Hey everyone. As you all know, when Challenger players smurf, they can win almost every single
game up until Diamond, and many of you wonder, how? How do they carry these feeding toxic
teams? Well, Challenger players have insane game knowledge and know how to play nearly
every scenario. So today, we're going to run you through a few scenarios and test your
knowledge to see if you would have made the same play that Mcbaze does on a gold smurf
playing Ahri. We're going to be covering a wide range of topics, from laning to teamfighting
to Macro, and the concepts will apply to almost any champion.
Also, the full Ahri game can be found over at Skill-Capped.com on our commentaries page.
We upload a bunch of these every week, so you can see how challengers climb out of elo
hell and what their thought process is in real-time for every role. So be sure to check
us out after this. Alright, lets jump right into the gameplay
with our first scenario, which is a pretty easy one.
Im 2-0 in lane right now, and hard pressuring the Aurelion sol Im laning against. He's low
health, so I'm constantly shoving waves until hes going to be forced to take a bad recall
or overstay and Ill kill him. I'm only level 5 so I dont have my ultimate.
While doing this though, the enemy Elise is ganking me from bot side river. If we pause
here.. What would you do in this situation?
So, let's see what I do, and listen to what I say.
Play the game Audio Alright, so this is one of those smurf moments
. A Smurf moment is a situation where most players wouldn't take advantage of the mistake
the enemy team is making. The aurelion sol is really low and cant help Elise if she tries
to gank. Elise is only level 4. So think of it this way. What if we just take Aurelion
sol out of the picture entirely and just act like were laning against elise. Would a level
4 elise be able to walk straight at us in lane? Of course not. These kinds of plays
are how smurfs always get leads in the early game. Any mistake by the enemy team is hard
punished. Also, I could have done this on literally any other mid champion. Fizz, Orianna,
Syndra, Ekko, anything. Maybe play from 5.49 - 5.57 if its funny with
live commentary audio Anyways, moving onto the next scenario.
Its similar to the last one, where i'm hard pressuring the aurelion sol again. I don't
have ignite and dont have my ult, but I have flash.
The wave is pushing to me because he has a cannon minion and I don't so I could freeze
here if I wanted to. What would you be looking to do in these next 20-30 seconds?
Just like before, let's watch and listen to what I said while playing.
Alright, so the important concept here, is that I didn't look to freeze even though I
had a health advantage and could deny him CS with the freeze. This is because freezing
is when it's too dangerous to shove or you don't have enough waveclear to push before
they get back to lane. But the most pressure you can put on is by constantly shoving like
I am here. It makes the enemy overstay a lot of the time, denies them CS, and lets you
work on tower plates. Freezing is used a lot more in the early part of the game when your
waveclear isn't that high yet. For this next scenario, we have a very important
concept when it comes to roaming. I'm coming out of base, and this is what the scoreboard
looks like. Look at the winning lanes and losing lanes on my team, as the information
is important for this next question. Also, look at the minimap, as the enemy elise is
hovering bot side. Now, I head to lane and clear the wave on
the tower, and we see aurelion sol ganking our top laner. That means both of our side
laners are being ganked right now. Sol is top, Elise is bot. What should I do about
it? Lets watch and listen to what my thought process
was. Alright, multiple important things here to
go over. The first is how I cleared the wve on my tower,
AND cleared the next wave before roaming. This makes sure I don't lose any CS, and Sol
loses at least 1 wave from this, and puts pressure on the tower.
The big concept though is how I decided where to roam. A lot of players have this idea that
they need to "help" their losing teammates. This is the complete opposite of what you
want to be doing. Your goal is to get yourself fed so you can carry. if you roam to a lane
that is losing, who knows if you will win the fight. It would be really hard. But think
about this. Tryndamere and I are both winning lanes. Were both stronger than the enemy laner.
So in a 2v2, how is it possible for us to lose? We would have to be outplayed extremely
hard. This is super important when it comes to roaming. If you roam to a losing lane and
die, your lead, and the game, are completely thrown. This is probably the #1 way players
throw their lead. Alright for this next scenario, let's test
your mechanics a bit. Im pressuring sol mid and have a big health
advantage.. and Fiora roams on me. If we pause here, our team is in a 3v3 fight at the dragon,
Tryndamere is heading to the top lane..and I have 2 on me. What would you do here?
The first thing I do is ult over the wall, towards
my tower. I am purposefully kiting away from my teammates because if I bring these two
over there, that turns the fight into a 4v5, instead of a 3v3.
Lets pause again. Look at the situation , think about what you
would do next. The first thing you should notice is that
I still have 2 ult charges left, meaning I can go in and out one time. Then, you should
see that Aurelion sol is way out of position here because hes lower health and not standing
behind any minions. He has a false sense of security because his Fiora is behind him.
This happens all of the time in lower elos. Players have their team near them and think
they won't be killed. So I dash in, charm and kill the sol, then
dash out with my last ult charge. Then bait Fiora into my team to kill her as well.
This probably seemed like an obvious play, but the thing is, when coaching lower elo
players or vod reviewing, you guys let people get away with murder all of the time. The
enemy team will be out of position and be borderline trolling and you don't punish.
Alright moving onto the next scenario. I'm coming from base and my team is trolling
pretty hard, fighting for no reason and without me there when I have most of our gold. If
we look at the minimap, Kaisa is bot lane, thresh is fighting 1v2 vs the enemy bot in
river??? I don't know but its obviously not good. What would you do here?
Let's listen to what I had to say about it. Teams fighting but i'm not heading to
this fight. Doing this simple thing, would change your win rate drastically. In low elo,
all you guys want to do is fight. Any fight that breaks out you run straight to it, its
insane. Look at the bigger picture. What does this fight get for us? Nothing. My team is
fighting for no reason. We have someone pushing bot working on the tower, so we shouldn't
be fighting and just look to push waves and pressure the map. That's what pushing waves
does. As I go to push mid, the Aurelion sol flashes
my charm and engages. slowing me with his rylais. Now this is a different scenario.
I'm not engaging on them, they are engaging on me. What do you do in a losing scenario
where you are getting engaged on? A word we all know and have heard a million times. Kite.
In low elo, you guys either run or fight, but in the middle of those is called kiting.
Damaging them while moving backwards. So, I ult down towards the bottom river, using
my abilities to damage them while retreating, until I get to this brush. I didnt kite towards
my tower because I'm trying to pull them away from it. If they chase me, they cant get the
tower, but they can probably dive me under tower in a 3v1.
Notice here I dont use my last ult charge yet. I know they cant see me, and if they
continue chasing, I can ult over the dragon wall, but I dont have an immediate threat
right now. Then, Fiora starts heading through the river
to catch bot wave or stop our Kaisa from pushing. Look at her level. She's level 9. Levels are
a huge part of this game, they give a lot of base stats, and if you ever have 2 or 3
levels on someone like I do on Fiora, you should never be scared of them.
So, since I have ignite, all of my abilities, and 1 ult charge left, I charm fiora over
the wall out of vision, and 1 shot her with my ignite and last ult charge.
See how I didn't just use my ult to run away. I kited away when I was at the disadvantage
in a 1v3 until they stopped chasing, then went back to the aggressor when they were
out of position. But now the enemy team is pushing mid tower
down. What would you do here? This is a tricky situation. Yasuo is fed and
his windwall can really mess up my damage. But, just like every other decision, you have
to think about the bigger picture. What are we trying to accomplish here? Whats the most
important thing about this situation?
We're trying to defend this tower. Were not trying to kill them. What will stop them from
taking this tower? The minions. So, I walk up and use my Q on the entire backline
of minions, clearing them all. Now, they only have 3 minions left on the tower, which wont
give them enough time to kill it. Because of this, they start chasing me.. and
its back to kiting. I chunk yasuo to half but he gets in range to exhaust me, so now
im in trouble. I continue kiting and get hit with senna ult which hurt pretty bad. But
I charm yasuo to slow him down, and dodge the sol Q and yasuo tornado, while running
towards my thresh coming out of base, and just barely make it to his lantern.
Alright, so this was a close call and easily could have been a huge throw as i'm worth
850 gold. This is another one of those smurf moments where most players would die here,
or just let the enemy take the tower. The only reason they could even catch me was because
yasuo somehow got in range to exhaust me, otherwise it wouldn't have been close.
It is important to note though, you don't have to push your limits like I just did to
win games. If I gave up this mid tower, the game result would have been the same. High
elo players know their limits very well so they go for high risk high reward plays.
THe next scenario is directly connected to the previous one though. After that close
call, I recall and start heading down mid since the enemy team is sieging our mid tower.
What's the play here? What would you be looking to do? You can always pause the video if you
need more than the 5 seconds we give to think.
Let's let the video play and listen
to
my thought process. Alright, so this is a very very common mistake
in lower elos, which remember, means anything Diamond or below. The enemy team won a fight
all the way back at their own blue when I was coming out of base before they jumped
on me in mid. They didn't recall and spend their gold or anything and decided to siege
mid. They had multiple people with low health, and since they did not recall to spend that
gold it's just useless. They could have 10,000 gold, but it doesn't matter if its not spent.
So, since my entire team is there, I know I just needed to force a fight and we would
easily win. I could have done this on any champion. Orianna, Diana, anyone.
Anyways, moving to the next scenario... The enemy yasuo is pushing bot all by himself,
and if we look at the minimap, I have volibear thresh and Kaisa coming, while the entire
enemy team is in mid lane. So, I just work on clearing this wave while waiting for my
team to rotate. That was an easy kill, but the next part is
where we test your knowledge. I start heading to the river, and we see elise here.
Look at the minimap and analyze the situation, and think about what you would do here.
The correct play is to look to hard engage on the Elise because she is completely split
away from her team, and because we got an early pick, it should be 4v4 while our tryndamere
is pushing top. If we go back to when we were killing yasuo, we saw Senna and Fiora coming
down river, they weren't taking the long way around and cant be behind the elise in the
tri brush. So, I look for a charm and dodge the cocoon,
and since the charm lands I go in using my ult to dodge Sols stun, but end up dying to
sol because I was greedy with flash. This happens sometimes in lower elos, where
you can see the right play but your team not see it and you die for it. We all should have
turned and went for elise and Sol since they were split off, but thresh and Kaisa didn't
notice. You cant worry too much about situations like these, if you know you were making the
right play then its fine, its just unlucky. Ok, moving to the last scenario. Im heading
down mid..Baron is up, dragon is coming up in 30 seconds. The minimap is bugged thats
why you can't see it. Elise shows up trying to kill our control ward in bottom river.
what would you be looking to do here? Lets let it play through and listen to the
live commentary. So, this is something very important especially
in the mid game. If you're ahead, you don't want to let the enemy team clear your vision
for free. Protecting our control ward here is important for giving us dragon vision control.
If they don't have vision of this brush, its dangerous for them to walk in this area when
they can get hit by a charm or hook. But after that I look to pick yasuo and he
windwalls my charm and slow. Elise is getting chased down by tryndamere and repels over
the wall. If we pause here..what would you do next?
5 second pause Sol is way out of position here, and used
his defensive ability, his stun. With no hesitation I ult to him and charm which leads to us bursting
him down fast and winning the fight. You might be wondering though. Why wouldn't
I go for the senna there? And how was Sol the one out of position. Well if we take it
back.. Its because we knew Yasuo was over there and we dont know who is in that brush.
Elise just rappeled to that side of the wall, and I don't want to ult in and facecheck 3
people. Sol should be with his team but he was alone on the side, and those are the targets
assassins take care of the easiest. Alright guys, so at this point, I've carried
us to the point where we get the infernal soul, and the game is easy from here, so thats
going to bring us to the end of this video. Let us know in the comments how you did. Would
you have made a lot of the same plays that I did and carried this game? Or would you
have let your bot lane tilt you by saying open bot after getting solo killed multiple
times , or threw your lead multiple times following your teams plays? But anyways, thats
going to bring us to the end of this one. We hope you enjoyed and thanks for watching!