Tips for Top / Mid Lane?

Icewind11·Mar 22, 2015·1 votes·1,016 views

My favorite two lanes are Top and Mid lane. I play Heimburger and hes my favorite champion to play in ranked, I'm very good with him. A mistake I make the most is split pushing, and I would like some tips on how to be a better player. I usually am not near my team mates, so I end up being ganked 3 vs 1 or repetitively ganked while attempting to split push a lane far away. This happens because I get bored of following my team mates around, they run in circles and ponder... I would like some tips, and hints on how to improve my mid laning, is split pushing bad? As a mid lane after tower do I go top? (then the mid laner destroys my tower). Please give me some suggestions, and constructive criticism is welcome.

9 Comments

AFK PushMar 22, 20151 votes

As Heimerdinger you naturally push lanes due to your turrets. On every back get at least one ward, and don't forget to upgrade to item 3361 at lvl 9. Also, when a 3 man gank happens let your team know that there are 3 top so they can get a tower mid/bot or drag.

Icewind11Mar 22, 20151 votes

I do but the problem is that every game my team mates don't push lanes, they sit at towers or just roam and do nothing. It's like they're to scared to actually want to win. Theres usually 3 top and I don't go out instantly I tell them to push other lanes they refuse to listen and blame me for being 'bad' and a 'bronze 5' player whenever 3 people gank me.

It's always my fault.

AFK PushMar 22, 20151 votes

I highly doubt every game is like that, there are good and bad ones (mostly bad in bronze V). Just keep doing things like warding and knowing when to back off and you should be fine. You can't control your teammates, and if they are unresponsive and uncoordinated that is usually a loss. Move on to the next game and try again bro.

Icewind11Mar 22, 20151 votes

Most of my games are filled with team mates who cuss eachother out and fight and feed. Almost ALL because I am in ELO hell. These bronze V players just cuss eachother out and feed.

This is really frusterating, this is why its elo hell... I win a game here and there, then lose the rest due to team mates fighting and arguing. Once you're in bronze you can NEVER get out no matter what ask tsm bjergsen .

AFK PushMar 23, 20151 votes

Sounds like you need to carry yourself, and you won't likely do that with the heimmeister if teammates don't know how to capitalize on split pushers. Try out snowbally champions in top lane like Riven Rengar MonkeyKing Pantheon , this way if you destroy your lane opponent it will force the jungler to stay up top giving your teammates room to breath, and setting their jungle back even more as well. Also, all of these champs are good roamers which can also make it easier on your teammates if you score mid a kill etc.

Icewind11Mar 23, 20151 votes

Yes, I need a good Solo Queue champion to play... Is Wukong good? I have not seen many people play him.. As for riven I have her battle bunny, shes pretty difficult to master in my opinion. I'm not a fan of Regnar and Pantheon, a champion I love is Vladamir top lane.

AFK PushMar 23, 20151 votes

Wukong's teamfights and roams are amazing, due to having crazy ad scalings, a gap closer, potential team cc, etc. Yes, play the shit out of some wukong. Another comparison to him would be JarvanIV , you can crap on a decent amount of tops due to your passive autos and your q poke armor shred. Them teamfights doe.

AFK PushMar 23, 20151 votes

also, wukong and j4 are decent midlaners btw.

ActuallyArrowMar 22, 20151 votes

As the Donger, one does not simply get ganked 3v1 and not make a decent trade. If you go down, and still kill at least 2 of their guys (or at least one), you have done a good thing (it takes pressure off of one of the lanes, or all if it was the jungler). I play Donger a lot, I stay in my mid lane and push unless a teammate asks for me to help, or I notice a lane is struggling and our jungler is twiddling his thumps in a bush somewhere. I max turrets/rockets first (depending on who I am laning against), and just stay in my little base while placing a turret up further ever chance I get. How I set up my turrets is: First close to one side of river, the next other side, and the third ahead in the middle (if top, two nearest river, one in the middle near the bushes). This protects you from ganks, since (unless they stop to take out your turrets) they will be taking damage the entire time they are coming at you. If they stop to take your turrets, E then W, and replace your turret close to you, then run around like a lunatic until your turrets take them out. You are easiest to gank when you are mid, so you have to prepare your Donger for it. R+Q can catch some gankers off guard, especially if they don't stop to focus your turrets. R+W is great against the person you are laning with when he comes into range. R+E... Eh, I rarely use it, but it is great for slowing down enemies that are out of range and trying to escape your turrets. I like to always make sure that all three of my turrets have an intercepting point, where if the enemy steps in they will be hit by all 3 for maximum damage. If they step into it, E then W and you are good to go.

As for split pushing, as Donger I suggest it. If your team pushes your lane, either choose to stay and help push or go top and split push. Donger is great at pushing. If your team thinks you are "bad" for split pushing, then they are idiots. I usually feel that it is up to the top laner to split push, but that is more just my personal opinion than anything. When split pushing, you should not worry about ganks as much, since the point of split pushing is to get the enemy team to focus the main push unite, while you take turrets in another lane. While I say you should not worry about ganks, you may still get ganked. But it would probably be easier to take them out since if they focus on you, they could lose an inhib. So at most you'd go 2v1, which with Donger is very easy to handle (especially melee champs). If they do focus you, though, your job then should be to keep them busy (whether you die or not), and give your team time to rush the lane.

Dunno if this helps, hell you probably know all this, but its still worth a try to help out a fellow player. :)