Low elos note: A Lesson in Adapting

Borkahn·Apr 14, 2015·2 votes·588 views

Started off going assassin nocturne. Cho failed to peel for Tristana, and Swain and Annie failed to both peel and get as tanky as they wanted. So, I sold all but my and and went straight tank. Needless to say, I was able to have the cc and damage of Udyr, Draven, Nautilus, and Mundo all burned on me while my team mopped them up. The enemy team also failed to notice I went tanky. Even though one would think that if I orginally dropped in 3 seconds and now I'm lasting up to 10-15 seconds that maybe I did something different. But the point of this.....

TL;DR Always be ready to adjust builds at a moments notice. It could mean the difference between getting fed and still losing, or getting fed and peeling for others to win.

9 Comments

RUNAAANS HYDRAAApr 14, 20151 votes

Thanks for the tip :) Very good to keep in mind for sure. Think outside the (cookie-cutter-build) box.

2000boxesApr 14, 20151 votes

adapt you say? k thanks now i know that i should buy Khazix

Only Play DariusApr 14, 20151 votes

Well to be honest nocturne works better as an offtank fighter ( Irelia ) than he does as a glass assassin.

Also, nocturne can splitpush with reasonable efficiency. If your team is failing to do anything worthwhile, its usually better to just solopush a side lane, as opposed to hope that they will do anything in teamfights. Don't rely on your team if they have already showed you they are incabable of functioning.

BorkahnApr 21, 20151 votes

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Well to be honest nocturne works better as an offtank fighter ( ) than he does as a glass assassin.

Also, nocturne can splitpush with reasonable efficiency. If your team is failing to do anything worthwhile, its usually better to just solopush a side lane, as opposed to hope that they will do anything in teamfights. Don't rely on your team if they have already showed you they are incabable of functioning.

The idea was to constantly kill the enemy to allow for the push of the turrets. But, when I killed the team didn't push XP

RenailleApr 14, 20151 votes

Selling items isn't what you want to do to adapt a build. It is a huge gold loss. What you want to do is preemptively adapt.

BorkahnApr 21, 20151 votes

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Selling items isn't what you want to do to adapt a build. It is a huge gold loss. What you want to do is preemptively adapt.

Can't always preemptively adapt. Some things you can't discover until you are in. And I already had most items. It didn't cost me much more gold to sell more expensive offensive items for less expensive defensive ones. But the lesson still remains. Regardless how you slice it

BluePolarizerApr 14, 20151 votes

Pretty interesting. Looks like you were stomping because you got a 25 minute IE on jungle nocturne. I wouldn't have even started going IE though. I would've gone BoRK, devourer, full tank if I saw my laners were not doing well anyhow.

BorkahnApr 21, 20151 votes

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Pretty interesting. Looks like you were stomping because you got a 25 minute IE on jungle nocturne. I wouldn't have even started going IE though. I would've gone BoRK, devourer, full tank if I saw my laners were not doing well anyhow.

I didn't realize they were doing crap in teamfights at that point. Literally everyone stayed in their lanes awhile. But I do agree.