Does anyone still feel like a better Bot Lane match-up still decides games?

BLIGHTBRINGER·Jun 21, 2018·2 votes·1,624 views

Not to make this sound like a complain post but I just wanted to note that one of Riot's goals was to reduce the importance of Bot Lane and how much impact it has on deciding games but it hasn't really changed that much but it's still better than before.

Even with the current diversity, it still feels like the games are somewhat decided by Bot Lane.

This one game, our Bot Lane was Thresh Support and Pyke ADC versus a Morgana APC and Lux Support.

Lux and Morgana both won the lane and in doing so managed to screw over everyone else on our team.

4 Comments

OurLestradeJun 21, 20184 votes

Half the team is involved with bot lane at pretty much all times, so it's always going to be the most influential lane I feel.

HayaishiJun 21, 20183 votes

I feel top lane and jg influence more.

Everytime my boosted animal of a top laner loses lane one of the abominations that go top/jungle steamrolls the game.

DemonBoneJanglesJun 21, 20181 votes

unless there is a strong meta shift (that removes half of the bot lane and places it somewhere else) or until they make monster camps have radiant xp (like minions for anyone on the team that helps kill it to make supporting a jungler viable) the bot lane will often have the second most influential if not the most influential impact on the game next to jungle

PhearBunnyJun 21, 20181 votes

bot lane has the most players to feed, and the most players to shutdown. As long as it is the only duo lane, it will always be the most impactful lane in most matches.

Which is why I think SR needs to be changed from 5v5 to 6v6.

2 top 2 bot 1 mid 1 jungle