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Okay got some coaching advice.
I stick with
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Assumptions about my first 5 actions.
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Kha'zix, Red > Raptors > Wolves > Blue, Darius is his most likely gank.
Do we win the 2v2? I think so.
My path - Blue > Wolves > Raptors > Red > Level 3 > Look to gank Mid or Countergank Top (took 2:59 to clear the 4 camps at 508 health out of 713, would have been healthier with a better leash at Blue, I think)
This also semi-future proofs my jungle, by take 2 of 3 camps on either side of the map, so if Kha'zix does something I don't expect he only gets one camp on and invade of either side.
What happened?
My assumption about
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Ekko does push Zed in. I walk in for a gank on Ekko and push him back to his turret. He gets cheeky and goes on me so I take him out with a fade away
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I should have updated my mental map to have Kha'zix going from Blue to Red side and been pinging Bot lane when scuttle was about to spawn. Since they are under turret, Kha'zix doesn't really have a good gank. We see him bug out.
I gank Bot and we pick up a kill on Jinx, but it was a close thing to having one of my laners die since they were low on resources.
The Lulu's ulting decisions gave me hives. She could totally have saved Ashe at one point. Instead she late ulted herself for no reason.
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Ugh.
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I don't win the 1v1 vs Sejuani and we don't win the 2 v 2 vs
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My path. Blue > Wolves > Raptors > Red.
Sejuani's path, Red > Gromp > Wolves > Raptors > Red. Mid is her best gank.
IIRC that is pretty close to what happened, except Ziggs killed
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Have to add
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What actually happened.
They took the gank path I usually ward for around dragon pit.
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Ziggs kills
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I think taking Gromp was a mistake, because if I had gone back eariler and went to my Krugs and cleaerd them my Bot lane decided to start a fight with their Bot lane around then, so I should have looked at the wave positions at that time before starting Gromp. Though really I don't know why my Bot lane started a fight with their Bot lane since they did it the middle of an enemy minion wave.
Things started to go to **** when
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A lot things did not sync up this game.
And I'm not thinking of what the enemy jungle might do outside of my starting plan.
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Plan was Blue > Wolves > Raptors > Red > Gank Top or Countergank Mid.
I win the 1v1 vs Panethon if I play it right and get behind his shield as I have
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Pantheon mostly does a Red > Raptors > Krugs path to hit level 3. His best gank option is probably Mid.
What actually happened.
Pantheon goes Red > Raptors > Blue > Gromp.
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I then take the Bot scuttle and then get
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I knew where Pantheon had warded so I went around it and when
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Just a game where everything works out quite clean.
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I dodged this one because they had three potential tanks and our ADC locked in
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I'm pretty we lost this game cause
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We have all pushing lanes, so that means I go find Vi and mess with her to keep her from getting a gank off. Except they late invade and push us off of Red.
Go Blue > Wolves > Raptors > Red> Red still there.
Do I win vs Vi? if she misses her Q I win since I have Ignite. If she hits her Q, I might lose even with Ignite if it is fully charged.
I don't recall the lane state at that point but it was a long time before I positively impacted the map.
They had a lot of tools to get onto
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I definitely screwed up once and should have gone to help Caitlyn and Morgana vs Jax, but they kept toying with the Jax in that they could have backed off, so I was in a quandry, but should in retrospect should have headed to them.
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I probably don't win the 1v1 vs
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Me: Red > Raptors > Wolves > Blue > Gank
Lee: Red > Wolves > Blue > Gromp > Gank with Top being his best target.
What actually happened?
Except we get invaded and
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My new plan. Red > tBlue > Raptors > Wolves > Blue > Gank Bot
Lee's new plan should involve ganking a lane with no
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I don't know that they didn't leave Blue though because no one on my team dropped a ward.
Lee goes Red with help from Nautilus > Wolves > is spotted on the ward I left behind. I ping out his location. Illaoi has a ward. But is apparently too confident so she gets ganked and has to blow her
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Yasuo dies 1v1 to
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I clear my blue, which as it turns out was still up.
Lee Sin goes to Krugs. I did ping Yasuo out to be careful as Lee could still be about, but he died a little after that with no help from Lee.
Lee goes Bot after Krugs but is spotted on a ward. I ended up doing Blue and Gromp at the same time so i was too low to use this information.
I go Krugs to Gank Top but we don't get a lot out of it since Pantheon shields most of the damage.
Lee does his Gromp then dances around for quite some time I guess waiting for Blue buff to spawn. I proceed to do a full jungler clear to get level 6,
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Bot lane gets into a scrape with their opposites, but they don't notice the Lee Sin lane ganking in time, though I pinged it as soon as I saw it.
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Blah, blah, blah, Bot got four man dove. Pantheon Smote out Bot lane with one Q when they lined up as they ran away.
We end up in Mid and
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It was kind of clown fiesta after that.
I don't know how this going to work out, but it is interesting trying to go into the game with an early game plan about what I'm going to do. The thrust of the plan is this
Guess or know from experience which lanes will push
Cheat sheet: (IIRC there are more elements than these two)
Ranged pushes Melee
Higher threat pushes
This tells you which lanes will be gankable and which lanes you might need to countergank.
You then ask yourself
Do I win the 1v1 vs the enemy jungler?
Do we win a 2v2 countergank scenario?
What will be the enemy junlgers path?
Cheat sheet
9x out of ten the enemy jungle will start with their Bot lane leashing them even if that is not optimal. Your map hack is A) seeing when the enemy laners come to lane B) checking their mana
If they come to lane late they likely leashed. And if they are missing some mana they almost 100% leashed. You can fake leash, but it is rare in soloqueue for this to happen.
Then the enemy jungler is probably going to do camps that play to their strengths with the intent of hitting level 3 as fast as possible.
So junglers with the capability to gank will most likely complete 4 actions and on their fifth action they will gank.
If you really want to get into the weeds you can time yourself doing various clears and if you know the enemy junglers clear speed you can factor that in to where they could be and what their choices should be.
After a game, watch at least the early game and see if your assumptions are correct. If they are not then watch the lane and see why not. Maybe they purposely didn't push for lvl 2 because they were concerned about a lvl 2 gank say from a
Twitch jungle. Then update your mental lexicon.
The point is to build up a league sense about what is likely to happen and why. And yeah, you'll probably be bad at it at first.
My coach put it this way. League is a big IF statement that you will add to over time and you can judge your progress as a player by how many things your IF statement takes into account.
For instance last night I learned that
Jarvan IV does not win the 1v1 vs
Lee Sin at level 3.
Guess or know from experience which lanes will push
Cheat sheet: (IIRC there are more elements than these two)
Ranged pushes Melee
Higher threat pushes
This tells you which lanes will be gankable and which lanes you might need to countergank.
You then ask yourself
Do I win the 1v1 vs the enemy jungler?
Do we win a 2v2 countergank scenario?
What will be the enemy junlgers path?
Cheat sheet
9x out of ten the enemy jungle will start with their Bot lane leashing them even if that is not optimal. Your map hack is A) seeing when the enemy laners come to lane B) checking their mana
If they come to lane late they likely leashed. And if they are missing some mana they almost 100% leashed. You can fake leash, but it is rare in soloqueue for this to happen.
Then the enemy jungler is probably going to do camps that play to their strengths with the intent of hitting level 3 as fast as possible.
So junglers with the capability to gank will most likely complete 4 actions and on their fifth action they will gank.
If you really want to get into the weeds you can time yourself doing various clears and if you know the enemy junglers clear speed you can factor that in to where they could be and what their choices should be.
After a game, watch at least the early game and see if your assumptions are correct. If they are not then watch the lane and see why not. Maybe they purposely didn't push for lvl 2 because they were concerned about a lvl 2 gank say from a
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The point is to build up a league sense about what is likely to happen and why. And yeah, you'll probably be bad at it at first.
My coach put it this way. League is a big IF statement that you will add to over time and you can judge your progress as a player by how many things your IF statement takes into account.
For instance last night I learned that
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I probably don't win the 1v1 vs
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Me: Red > Raptors > Wolves > Blue > Gank
Lee: Red > Wolves > Blue > Gromp > Gank with Mid or Bot being his best targets (turned out to be wrong)
What actually happened?
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Lee does his Red and return ganks still at level 2 and kills
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At this point I clear out his blue side jungle.
Lee Krugs scuttle and ganks Urgot a 3rd time.
It it is actually really slick if you think about it. Even if they get pushed off my blue he still gets to gank with 2 actions where most junglers won't gank until action 4 or 5 with exceptions being someone like
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I didn't pressure Bot or Mid enough to even out the pressure Lee was creating in Top lane.
My team crumbled under Lee's and Cho's pressure combined pressure and the fact that we had trouble staying on
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I'm not sure how I would have stopped this without gimping my own game.
First off I would need my Top and Mid to actually cover my Blue side jungle. People are really lax about this now that they don't have to ward for early scuttles. Then
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I suspect this setup is why the Lee has such good KDAs in his games, but if it is what he relies on to get him to Silver, he might not go a lot further. Basically it works a chunk of the time when he duos, but doesn't work when he doesn't.
I also made a mistake going
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I don't win the 1v1 vs Lee.
I don't win the 2v2 with Kayle vs Lee and Kled.
I don't win the 2v2 with Veigar vs Lee and Cho'gath
I can win the 3v3 in Bot lane with a Draven and Zilean.
Setup to countergank Bot or gank Mid
My route: Blue > Wolves > Red > Raptors or Krugs but the later take longer
Lee's route: Red > Wolves > Blue > Gromp
What actually happened?
Lee goes Red > Krugs > investigates my jungle to see my Blue and Wolves are gone. Q's in on Veigar who is basically under turret and he and Cho almost kill Veigar. He then contest me at my Raptors. I win the
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Veigar gets repeatedly eaten by
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Late game we kill Cho'gath if we get on top of him, but
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This exercise is interesting, but I hope it eventually turns into less suck.
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