Hey everyone.
A lot of players think they deserve a higher rank than they are now, but when we watch
your gameplay, it's clear that's not the case.
So today, we're going to be breaking down a low elo game for everyone to learn from.
If you are making any of these mistakes, you are missing crucial fundamental knowledge
of the game, and will not climb until you obtain it.
Luckily for you, that's what we teach here at skill-capped.
Also, at the end of the video we will be revealing what the rank of the game is, so stick around
for that as i'm sure most of you wont be able to get it.
The mistakes were going to be focusing on today are macro focused.
So let's get started here, where the player were watching is on TF, and they clear the
wave mid then look for an ultimate play down to bot.
He ults down, the teams trade 1 for 1, with ashe and thresh getting pretty low as well.
The enemy mid laner ryze roams down, so the TF stays to help push the wave so his bot
lane can reset.
This was very good, but now we have a problem.
If you were TF in this situation, what would you do next?
Stay bot to try and make a play for kills or the tower?
Run back to mid?
or Reset?
Not knowing the next step after a roam is a very common issue in Diamond and below but
it's extremely important because it affects your tempo, which we will get into soon.
But the correct answer is, reset.
Running back to mid with half health and almost no mana, with 1 corrupting potion charge left
is just a waste of time, when you can just recall, and run the same distance from fountain
to mid, but with full potions, health, mana, and gold spent.
This doesn't seem like a big deal, but when you take tempo into account, it is.
Tempo, is just time.
If both laners want to roam down to bot, but one clears the wave 2 seconds faster than
the other..that laner will have a 2 second tempo advantage..basically being steps ahead.
So in this situation, TF and ryze both roam bot.
Tf is low on mana, health, and potions.
So his list of priorities now are...
Get back to mid to not lose CS
Shove the wave and reset to refill health mana and potions and spend gold.
Because Ryze came down to bot, Ryze will have to walk all the way back to mid.
This means it's better to just recall now while ryze is walking back to mid, then TF
can walk back to mid while ryze is pushing the wave.
This gets tf a reset without losing anything.
But, let's see what happens when you don't do this..
TF runs back to mid, then starts clearing the wave..
He cant clear it fast enough to reset, and the next wave is here.
Also, he's completely out of potions.
So now he's in a really bad spot.
How can he clear the waves fast enough to reset against a champion with high waveclear
like ryze, when the TF has no potions?
The answer is, he can't unless his jungler ganks.
Any decent player will make sure you never get a good reset here and you will miss CS.
Then on top of this, on the next wave he gets ganked, and does not survive because he didn't
have full health and didn't have any corrupting potions charges to use.
So as you can see, by resetting then walking back to lane when the enemy laner also has
to walk back to lane, you can reset without missing anything.
And this is without even taking into account what the enemy laner needs.
So for example, let's say Ryze was half health and half mana too after the bot fight earlier.
If ryze runs back to mid and shoves, while Tf resets like he should..TF comes back to
lane with full health mana potions, then ryze needs to reset and run back to lane, while
TF has the freedom to roam or get vision or help his jungler.
Alright, moving on to the next play it is very similar to the one we just went over.
TF makes another ult play bot which was good.
They get 2 kills, and he runs to bot and starts pushing that wave, then recalls.
If we go back to after they got the 2 kills..
Ashe and Zac are dead, and there is a cannon wave in mid that the enemy ryze hasn't started
pushing yet.
Trist is low but with only thresh down here and sona being able to heal her as well, she
does not need help pushing these bot waves so she can reset, and its much better for
the TF to go mid and collect his cannon wave.
Now, lets say, TF ulted down to bot and they only killed zac, and the bot wave was pushing
to the enemy and trist was low.
Then, since the enemy team could freeze if they don't crash the wave on the tower, it
would be fine to help them push it.
All the TF did here was give up a cannon wave for no reason.
The important thing about this is, do you see the difference between this play and the
last one?
In the last one, Ryze came down to bot, so TF stayed to help crash.
So ryze needed to walk back to mid so TF could have taken that time to reset.
In this one, Ryze didn't come down, so he's going to push the cannon wave mid, and trist
doesn't need help pushing bot because ashe and zac are dead, so it's better for TF to
go mid and collect his cannon.
If ryze moved down to bot again like before, then TF could reset right after the play then
run to mid.
Alright so those are the most common scenarios when we're talking about resetting after roaming.
Let's skip ahead now to after some tier 1 towers fall and we have some real macro to
break down.
Lets pick up here at 17 minutes when the TF Tps down to bot lane to push this cannon wave.
This TP is really really bad for multiple reasons.
First off, this blue wave will push back towards the red side of the map because the next blue
wave is going to get here before the next red wave.
So it's better to just run down to bot and save the TP.
Secondly, TPing this deep without knowing where the enemy team is, is really dangerous.
If Zac a laner was on their way here and Zac was on krugs, TF would just die after finishishing
the TP.
And lastly, there is no point in TPing and pushing these waves when Trist and gragas
are recalling, and sona is in base.
Pressure on the map doesn't do anything for you when your teammates are resetting.
Because of this, you end up just running to mid with nothing to do, then run back to bot
to clear the waves like you should have done in the first place.
After that, we have another issue.
Right here we can see zac ganking top and ashe thresh mid.
So if Ryze shows down bot he has to be alone.
When you are ahead of the enemy laner and pushing side lanes, if you know they are alone
you need to pressure them.
On certain champions like Diana Leblanc Zed or Fizz you can just kill.
TF doesn't do that much damage but walking up and using gold card Q lichbane auto combo
will chunk them and just chunking them is important.
With a chunk they shouldn't be able to walk up to the wave and you can pressure the tower.
In this scenario, gragas ganked bot and chunked the ryze, but the TF runs away and heads towards
mid where the enemy team is grouped taking the tower, when he should be pressuring bot
tower.
He gets to here in the river and the enemy team takes mid.
An important concept here is called trading objectives.
The mistake we just saw where TF ran from bot to mid for nothing is one of the most
common, we see it all the time.
If you can pressure a different objective, its ok if the enemy team gets your tower,
you can just trade 1 tower for 1.
Anyways after that, TF runs back down to bot, and the low health ryze is clearing this wave.
Tf stands over here, probably worried about the enemy team being near, and doesn't walk
up and go for the kill on ryze.
Now there are 2 reasons why pressuring right now is really important.
First,everyone is on the map now.
Trist and sona are mid, yasuo is top, so TF having pressure bot is good.
Ryze is killable in one combo, even though he has cleanse.
If TF gets ganked, it should be by zac or thresh, or both.
Merc treads and heal are plenty to get out of this situation, and on top of that, baron
is coming up in 10 seconds so if they 3 or 4 man bot, his team can do baron.
The second thing is, the enemy team just grouped and took mid tower, meaning they will probably
reset now, not head down to bot, so TF shouldn't be too worried about getting ganked here.
Alright, TF continues pressuring bot lane pushing waves, and a fight breaks out in top
lane that his team loses.
First of all, the TP from earlier would be nice here, and secondly..
TF isn't close enough to use his ult up there, which brings us to another important mistake
here.
If you are split pushing, and you can't pressure the tower with your lead, don't just shove
the wave and sit after like this TF is.
You need to shove, then rotate and look for a play, or shove and pressure the enemy champion
or tower.
Pushing these wave does nothing but let ryze farm safely.
The tower hasn't taken any damage.
Then the TF finally starts pressuring the tower, gets it low, does not take it and leaves
to go back to mid.
He gets there, gets greedy and disrespects the aatrox, stuns the target with cleanse
and not the fed bruiser aatrox, and dies giving away 650 gold to the ryze that was behind.
Alright guys, so TF went to a side lane, while fed, for 4 minutes.
He didn't get a single tower, or a single kill.
Then roamed to mid and gave away his shut down.
After a play like that, the game isn't in your hands anymore, because if you are the
carry you can't die, especially on a macro objective focused champion like TF.
If you split push, and have a lot of your teams gold, you NEED to use your pressure
to get stuff, you can't just afk push.
But that's going to bring us to the end of this video as the stuff we talked about today
is a lot to take in.
And, if you were wondering what rank this game was, it was platinum 3.
Anyways, we hope you enjoyed the video, and thanks for watching!