Hey everyone.
A lot of players ask how they are supposed to know what to do Macro wise in their own
games.
We always say it's very situational, and today I have a perfect example from a plat 4 game
on my smurf where I change my gameplan midway through the game based on how its going.
I'm going to breakdown why I make each decision and how it made the game much easier.
Lets first catch you up with what has happened so far.
I won lane with about a 20 CS lead, nothing crazy.
With my Top and Bot losing, both dying solo.
I go for a roam here at 10 minutes, counter ganking top lane.
I know my Ornn has ult, and Garen is low, so I engage on the Vi first.
I want my Ornn to ult early so I can kill them both, but he does it way too late, saving
it to hit both of them I guess.
He only needs to hit Vi with it so I can kill her then kill Garen.
By the time he hits the Ult it's too late and I'm forced to back off.
Then about a minute later, my jungler was at dragon and started fighting, but watching
my bot lane they were playing really scared, which is something I took note of in my head.
Then another fight 2 minutes later where we fight 2v2 with Vi and Viktor, then our Ornn
roams down, missing a very easy knock up on Vi, not using his abilities properly at all
afterwards, and not using his ult when we can easily kill both of them if he just goes
in.
I cant go in first, and hes a tank, with Vi pretty low.
And finally a minute later, my bot lane dies to Draven in top jungle, and they used Draven
ult plus Leona Ult, meaning we can fight.
I know draven doesn't have flash.
My jungler is right behind me, so I use Q hitting him and Leona, then use my ult on
both, but my sett doesn't use his stun and just ults leona into the back, not hitting
the Draven at all, then I die.
Alright, so after watching all of these plays, it was clear our team had no clue how to teamfight.
So instead of continuing to try and make good engages and hope my teammates know how to
play their champions, I decide to start playing extra selfish and focus on just getting myself
fed.
To do this, you have to think about your champion and what they are good at.
For example, this game I'm playing Diana.
Diana is great in a 1v1 situation and taking towers, essentially split pushing.
If I was something like Orianna.
Ori is good at clearing waves and punishing the enemy for overextending clumped up sieging
towers.
So I would just focus on that if I was her.
But as Diana, I'm going to power farm and sidelane as much as possible.
So, I run out of base, Clear mid wave, then clear our junglers bot side jungle since he's
in top side.
Then even take Gromp from Kaisa which makes her rage and use heal.
I know this Kaisa will do nothing to help me carry this game after watching the previous
plays.
After that, I go into bot lane and start pushing.
Viktor comes to match me which is good because it means they have 1 less person that is grouped
which is the win condition for the enemy team.
They are smashing us in fights, so by splitting, it spreads them out.
I cant keep pushing with the enemy jungler missing.
If I try to kill viktor, it's just gambling that Vi isn't here.
If she is and I die, I'm off the map not putting pressure bot for a good 40 seconds, which
can lose us the game.
When you have to carry, you cant die or the game falls apart.
You need to be doing something productive, farming, clearing waves, split pushing ect.
After recalling I saw Vi top, so I go back bot and start pushing again.
Now, I know Viktor was pushing this, and like I said, Diana excels at 1v1.
I know Vi isn't here now, so I throw my Q hitting the wave, setting up for an all-in.
He thinks since my Q is down, I can't engage on him.
But I use my dash on the minion next to him so my E is still reset, then ult him and all-in.
I kill him and this is when the game completely turns.
We were losing really hard and like I said, their win condition is grouping with how hard
they are destroying us in teamfights.
But because Viktor matched my split push instead, not only do I kill him, my team gets a kill
on the overextended Leona in our jungle.
As you can see, spreading the team out makes the enemy team mess up their macro.
After that, my team has a 4v3 in mid since Garen is split pushing top, and my team kills
the Vi and Draven as well.
This leads to our team getting Baron while I'm getting bot tower.
Obviously a huge game swinging play.
And this is all because I went to a sidelane and decided to stop grouping completely.
The game isn't saved yet but it's a good start.
I have a lot of gold now, so I want to reset with the Baron buff and spend it.
When I come out of base, it's back to the powerfarm.
I take my whole bot side jungle since my jungler is farming top, and go back to split pushing
bot.
As i'm doing that, the enemy Vi and Viktor try to gank me.
This is just not a good play because remember, they should be grouping.
They should be forcing a 5v4 on my team while I split.
But I can easily delay and stall this play out until my Sett gets closer, and we kill
the Viktor.
Then we chase down the leona as well since they all overextended for this terrible play.
With that play we use Baron to get 2 bot towers and bot inhib.
With that bot inhib, we will have constant pressure down there now, so I don't need to
be there.
I want to split top side now and take all that gold in towers.
We haven't even got the tier 1 yet.
I try to recall, but it gets stopped and Garen flash ults me to kill me.
Like I said its very bad to die.
Luckily, we have bot lane pressure and no important objectives are up so were not going
to lose much out of it.
But don't be like me and recall safely.
After I respawn, it's back to split pushing.
I go top for the reasons I said before.
My teammates start diving mid 4v5 while im splittin, which is obviously trolling.
Don't get baited into using your TP in these situations, just keep pushing like I do here.
Towers give plenty of gold and you can keep pressuring.
If you TP in, you lose the pressure you have in top and might die as well.
Now, the enemy team sends Vi back for me, and I prepare to dive her since im level 16
and shes lvl 13, but i'm not sure if she has more behind her that are recalling after taking
our mid inhib, so I back off.
But because they have Vi with me, and Garen dealing with bot inhib, which is 2 lanes of
pressure, our team catches Viktor in mid alone getting a kill.
Because of that, I can now rotate to mid and look for a fight or towers.
I go behind to dive anyone that was here but they were smart and backed off.
But we get the tier 1 tower and back away.
If you look at the gold difference now.
In 6 minutes we brought the gold from 6k behind to only 1k because of all the towers were
getting.
I have a lot of gold to spend so I reset and grab blue.
If we look at the minimap, Garen is bot clearing the super minions, with Draven at wolves,
and Viktor mid.
Because of this, I have a good feeling he's alone, and I know I can easily 1v1 him.
So I head down there.
I jump on him with my Q and E, then ult, accidently hourglass, eventually kill him, and die to
vi.
If I didn't accidently hourglass I could kill them both but mistakes happen.
Challenger btw coach btw whatever.
But luckily since Garen was dead and Vi used her ult on me, my team had a good chance of
winning this fight with the vision advantage and cooldown advantage, and they managed to
win it.
When I respawn, my team is doing Baron and I know the enemy cant contest, so I clear
the supers in mid, and take the enemy blue, then get a little more gold for my deathcap
since I know the next fight should be the last one and its a huge power spike.
I grab the death cap and immediately TP back into mid with my team.
I don't want to give the enemy team a chance to engage 5v4 on my team.
Also, you might be wondering why I want to group now?
2 reasons.
One, We have baron.
And the second which is more important.
I have split pushed so much this game I’m insanely far ahead.
I'm level 18 with 300 CS.
The enemy team is anywhere from 6 to 3 levels down from me so Im strong enough to carry
the fights on my own now with my teammates having to do little work.
But we start sieging mid, and our Ornn randomly uses his ult wasting it, as we can see nothing
changed this game and it's a good thing I played very selfish.
We don't want to dive here and just want the minions to do their thing.
But, our Senna gives me her shroud, so the enemy team can't see that it's me, and I see
4 of them clumped up with our next wave arriving.
So I jump in ulting all 4, which wins the fight on its own because of how fed I am,
and then we end the game.
Also, if any of you guys are upset about me taking the Kaisas Gromp, she did the least
amount of damage on our team, doing 10,000 in 33 minutes.
So me taking Gromp was the right call.
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Alright guys.
So as you can see, this is why its impossible to tell you what to do every game as it's
always situational.
In this game, I saw in a few plays that our teammates didn't know how to play their champions
and even if I set up a play that we should easily win, it wouldn't work.
So instead I played to just get myself fed and take advantage of the poor macro choices
in lower elos.
By causing Chaos like this, the enemy messed up and threw the game and let me get insanely
fed just by farming.
But, that's going to bring us to the end of this one.
We hope you enjoyed and thanks for watching!