, it is get botlane ahead so they can take their tower and midlane tower and toplane tower and slowly edge away their towers. However, in most of my games when I roam bot and get them ahead they do not know how to make most of their lead. Apparently saying "please get your tower, you are ahead" simply doesn't cut it. What more can I do?

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Cryotron3 votes

If I mid, i will do following things:

Azir - Expect me to farm mostly and roam with certain benefits. I am not an assassin and I am just as important as your ADC. Azir is a hypercarry like Vayne or Kai'sa especially late game because I know how to shred ANYONE unwise enough to stand in my soldier's ranks.

TwistedFate - Expect me to roam. A LOT. That means you, bot lane. If I am ulting to go bot lane, please be aware of our surroundings. If I use gate to bottom lane, please follow up. I want the ADC to be fed as well as me as a TF to a certain degree.

Zed - If I am Zed, it is my job to make the enemy ADC the most miserable as I humanly can. If you're the ally ADC, just note that I will always be taking kills because it rewards me AD. If you are the enemy ADC, it's nothing personal.

Orianna - Perhaps my most safest pick. Will roam where the enemy is going... or to initiate. Doesn't matter. Ori has the most utility in my mid pool as well as my most safe pick.

Karthus - I will only pick this guy if the enemy does not have any ways to negate his damage. If they're insist of getting Zhonya's against a Karthus, so be it. I use his ult to contest objectives later on into the game because hot damn his ultimate is VERY influential if used right.

Pantheon - I will poke. I will bash. I will kick anyone into the well wherever I go. Roamer.

Viktor - atm, my weakest pick. But If he is strong, expect me to roam as much as push lanes. Viktor specializes in wave clearing.

Xerath - If I have my ultimate, I will snipe bot lane. Especially if there is a Jhin who uses his ultimate.

So what's my point? Well... Pick a champion that has a good balance between farming, pushing and roaming. Mid has always been roam intensive lately and it is an important concept for many players. If your bottom lane is incompetent enough to not forsee an incoming gank with usage of wards, then it's not really your fault.

So TL;DR: You do you, fuck everyone else who questions your decisions. Okay, just don't take that second statement literally. [sg-miss-fortune]

ALL MłGHT1 votes

Speaking of Zed, I honestly don't think Zed or other assassins should have as good of waveclear as he does. Sure he has to watch his resource consumption but energy is a joke as it is

Bishasaurus Flex1 votes

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If I mid, i will do following things:

Azir - Expect me to farm mostly and roam with certain benefits. I am not an assassin and I am just as important as your ADC. Azir is a hypercarry like Vayne or Kai'sa especially late game because I know how to shred ANYONE unwise enough to stand in my soldier's ranks.

TwistedFate - Expect me to roam. A LOT. That means you, bot lane. If I am ulting to go bot lane, please be aware of our surroundings. If I use gate to bottom lane, please follow up. I want the ADC to be fed as well as me as a TF to a certain degree.

Zed - If I am Zed, it is my job to make the enemy ADC the most miserable as I humanly can. If you're the ally ADC, just note that I will always be taking kills because it rewards me AD. If you are the enemy ADC, it's nothing personal.

Orianna - Perhaps my most safest pick. Will roam where the enemy is going... or to initiate. Doesn't matter. Ori has the most utility in my mid pool as well as my most safe pick.

Karthus - I will only pick this guy if the enemy does not have any ways to negate his damage. If they're insist of getting Zhonya's against a Karthus, so be it. I use his ult to contest objectives later on into the game because hot damn his ultimate is VERY influential if used right.

Pantheon - I will poke. I will bash. I will kick anyone into the well wherever I go. Roamer.

Viktor - atm, my weakest pick. But If he is strong, expect me to roam as much as push lanes. Viktor specializes in wave clearing.

Xerath - If I have my ultimate, I will snipe bot lane. Especially if there is a Jhin who uses his ultimate.

So what's my point? Well... Pick a champion that has a good balance between farming, pushing and roaming. Mid has always been roam intensive lately and it is an important concept for many players. If your bottom lane is incompetent enough to not forsee an incoming gank with usage of wards, then it's not really your fault.

So TL;DR: You do you, fuck everyone else who questions your decisions. Okay, just don't take that second statement literally. [sg-miss-fortune]

Ya know, I wish I could play Azir :(. Ever since he came out I've been fascinated by him.

DODGEORLOSE1 votes

constantly shove mid and roam until the enemy adc afks gg ez

Mob Piru1 votes

just roam bot, get them kills, or get urself fed and then roam top too if ur feeling spicy. When i play mid i try to gank top or bot with my jungler, that way we just take tower or drgaon after.

Wave clear mages do this the best, which is why i love brand, but my friend uses Xerath and he does the job alot better but im just not good with that guy

DW Diana1 votes

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just roam bot, get them kills, or get urself fed and then roam top too if ur feeling spicy. When i play mid i try to gank top or bot with my jungler, that way we just take tower or drgaon after.

Wave clear mages do this the best, which is why i love brand, but my friend uses Xerath and he does the job alot better but im just not good with that guy

Lol I do the same with Malz!

BLIGHTBRINGER1 votes

It sucks when everyone hates my main role and out of that hate they will camp my lane and tower dive me as much as they can. Even if I don't play all of the champions that they hate most.

What I like: Jhin Varus Kindred

What I dislike: Caitlyn Draven KogMaw Tristana MissFortune

What I don't mind: pretty much any ADC that I haven't mentioned yet.

ALL MłGHT1 votes

Why do you dislike Kog'Maw? On my other account I have 800K mastery on Kog'Maw and he's easily the easiest champion to get on top of

BLIGHTBRINGER1 votes

I guess it's the fact that all of his damage is centered around his W. Similar to how Zoe's damage is centered around her Q.

Overall making his damage quite effective at all stages of the game imo.

ALL MłGHT3 votes

All he brings to the table is damage though, he has no mobility, no CC, no reliable set up.

BLIGHTBRINGER1 votes

That's a rather good point.

+1 for that.

saltran1 votes

So you only like 2 botlane adcs? Lol

Anyway as a fellow adc main that likes your idea here's mine:

What I like: Caitlyn MissFortune Ezreal Tristana

What I dislike: Twitch Draven Jhin Lucian

What I don't mind: Ashe Jinx Kaisa KogMaw Varus Vayne Xayah Kalista (I would move Varus to dislike if he were a Q spam lethality abuser)

BLIGHTBRINGER1 votes

When I included who I don't mind, it was suppose to be quite on a similar level of what I like.

Also, Lethality Varus with Q spam is quite an ancient thing my friend. Even if anyone decided to go for that playstyle, it's simply just not worth it compared to AP + On-Hit.

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