Hey everyone.
All ADCs know that feeling of having a support who stands 10 yards behind you, occasionally
throwing a shield but otherwise expecting you to 1v2 the lane.
In this video, we're taking that common frustration to the extreme by sending our expert Hector
to smurf in low elo making his duo AFK, so he literally has to 1v2 the lane.
The biggest thing to keep in mind when dealing with a support with no pressure is that there
is nothing you can do about it.
Bot lane is a duo lane at the end of the day, so you can't just play aggressive by yourself
and hope to win.
So your best course of action is defensive play. This doesn't mean that you have to fall
behind though. You can go even or straight up win the lane with defensive play, if you
keep a few things in mind.
The first is to only take 1v1 fights. Parallel trading is a concept we've covered before
where you want to be side by side with your support so that you both hit the target at
the same time.
Low elo players tend to not move up together when looking for trades though. They play
pretty randomly, so abusing whoever moves up by fighting them 1v1 is a common scenario
you will encounter.
And even if the enemy duo is parallel, you can actively kite away from 1 of them while
hitting the other to kind of force a 1v1 trade.
Our second goal is to fight with your minion wave. If you're playing defensively, any trade
that happens should mostly be the enemy engaging on you. This means that they'll be crossing
into your minion line, and you want to exploit this as much as possible since minion damage
is so high in the early game.
And the last thing to keep in mind isn't so much a goal, but rather something to remember.
People are generally impatient. If you're playing defensively, players tend to get antsy
that nothing is happening and may force a really bad trade just to do something.
This won't always happen, but being ready to take advantage of your enemy's impatience
is very important when dealing with an afk support.
Alright, let's get into the game. But we're not going to let Hector cheat his way to an
easy clickbait title.
We set a few rules so that it's as legitimate as possible.
One, he had to play a short range immobile ADC, not something like Caitlyn or Ezreal
who could win the lane with their safety and long range.
Two, no cheese builds like exhaust and ignite. Standard runes and summoner spells.
Three, he had to do it in ranked obviously, so he's against 2 gold elo players.
And lastly, he wasn't allowed to spam games until he made it work. Anyone can do that.
He said he was confident that he could do it in 1 try, and that's what he did.
And with that in mind, let's get into the laning phase.
We're immediately going to see some action, as Kaisa and Lux move in to trade, so Hector
fights back.
Notice the way Hector kites. He's moving away from Lux while also hitting Kaisa.
At this point, he should back off. Lux has reached him and further trading will be bad,
but Hector refuses to back off and loses a lot of health
Maybe Hector shouldn't be so confident when he makes silly decisions like this.
Since he lost a ton of health, he'll now be looking to spam auto attack minions whenever
possible to make the most out of the small amount of life steal Doran's blade gives.
He can only do this when Kaisa and Lux both aren't threatening him though and because
the wave is for sure shoving to him.
It'd be a bad idea auto minions if the waves were even since the enemy could freeze easily
vs him in a 1v2 situation.
We can already see Lux being impatient. She's clearly out for blood and eventually walks
into a terrible trade into Hector's minions and not parallel with her Kaisa
And with no one pressuring him again, Hector goes back to spamming autos to heal up as
much as possible.
Keep in mind during this period he isn't looking for any trades since Kaisa and Lux happen
to be parallel at the moment and he has no minion wave to back him up
Lux makes a small positioning mistake, so Hector punishes her with E plus auto, since
Kaisa again isn't in range to punish back
Afterwards, we now know that both Lux E and Q are down, and she's standing far behind
Kaisa. This is a perfect opportunity for a 1v1 trade.
Unfortunately, Hector autos a minion by accident, otherwise he could have gone for a slightly
more extended trade on Kaisa, so he does fall back to his tower.
Whenever possible Hector does look to auto minions to regen health, but if the support
is in range to harass him, the 2 health he'd gain is obviously not worth the 40 damage
auto attack he'd be taking
As the wave crashes into his tower, Kha'zix does come to relieve some pressure, but there's
clearly no way he can gank this.
But Hector doesn't let this small respite go to waste. The enemy backed off a bit, and
conceded wave control to him
As the 2 waves collide, he immediately begins auto attacking. Having the bigger wave will
allow him to stand his ground more easily if the enemy is to trade onto him
Kaisa doesn't like that Hector is getting a bit of control in a 1v2 lane and she walks
right into him.
Notice Hector's kiting during the trade, always moving away from Lux up until the trade is
for sure won.
He even heals early to make sure Lux can't kill him with ignite.
Once it's clear he can't kill Kaisa, he turns to Lux, but she backs off since Hector made
sure to play around his huge minion wave.
Kaisa is greedy and stays too long, so she dies to a nice snipe from Hector. Lux tries
to make up for her ADC's mistakes, but she steps too far forward and Hector chases.
But of course as an ADC even in a 1v2 lane, you will always get tp'd on.
The epic alcove outplay sadly didn't happen, but at least Kha'zix cleans up the Lux kill
so overall not a bad trade.
The worst part about this though is that Fiora made sure to freeze the wave before leaving.
This obviously really sucks since Varus is an immobile ADC and Hector has no summoner
spells up.
But it's not all bad. Technically a freezing wave can be used to your advantage, since
you have the minion lead.
So, as soon as Hector gets back to lane he starts playing aggressively standing in his
huge wave, and the 1 thing he does have going for him is that he is getting solo experience,
so he does manage to kill Kaisa thanks to his level 6.
But, we should point out that'd he win this trade regardless even if he was level 4 or
5. Lux and Kaisa are both very weak when you stand in your minion wave due to their skill
shots and Kaisa's auto lock Q.
But of course any time he tries to be aggressive one of the enemy solo laners comes to kill
him
Thankfully the solo laners are getting the kills though, and at this point he's so far
ahead in gold and experience that Hector can easily force fights vs the bot duo now.
Out of desperation, they call their jungler for help. Let's watch the fight play out and
then break it down
So a major reason Hector wins this is because he's clearly really ahead at this point, but
we still want to emphasize his constant positioning decisions to force 1v1 fights.
Alright, at the beginning of the gank he's obviously going to flash the Lux binding.
If he got hit, he'd tank a full Lux combo while tanking more Nautilus damage.
By flashing and kiting up away from Lux, he's turned the gank into a 1v1 vs Nautilus
As Nautilus flees, Lux and Kaisa are parallel to each other at the moment, so Hector begins
kiting left, to try and make it a 1v1 vs Kaisa
But when she retreats and Lux stays, he turns his attention to her.
Again, they are uncoordinated. Lux retreats, while Kaisa walks back in to help her so Hector
punishes hard
And at this point, he can just move forward with his minion wave protecting him from skill
shots and easily wins this fight
You can see during the entire laning phase and with every fight he took, Hector was able
to come out on top using the simple goals we talked about.
And it's not like he had insane mechanics either, he made plenty of mistakes and he
literally got ganked by everyone on the map.
Hector does go on to carry this game, but not before face tanking a Fiora as he tunnel
visions on Malzahar,
and then getting caught before an important dragon
Of course he pulls it together at the end, and makes sure his team wins otherwise i'td
be pretty rude to his teammates who had to put up with a 4v5.
Remember, even when your support is terrible, there's always something you can do to try
and win lane, and having that mentality is the fastest way to improving.
That's it for this video, and thanks for watching.