What do I do if all I've done is feed?

Lillian Toran·10/8/2015, 4:49:16 AM·1 votes·885 views

I feel like every time I die, it's considered to be 'feeding'. And I'm starting to believe it is and I'm the one who should shoulder all the blame because I caused First Blood for the enemy team. Come mid-game, I've already fed 7 times, and not a single kill or assist. What can I do?

12 Comments

tseihei10/8/2015, 5:26:29 AM2 votes

Learn from the deaths. How do you think people learned that akali isn't as strong as riven until at least lvl 6? It is because they go hard when they first start playing the new champ, and understand that they died possibly because they either misplayed, or simply because their champion isn't as strong in the matchup as the opponent.

Thinking this way helps you understand eventually what levels, or as some say, where your power spikes are for certain champions. It also helps you understand when you can use these power spikes to your advantage.

Once you learn when you are stronger, it then becomes how you can get those power spikes. Pushing allows you to get levels before the enemy because their minions die first. This is common for riven as she can all in someone if she is lvl 2 and they are lvl 1.

Other times you have to allow the enemy to push. This can occur when you are playing someone that even if you gain a level advantage, say lvl 7 vs lvl 6, they can still win the duel in lane.

So in other words, feeding may piss off your team in the short term, but will allow you to learn more and therefore get better faster then anyone else around you.

On a new Champion never play like a wuss!

Lugg10/8/2015, 5:12:50 AM1 votes

If the enemy laner gets ahead, even by one kill, PLAY PASSIVE! Stay away from them and just farm until either you have items to trade back with them or your jungler comes to gank.

PrimeWraith10/8/2015, 4:58:33 AM1 votes

easy carry champs for low elo

mid: veigar (passive) -safe playing til lvl6- jg:voli support:soraka (tell adc to poke a lot so u can heal) adc:any top:volibear(aggressive) spam ur bites try those champs out

BluePolarizer10/8/2015, 6:30:28 AM1 votes

Build full tank.

StoryDuck10/8/2015, 1:06:57 PM1 votes

It can be rough to lose lane. It happens to the best of us. The trick is learning how to lose lane. First, recognize when you can no longer win trades in lane, in your above example this sounds like it was after First blood. If you can't win the trades then don't bother. Just farm from afar/under turret with any long range abilities you might have and get CS when you can. Second, recognize your opponent's ability to dive you under turret. If you are facing Fizz/Leblanc/Zed odds are they can dive your tower kill you and get out unscathed. If you can't get CS don't worry just stay away, level up and wait for a gank to come to help you out. It is okay to lose lane and fall behind in CS. Even a 50 cs discrepancy is recoverable as long as the opponent doesn't have 10+ kills under his belt at the same time.

Keep in mind that although you might have fallen behind your teammate might not have. If your team's other lanes are going even that means they are even with your opponent (if one of your other lanes are ahead then that is even better!). At first only you have fallen behind. However, trying again and again to lane with an opponent that kills you helps them snowball to a point that they are ahead of your teammates. Just be patient and wait out the brutality of losing lane. When the team fight phase comes around you will catch up.

Maximum Morde10/8/2015, 1:22:46 PM1 votes

You uninstall and go watch Netflix.

Only Play Darius10/8/2015, 5:31:38 AM1 votes

7 kills?

Well, at that point you pray to god that your lane opponent is having so much fun getting fed off of you that he just stays in lane and continues to kill you for 30 gold instead of going to other lanes. If he is getting tunnel visioned like that, try to play on that while your other lanes win. Don't outright die to him, but play around with him and make him work for the kills. It doesn't matter if he is 14/0/0 by the time he leaves lane if your mid and bot are fed, he's going to die and lose teamfights after that.

But at all costs, you want to keep him in your lane and isolate the threat. Even if that means giving him free kills, it's better than a 7/0 toplaner going and getting his allies snowballed.