Bot Laners, Do You Feel Ignored By Your Jungler? Does Elo Have An Effect?
I recently asked a group of league players whether or not elo has an impact on the amount of attention given to the bot lane. I seperated elo's into two groups, Plat 3 and below were considered "low elo" and plat 2 and above were considered "high elo". This is just my general opinion of where there is a large gap in mechanics i do not mean to degrade any players, i myself am in the lower half. From 110 responses, 91% believed that bot lane was ignored more in lower elo due to various reasons.
Some of the stated reasons were: Bot is a harder lane to gank due to the length of the lane so it is easier to camp top/mid. Bot Lane is nonexistent until i reach level 6. Every lane gets ganked less in lower elos. It is easier for the mid laner to gank bot so it falls to them to assist the bottom lane. Junglers in lower elos do not know how to correctly gank the lane due to its length, you do not always have to go through your side of the jungle to gank.
For the 9% that responded as there is less attention in higher elo, they related most of this reason due to better vision control in higher elos and better laning phases by their teammates. Their ability to know how to play from behind and not depend on the junglers intervention to help win back the lane.
A huge impact on this is obviously in champion choice in both your team and the enemy team. Champions who need to snowball and champions with low mobility may be hit with more ganks. Also what jungler you are on has a huge impact on where you can gank.
While this was a somewhat small sample size and im not 100% sure of the elos of those who gave responses i do believe that this is a common theme among players. I wanted to get feedback on the thread and your opinions!
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by now.