Sometimes A Game Is Decided From The Invade

Elite4Runner·2/5/2020, 3:01:53 AM·3 votes·3,358 views

https://youtu.be/_Z-M11zaQug

Waiting on the loading screen, I realized we had a VASTLY superior invade team. AS SOON as I could type I told my team, "We invade, 1000%". Fortunately, they followed and we got an early lead that just kept going. Sorry for the awful camera work, and the dumb rewind and speed control. Was a fun game. I definitely made plenty of mistakes, but this game actually got me to level 5 with Alistar. I lastly want to add that my goal is to get all champions (I own all) to level 5, so I will probably be uploading more videos from that journey.

2 Comments

Hayaishi2/5/2020, 5:36:41 AM2 votes

Indeed, invades can mess up enemy morale and mental, can snowball your team from the obtained gold/exp, gives you tempo advantage as you may get to lane faster and obtain lane control from it which translates to river control and might translate into another invade depending on the circumstances. Might neutralize the enemy lane bully and allow your scaling champions to get to their strongest point faster.

Invades are very OP, everyone should abuse them whenever they can.

Elite4Runner2/5/2020, 3:24:16 AM1 votes

As I'm watching this back, one big thing I know I did wrong was when I tried to push the wave when we had just killed Shaco mid and Anivia was backing. I should have let that wave slow push out so Anivia could have caught it, but for a second there I forgot it was Viktor mid, not Shaco.

I will say that I did not start this match with the intention of building AP, but once I started getting this lead, I felt like I really should. If I was trying to go damage heavy, I wouldn't have taken such defensive runes.

I think the MF was getting annoyed at me taking kills, but honestly, .. this is Season 10, .. why are ADCs so worried about kills these days. Yes, she could scale better with them, but I'm applying so much pressure across the map, and she really isn't. I see no problem with me getting the kills. I will be clear that I wasn't really trying to get most of the ones that look like obvious ks, especially when I headbutted the Viktor out of her ult. I did apologize for that one in chat lol.

I'm not actually sure if I should be trying to push waves as much as I did. I honestly think those waves should be pushed and it SHOULD be someone else on my team doing it, but I was the only one there. It's painful to try and kill minions with Alistar lol

That Riven bait tho LMAO!

And the Shaco bait ... was sloppy, but I'm so happy with the way it turned out. He was tilted!

I took a lot of unnecessary tower shots, like when shortly before the Malphite ulted me bot. I was getting a little cocky there.