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title: 'REKKLES EXPLAINS WAVE MANAGEMENT IN LESS THAN 5 MINUTES'
source: 'https://youtube.com/watch?v=ZhEdNM-rYeY'
video_id: 'ZhEdNM-rYeY'
date: 2026-07-28
duration_sec: 217
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# REKKLES EXPLAINS WAVE MANAGEMENT IN LESS THAN 5 MINUTES

> Source: [REKKLES EXPLAINS WAVE MANAGEMENT IN LESS THAN 5 MINUTES](https://youtube.com/watch?v=ZhEdNM-rYeY)

## Summary

The video explains a wave management technique in League of Legends where you take the creeps as late as possible to manipulate the neutral wave crash, allowing you to build a slow push on your side of the lane.

### Key Points

- **Slow vs Fast Wave Clear** [0:00] — Taking creeps fast causes the wave to crash in the middle, making it harder to last hit and build your own wave. Taking them slow allows the wave to stack on your side.
- **Take Creeps as Late as Possible** [0:10] — To manipulate the neutral crash, you should last hit creeps as late as possible, which moves the meeting point of minion waves to your side.
- **Tower Shot Timing** [1:08] — Applying the same theory to tower shots: take them as late as possible to build more creeps and create a slow push.
- **Benefits of Slow Push** [1:27] — Manipulating the neutral crash allows you to build bigger waves, farm more safely when behind, and deny enemy farm when ahead.
- **Main Goal: Big Slow Push** [2:39] — The big slow push enables better recalls, dive opportunities, dragon timing, herald moves, roaming mid, and taking camps.

### Conclusion

The key is to last hit creeps and tower shots as late as possible to manipulate wave position, enabling bigger slow pushes that create more opportunities across the map.

## Transcript

if you take the creeps fast this wave
won't make it until you killed all this
but if you take it slow this way will
make it all the way so here you take it
as slow as possible see wait you see one
third shot two take one tower shot to
take
and this way this wave will be here one
target to take
one tower shot to take
take
take you take it as late as possible and
that way the neutral wave doesn't stack
in the middle it stacks on your side you
see what i mean
now the neutral crash is on your side of
the lane instead of in the middle
and that way you can build a wave
yourself
if you take it fast if i took this fast
like the second i could take it i took
it
this would have crashed in the middle
and it would have been harder for me to
not only last it but to build a wave of
my own
so you always want to take the crips as
late as possible
when you're looking for the scenario
and people usually do this you know when
you're laning this is very common this
is something you see from a lot of
players so this is not like
out of the box stuff to last it as late
as possible in the lane
but i think
uh this tower thing is something that
people often don't do
which is i mean it's the same theory as
here you just want to take it as late as
possible to build as many crypts as
possible
so you have this slow push here
now i would take it fast myself because
the crash is a little bit awkward i'll
take this fast
the reason why you want to do this is to
manipulate the neutral crash
because if you take it
in the middle row
like how you're normally doing it then
you lower your chances of manipulating
the neutral crash
it's this is not 100 accurate sometimes
it's
not possible
but in
um
some scenarios this will
manipulate the neutral crash doing it
my way make it so instead of
both minion waves meeting in the middle
of the lane they meet more on your side
so
it's
first uh
like the first thing that happens is it
manipulates the neutral crash the second
thing that happens it
allows you to make
bigger slopes
could also be if you're behind
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allows you to farm more safely doesn't
allow enemy to farm safely
i guess it goes both ways because of it
being on your side more
if you're behind it's easier to farm
when in a scenario maybe
you wouldn't be able to
and if you're ahead it wouldn't allow
the enemy to farm because they're too
far up on your side and you can go on
them why i do it the big goal of doing
it is so that i can stack more waves
and um therefore
give i would say more opportunities in
the game because i think if you're just
perma crashing like one wave at a time
nothing is going to happen but if you
stack slow pushes you will open yourself
up to getting let's say a really good
base because they have to farm a lot of
creeps under the tower and then push the
next wave and by that time you will be
back to lane so yeah the main goal is
the big slow push the big slow push can
give you a couple of things it allows
you to make bigger slow push lashes more
far more safely it doesn't allow enemy
to farm that's safely
and what you can do with this is good
recall dive opportunity dragon timing
herald move mid-rome take camps
yeah it's a lot of things you can do i
think
with a big slow push in comparison to
one wave at the time crash
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