As a top laner, I usually have good farm early, but it tends to drop late game (pretty much every screenshot in my ranked thread shows stuff like ~250 cs in ~40 minutes, nothing special). I'd imagine it's easier to keep up farm as a mid laner because of jungle camps. Top doesn't really have anything to get except maybe golems if you're purple side. Once people start roaming, sure, they'll steal some farm, but you should too. Jungle camps, side lanes, doesn't matter. As an AD Carry, I usually just run around to whatever's alive to keep my farm up since I care about it a lot more than when playing top :P
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Never allow minion waves to fight it out in any lane without champion intervention, especially if you're not getting anything out of your team being together. Figure out where the enemy team is and start split pushing, leaving wards as you disperse. First team to split push and regroup gets a huge advantage because it forces the enemy team into splitting up at a predictable time or risk losing turrets to minions.
A lot of CS goes to waste when two teams have a 5v5 staring contest under inhib tower with no damage being dealt to the turret and no side lanes pushing. When I realized this a couple of months back, I started telling my ranked team to keep up side lane minion management and our lategame farm got a lot better with just a small change in playstyle.
* There are some notable cases in which doing this is a bad idea, typically involving globals and/or Evelynn on the enemy team, or when your team is behind and losing the vision war.
I can barely get 100 cs around min 15, any tips? I can't last hit everything, i AA it either too early either too late. How to stop doing this? -.-
Play bot games or a custom game against Tristana Bot and farm with autoattacks as often as possible. When you have perfect CS in a bot game, your CSing mechanics in a pvp game will also be substantially better.
Also, farm jungle camps if your champion allows it.
A lot of CS goes to waste when two teams have a 5v5 staring contest under inhib tower with no damage being dealt to the turret and no side lanes pushing. When I realized this a couple of months back, I started telling my ranked team to keep up side lane minion management and our lategame farm got a lot better with just a small change in playstyle.
* There are some notable cases in which doing this is a bad idea, typically involving globals and/or Evelynn on the enemy team, or when your team is behind and losing the vision war.
iBluez wrote:
I can barely get 100 cs around min 15, any tips? I can't last hit everything, i AA it either too early either too late. How to stop doing this? -.-
Play bot games or a custom game against Tristana Bot and farm with autoattacks as often as possible. When you have perfect CS in a bot game, your CSing mechanics in a pvp game will also be substantially better.
Also, farm jungle camps if your champion allows it.
you should've stopped focusing on farming when the laning phase was over and clinched to bring progress into ending the game. anyways, you just get as many camps and shove lanes (in reaction, the enemy has to shove the lane to relieve pressure and be in a contestable and more favorable spot for objectives; rince and repeat but don't push it if you'll end up with weaker scaling).
step 1: see large blob of red on the minimap
step 2: farm large blob of red
step 3: ????????
that's basically it
what works really nicely is setting up a slow push in one lane and then pushing another
by the time your huge minion wave hits the turret they're going to be forced to engage on you or lose an objective
in either case by the time the fight is over their wave is going to be pushing back AND THAT MEANS you have like 20 creeps to farm in about a minute
step 2: farm large blob of red
step 3: ????????
that's basically it
what works really nicely is setting up a slow push in one lane and then pushing another
by the time your huge minion wave hits the turret they're going to be forced to engage on you or lose an objective
in either case by the time the fight is over their wave is going to be pushing back AND THAT MEANS you have like 20 creeps to farm in about a minute
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And how do you keep your farm up late-game on a mid laner when literally every member of your team except the support is also taking mid lane's CS? The only champion I can do this with to some extent is Talon because I can clear a full minion wave in 2 buttons so I generally get every minion of the wave, but how am I meant to keep my CS up properly on other champs while sharing mid lane CS with my team?
And yeah I do take jungle camps whenever they're up and if I can take them.