When should I be looking to freeze my lane? Who should I be freezing my lane as (what champions)? And when should I unfreeze my lane?
I know a little bit about the topic but I think its a topic that isn't talked about nearly enough in this forum section.
the short version is whenever you can keep it on your side of the map, unless against a champ/player that can't farm under tower and a low pressure jungler.
long version involves a lot of 2v2 matchups, dive potential, jungler movement knowledge, and is almost impossible to break down into a forum post since it's different for lane match-ups jungler match-ups players skills other lanes match - ups
You freeze lane whenever you have a lead up on your opponent and are looking to make them miss cs and bully them further in the laning phase.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nB8zU35_b7g
This helped me understand Freezing lane.
I always try to freeze the lane on my side of the map unless I'm going for a kill, trying to destroy the tower or setting up for another objective. Every lane can freeze and it can be very useful at denying your enemy CS (or opening him up to ganks if he tries to CS.)
When I find this tactic most useful is if I am behind in a lane and my lane opponent takes my outer tower. I continue to let them push and then I freeze the lane near my inner tower. This leaves them with a difficult choice. Either they continue to farm and risk getting ganked or they miss out on all that CS. Doing this has allowed me to recover from rocky early games and still stay relevant in team fights.
The downside of this strategy is that if his team groups up and tries to push the tower it is very easy for them to take the inner tower before my team can respond since the minion wave is already pushed. However, most people in soloQ I've found don't communicate that well.
Another downside of this strategy is that it allows your lane opponent to roam. If you freeze the lane under your inner tower but your adjacent lane is pushing hard then that opens them up for an easy gank. You opponent can also roam to try and pick up an additional tower. If this happens you need to break the freeze and push the lane hard to trade objectives. If done properly you will trade towers but your team will come out ahead because your team was getting 2 lanes of EXP and CS the whole time while their team was only getting 1 (since no one was opposing you in your lane.)
