Hey everyone, welcome to today's video. In this video, we're going to be watching as
Liquid Doublelift plays Xayah with a Rakan support against Jinx and Braum. In this lane,
Doublelift has a damage advantage with his W and Rakan's buff, which will mean that he
wins trades, as well as damage on the wave. As we break down the laning phase, we're going
to focus specifically on the ways that is able to, while as always isolating concepts
that you can apply in your own gamesWith that all said, there's a few missions that Doublelift
will want to accomplish First, he'll want to look for any openings to all-in with Rakan
at level 1 Jinx is good at last hitting under turret, so he'll want to freeze whenever possible
To freeze, he'll have to force Jinx to use rockets on the wave To force Jinx to use her
Rockets, Doublelift is going to have to zone her from minigun range, which he will be able
to do by threatening a Rakan all-in whenever there is a summoner or health advantage. The
rockets will then cause Jinx to do damage on the wave, making a freeze possibleWith
that said, let's hop right into the game. Right off the bat, we see that Xayah and Rakan
have gotten Kaisa to start topside so that they can try to cheese or at minimum have
priority on the minion wave. Kaisa may also be starting topside to counter a possible
level 2 invade from Lee Sin, because they often will invade the red buff after one camp.
As the minion wave spawns we see Braum and Jinx show up in lane, signalling that Lee
is either soloing a camp or is starting topside. To their own credit, Braum and Jinx seem to
have sniffed this out, and Jinx is standing far from the brush by the wall, though moves
a bit closer and is in range to support Braum as he face checks the brushHowever, Jinx has
moved just a bit too close, and is going to take a W from Rakan. While it might seem like
this isn't too dangerous, Jinx absolutely has to flash this W. Here, we'll show you
why. So, Jinx has to flash anyways, and she barely gets out alive. This is really bad,
and she's definitely going to have to recall here, otherwise she'll lose even more than
she already has. With a quick note on item builds, both marksman opted into dorans blade,
which makes sense for Xayah, but doesn't make sense for Jinx, since she's weaker in the
laning phaseAnyway, jinx doesn't back, which is TERRIBLE. If this happens to you, first
off, make sure you flash, but if you don't flash, make sure you recall afterwards. The
reason being is that the follow-up flash all-in from Rakan is going to be too easy to land
on the flashless jinx, and braum won't be able to do anything to stop it at level 1.
Seriously, this is so bad - look at how far back she has to play just because of the threat
of both of them merely flash autoing her! While exp is good, it just isn't worth for
her to be sticking around here. As a support, a great time to engage is when the enemy adc
is committing to an auto attack to last hit a low minion. This is for two reasons. First,
their champion is tied to that auto attack animation for the duration that it's happening
Second, their focus, at least briefly, is on killing that minion, which means they're
going to lose some reaction time speed to your engage. And this is exactly what Rakan
was relying on. Even though Jinx was on high alert, you simply cannot dodge your way out
of this. All Doublelift has to do here is follow with his own flash, and they are able
to immediately kill and punish Jinx for sticking around. After bodying Jinx, they shove in
the next two waves and recall, where Doublelift resets for a cull, boots, control ward and
two potions. As he gets back into lane, the wave is just barely in an unfortunate spot.
He would have loved to freeze this here, but the wave is actually too close to the turret
for the freeze to be maintained. The reason it's suboptimal here is that the incoming
melees will end up being hit by the turret. He couldn't do anything to fix this, but for
reference, the sweet spot would be around where this arrowhead is on the ground, Anyhow,
the new dumb blue melees come into turret range and die, and Double now has a wave pushing
towards the enemy turret. However, if Jinx steps up too far at all, she can be all-in'd
once againJinx steps up while Doublelift wards, but Taliyah is also in the river. In this
case, if they can call the play from Jinx fast enough, they can kill her and possibly
turn on Taliyah or run away. Unfortunately, Lee Sin ward hopped from behind Doublelift's
turret, and what we had instead of a sweet 2v3 outplay was a 2v4 bot lane dive fiesta,
which resulted in Doublelift and Rakan both dying in trade for Jinx. Off screen, Braum
has frozen the wave at his turret, and jinx is going to equalize her farm disadvantage
However, Jinx is still down in items, with Doublelift having two longswords to her dagger
Factoring in the damage advantage innate in their matchup, Doublelift is going to wreck
jinx in trades, and all-ins still majorly favor himEven though his mission to freeze
and zone Jinx has been delayed by the 4 man gank, he still has plenty of opportunity to
do so, as Jinx has been slowed down even more. We see doublelift do something sweet to set
this up as well. Some of you might know this, but you can setup a freeze by dragging enemy
minions by aggroing them and stacking them up a bit before darting into a brush just
like thisthis causes them to focus fire the first minion of your wave, which can oftentimes
equalize the damage that you do with last hits, which can allow you to freeze the wave
in the middle of the lane and zone your opponent out like DL is doing herethe huge benefit
to freezing like this against jinx specifically is that she has to contest the wave with rocket
form, which means that she's going to hit the other minions because that's happening,
she's going to naturally push the wave into you and make the problem even worse for herself,
or otherwise open herself up to be all-ined In addition, though you can't see it on the
screen, both of jinx's summoner spells are still down for the next 30 seconds. in contrast,
doublelift has saved his heal throughout this laning phase and rakan's ignite is back up.
this is all coinciding perfectly with forcing jinx to make the lose-lose call of either
putting herself in threat range, or deciding to call it off and recall. she decides to
stay, and rakan goes for a W Q onto jinx before backing out. doublelift tries to follow up,
but is blocked by braum's shield. while they held off the all-in for now, she still lost
quite a bit of health from that tradecmm_id: 1072981627However, as Doublelift is zoning
and setting this freeze up, we see Braum move forward aggressively. This tells us a lot
by itself, but we know this is for a gank because we can see lee sin on the minimap
from vision coverage placed earlier by xayah and rakan Even though kai sa is nearby, we
don't have to fight this, and really lose nothing by backing off. This is because the
the wave is going to push towards us anyway. Ideally, doublelift and rakan would remove
junglers from the situation, since there's an existing advantage for them in the 2v2
that they are actively explotiing. however, this IS solo queue, so they keep going for
the fight, even though lee sin is level 6 to kai sa's 5. the blue team ends up making
a lot of execution mistakes, which leads to this aggressive coordination by the red team
to pay off. We don't really support the decision to fight here, however this also shows the
advantages you can have by playing more confidently and together as a team. When it all pans out,
double shoves the next two waves into jinx's turret and sticks around to make sure he can
pick up gold for his bf sword. However, he sees that jinx didn't recall either, which
means there's no pressure on him to push. relative to jinx, doublelift has a big item
lead, which means that he can retain control and priority over the lane until braum gets
backWhat's even better about this play, is that by keeping it frozen here, he's forcing
Jinx to make a call: will doublelift decide to push it fast or will he keep it frozen?
in the end, the most likely call is that jinx will recall, because if he keeps it frozen
then she'll lose out a ton if she stays, but can at least contest it if she resets. As
rakan returns, double hard shoves the wave, and they're able to rotate into the river
to pick up what looks to be a free infernal drake this is excellent map movement and play
with his jungler, since jinx will have to deal with the big wave and braum is currently
dealing with holding the wave for her, meaning that the only people who can contest are lee
sin and taliyah to defend against lee sin, they pull the drake out, and with that they've
already done a ton to mitigate any counterplay. Overall this was great, because even though
lee sin was actually here and ready to contest, he wasn't able to get anything doneAnyhow,
as doublelift resets and heads back to lane rakan gets caught freezing the wave and has
to burn his ultimate and flash in return for braum's ultHowever, as double heads back to
lane, kaisa is waiting in the wings to punish Jinx and Braum for being up this far in the
lane. Rakan is able to start things off by hitting an awesome W, with a quick follow
up from Doublelift and Kaisa. And finally, after some brief trolling in the river by
Yasuo, they're able to finally kill the tier 1 turret, with Doublelift having a 1 thousand
gold lead over Jinx right after the 10 minute mark. He wins the game in 20 minutes, but
that's not what this is about. The big thing to pull out of this game is that Doublelift
didn't do anything spectacular to get this lead. He was able to extend a lead from cheese
in a few ways that resulted in him having constant lane control and rotation priority
over jinx After he was able to get a level 1 health advantage, he zoned Jinx out and
punished her with Rakan as she went in for a CS At that point, he was ahead of her in
the tempo of the game. Even though he was set back by a level 4 gank, he hit level ups
earlier, pushed waves faster, and was at fights first with more gold. Well, that's it for
this one! Thank you so much for watching, and we'll see you next time.