Farming while losing?

LoveMeSomePenis·Apr 12, 2015·1 votes·600 views

I tend to look up my characters match-ups and counters and whatnot while the game loads up, and I do this especially with , and everytime I do I'm amazed to see every matchup seems to be a losing one in lane. This is really annoying, as I run into a lot of Garens (like every other wukong game is garen) and it become incredibly frustrating even standing at my tower. I miss out on farm, exp, still lose trades, and never really make it out of laning phase as Garen is just sitting up there the whole damn game pushing my inside turret or something, so I can't really leave lane ever to go help in teamfights. I've never "won" lane as Wukong (i.e got kills, got tower, made jungler camp me) which really makes it a tough game because I can never leave top do to the nonstop pressure.

Now, I always assumed that if I can't win a trade, I just have to pick my time to farm and when to just soak EXP, but even then it feels like I just get shut down, hard, and have to rely on either every other lane doing really well, or the enemy team being bad at finishing game, so I get to the part where Wukong excels at.

What should I do to farm while losing lane?

3 Comments

Spicy RiceApr 12, 20153 votes

if you know you are starting to lose lane, what you should do is try to get whatever cs you can without getting harassed, and let the wave push into your tower.

Right before it gets to tower range, pull the minions to the side and tank them till your minions come. You effectively freeze the lane in a very good spot, easy for your jung to gank, and hard for the enemy to reset and or dive.

If it is too dangerous to even do that, then i would say abandon lane, and gank mid with your jung and push it hard.

LoveMeSomePenisApr 12, 20152 votes

Alright, so basically I need to make losing my tower worth it for something bigger then, right?

Btw, I do generally freeze lane (on accident, but it does happen almost always) right out of my turrets range, and I either get-

a) jungler focusing mid/bot/farming (which is fine, but still frustrating) b) my jungler camps my lane, not doing very much damage and at best pushing him out of lane, leaving me freedom for about 30 seconds.

Spicy RiceApr 12, 20152 votes

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Alright, so basically I need to make losing my tower worth it for something bigger then, right?

Btw, I do generally freeze lane (on accident, but it does happen almost always) right out of my turrets range, and I either get-

a) jungler focusing mid/bot/farming (which is fine, but still frustrating) b) my jungler camps my lane, not doing very much damage and at best pushing him out of lane, leaving me freedom for about 30 seconds.

To the first point, basically yes. Mid tower is much more worth it than top tower. If you know you can't hold your tower, make sure they pay for it in a big way.

To both a and b, its both ok. The point of freezing and farming like that is to play catchup. The longer you can keep your enemy laner right out tower range, but unable to easily get minions, is more time you can practically free farm.

For instance, if you are behind as wukong vs a garen, as long as you farm decently, and don't die, you will ahve a much stronger presence later than the garen. I'm not saying that freezing and farming is the only way to win, but it does allow you breathing room till your champ get's to their strongest point.