Tri-laning in League

Respakt·Aug 23, 2015·1 votes·776 views

I was wondering how viable tri laning would be in League of Legends. Its a popular strategy used in dota, mostly used by competitive teams or higher tier players since it makes it so only very safe or strong laners have the possibility of even surviving the lane. What made me think it might be viable would be to put morde, zilean and +1 more all bot. Morde's w passive would make the xp split evenly to the two supports while he got full xp in addition to gaining the xp bonus from zilean's passive. The two supports would then be getting 8% more than the enenmy support and carry while morde would also out level the opponent. I geuss the question becomes, is this better than having a jungler? I am not certain but I think you would get more xp but less gold than having a jungler. In terms of securing objectives, the +1 could just take smite just to have it and you could even do the gromp/ krug for a even bigger xp lead.

7 Comments

MystagentAug 23, 20152 votes

There is no point for this. Either you lose a jungler so if any lane loses, well no ganks unless for the occasional roam from mid. No solo lanes, weak late games, say bye to your tower. The only reason is there is dou bot is because ADC need sup, to sup make it a constant threat from that lane but no other, sure you get exp but your losing ALL OF THE FARM from either mid, top, or jungle

RespaktAug 24, 20151 votes

The point would to utilize morde's new w mechanic to + zilean to out level the opposing duo lane and ideally kill them repeatedly or at least zone them away from cs. As far as the ganking, the second support can roam to mid and ward deep into the jungle or your own jungle to watch the enemy movements. As for late game, morde deals crazy damage and could even take the enemy adc as the ghost and hopefully the opposing adc got very little farm so they wouldnt be able to do that much.

redniwediSAug 23, 20151 votes

The key to a successful team comp is splitting up resources in an effective manner. The current 1-1-2 with a jungler setup is the most effective at this time.

Now, a three man lane is not as efficient, but certain things can still make it worth while. Take a look at the suggestions by Syndrarella, each of those has something that can assist in denying gold and experience to the enemy laner, either by punishing an opponent incredibly hard for a single mistake or taking full control of a lane and giving the enemy no room to work with.

You're not getting gold and experience on your side in an efficient manner, so your goal should be to make sure the enemy laner is even more behind. Keep in mind the meta is built around consistency, so most non-meta setups have a far higher risk/reward setup. When it works it really works, but when it doesn't it REALLY doesn't.

RespaktAug 24, 20151 votes

I know why its the 1-1-1-2 setup, but does it make more than the jungle, I have tried to calculate the morde, zil +1 xp rates but the jungle depends on too many factors for me to test.

Melee minions are 64 exp +5 every 3 minutes Ranged minions are 32 exp +3 every 3 minutes Rider minions are 92 exp +7 every 3 minutes

First 3 Min 6436 3236 9213 2004 total experience for 3 min 2164.32 after zilean

Sharing experience In addition, when more than 1 champion is sharing experience, 30.4% extra experience is split among all champions.[2]

Two champions each gain 65.2% Three champions each gain 43.46% I dont know how it would work with this but I think morde would get full experience and the other two would get 65.2%, Ill calculate for both

2164.32 Morde 1410.928 (65.2 %) both sups 940.4744 (43.46%) both Enemy 1306.608 Both

Net Difference either 2334 or 1334

Xp needed to level up (cumlative 2 280 3 660 4 1140 5 1720 6 2400 7 3180

So Morde might be level 6 with two level 4 or 3 (seems unlikely) sups while the opponent is level 4, so the enenmy jungle early game atleast, will more than likely lose out on the experience making potential of this strategy. This even leaves out exp runes and the inspiration mastery.

All numbers taken from the League wiki

NekusenAug 23, 20151 votes

tri lane would have 3 people with less Level due to split, and 3 people with less gold

you would also be abandoning 1 lane or the jungle, giving either free farming and towers to the enemy or double the farm to the enemy jungler and double jungle buff to the enemy team.

it makes no sense, its just better to have a jungler that periodically ganks the duo lane (and the rest)

you lovemeeAug 24, 20151 votes

There are lotta things that works in Dota don't work in League and trilane is 1 of them. Among that, single roam or duo roamers also won't work. Double mid could work in League.