If you can't pressure or kill your lane opponent, just focus on NOT DYING

And when I said not dying, I meant:

• not stubbornly taking free damage from enemy laner just because you want those 2 cs.
• not ignoring your surroundings for potential ganks.
• not over-pushing your lane to the enemy's turret while ignoring a potential gank.
• hug your turret to respect your opponent's annoying strength.
• using your trinkets to the max, not leave it there at 2 stacks over 5 minutes & then blame your jungler mindlessly for dying to ganks.

Cz I hate it when I'm playing fine on top lane, then all of the sudden, both mid & bot has fed off 5 deaths at the 4 minute mark for some goddamn reason.....