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How Do You Counter Being Focused?

Best Ekko NA··1 votes·677 views

Recently I am struggling a lot playing League of Legends, to the point where this game is just not even fun to play anymore. I am focused hard by the enemy just about every game and either my team doesn't care, or simply are not good enough players to be capable of helping me. When I play top or mid often my outer / inner turrets are the last ones standing, even after being constantly lane ganked, baby sat, mid roamed, and support roamed. I played Azir mid recently in a normal game, I was doing extremely well vs a Heimerdinger having just about 10 cs a minute. The enemy Wukong is camping me, my jungler never looks mid. Top lane is losing hard and so is bottom lane. I asked the jungler to help me but he either doesn't read it or doesn't care. I thought about roaming but I'm not sure if it's worth it to lose my tower to the Heimerdinger. This is happening to me constantly and there just doesn't appear to be any answer. In this particular game with the Wukong pressuring me hard there didn't seem much hope for me pushing my lane far and if I roam to help bottom or top lane I risk the Wukong and Heimerdinger taking my tower(s). In the end I defended my outer tower even after my laners lost both top and bottom inner towers.. at which point the enemy just kept pressuring my mid with their entire team.

While I will admit, this extreme of an example isn't an every game thing, the part about not ever having jungler assistance and being camped in my lane is a game in and game out every game ordeal. Is winning 1v2 really the only answer for winning the game? How the do you get the jungler to make smart choices and come help you at the right time, instead of when he is butt hurt because all his lanes are losing, he is far behind, and you want help?

I have seriously contemplated just uninstalling this game because of this so anyone's input is appreciated.

I've tried again and again and again to play as safe as possible and not make poor choices but in the end it's not enough. I simply can't win when I'm getting spammed by the mid roams, the jungler ganks, the 5 man tower dives... what exactly am I doing wrong?

8 Comments

GGXJ91 votes

bait them

Fondling Gems1 votes

Run and let your team pick them off as they follow you.

royal Joker 11 votes

IN TOP TIER GAMES, IF YOU PLAY TOP LANE, THERE IS NO REAL SOLUTION. SOME PRO PLAYERS SAY, ITS EITHER YOU LOSE LANE OR EXPOSE YOURSELF TO GANKS.

IF YOU PLAY MID LANE, REMEMBER THAT EVERY GANK HAS SOME KIND OF A COST. THE PLAYER WHO IS GANKING IS NOT FARMING, OR IS LOSING CS.

YOUR JOB IS TO BASICALLY NOT DIE. IT DOESN'T MATTER IF YOU LOSE 5 OR 10 MINIONS (2 WAVES). THAT FEELS LIKE A LOT, BUT IT'S REALLY NOT BECAUSE YOU STILL GET THE EXPERIENCE. YOU MISS 10 MINIONS WORTH OF GOLD BUT THE ENEMY LOSES MORE GOLD, EXPERIENCE, TOWER HEALTH, ETC. MOST PEOPLE FIND THIS REALLY HARD TO SWALLOW. BUT THIS IS ESSENTIAL FOR MID LANERS.

EVENTUALLY, YOU WILL DIE. BUT IT'S A MATTER OF HOW MANY GANKS YOU CAN TAKE BEFORE YOU FALL. 15 CS IS WORTH A KILL.

ONE THING TO DO IS TO WARD 1 SIDE OF THE MID LANE HEAVILY AND STAY ON THAT SIDE.

Ghxztt1 votes

WHY DID YOU PUT THAT ALL IN CAPS?

royal Joker 11 votes

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WHY DID YOU PUT THAT ALL IN CAPS?

IDK IT'S KINDA FUN...... [slayer-jinx-unamused]

WEEGEEMAN1231 votes

I play jungle. NO PROTECYION AGAINST 5V1ERS IN EVERY POINT OF THE GAME. Imagine this:you are at your blue buff and suddenly you get dashed by an assassin, his 2 teamates come, you get CCed and then, finally die. There is no counter to this 3v1. You just die AND because of you getting ambushed with no chance of fighting if both your top and mid come it's a 3v2 with one of the enemies having a blue buff. At red buff , it's even worse because then, you can get focused by 4 people. Again they get your buff and kill you with no counterplay. You just wait, along time. Next, go to your blue buff (bc 4 people red buff) and you get demolished by the HIGH level top lane. Now, your top might kill him. But, you still died. You need to wait EVEN more time before you can play. The enemy team got alot of cheap no skill required kills. WICH they use against your Laners. (Wich could have been feeding). "GG ez" DO YOU understand what I am telling you? Do you now understand why jungling is so frustrating? Oh yeah, I think I forgot something. YOU CAN'T PLAY "SAFE" BECAUSE YOU DON'T HAVE A TURRET THAT YOU COULD GO TOWARDS WHEN YOU GET CCed AND BURSTED.

Vesarixx1 votes

You really don't need to win your lane to win the game, or even to carry. With a late game champ like Azir coming out of lane with equal CS to a hiemerdinger and keeping your turret up is already huge, drawing jungle pressure mid is just a bonus, especially if he doesn't get anything out of it. Getting down some defensive wards can help vs the dives, you could also consider summoner spells like exhaust or TP to help deal with dives or being forced out of lane, TP can also help you influence other lanes and have better back timings.

Another thing to mention is that it's not always important to keep a tower up, you can actually let an enemy take a turret early and shoot themselves in the foot because you can then freeze at tier 2 and starve them of CS.

Quepha1 votes

If you know the jungler is waiting in a bush, just stand in a safe spot and waste their time. If they're soaking xp from the lane, then the enemy mid laner is going to fall behind you in levels while the enemy jungler is falling behind relative to what they could get from farming camps. Furthermore, your top and bot laners can do whatever the hell they want because they know the enemy jungler is very busy accomplishing nothing at all in mid lane. Your jungler doesn't need to countergank to get value off of you being camped, they can get a ton done going off to gank other lanes with no worry of a countergank, farming their jungle and then the enemy jungle, taking Rift Herald or Dragon without being contested...

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