This is why botlane has always been so important. 40% of the team is at bot lane. Why wouldn't it be a large factor in the game? It's one of the two lanes that's right next to dragon and it has 4 people in the lane. If 40% of your team is losing, of course it's probably not going to go well for your team.
and yet 60% of your team could have 50 kills and yet could still lose if that 60% doesn't include the ADC
top rated threads like "this meta is whichever botlane wins lane wins the game". yeah real original bud.... 2 weeks before "the better jungler wins the game" and in 2 weeks time its probably "whichever mid laner clears the lane and roams faster wins the game". all the same generic shit. nothing is ever to be learned from those posts. props to them if they dont just put "title" in the description at least
Did you just try to bring statistical facts to GAMEPLAY? Where everything there is are biased subjective posts?
It also helps that the 40% of the team is usually affected heavily by the jungler, midlaner, and occasionally the top laner.
If they are camped - not ganked once in awhile, but actually camped, I understand them doing poorly. In all other scenarios, a losing botlane as TWO people to protect each other. They have TWO people to ward for ganks (one of which usually builds sightstone) so they should have perma vision of incoming ganks. They have range to make it safer to farm and harder to gank. They have defensive summoner spell(s) in exhaust (sometimes) and heal/barrier (pretty much always). There is no reason for them do die repeatedly when they are largely left 2v2.
I regularly get games where a bot lane has far worse kda 2v2 all laning phase than I have while being camped 2v1 top. This should never happen. Low elo botlane is on average the worst/least intelligent lane. Not saying there aren't some really smart and good botlaners, but on average, they feed the most compared to how much they get pressured. If they played appropriately, a winning mid and top early more than compensates for a bot that is behind. Moreover, the winning top and mid can then take their lead, win teamfights early/mid game off THEIR lead, and get their botlane right back into the game - provided bot played well and didn't int just because they were behind.
Or if mid and top are playing poorly. Or jungle and top. You get the picture.
If my jungle, mid and top are crushing their jungle, mid and top but their botlane is winning they have better odds in the game than we do. 60%>40% last I checked.
Bot as a lane has too much influence on the game right now, ADCs are busted beyond belief and they need to be remorselessly beaten into a bloody pulp by the nerf hammer, especially cancer like Twitch and Tristana.
