League of Legends (LoL) Question: How can I avoid losing the game for my team after a bad start?
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How can I avoid losing the game for my team after a bad start?
Hello,
First of all I am Level 12 and I just play normal games on the 5v5 map. I mostly play with Jinx and Pantheon, and usually I'm doing pretty well with them. Yesterday I played a game with Jinx and it went pretty bad. I had to go Bottom and as usual I used the Guide from this site (Highly overattached Girlfriend jinx). Bard joined me in the lane and we had to fight against Pantheon and Caitlyn. And nothing went right, Pantheon and Caitlyn could hit their Q from a safe distance and took half of my health. After only 10 minutes I was 0-4-0 which was quite depressing. The longer the game went the less was i able to contribute, my Ult took about 1% of Warwicks and Pantheons health, Caitlyn could 1-hit me with her Q and I was gone. And because my team was quite in the game for some time I felt really bad because I had the feeling that the loss was on me. So is there anything I could change for the future to avoid these early deaths?
Here's the match overview btw:
http://matchhistory.euw.leagueoflegends.com/de/#match-details/EUW1/2010787238/24409832
First of all I am Level 12 and I just play normal games on the 5v5 map. I mostly play with Jinx and Pantheon, and usually I'm doing pretty well with them. Yesterday I played a game with Jinx and it went pretty bad. I had to go Bottom and as usual I used the Guide from this site (Highly overattached Girlfriend jinx). Bard joined me in the lane and we had to fight against Pantheon and Caitlyn. And nothing went right, Pantheon and Caitlyn could hit their Q from a safe distance and took half of my health. After only 10 minutes I was 0-4-0 which was quite depressing. The longer the game went the less was i able to contribute, my Ult took about 1% of Warwicks and Pantheons health, Caitlyn could 1-hit me with her Q and I was gone. And because my team was quite in the game for some time I felt really bad because I had the feeling that the loss was on me. So is there anything I could change for the future to avoid these early deaths?
Here's the match overview btw:
http://matchhistory.euw.leagueoflegends.com/de/#match-details/EUW1/2010787238/24409832
The most succinct way to win from behind is to know what the winning conditions of your champion are.
Take Jinx, for example. She is a strong late-game carry, who gets stronger as time goes on and scales well with items. She absolutely destroys towers with just a few items. So, given that you lose lane, what you need to do is to safely farm. Let your tower get destroyed and FREEZE the lane. The enemy should have a hard time pushing past rivers without risk of ganking from your midlane/jungle, so you should safely be able to farm. If they decide to push, your team should gank the **** out of them.
Getting dragons and other objectives will also prove helpful if you can. After that, your win condition is simply have your team protect you whilst you whittle down turrets and other objectives. As long as your team can get you close to turrets, you win. The same is basically true of teamfights.
Pantheon is different in a sense. His kit is designed to bully the lanes, regardless of whether he's is solo lane or jungle. He is not well-fitted to play from behind, but if he is put behind, he is still very good at catching people out because of his semi-global ultimate. Look for opportunities to catch people out, keep the jungle well-warded. Your best bet is also to itemize as a tanky frontliner. You need to tank the enemy damage and let your team clean up. You should stun priority targets, whether it's to peel for your carries or to dive the enemy backline. I'm by no means a Pantheon player, though.
At low levels and Elos, one consistent strategy is splitpushing, mostly because people just don't know how to deal with it. A lot of the time, you can rack up a lot of objectives just by continuously pushing one lane. To do this, you need good map awareness. As soon as you see the enemy disappear from the minimap, you need to stop pushing and recall. If you see your base threatened, then you need to go back to stall them.
Keep in mind that you are just really low leveled at the moment. Losing games is very normal and you have a long way to go to learn about the game at level 30. Don't be discouraged.
Warding, keeping track of your own turrets and the enemy minion waves and following your mates in case they know what they're doing are the things coming to my mind in the first place. I hope I could help you at least a bit.