11-16-2009, 12:30 AM
Few other points:
If an ally champ stealths and walks down an area, don't always run down there with them. They are stealthed for a reason. They want to get positioning to help fight someone. If you insist on stacking right on top of them as they move, then when the opponents try to hit you (whether through skill shot, aoe, or whatever) you will cause the stealthed guy to get his ass beat too. I've died completely stealthed without ever unstealthing due to someone running right next to me and a big aoe combo happening as a result. Another point is that if someone stealths to escape, that doesn't mean you immediately run the direction they did and follow them the entire way through the jungle. Because then when they finally have to unstealth, you just led them straight to the guy.
If an ally champ is jungling, its totally fine to help by getting a couple of hits on the minion IF you know you won't kill it. But if you get the last hit, you steal the buff even from an ally. Some champs like Tryndamere love to run into weak minion groups that don't give buffs so that they can get a lot of quick kills to increase their Bloodlust ability for faster attack speed and healing. Having an Annie run up right when they start fighting that and throwing a wave of fire to one shot everything completely negates the point of fighting those things and steals all the gold at the same time, while denying Tryn his Bloodlust.
Pay the fuck attention to chat. I can't stress this enough. If someone is called as mia (they don't appear on the map), or if someone says "Hey, a group of five is headed your way, get in the grass and recall!" you might want to know this. Ignoring the chat and just tunnel visioning your way through what you are doing (minions, trying to push that last bit on a turret, etc) just gives them easy kills. A situation I saw last night... We have a guy in the middle of the jungle. Somehow, the other team realizes this (maybe the guy ran into the jungle to escape and they realized he never came out the other side, who knows.) So there are two enemy champs running in to the jungle from one side, one enemy champ running up from the water (having just killed another ally), and two enemy champs coming in from top and mid. We type in "Get out of there! Recall! 5man gank coming your way!"
"Nah, I'm good."
He continued doing whatever it was he was doing after typing that and suddenly gets slaughtered. Somehow, he never saw it coming, and we could only wish he would have been warned or something.
If there is a five man group that has one guy at a possibly killable 10% health or something, and the rest look fine, DON'T TRY IT. I saw a few times where someone would suicide in thinking that "at least I'll get that kill" but the problem is that you just gave them a kill too. Now think about this: You by yourself got experience for getting that kill (this is even if you got it - numerous times you'll get blown up too fast to get that kill). Their entire group of five got experience for blowing you up. This means you just made the gap even larger.
Never attack an enemy champ next to their turret. Turrets will turn around and start shooting you no matter what they were hitting. I don't care if they are one hit from death. Until you have gotten to the point where you know a lot more about what you are doing and what is acceptable risk and what isn't, don't even try for it. Most likely scenario is that you'll die, they'll STILL live, and they'll just recall or farm minions with lifesteal. I had two people trying to kill me last night, and I had no way of killing them. So I literally just ran a circle around the tower with them chasing me. Both of them died without me hitting them more than just throwing a blade that bounced at them. Being at low health next to a turret can make people ballsy. On the flip side, you have to know who you can be in that situation against. A lot of Katarina or Yi players, if they are at full health, can and will get in there, get that one hit (shunpo or alpha strike) and then get the hell out before dying.
If an ally champ stealths and walks down an area, don't always run down there with them. They are stealthed for a reason. They want to get positioning to help fight someone. If you insist on stacking right on top of them as they move, then when the opponents try to hit you (whether through skill shot, aoe, or whatever) you will cause the stealthed guy to get his ass beat too. I've died completely stealthed without ever unstealthing due to someone running right next to me and a big aoe combo happening as a result. Another point is that if someone stealths to escape, that doesn't mean you immediately run the direction they did and follow them the entire way through the jungle. Because then when they finally have to unstealth, you just led them straight to the guy.
If an ally champ is jungling, its totally fine to help by getting a couple of hits on the minion IF you know you won't kill it. But if you get the last hit, you steal the buff even from an ally. Some champs like Tryndamere love to run into weak minion groups that don't give buffs so that they can get a lot of quick kills to increase their Bloodlust ability for faster attack speed and healing. Having an Annie run up right when they start fighting that and throwing a wave of fire to one shot everything completely negates the point of fighting those things and steals all the gold at the same time, while denying Tryn his Bloodlust.
Pay the fuck attention to chat. I can't stress this enough. If someone is called as mia (they don't appear on the map), or if someone says "Hey, a group of five is headed your way, get in the grass and recall!" you might want to know this. Ignoring the chat and just tunnel visioning your way through what you are doing (minions, trying to push that last bit on a turret, etc) just gives them easy kills. A situation I saw last night... We have a guy in the middle of the jungle. Somehow, the other team realizes this (maybe the guy ran into the jungle to escape and they realized he never came out the other side, who knows.) So there are two enemy champs running in to the jungle from one side, one enemy champ running up from the water (having just killed another ally), and two enemy champs coming in from top and mid. We type in "Get out of there! Recall! 5man gank coming your way!"
"Nah, I'm good."
He continued doing whatever it was he was doing after typing that and suddenly gets slaughtered. Somehow, he never saw it coming, and we could only wish he would have been warned or something.
If there is a five man group that has one guy at a possibly killable 10% health or something, and the rest look fine, DON'T TRY IT. I saw a few times where someone would suicide in thinking that "at least I'll get that kill" but the problem is that you just gave them a kill too. Now think about this: You by yourself got experience for getting that kill (this is even if you got it - numerous times you'll get blown up too fast to get that kill). Their entire group of five got experience for blowing you up. This means you just made the gap even larger.
Never attack an enemy champ next to their turret. Turrets will turn around and start shooting you no matter what they were hitting. I don't care if they are one hit from death. Until you have gotten to the point where you know a lot more about what you are doing and what is acceptable risk and what isn't, don't even try for it. Most likely scenario is that you'll die, they'll STILL live, and they'll just recall or farm minions with lifesteal. I had two people trying to kill me last night, and I had no way of killing them. So I literally just ran a circle around the tower with them chasing me. Both of them died without me hitting them more than just throwing a blade that bounced at them. Being at low health next to a turret can make people ballsy. On the flip side, you have to know who you can be in that situation against. A lot of Katarina or Yi players, if they are at full health, can and will get in there, get that one hit (shunpo or alpha strike) and then get the hell out before dying.
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