Hey everyone, and welcome to today's video.
In this video, we're going to be watching KT Deft as he plays Caitlyn with a Morgana
support against Ezreal and Alistar.
In this lane, Deft has a solid range advantage, which will give him the push advantage as
well as plenty of opportunities to harass with autos.
As we break down the laning phase, we're going to focus specifically on the ways that Deft
is getting harass off, while also isolating concepts that you guys can replicate in your
own games.With that all said, there's a few missions that Deft will want to accomplish
to win this lane.
First, he'll want to get control over the first wave with his waveclear advantage by
outpushing Ezreal
Then, after securing level 2, he'll want to harass Ezreal under turret.
After Alistar gets level 2, he'll want to be careful about being combo'd or flash pulverized
under turret.With that said, let's hop right into the game.Both lanes had to leash in this
game, which is great for exploiting the advantages that Caitlyn and Morgana have in the early
game over Ezreal and AlistarGood Ezreal's will always try to get a Q from the side as
lane starts, so try to be wary of that, since you don't want to give them any extra kleptomancy
procs.Initially, Deft is following the first mission of pushing the wave at level 1. The
only threat of the enemy lane is Alistar's combo in this case, so as long as he can prevent
the other side from hitting level 2 first, he'll be free to abuse his range advantage
and open up Morgana to land her bindings.Within 15 seconds of entering the lane, Deft has
already gotten Ezreal to 2/3's health while establishing a three caster lead. This is
all going according to plan, and level 2 won't be an issue at all.As he pushes, we'll see
Deft positioned with casters between him and Ezreal, which will make it nearly impossible
for Ezreal to get value out of his kleptomancyAs they hit level 2, Caitlyn and Morgana move
up in parallel to force Alistar and Ezreal back. While the enemy team had fast reactions
to this, you can often catch people off guard with an auto or spell right as you hit level
2.Here he's trying to wait as long as possible to last hit these casters, so that his next
incoming blue minion wave can group up with his existing wave in front of the turret.
He wants to be pushing the next red minion wave without his own being hit by turret.
In short, he wants to maximize the period of time where he's going to be able to harass
Ezreal,.You'll see deft positioned at the front of his minion wave, which is indicative
of just how aggressive he wants to be here
Every time ezreal steps up for any of these minions, he's going to threaten him with auto
attacks
When marksman start to learn to play aggressively like this, one thing they often fall into
is missing their own farm because they're so busy denying the enemy's
While harass is important and can really define the pace of a lane, you need to make sure
that you're maintaining your own gold income.
As Deft is weaving in harass here, we can see that he backs off to his own caster minions
when he last hits, and then steps up to his melee minions when he wants to play aggressive
again.
As you get more comfortable playing aggressively, try watching the minion health on both sides
to spot for opportunities where you can be aggressive, and moments where you have to
be defensive.The way that you handle harassing your opponent when the wave gets to the turret
is really importantwhen they're trying to last hit under turret, there are defined moments
where they HAVE to walk up or they will lose something. you can see those moments in the
minions health and they are often dictated directly by the turret's attack speedFor example,
the turret will hit a melee twice before it's in kill range, and between the second and
third turret shot you know that the enemy adc will want to last hit it - that moment
is where you want to look for any holes in their positioningBeing able to master this
technique alone will win you more games, and you can combine it with shoving on high range
champions like Caitlyn or Ashe to do it consistentlyThe pressure Deft is putting on against the turret
and Ezreal is substantial, though he has to watch out for Alistar's level 2.
Another common mistake that marksman who are learning to play aggressively make is that
they focus so much on the enemy ad carry's movements that they get caught up by the enemy
support.
While it can be tricky to keep everything in mind, certain champions matter more to
watch than others. In this case, Alistar is a huge threat when he's in flash range, since
he'll knock you into the turret and end it all.Here Ezreal hits a trap, and everyone
immediately springs into action. Deft moves forward to get the headshot off, while Alistar
counters with a combo.Then Morgana goes for the Q W on Ezreal, who then has to heal and
back off, just barely dodging out from the Caitlyn Q.Then, since Alistar has used all
of his abilities, he's no longer of any threat, so he gets chunked out, which is a clear win
for Deft and MorganaAs level 3's come out, deft is still playing really aggressively.
This surprised us, though it's likely due to him really trusting his support. However,
for any viewers playing with over 10 ping, we recommend playing a little bit more defensively
hereAlistar goes for a combo on Morgana, who wasn't able to shield the knock-up in time.However,
with those abilities on cooldown, Alistar is a heavy paper weight, so Deft is free to
hit him for a few times before backing off.And then, this happens.Whenever this happens to
you as an adc or support, alarm bells are usually going off.Deft immediately flashes
away and heals so that he buys space between him and Ezreal, then creates more space with
a E Q combo onto Alistar, while instantly throwing down a trap as he ran back, knowing
that the trap will go off the bound Alistar to allow him to proc the headshot.Unfortunately,
Ezreal was able to follow with his E flash and the fight ends in a 1 for 1.As he heads
back into lane, Deft has a pickaxe to Ezreal's aggressive Sheen buy. We think this is an
interesting idea from Ezreal, but overall it isn't something that seems viable, since
he will have such a delayed tear and his manamune spike will be less effective.However, deft
will have to watch out for the burst between alistar's combo and ezreal's mobility, but
he can avoid that situation from happening almost entirely through constantly shoving
waves.Another reason that you want to be constantly pushing against Ezreal is that after his first
buy he can farm from range for minutes on end and will be happy hitting you with pot
shot Klepto Q's.Here Morgana hits a nice bind and follows it up with a perfect shield to
block the initial knock-up from Alistar.
However, know that Alistar can use his E to follow up with a second stun, so Deft ends
up getting stunned anyways.But, Deft had great positioning here, since there were blue minions
between him and Ezreal, which meant that Ezreal wasn't able to get value from his aggressive
sheen purchase in this fight.As Deft confidently moves up with the minion wave to the turret,
we see more of the same positioning from earlier. Ezreal has to deal with another incoming wave
at his turret, and he's going to be forced to use Q's to get CS instead of growing his
klepto gold pile.Deft is getting some great hits on Ezreal, and overall being a complete
nuisance.However, Nidalee just jumped over the wall, which forces Deft to take a bad
trade as he backs off.With Lee engaging a fight in the river, this is where things get
a bit tricky.
The supports will want to immediately move to help their Junglers, but there's also a
second game going on here.
If Ezreal or Caitlyn step too close, then either Morgana or Alistar will use their CC
to turn the fight around on them.This is why we're seeing Ezreal and Caitlyn be a bit tentative
in followng immediately, and both of them instead wait for some distance to be made.Again,
Deft can't walk too far foward hereUntil Alistar uses his combo just like this.Now Deft is
in a 1v1 against Ezreal, and he's about to look a bit silly.He puts a trap down here
to predict Ezreal's E, and then tries to force the E with his own E and Q combo.
However, Ezreal calls his play instantly and E's to the side to get a forward position
on Deft, but then Deft is able to just dodge the mystic shot.Because he dodged that Q from
Ezreal, Deft can continue fighting here and follow up on this fantastic dark binding from
Morgana.Deft cleans Ezreal up with a Q, and they're able to finish Alistar off as well
to end the fight in a 3 for 0.Deft then quickly pushes to the turret, and uses his ult for
a bit of pressure on Ekko.At this point in the game, Deft is only up around 400 gold.
However, against Kleptomancy, that might as well be 800, since Kleptomancy sacrifices
power that you would otherwise gain from your keystone.As Deft gets back into lane, he has
berserker greaves and pickaxe to Ezreals' sheen tear.
Even more importantly, Deft is up a level. In the next three minutes, we'll see a couple
instances where Deft and Morgana are able to leverage their level advantage by forcing
fights.Here, he clears out the wave, then immediately they
start the fight against Alistar and Ezreal, which he easily wins with Morgana by his side.Afterwards,
they aggressively push forward to trade 1 for 1 against Ezreal behind the tier 1 turret,
which causes him to lose even more exp.Then, a minute and a half later, they come back
to force another fight which they're able to easily win, with Nidalee being taken out
as well due to the help from Lee Sin.Here, as he drops the turret for solo gold, Deft
has extended his 400 gold lead from earlier into a massive 2 thousand gold lead just three
minutes later.He goes on to win the game at the 15 minute mark, but the focus here is
how Deft was able to control the lane from the very start.As the lane began, Deft immediately
took control with his waveclear advantage, and then started immediately making use of
his range advantage to chunk Ezreal out and make him play further back in the lane.The
fights were still on a knife's edge due to excellent play from both supports, but over
time Deft was able to win out in a close fight in the bottom river.Off of that fight, the
exp lead Deft and Morgana had allowed them to engage over and over against Ezreal and
Alistar, which rapidly snowballed the lane in their favor.Well, that's it for this one!
Thank you so much for watching, and we'll see you next time.