Hey everyone and welcome.
Today we'll run you through analysis of a Faker game where
he roamed often and did it pretty much to perfection, where we'll all be able to learn
something.
This time he was on Taliyah, but even if you don't play Taliyah or even a strong roaming
champion, you'll learn a few tricks to identify perfect roam times without taking risk.
Let's get to it.
This time he's vs a Ryze in top korean challenger.
In this matchup, both champions do around even damage if they land a full combo.
However, Ryze has lower CD abilities so he'll have more opportunities to trade than
Taliyah.
For waveclear, before Ryze buys his tear Taliyah has the edge, since Ryze would just
oom if he tries to match.
However, once Ryze buys tear, their waveclear is about
even.
For range, Taliyah has a bit of an advantage but with Ryze's movement speed, it'll feel
about even in trades.
Now with this information in mind, it's time to build a game-plan.
So Taliyah's gameplan this time, as we know, is
to roam.
To do this, she'll want to push the wave and then look for roaming opportunities every
time she pushes.
But let's talk about why this is the gameplan Faker's choosing and how you can make the
correct choice in your own game.
Since, although it is a Taliyah, she could easily
win lane vs a whole bunch of champions by not
roaming.
It's correct to roam this time because Ryze has point and click crowd control and he's
playing with a Lee Sin this game.
So gank pressure is very high.
It'd be really hard for Taliyah to win lane without exposing herself to ganks and much
easier to leave the lane and find leads elsewhere.
However, if Taliyah was against a weaker laner like a Malzahar, Corki or Diana, laners
who are so weak they have to take teleport, then staying in lane and winning that way
would often be the correct choice.
In this case, since this lane isn't easy to win,
Faker decides to play the roam game, let's jump right in.
Faker helps his team fend off a scouted red steal at the start, then gets to lane a couple
of seconds late because of it.
Not a big deal and now he also knows Lee Sin will for sure start top side right awayAs
he approaches the wave, he actively auto attacks the minions to push.
You may grow tired of us talking about this, but when you
want to push, then you need to utilize your autos.
We know for a fact most players do not do this enough, which weakens their push
dramatically compared to someone who is constantly auto attacking.
As his Q comes back, he fires it onto the melees, the casters and on Ryze.
The first thing that takes damage from Taliyah Q takes
full damage, so he hits three different things to get full damage three times.
This is Taliyah specific, but regardless of what
champion you play - there'll always be an optimal way to wave clear and consistency
will give you the edge when pushing, even if
you don't actually have more waveclear than your opponent.
Anyway, let's speed it up until this wave is cleared.
Now the first wave is cleared, what would YOU do in this situation as Taliyah?
So, since Faker is against a hard cc gank lane in mid, with the enemy Lee Sin, Faker
decides to go and scout out what Lee is up to.
He knows that Lee started top side and it's just 1 minute 51 in the game.
He can safely deep ward the enemy jungle before Lee Sin
gets to bot side, let's take a look.
As he places the ward, let's toggle off Fog and we
can see that Lee Sin is at his wolves.
We questioned our research group who play between silver and platinum about where they
thought Lee would be at this exact moment, and
nearly everyone we asked did guess correctly that
Lee would be clearing wolves right now.
So why should you care about what our research group guessed?
Well, most players lose track of the jungler in game because they don't think
about where they are throughout lane phase.
When prompted to actually think about where Lee likely is, it's pretty easy to know what
camp they'll be clearing early on if you scouted
where they started.
Because Faker thinks about this, he got a deep
ward at the perfect time, which was risk free and
we'll see how it pays off in just a momentFaker comes back to lane and continues
pushing.
At 2.20, he spots Lee Sin with that great ward that he placed earlier and knows he's
now doing red buff.
He continues clearing the wave, staying back and not looking for any type of trade
with ryze, just pushing as fast as he can to
continue claiming lane priority.
Now the wave is cleared, Faker is once again pathing toward the bot side river.
But why?
Well, this is where that earlier ward really comes into effect and we can't stress
enough how important it is to track the enemy jungler, especially if your gameplan
is to roam - since you never want to run into them unintentionally.
By pathing through bot side river here, he's simply scouting where Lee Sin is.
With the ward he placed earlier, it enables him to
activate a process of elimination.
Lee will have just cleared red and he isn't at
raptors.
That means he's either killing scuttle, clearing krugs or looking for an early cheese
on either mid or bot.
The early cheese mid is unlikely, since Ryze is pulling back here to CS and bot lane
doesn't have very good initiation, so it's most likely Lee isn't wasting his time and
is either clearing scuttle or krugs.
Faker confidently paths towards scuttle to and
confirms his location.
This information is super valuable.
His bot lane now knows to play safe, top lane knows he
can push and play aggressive and his jungler knows
where exactly where he is, so he can steal top
lane camps safely or gank top.
Faker's helped himself and his team by proactively scouting the jungler.
Now you may have some doubts about executing this in your own games, which we'll
talk about in a moment.
But first let's find out what happens next.
He shoves the next wave and starts assessing his options.
He's not trading with Ryze at all since he wants to stay healthy to roam and
an opportunity is presenting itself top side.
He last saw Lee Sin around 40 seconds ago, so, where do you think Lee is now?
Well he'll most likely be doing either of his 2
remaining bot side camps.
Toggling off the fog, we can see he's doing krugs.
Because Faker scouted Lee earlier, his jungler and top laner knows they can bully this Jax
to his turret and potentially look for an
uncontested dive.
Let's see how this plays out.
Alright, so Jax just lost a huge wave and died.
This was all enabled by Faker tracking the Lee
Sin so well earlier on.
They all knew Jax wouldn't receive any help from
the jungler, and Faker has been clearing the wave more quickly than Ryze so he can't follow
this up.
This play was 100% going to work out, which is
exactly what you want in order to consistently win games.
If Faker had gone for this roam without any knowledge of the Lee, it wouldn't have been
a 100% play and he could've ran into Lee on
his way up, which as we know can ruin your tempo
and lose you the early game.
So let's address some of the doubts you may have about executing this type of play in
your elo.
The first thing you may have been thinking all the
way back to where Faker scouted Lee on scuttle -
is that lower elo junglers are less predictable and
often aren't doing what they should be doing.
Faker pathed straight through the river because he has a great idea of how long it takes Lee
to do red buff and he strongly suspected he'd be
doing scuttle or krugs.
If you're not so sure about the jungler doing what
you suspect him to be doing, taking a safer path
like this to achieve the same thing is recommended, so you don't potentially walk
into an early brush cheese.
Remember, your opponent's movements will often giveaway whether you're being camped
since if they're playing passive, chances are the
jungler won't be in this brush waiting for you.
Secondly, you probably have serious doubts about
whether scouting the jungler will trigger your
teammates to make a play on the opposite side of
the map as we saw here.
That's a valid concern and a 2 man gank without Olaf probably wouldn't have landed the kill.
However, depending on the matchup, 2 man plays can work in a similar situation if you and
your top laner have good lock down and their top laner
was pushing instead of being pushed.
Or by making an easy play bot side with a high
engage support, this can score you results without
the help from your jungler as well.
Either way, regardless of if you go for a roam, the
fact that YOU are being proactive about scouting the jungler and feeding your team information,
it will give you confidence to roam safely and
decrease the chances of your teammates getting caught off-guard by ganks.
Alright, now we've deep dived into the nuances that built up and executed this
successful roam, let's find out how Faker played this out moving forward.
At 4.21 he sees Lee top side now doing gromp, he recalls, shoves and then does a
loop through the river.
This is a small thing, but whenever you shove a wave - try to
leave vision so that you're constantly pressuring your opponents with the threat
of potentially roaming.
Alright, now we've deep dived into the nuances that built up and executed this successful
roam, let's find out how Faker played this out moving forward.
At 4.21 he sees Lee top side now doing gromp, he recalls, shoves and then does a loop through
the river.
This is a small thing, but whenever you shove a wave - try to leave vision so that you're
constantly pressuring your opponents with the threat of potentially roaming.
He spots Lee top side again and keeps shoving, avoiding trades to keep his health high and
drops out of vision again once shoving, this time clearing a ward.
He left lane vision to the bot side brush this time so he doesn't run into Lee who he
knows is top side.
But unfortunately, Lee made a play top and now Faker isn't in position to head up there
for a roam.
Not only is he out of position, but he doesn't actually have lane priority right now since
the waves are neutral.
So he'll give this roam a pass and push the next wave.
After pushing the next wave a fight does break out, top side again and he's faster with the
push so he roams there first with his ultimateAfter picking up a nice kill, they take an unfortunate
fight where they die due to Olaf being oom alongside a questionable flashAfter respawning,
here are their scores with Ryze having a slight gold lead.
Faker comes back to lane and is gifted a freebie onto Lee from this jungle trade, then shoves
the wave and then steals raptors while Lee's dead.
Even though Faker isn't necessarily getting super far ahead of the Ryze here, he's making
Lee's life miserable early, by revealing his position and arriving first to fights.
To wrap it up, Faker clears out this wave after getting blue buff into a recall, while
Ryze collects his own blue.
Faker is vigilant about Ryze going for his own roam, since he's not in lane right now.
He knows Ryze is likely going top side after doing his own blue and is MIA, so he preemptively
starts pathing top.
Once again, ruining Lee Sin's day by constantly arriving to his early game plays and scoring
kills.
When all was said and done, Faker finished up 14-2-7 with the Ryze 6-5-3.
Olaf snowballed way harder than the Lee because of the pressure Faker applied to not only
win his lane but snowball his other laners early on.
Let's get you today's takeaways.
By scouting the enemy jungler's starting camp, he knew Lee is starting top side.
With the early shove he obtained with proactive auto attacks and efficient waveclear, he dropped
an early ward to scout Lee's arrival to the bot side.
With this scouting information, he made a high percentage assumption Lee was on scuttle
after clearing red, he pathed bot to confirm his suspicions.
This fed his team all the information they need to deal with Lee's early game and allowed
Faker to make a play top side with a dive onto the Jax, putting him very behind.
As the lane went on, Faker ensured he stayed healthy in lane via not trading and focusing
on wave clear.
After shoving each wave he always did something, whether it was roaming, getting out of vision,
clearing wards or scouting the enemy jungler.
With his proactive information gathering and strong wave clear, he always arrived to the
fights first and made Lee's life difficult with the pressure he constantly applied.
Now there are things we didn't have time to talk about in this video with how to execute
roams.
We'll be sure to keep addressing this stuff over time with our system and will be looking
to add more roaming and macro videos as we move forward.