What kind of thing should I be looking for every couple seconds when I look on the map? I dont fully understand what to be looking for I understand some things like look where your jungler is and look if theres teamfights but what else can I get out of it? Just wondering because I wanna climb and if you have anything else to say about climbing please let me know.
It good for overall awareness of what is going on in the game, if you are a bot lane winning and you see the enemy jungler is top and the enemy mid is shoved under tower that means you can engage on the enemy bot lane or you could do dragon for "free". Knowing where the enemy team is as well as your own is important. Glancing to see your jungler is invading because providing pressure is important so you can collapse and help him if needed. Basically, you just want to see where your team is and where the enemy team is, seeing no one on the map tells you almost as much as seeing all 5 on the map.
The think that I try, .. and most often fail, .. to do when I'm laning (I'm more often a jungler) is to look at the mini map every time a new minion wave enters the lane. That means I should be looking at the mini map at least once every 30 seconds. It generally takes about 30 seconds for a champion to walk from one lane to the next if they are walking down the river.
What you are looking for is how many enemy champions are showing on the mini map. Lets say you are playing top lane and you are pushing the minion wave into your top laner's tower with them under it. When you glance at the mini map you can only see the two bottom lane champions. There is a chance that the enemy jungler and / or mid laner are coming top to relieve pressure for their top laner.
This is not always going to be the case, but simply not knowing where the enemies are, means you COULD be in trouble.
Alternatively, if you are in the same sceanerio and you can see the mid laner, adc and support are all in their respective lanes, and you know the enemy jungler was recently spotted on the bottom side of the map, you are fine to continue to play aggressively.
If you are over extended and you notice that there are no enemies showing on the mini map ... RUN!
