ADC: Teamfighting Tips

MarkySparks·Oct 9, 2015·1 votes·1,005 views

As an adc in low elo I rarely ever get peel even if I am doing the most damge for my team. I can kite fairly well but I cannot escape assassins with low cooldown gap closers. My teams even let tanks and bruisers walk straight up to me even when I position myself behind the entire team. My question is how do i deal with getting no peel? Do I run away and kite the best I can? This seems to just get me zoned out of the fight. Do I come in late? This has worked for me but if they don't use their ults on my team and they can kill them without their ults they just save their ults for me when I come in. I've tried building a defensive item 3rd or 4th and this works fairly well but if I have 2 or more people diving me I'm still useless without peel. How can I improve my play and decision making? Any advice is welcome.

9 Comments

Baseball3bOct 9, 20153 votes

Learning how to orb walk and playing adcs with some form of self peel or escape (trist, vayne, cork) should help some.

MarkySparksOct 9, 20151 votes

Can you tell me how you judge when to enter a teamfight? What is your thinking process?

Baseball3bOct 9, 20151 votes

A good rule of thumb until you get a feel for it is to just wait a couple seconds after the initiation. By that time the other team will already be focusing on targets (pref your front line) which lets you sit back and mow them down. Essentially you want to focus whoever is closest to you or whoever is the easiest target.

Try to keep track of the enemy's cooldowns, especially CC abilities and always always be positioned behind your front line.

MarkySparksOct 9, 20151 votes

The problem is when my team is behind coming in late doesn't always work because they need me to deal damage so it's a risk/reward type deal and I guess I just need more experience to determine when to commit to the fight.

Baseball3bOct 9, 20151 votes

Yeah that comes with experience. You eventually just start to develop a feel for it.

Il Korean IlOct 9, 20152 votes

You're bronze 2.

Spam master yi until you get to a elo where someone has a clue how to peel.
Snowball ahead enough in lane to become a mid game monster and close the game off by rotating after you kill your tower.

Teammates should be providing at least some form peel, Bronze 2 is a bit difficult since specific champions will work better BECAUSE of the fact that teammates do not peel. So if your team does not abuse this fact, the other might.

So just do number 1 or number 2 until you're out. Then get some experience in a team environment ( Maybe high gold will provide you with this )

I've only smurfed in Bronze and Silver, so it's very hard to offer advice from my standpoint since you aren't a smurf lol. But if I wasn't a smurf, I would do one of the 2 above.

TouchpadExpertOct 9, 20151 votes

If the team won't peel just buy some wards and split push.

And are you communicating with your team what you need from them? Sometimes saying "Leona don't charge the backline when their Volibear is running towards me."

MarkySparksOct 9, 20151 votes

That is one thing I need to work on. I need to communicate better but it's hard to type and play at the same time but not everyone uses curse or other vocal chats.

TouchpadExpertOct 9, 20152 votes

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That is one thing I need to work on. I need to communicate better but it's hard to type and play at the same time but not everyone uses curse or other vocal chats.

It's not too hard. Just ping the mini map on where you are going, when you will need assistance, MIAs and tab up every so often to check up on buff and dragon timers. Here's what I usually end up doing:

Danger ping on river/tribush. "They warded that bush Mr. Jungler." Mia ping on side of lane, danger ping on assumed destination. "Bot lane, gank incoming. Back off." Assistance ping on enemy tower. "lets take it." Normal ping on enemy minion wave "free farm top, shove it."

You should also place the name of the champ(S) you want to pay attention to that ping/info. The really magical thing about doing this is that after 10 minutes or so your team starts to mimic your communication pattern which is absolutely wonderful. It may be harder what with having to cs and stuff but it saves lives. What's more important? That +21 gold on that creep or informing your mid laner that the enemy jungler is about to gank him?

But that's more general info. Team fighting just worry about your positioning and attack the closest enemy to you so long as you are not in danger.