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Experience from Kills in a Solo Lane

HOryShiet·11/4/2014, 2:34:00 PM·2 votes·1,316 views

I play a lot of competitive LoL and I find that one of my major malfunctions when I'm top-lane is the experience gained from a kill. Case and point: at many times it is the wise decision to let a laning opponent push into your tower during the first three levels and it has happened twice to me and everyone else where the opponent pushes into your tower after 4-5 waves, gains level 3-4, and then just massacres you. This SHOULD NOT BE A PROBLEM EXCEPT THAT THE ONES THAT TOWER DIVE "KNOWING FULL WELL" (yeeeah. uh-huh) THEY'RE GOING TO BE KILLED AS YOU LEVEL UP GETS A MASSIVE XP BOOST AND LANE ADVANTAGE WHEN THEY COME BACK TO LANE! Not only is your lane pushing into HIS tower, but he is 2 (sometimes 3????!) levels ahead of you from only ONE PUSH. PLZ RIOT. Level 3 xin with 30 xp vs level 4 Kayle (lane pushing away from you!) - This is an abomination on careful game-play. Sidenote* I honestly think money is enough reward for kills. Why the snowball when there's 100 million players in the world? Let's make League of Legends a more interesting game.

6 Comments

ValyrianBlade11/4/2014, 2:55:55 PM3 votes

If they can tower dive a kill at that low of a level (pre 6) then you're probably getting outplayed really badly in Lane. They'll never be 2-3 levels ahead from 1 push. Even with 1 kill and 2 minion waves missed (which is way more than you should have missed from one death unless you were really slow coming back to Lane) shouldn't give them More than a 1.5 level advantage (I.e. They just hit 6 and your closer to 5).

If you're dying 1v1 in Lane you're either doing something very wrong or your Lane opponent is incredibly good. Either way, this Lane is going to snowball hard unless you play much more passively and get some jungle attention. They're a better player, and now they're ahead, you shouldn't look to 1v1 them.

Also, junglers need kill xp. With less xp and gold from Camps, junglers would put themselves so far behind from ganking if they didn't get kill xp. I mean in solo queue junglers can get way ahead and carry Games Thanks to kill xp. In world's? Junglers are typically only slightly ahead of the support, the difference being those players don't get caught and hence the jungler doesn't get kill xp.

I've played against Platinum and diamond players while only level 20s and not fed them. Yes they got ahead via easy cs and roamed and killed my teammates since they don't play passive, but if you recognize (and are willing to admit) that your Lane opponent is far superior to you, you can play safe and not feed kills and give your team a chance to win. In most games mmr is even so if your Lane opponent is amazing, odds are you have a really good teammate who will be able to turn the game if you don't feed.

Commit Sudoku11/4/2014, 2:39:24 PM2 votes

preseason changes with slightly fix this as you get more of your stats at level 1 making level advantages less meaningful

ThePurpleKnight11/4/2014, 11:15:28 PM2 votes

I'm more concerned with the fact that when you kill someone you get 75% of the exp they need for next level as your own.

Srsly lvl 1 kills a lvl 18, will get so much exp he'll probably be level 16, it's a nice idea for comebacks with afks, but it creates a huge snowball effect of absolute bullshit, lvl 18, is better than a 6 item build in most scenarios, so being 1 or 2 levels above your opponent is absolutely devastating, I can kill Pantheons or Volibears as Riven if I am 2 levels ahead of they and those are the types of match ups I try to get out of at equal exp because of how bullshit they are.

I am probably the worst jungler in silver division cause I always end up useless because I dnt get kills which makes me not keep up in levels past lvl 6, when I think about the effect this has, and how easy it is to replicate in lane with kills, levels matter waaay to much to get so much exp from killing people.

Drunk Rummate11/4/2014, 3:58:14 PM1 votes

that sounds like a calculated strategy. if you plan well enough to know that kill trading will get you an advantage... that's smart and it shouldn't be removed.

HOryShiet11/5/2014, 1:20:04 PM1 votes

Thanks for all of your inputs. Hopefully I can incorporate it into my strategy.