I find this really confusing and many people say follow your laner. Is it necessary? If so do you do it vs an assasin?
Also, What are reaction times.. I don’t understand...
Even if you do everything right people will rage at you for "not following" when your laner roams and gets a kill, even if you spam pinged to retreat and then even typed in chat to back off.
No, you should not always follow the laner. There is such thing as lane priority and vision and who you are laning against matters. If you are shoved under tower with 2 minions waves at your tower then its very hard to leave your lane. Also if you have no vision then its extremely dangerous to just blindly follow. There are also times where you are against someone like TF and you cant just start randomly running around in the jungle trying to predict his ult anytime he is missing.
So no, you should not always follow your lane. Although you should have map awareness of what is going on on the map. If there is a fight happening then you should go to it. Don't let the enemy laner go join the fight while you farm in mid. Even if you see a 3v3 happening in bot lane and think "well they are already fighting its too late", trust me its not. If you start moving to the fight right away you will often make it in time to help.
i think yeah it would be a good idea. you definitely should. i would anyways.. should also ping MIAs too..
Depends on who you are and who the enemy is. I play a lot of malz mid. Sorry team, no fucking way im chasing a zed/talon anywhere. Its too likely they just wait in a bush to kill me and then roam bot for a triple. Now, playing as A Sol, Ill be roaming the entire game anyway, so of course Ill follow then
Always MIA ping them if they leave lane and always control ward either of the bushes in the river. Having the control ward in the river bush is probably the best thing you can do as if you warn ping the bot lane and they actually see him coming down they'll actually back off. Sometimes its good to follow them when they go if youre even against youe mid laner but most times this is a reactionary response by your bot laners after they're caught off gaurd and killed by the enemy mid laner.
I would say it depends on what you and your opponent are playing. Noone should expect Syndra to follow Talon in a jungle.
It takes some discretion, that's for sure. You could be walking into both the enemy mid and jungler on your way down, or you could be walking into an ambush of just them. The smart way about it is to walk parallel to them, but don't take the same path. If they go through river brush, walk behind the wall and ward that brush. Be prepared to sidestep in case they warded similarly. Use Scryer's Bloom to reveal the river to see if they're actually roaming or just faking you out.
The main thing you need to know for yourself is whether you're able to roam or not. Full HP and half mana? Give it a go. Two levels ahead? Definitely go for it. Even levels and mostly full on all resources? Up to you. If you decide to stay in lane, though, be sure to push HARD and threaten the tower. Toss an MiA ping on mid and some warning pings bot.
Not always, especially if you don't have vision of your opponent in a matchup like you as Veigar vs Zed. If you try to follow him, there's a good chance he'll just wait for you and kill you.
Instead, you can simply ping to your team multiple times that he is going, push your lane, and whether or not they choose to use the information is on them if you give them enough warning ahead of time.
A good way to keep track is simply to put a ward in your lane, just out of their tower vision, so you can see which lane they roam towards and when.
I've always fed when I follow my opponent mid lane. He turns around and kills me so I just prefer to ping missing and caution the lane that he went to.
