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When to roam?

pikkkkolo·8/23/2015, 6:19:41 PM·1 votes·765 views

i tend to suck at roaming because i'm super indecisive about it

say i'm someone with fairly average push like lux or something and i want to roam; this will generally be post level 6 and assuming enemy mid has decent push like zed, i can't outpush them to their tower for roaming because i'd run oom anyway and my e has a high cd

so assuming i'm like fkit i'll roam anyway and i leave my lane in the middle to gotop/ bot, zed would simply push the tower or almost take it down; assuming that it has had a few fairly large hits to it- this means that if i roam and end up with a few assists or even a kill, and in a best case scenario maybe a dragon, zed comes out with global gold for his whole team;;;;;;; this is assuming the roam is actually successful which doesn't really happen that often even if i play champs that do well roaming like ahri

tl;dr is it worf to risk roaming to let your outer turret die?

ps i notice supports like thresh and morg tend to roam a lot but i mostly play janna; should i still roam on her anyway?

1 Comments

TouchpadExpert8/23/2015, 10:16:23 PM1 votes

It is worth it if you can take the bottom lane turret and maybe kill their ADC or jungler in the process. I've actually found ways to bait Zed into disregarding my tower and coming after my low hp allies. We'll net a double kill and my ADC will want to back. I will order them to stay and ping the turret. Zed will see them low hp and think "Oh shit, thats an easy double." Watch him in lane. As soon as he heads your way ping it. Wait maybe another 5 seconds and start running back to your own tower. Or if you're feeling lucky set up an ambush. This usually happens in my games but I only play normals and am low ELO. If he's smart he won't leave and will take your tower in which case you take bottom lane's tower. In cases like that you gotta make trades.

Janna is pretty weak on her own. She needs to stick with her allies to be effective. I wouldn't roam with her because even if she find the enemy jungler its not like she has the kit to make anything happen. If nothing happens Janna is doing her job correctly.