For example, if you're playing Alistar, should you go ham and fuk up their squishy dude or sit back and slap their chubbies to protect your squishies? I feel like taking their carries out of the teamfight is good, but also realize that it leaves your squishies kind of fuked too. Wut do?
redniwediS2 votesThere are two reasons to dive the enemy team's carries. The first is to remove them from combat either through CC/forcing them to focus you, or by outright killing them. The second is to become such a threat that the enemy front line has to peel you off, and therefore not dive your own backline.
If you're playing Alistar the best thing for you to look at is whether or not the enemy front line will attempt to peel you off of their carries, and whether or not your backline can effectively remove the enemy front line while you are doing so.
LaceUp231 votesOMG so many decisions
redniwediS1 votesMany people underestimate the knowledge requirement of League. Mechanics can only take you so far.
SmokedAlmonds2 votesThere isn't really 1 answer to that.
Probably the simplest thing I would think about is can I kill their squishy before they can kill mine. The next thing I would consider is the skill level of the person I would protect vs the person I want to kill. If my ADC is bad and theirs is good then I am going to weight going for the kill higher. Finally, ill consider what my champion is most effective at. If I was say wukong Im going to heavily favor going in for the kill but if I was say moaki then Ill probably be leaning more towards protecting.
Jubbinaut1 votesVery much this. A pure tank isn't going to do much to the backline by themselves, and will probably do more good applying their cc chain towards peeling. A Juggernaut/high-defense bruiser (Wukong, Irelia, Jax, Xin, etc) are massive threats - and should focus their efforts on smooshing squishies.
Much of this, of course, depends on what the rest of your team is - a strong utility mid might mean you can forgo peeling, for example, while a fed assassin may negate the need for diving.
disregardable1 votesDepends on how fed your squishy is. If she's like 3/3/3, fuck her, but if she's 15/3/3 then she kinda needs you.
LaceUp231 votes3/3/3 with 400 cs > 15/3/3 with 50 cs.
disregardable1 votesIf 3/3 is prone to ditching fights or not following up it could be a serious waste. At least you know the 15/3 will try.
Only Play Darius1 votesFuck theirs up. Unless you know for a fact your ADC is good, it's not worth sacrificing your life just to see them go melee form and get deleted before they put out 2 autoattacks.