Hey everyone.
Do you ever have those games where you group up to take objectives with your team, but
the enemy just kills all the minions so its impossible to take the tower?
Then your team gets impatient and tries to dive and you throw the game?
Those kinds of games can be tricky to deal with, but if you're playing a champion that
is strong in a side lane, splitpush is the answer.
So thats what were going to be teaching you today, when and how to splitpush.
Splitpushing works best on any champion that can hold their own in a sidelane.
Hold their own doesn't just mean 1v1 though, it also means that you can potentially 2v1
or at least escape if the enemy jungler comes for you.
Some good examples would be: assassins like Zed, Fizz, and Diana, but some mages also
work well in a sidelane because they have good escapes and 1v1 potential, like Lissandra
or Ryze.
So now that we know what kinds of champions should be split pushing,let's talk about how
to do it.
When you're playing a champion that does well in a sidelane, you should break down both
team comps while your loading into the game, so you can decide what your gameplan should
be at each stage of the game.
Lets use a gameplay from Febiven in EUW Challenger where he's playing ryze.
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So, on Febiven’s team, he has Shen Top, Kindred Jungle, Xayah ADC, Sona support, and
himself on ryze.
Then the enemy team has Teemo top, Vel'koz mid, Nidalee Jungle, Sivir ADC and Yuumi support.
We can't tell you, you should always split at this time or that time because every league
game is different and very situational, but were going to try to make it as simple as
possible.
One of the most common ways to decide if you should be split pushing is by thinking about
which team has better teamfighting.
Out of these two teams, who do you think wins in a 5v5 where everyone is even in gold?
Pause the video if you need time to think.
So this should have been a pretty difficult choice because on Febiven’s team, he has
Sona and Kindred, who are pretty good team fighters.
But the other team has Vel'koz, Sivir, Yuumi, who are also very strong in 5v5 scenarios.
We would give the edge to the other team for this one, but Febiven’s team can easily
win a 5v5 if his team has winning lanes.
Either way, were going to say the other team wins 5v5 fights.
But if you think about how the mid matchup goes in a side lane, its heavily in Ryzes
favor.
Velkoz is a teamfight mage who has no escape in a sidelane, and can easily be dove.
While Ryze has plenty of movement speed and shields, plus he has his ult if he needs to
get away.
This means its a good game for Ryze to be split pushing.
Also, when trying to think about this stuff, you have to take into consideration waveclear.
If Febiven’s team tries to group up as 5 and take a tower, Sivir and Vel'koz clear
the wave instantly so it would be impossible, which is another reason why this game is perfect
for split pushing.
Alright, now that you know when to splitpush, let's get into the gameplay to show you how
its done.
Were going to start here, when the enemy team sends 5 bot lane, taking the tower, while
Febiven stays mid and takes this tower.
Also, the enemy top already took Febiven’s tier 1 top tower.
This puts the enemy team about 4k gold ahead at 15 mins, which is actually a really large
amount.
This is what we mean by situational.
We talked about before how either team could win a teamfight but we gave the slight edge
to the other team.
Now that we know the enemy team is winning the early game, its safe to say they definitely
win teamfights now.
Alright, now that the enemy team has bot and top tower, you know they are coming for mid
next.
We have all been in this position before, where the enemy bot rotates to mid and starts
sieging the tower, and its really annoying to deal with.
Well, you're not alone, because it happens in challenger too like we can see here.
The good thing is, Febiven cleared the minion waves so they couldn't take the tower yet,
but it cost him his flash.
His botlane finally rotates over though, so he stays mid for about 20 more seconds to
try and contest dragon, but the enemy team gets it too fast, so he starts recalling pinging
he's going to catch the top wave that's about to crash.
There are 2 reasons he wants to be top right now.
One, Dragon was just taken,so there are no objectives on the bottom side of the map.
And two, Shen is Shen,and we all know how his ult works.
So lets say herald was down but dragon was up?
Then it would be better to be split pushing bot lane.
Anyways, hes goes top and starts pushing in the waves all the way to the tower.
Now watch how the enemy team reacts to this top pressure.
They send nidalee and teemo top at first, while Febiven and kindred kite away since
they know they don't know where the rest of the enemy team is.
But look at the minimap.
The two main carries, Vel'koz and Sivir, aren't here because one is catching waves and one
is pushing mid.
So now this team that excels at 5v5 fights, is completely spread out and not grouped.
lets keep going though.
The enemy team disengages, so Febiven keeps pushing top to keep up the pressure, while
trading with vel'koz if he walks up too close.
While that was happening, Shen took bot tower, and ulted in to help his team with a fight
that is going on at herald.
And because Febiven is shoving in top, Velkoz is stuck here collecting waves, not there
to help his team with the 5v5.
I'm sure you're wondering though, why can't vel'koz just clear the wave really fast with
his strong waveclear, then go and help his team?
Well, this is why champions like vel'koz can't be in a sidelane.
What will happen is, Ryze will push in the wave, then start moving down towards the fight,
then vel'koz will clear the wave and start moving as well.
But if the Ryze sees vel'koz moving, he will just cut him off and fight him in the jungle,
as vel'koz will lose that fight.
This would be the same if Ryze was Zed, Fizz, Ekko, or any of the other champions we said
were good at split pushing.
Control mages get owned if they are caught in the jungle by an assassin or something
like ryze.
Anyways, this gets his team their first teamfight win, while Febiven uses his ult to dive vel'koz
from the bad trade he took earlier.
This was obviously a huge comeback play as they got 5 kills for only 1 death.
Then on top of that, they get baron right after, swinging the gold back to even.
All it took was 1 macro decision from febiven to leave mid and start pressuring a side lane,
so the enemy team spread out and couldn't use their strong teamfighting and siege with
Velkoz, Yuumi, and Nidalee poke.
Febiven actually does this the whole game, basically never going mid and only grouping
in fight when he brings someone to catch a sidelane wave so we're not going to go further
than this.
But, im sure you're wondering, what was the enemy team supposed to do to prevent this?
It's actually really simple, but this kind of fiesta gameplay happens all the time, especially
in the lower ranks.
So if we go back to here: When Febiven pushed top wave all the way in, and they sent teemo
and nidalee top to try and kill kindred and ryze..
If you look at the minimap, look how dark herald is for Febivens team.
They have no vision at all.
So instead of chasing stupidly like this, they could have used their vision control
to take herald for free, or kill Febivens team if they tried to contest.
We all know what happens when teemo has his shrooms up around an objective and you're
trying to facecheck brushes.
While also taking nidalee spears to the face from out of vision.
It's a nightmare.
That was option one.
But let's say herald was already gone.
Option two would be to just group mid and start sieging and pushing.
Vel'koz Nidalee sivir and yuumi have a ton of poke, and they win 5v5.
If they land their poke, they get towers for free even if ryze is splitting, which can
end up forcing ryze to have to come back and help waveclear.
After that is gets situational and is information for a different video.