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Okay so sometimes not taking tower is a good thing, usually for two reasons; one of which was already stated.

1. If you take tower the enemy can freeze the lane on their side of the jungle, moving onto the enemy side of the map might just get you killed, it opens you up to jungler ganks and mid lane ganks. You have a fair distance to run if you get ganked at an inner tower. Ex/ You shove lane hard, Nasus has frozen the lane near his inner turret, every time you approach either the enemy lee sin or leblanc come hunt you down.

2. Denying gold/exp; when you are seriously rolling your lane to the point where they cant fight you, if you dont take the tower and freeze the lane you end up denying them more gold/exp and is in general better than the quick cash made from destroying the turret. Most used bot and top lane. Ex/ riven freezes the lane vs the enemy, if they come to farm she kills them.

YOU ARE THE REASON I HATE SUPPORTING. here's how it goes. take mid turret always. if you're stomping the top laner because they're a late game champ, dont even attack the tower, just farm the minions behind it if they arent around. if you're an adc and you kill the enemy, attack the tower a little but let it kill the minions. when the enemy minions come, kill them instead of the tower because the tower is denying farm. for the adc, farm/lane dominance should be top priority. if you kill the first tower, the enemy can free-farm because you cant safely push them away from their second-tier tower (your ass will get ganked.) it's better to just get way more farm and push your advantage (except in mid, you want to open the map up because if you take their first tower, your team has more room to counterjungle and teamfight)

Because, it would allow the enemy player to freeze lane and farm much easier than if the tower was up.

It's generally a good time once ur like 4 and 0, with like a double cs lead. Take your lead to other lanes, in other words, gank other lanes.

Just let the tower kill all their farm before taking it.

You just want to make sure when you take their tower and you need to base for healing there are no extra minions on your side that would allow them to freeze easily. Let's say your extra minions completely die and there's nothing but fresh new minion waves running through your lane. Either they meet in the very middle between the first towers, or you killed one more wave than they did... so your minions meets the next one 3/4 of the way to their base outside their second tower. Without a certain secret trick what will happen here is their minions will push toward your base because with two equal waves being on their side of the map they will receive minion reinforcements first. Their minions will pile up. Cannon minions can sometimes mix this up though... Get what I'm saying? It's a mouthful I know...

What you can do while they fail freezing this lane is appear in another lane and pressure their tower, gank, ward jungle, set up for drag, ect. Return to your lane in time to pick up a fat juicy minion wave outside your tower.

In my opinion taking the tower is almost always good if you know how to play the map. Sometimes though you're playing a lane bully champ and winning. In that case then maybe prolonging their laning misery is a good idea.