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How to use your advantage correctly?

garenislow·11/10/2014, 2:17:08 PM·4 votes·2,930 views

Hello guys,

I got a question about carrying your team in early/midgame. In case of being ahead compared with your lane opponent (farm and kills) I usually dont know how to use this as your teams advantage.

Whenever I significantly win my lane I see this two following options to bring my team forward:

Roam the other lanes: get/grant kills, harass other opponents(very hard as toplaner due to the big distances)
Push my lane: get inhib probably, force the opponents to get rid of me

Well although this options seem to be useful you shouldnt forget that your advantage (lvl, gold) is only temporally. Therefore I sometimes dont know if leaving my lane is the right decision because I loose a lot of farm/give the opponent free farm.

Although i try to take this measures if i'm ahead i'm very rarely able to carry bad teammates. To prevent stucking in silver elo next season i'd appreciate getting tipps for carrying my team, which of my options you find correct/false or other options.

(Btw this isnt my main acc so dont be wondering if you see me on lolking)

4 Comments

Old Man Teeto11/10/2014, 4:41:58 PM4 votes

Steps to improving.

Laning phase - learn how the champions you play win or lose this phase and when you're stronger in common matchups. Realize when you're being baited and what to do when junglers camp your lane (theirs or yours).

This gives you your initial advantage.

Translating - Dragon fights, 4/5 man collapses, large amount of lane pressure resulting in you taking turrets or forcing the enemy away from objectives. All are good choices, dependent on your champion. For example, a Rumble would prefer to Dragon fight. Tryndamere would rather split push.
Reacting to how your other lanes are doing - If you're top lane and your bottom lane is 0-3 while you're 1-0, you might have to try riskier plays to get farther ahead of your lane to balance out the other lane. If your bottom lane is 3-0 while you're 0-1, focus on farming so you can have an impact in the team fights without giving more advantages to the enemy.
Knowing your teams win condition - Who has to do the majority of the teams damage in fights? Is it a double, triple, or quadra threat? Can you make isolated "picks" in the mid-game with champions like Ahri, Blitzcrank, Morganna, Nocturne? Do you have an AoE wombo with Amumu, Malphite, Sona, Miss Fortune, Orianna? Will stalling result in your team out scaling? Can you seige with Xerath, Ziggs, Jayce, Nidalee, Caitlyn, Jinx? Perhaps you need to flank with Eve, Shyvana, Gragas, Alistar?
"A great call followed by no one always fails, a bad call with everyone backing it has a chance for success."

You might not always agree with the calls made in the game. A lot of champions in a lot of games have to rely on their team to "start things off". While an equal amount of champions in those games rely on their team to follow them. If the engage never engages, or the follow up never follows you will lose regardless of how good you are. For those who are trying to climb, this is the most frustrating part as allies rarely "trust" each other.

If you've ever been a jungler ganking a lane just to see the laner "farm" instead of help and then get flustered when you die or the laner who sees their jungler suicide dive your laner. This is lack of innate synergy, both the jungler and the laner are at fault. One wanted to farm, the other to fight, and all it does is set each other behind.

If you have a problem trusting your allies, the best way to climb is to play a "solo-ist" champion. One who both makes plays and sees them through.

Riven is infamous for this, as is Vayne.

Analyze both your team and the enemy team - We all do this to some extent "Lol toal n00b" is a very bad form of it. Is your X super aggressive? Is their Y super passive? Does mid favor roaming over farming? Does top like to TP back to lane or save it? Does the jungler favor a certain route through their jungle, is he more likely to countergank or initiate ganks?

asdbnmrty11/11/2014, 12:06:14 AM2 votes

If you are ahead with an advantage, you're suppose to spread it around. This involves ganking and pressuring other lanes.

I know, you're concerned about losing farm in lane. But you have to realize, you are already strong. Giving up some farm in lane doesn't impact you as much since you're already ahead, yet a gank to a teammates in another lane can significantly put them ahead. So you're trading a little of your personal strength to give your team a lot of strength.

Now here's the kicker, everyone on the team is suppose to be doing this for each other. This way the team as a whole gets stronger instead of just you. So what you're thinking, who cares if the team is strong if I'm super strong. I can just carry everyone. OK, maybe. But, what if you die? Yes I'm serious, you know you can die right? Even if you're double digits kills above everyone else, you can still mess up or the enemy team can band together and take you down. You can accidentally walk into a bush with no vision and get 1v5ed, your skill shot might miss, maybe your finger slipped, or maybe your opponents wised up and made a plan specifically to gangbang you. It happens and it probably will.

At this point I hope your teammates are also strong so they can put up a fight without you. You can guarantee this if you helped them out earlier. And don't give me that they are bad. Maybe they aren't as good as you expect, but would you rather have an ADC with a doran blade and longsword watching your back, or an ADC packing an Infinity Edge.

Raemnant11/10/2014, 2:22:46 PM1 votes

I find that the best way to use your advantage is to keep your advantage. Its only temporary if you let the enemy catch up with you. Once you push your opponents tower and roam, sure, your opponent might be back there free farming while your ganking mid lane, but if youre pushed enough, CSing is all they can do, and their mid is in deep trouble. And if you manage to get a kill for your mid and push their tower, even better. Now you can focus on bot lane, if they havent already won, and take dragons

TehNACHO11/10/2014, 5:08:12 PM1 votes

It depends on what type of champion you are in regards to leaving lane or not. For example, heavy auto attackers (AD Carries+laning Melee Carries for example) generally tend to want to stay in lane and take down their own towers since they're the best at doing so, and because their ganks aren't as powerful. On the other hand, champions who focus more on abilities and CC tend to want to roam more.