"opening" a lane trying to win?

HardnerPL·2/22/2018, 7:45:27 PM·1 votes·313 views

I was just wondering - I just remembered a situation when I played midlane as snowball champ like Katarina or smth. I got destroyed on lane and my jungler refused to gank and flamed me. If in situation like that is leaving mid "open" (not trying to lose, but trying to snowball and actually win) is punishable? And if it's fine (I believe I'm doing best thing for the team) how much difference is there when I say a) OK IM LEAVING MID OPEN THAN - is this considered toxic or something, or is it fine? b) Gonna leave mid cus i need to snowball - probably should use this one but is there a difference (other than maybe team getting mad at me for "trolling"?)

5 Comments

Jo0o2/22/2018, 7:47:00 PM3 votes

I don't understand the question. How does leaving mid open allow you to snowball? I can't think of a reason why abandoning the mid lane is a winning strategy. Are you going to go steal farm from other lanes or something?

Timethief492/22/2018, 7:48:19 PM3 votes

A aswell as B will just piss your team off. Just mute them and ping like omw top or bot.

AlienPrimate2/22/2018, 10:24:31 PM1 votes

I don't play mid but I often do this in top lane. If the enemy can dive and kill you whenever they want, it is unintentionally feeding to stay in lane. This means you have to find something else to do in an attempt to come back. This could be swapping lanes, grouping with your team, or taking jungle camps. I will never flame someone who had a 0/4/0 start for coming to my lane and attempting to make a comeback. If your team doesn't approve of trying to group up, all that remains is taking jungle camps and muting them.