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Actually practice wave management if you want to improve

chipndip1·1/13/2018, 8:26:49 PM·29 votes·4,765 views

When You Are Winning Lane, Don’t Shove the Wave

Instead, try freezing the wave in the middle of the lane or near your tower. When you push the wave repeatedly to the enemy tower, you give them free farm instead of zoning them away from it. Every 15-20 CS is the equivalent of 1 kill, depending on the time in-game. By freezing the wave away from them when you are ahead, you either force them to stay under their tower and miss out on farm, or make them leave tower and potentially kill them when they try and farm. Freezing the wave is one of the things that most people in low ELO don’t do, yet if mastered, it is the single most tilting tactic in all of League. And on that same note….

Don’t Push the Same Lane Over and Over

We have all had a Tryndamere or Singed split push all game, not join the team ever, and eventually die three times in a row because he won’t leave top lane. The enemy team will catch on about the third you try and push that wave, and they will be ready. Instead, try and push another lane, or join the team and wait until you win a fight to put pressure in a lane. By repeatedly getting killed by splitting, you give the enemy team free gold and always force your friends to fight a man down.

http://leaguegod-ish.com/10-tips-to-gain-lp-in-season-8/

I made threads on it before and I got drowned out. Seriously, though, any lane that's winning should freeze unless there's a real reason to shove (backing or trying to take turret). It starves the enemy of even more resources than having the minions die under their turret.

42 Comments

Ahristocats1/13/2018, 8:38:29 PM15 votes

"pushing the lane will give free farm under tower"

Blitzcrank Mordekaiser

hehehe

Enselus1/13/2018, 8:35:54 PM9 votes

Also: Slow pushing lanes opposite from objectives,

Xerath Aim Bot1/13/2018, 10:28:58 PM6 votes

No.

If Im winning lane, I prefer to push them out, push lane and create a level/xp deficit and roam.

Hypochondria91/13/2018, 10:30:29 PM5 votes

It tilts me a lot when I play support and purposely tank minions to freeze the lane. Then my ADC comes and pushes the lane super hard breaking the freeze.

NekoniClaws1/13/2018, 10:35:13 PM4 votes

It's SO easy to learn the basics, too. I work very poorly with other supports when I play ADC, but minions? They're easy and predictable. If you can get the enemy adc off the wave you can keep them off.

Which is why it boggles my mind that I rarely get an ADC that does the same thing. I play high-kill pressure supports, so if we're not getting kills, I can at least scare them off solo, and my ADC'll just hit the wave like they're trying to make sure none of our minions die before they've killed the enemy ones. They just spoon the wave into our opponent's mouth. So now we need to arrange a towerdive, or we get nothing.

Bob the Toastr1/13/2018, 11:00:02 PM4 votes

Don't forget:

Shove the wave under their turret if they have to back so they miss minions. Also resets to middle of lane if well timed.

If your jungler is planning on ganking, try to let the wave come more toward your turret, but be wary of leaving large numbers of minions or the fight will be harder.

bywords701/14/2018, 12:01:50 AM3 votes

why is a hard stuck d3 trying to tell others how to play the game? this is possibly the worst advice i've ever heard and literally no pro would ever do that nowadays. all pro players are trained to push with an advantage.

pushing is winning, if you have the advantage you push and try to take turret or roam. you're also inherently making them miss cs by shoving under their turret constantly. shoving to turret is basically a free rotation which actually lets you press your advantage, freezing doesn't do shit most of the time unless you're already massively ahead, in which case it would be better to shove and roam with your huge lead.

Lios Ashenblade1/13/2018, 11:08:10 PM3 votes

I hate CSing lol but I've been working on doing just that when I do try and play a different role

DoktorKaiser1/14/2018, 4:03:07 PM3 votes

Sadly these days it only applies for top lane, if you are a mid laner best strategy is to hard push and roam bot in hope of snowballing the game out of control.

Jet Sett1/13/2018, 11:16:04 PM2 votes

Don't forget to push the lane in after they back or you kill them, it'll reset the lane so you can try and freeze again. Otherwise they'll get the wave pushing towards them, and usually a large one too.

Wafflê1/13/2018, 8:38:38 PM2 votes

Sona main giving advice LUL

Iffy Jarl1/14/2018, 4:29:02 AM2 votes

Down voted So I can continue smacking people who know nothing of wave management

Teemo WTF WHY DO TANKS HAVE SO MUCH BURST!!!

He stepped into a wave and a half to Blind dart me but I'll never tell [slayer-jinx-wink]

Cloud2731/14/2018, 12:38:09 AM1 votes

{quoted}

When You Are Winning Lane, Don’t Shove the Wave

Instead, try freezing the wave in the middle of the lane or near your tower. When you push the wave repeatedly to the enemy tower, you give them free farm instead of zoning them away from it. Every 15-20 CS is the equivalent of 1 kill, depending on the time in-game. By freezing the wave away from them when you are ahead, you either force them to stay under their tower and miss out on farm, or make them leave tower and potentially kill them when they try and farm. Freezing the wave is one of the things that most people in low ELO don’t do, yet if mastered, it is the single most tilting tactic in all of League. And on that same note….

Don’t Push the Same Lane Over and Over

We have all had a Tryndamere or Singed split push all game, not join the team ever, and eventually die three times in a row because he won’t leave top lane. The enemy team will catch on about the third you try and push that wave, and they will be ready. Instead, try and push another lane, or join the team and wait until you win a fight to put pressure in a lane. By repeatedly getting killed by splitting, you give the enemy team free gold and always force your friends to fight a man down.

http://leaguegod-ish.com/10-tips-to-gain-lp-in-season-8/

I made threads on it before and I got drowned out. Seriously, though, any lane that's winning should freeze unless there's a real reason to shove (backing or trying to take turret). It starves the enemy of even more resources than having the minions die under their turret.

Freezing the wave isn't always a good thing. Sometimes I just want to shove my enemy into their tower and roam. A good player knows when to shove and roam and when to just sit in lane and try to deny cs.

PurpleKingCrazy1/14/2018, 1:18:30 AM1 votes

Or, if all goes stupid, spin tires on pavement. :}

Taliyah

PeachyPosterior1/14/2018, 1:50:44 AM1 votes

How exactly do you freeze a lane without you yourself losing out on gold? I understand letting the enemy wave push so they either have to stay under tower or take a chance at getting killed again.

But those minions are sweet sweet gold and I definitely want it. How do I without pushing the wave?

Doctor Fillgood1/14/2018, 4:06:40 AM1 votes

As a support main, I would wish people understood this a lot better.

T I L T B O I1/15/2018, 12:34:57 AM1 votes

this doesn't account for champions that want to roam... you literally shove the wave, roam, and come back

how well thought out was this?

i'm guessing someone lost a lead and you wrote this within5 minutes

Camnopg1/14/2018, 4:40:07 AM1 votes

Tip: To freeze lane, only last hit.

Ariel the Cruel1/14/2018, 5:25:12 AM1 votes

I prefer to hard push and gank top. Or they manage the same thing, then we get to spook the enemy jungler! (Not SR.)

d0riyah1/14/2018, 3:33:56 PM1 votes

Downvote me all you want, but how exactly do you freeze the wave?

Troll for Trump1/15/2018, 3:05:27 AM1 votes

Watch the dong huap video about it

greekvandaL1/13/2018, 11:25:44 PM1 votes

Nah pick a tank and just dive people till they RQ.

Pinkaj1/13/2018, 9:48:12 PM1 votes

Thanks friend, the first tip was helpful. [slayer-jinx-wink]