When your lane gets ganged up on, shut down, and they deny you farming, what do you do?

darkdill·Nov 10, 2014·1 votes·764 views

Jayce slaughtering me, pushing me too hard, diving me if I try to defend, and if I go anywhere else to farm, GANKED! Any attempts to recover? Your enemies laugh AT YOU and destroy you for even trying to PLAY. Jungle ganks? Either your jungler can't help you or your other lanes are in trouble. It gets to the point where getting drop-hacked would be a mercy.

What the hell does one do in that scenario, because "Play safe" isn't a viable option when you get dived without fear.

6 Comments

EstebanElGuapoNov 10, 20141 votes

Disclaimer: I'm just silver... but thoughts that come to mind are avoiding top if it is to the point where you're being successfully dived, farming under turret is unsurvivable, enemy top or top+jungler isn't taking your turret, and it is snowballed beyond salvage. Instead i'd recommend becoming a short term roaming support, looking for opportunity to gank mid or bottom, helping your jungler gank mid or bottom and/or helping him invade enemy jungler buffs and helping ward out enemy jungle during this. Also warding out paths from top to mid due to likelihood enemy toplaner gets bored up there alone and wanders toward mid. Once enemy toplaner takes turret and the wave pushes far enough try to keep it frozen close to the 2nd tier turret to catch back up, and also take close neutrals. In that case ward out access to that part of jungle and to the path from top to mid.

Drunk RummateNov 10, 20141 votes

Opt1. double up with your jungler for some super strong ganks. buy lots of wards to make sure you arent getting counter ganked by your lane opponent who is clearly stronger than you

Opt2. stand back a bit until your opponent takes your tower (they'll want to do this so that they can roam more freely). once the tower is down farm the waves that make it to your inner and shove it all the way to his outer before roaming or jungling again. if you do it this way then his wave will slowly shove back towards you even if he doesnt come back to the lane and he'll miss out on a bunch of experience and farm if he doesnt, which lets you catch up in terms of gold and experience.

note: if they continually yolopush to your inner to attempt to deny you farm (or take another tower) after taking your outer turret then get 1 or 2 teammates to come help (assist pings usually work). be diligent about sweeping your jungle for wards so you don't get ambushed when you're ambushing him.

Kuroi86Nov 11, 20141 votes

Chill under tower and get as much farm as possible. Build defense to survive as long as you can. Apply pressure to try and get the enemy to continue focusing you. Tell your other lanes to go buck wild while you keep the enemy team tunnel visioned on you. Watch your team collect towers. GG, you just carried.

SaelaniNov 12, 20141 votes

Play defensive and hope they are not strong enough to tower dive you. farm the jungle when you can and try to gank other lanes. If you can't be ahead, at least don't be behind and/or help get one of your teammates fed.