[0:00] league of legends is all about concepts
[0:01] game knowledge mechanics are nowhere
[0:03] near as important if you learn all the
[0:05] concepts and bring them all together you
[0:07] easily make it to at least masters then
[0:09] you have to refine them and actually get
[0:10] good at the game and that's what the
[0:11] climb from master is a challenger is
[0:13] just missing one or two important
[0:14] concepts can make you lose a lane
[0:16] especially against a player that isn't
[0:17] missing that game knowledge today i'm
[0:19] going to show you a perfect example of
[0:20] this in a low platinum mmr game where
[0:22] i'm on jax vs mordekaiser i'm going to
[0:24] break down a bunch of different concepts
[0:25] where they all could lead to a one or
[0:27] lost lane don't worry if you don't play
[0:29] jacks or mordekaiser though as the
[0:31] concept will apply to any champion so
[0:32] let's jump right into this lane one
[0:34] could argue level one is the most
[0:35] important part of top lane as the dick
[0:36] takes the next three levels and like i
[0:38] always say in loilo i wouldn't lane in
[0:40] the first three levels 90 of the time
[0:42] you need to know who's stronger at level
[0:43] one in any matchup that you play do you
[0:45] know who's stronger here
[0:49] well even if you don't have the match of
[0:50] experience like me
[0:52] you could know who wins level one here
[0:54] just by thinking about two things first
[0:56] mordekaiser is an ap champion where jax
[0:58] is an aed one this normally means the ad
[1:00] champion will win a long extended fight
[1:02] on top of this jax starts e at level 1
[1:04] which blocks autos from minions and
[1:05] champions this is obviously really
[1:07] important when autos are going to be the
[1:08] main form of damage when both champions
[1:10] only have one ability the thing is
[1:11] mordekaiser q which is what he starts at
[1:13] level 1 is a shorter cooldown than
[1:15] jack's e so mord wants to avoid level 1
[1:17] all in and just poke with q
[1:19] remember how i said just missing one
[1:20] piece of game knowledge can win and lose
[1:22] the lane well i actually don't have the
[1:24] matchup experience here but because of
[1:25] the things i just talked about i look
[1:27] for a level one all in when he walks up
[1:28] and auto attacks me here i make sure to
[1:30] turn on my e after auto attacking more
[1:32] because that's when his minions will
[1:33] start hitting me the more minion autos i
[1:35] soak the more damage my e will do i
[1:37] should have turned it on to block mord's
[1:38] first auto but i mistimed it at this
[1:41] point i have my passive on and conquer
[1:43] and we established that i went all in
[1:44] sadly i wasted auto attack on a minion
[1:46] which made me feel like i would lose the
[1:48] fight because of his q coming up he
[1:50] flashes to try and finish me off but i
[1:51] flash as well and survive so because i
[1:53] accidentally auto attacked a minion i
[1:55] don't punish the board and end up having
[1:56] to flash away i should have easily got
[1:58] first blood here because he didn't
[1:59] respect that my level 1 was stronger i
[2:01] started corrupting potion though and
[2:03] have biscuits so i have plenty of
[2:04] sustain i don't need to recall on top of
[2:06] this i have the push advantage since i
[2:08] was auto attacking minions at level one
[2:09] remember how i said the level one
[2:10] determines the next levels as well even
[2:12] when i have lower health than him i
[2:14] still mean control the lane for these
[2:15] first three waves level advantages are
[2:17] too important with this big health
[2:18] disadvantage i would still win 1v1 if i
[2:20] jumped in right now it's important that
[2:22] i control the minion wave properly from
[2:23] here though if i push too fast right now
[2:25] the wave will half crash on the tower
[2:27] meaning the melee minions will be in
[2:28] tower range and the ranged ones won't
[2:30] then the next wave will arrive and
[2:31] mordekais will be able to safely farm
[2:32] under tower and will hit level 3 around
[2:34] the same time as me it would be really
[2:36] hard to fully crash the wave to get a
[2:37] good recall off if that happens this is
[2:39] an extremely common mistake in the wii
[2:41] low and toppling you want to crash 3
[2:42] waves which makes the enemy laner take a
[2:44] long time under tower to farm the wave
[2:46] and it will push back towards you
[2:48] this also makes so you don't have to tp
[2:49] back to lane i'll show you exactly what
[2:51] i mean here and again this is one of
[2:53] those core pieces of information that
[2:54] you need to understand or you lose or
[2:56] miss an opportunity to win a lane
[2:58] anyways getting back to the gameplay i'm
[2:59] basically lasting at this point because
[3:01] i need to make sure i don't finish
[3:02] clearing this wave until the next wave
[3:04] gets here mordekaiser is respecting my
[3:05] level 2 as well but if he walks up i
[3:07] would definitely look for a trade i used
[3:09] my q here to get the cs though and i
[3:11] knew he would hit level 2 from this
[3:12] minion so i didn't trade with my q down
[3:14] now the third wave is arriving and
[3:16] mordekaiser actually clears a big chunk
[3:18] of it with his q and his e but since he
[3:20] doesn't have those i'm free to hit the
[3:22] minions i'm fully focused on clearing
[3:24] this canon wave and crashing it for a
[3:25] reset
[3:26] but i hit level 3 here so i jump in for
[3:28] a trade with my level advantage this
[3:30] isn't to kill him or anything though
[3:31] it's just to weaken him so he can't
[3:33] pressure me while i'm trying to crash
[3:34] the wave i didn't use my either though
[3:36] since that's a big cooldown and without
[3:37] it i'm much more vulnerable and when
[3:39] mordekaiser wakes up to try and trade
[3:40] back then i use my e you might not know
[3:42] this but jax e reduces the aoe damage he
[3:45] takes when he's using it so i reduced
[3:46] mord's q damage while also using the aoe
[3:49] damage from the e to hit all the minions
[3:50] i had to make sure that the cannon
[3:52] minion actually got into tower range
[3:53] though if it didn't i would only have
[3:54] two options either stay and try and
[3:56] crash the next wave or recall and tp
[3:58] back right away this is because the wave
[4:00] would freeze so if i didn't tip you back
[4:02] to lane i would lose a ton of minions as
[4:03] i ran back enough minions at the lane
[4:05] can easily be decided by that you might
[4:07] be wondering why the wave won't freeze
[4:09] when there are still three minions there
[4:10] after the cannon dies
[4:12] and that's because you need at least
[4:13] four minions to actually freeze those
[4:15] three range ones aren't enough
[4:16] especially when they are missing a lot
[4:17] of health already the wave will slow
[4:19] push to me at this point now this is
[4:20] another crucial part of the lane like i
[4:22] said it's slow pushing to me so i don't
[4:23] have to tp back i will have my gold spin
[4:26] here when i get back and mordekaiser
[4:27] won't so i will have the item advantage
[4:29] but since it's slow pushing you'll have
[4:30] a minion advantage and a level advantage
[4:32] if i'm someone like irelia here where i
[4:34] can easily clear a bunch of minions i
[4:36] have a ton of kill pressure jax is good
[4:38] in this scenario too because his e
[4:39] avoids minion damage but i still have to
[4:41] be careful best case scenario would be i
[4:43] bait out mordekaiser's q and e and dodge
[4:45] them and then i just all win
[4:47] if mordekaiser doesn't want to take the
[4:49] risk of dying here he can recall now and
[4:50] tp back to lane but then i'll have the
[4:52] tp advantage let's see what happens
[4:54] though when i walk into lane you see the
[4:55] footsies i'm playing right away walking
[4:57] in and out of his q and e range to try
[4:59] and bait it but once he clears my wave i
[5:01] have to back off even after he uses his
[5:02] q now that my next wave is here i want
[5:04] to try and kill as many minions as
[5:05] possible so i can hit level 4 along with
[5:07] trimming the wave down to prepare for my
[5:09] all in while doing that i'm trying to
[5:10] bait out his abilities like i talked
[5:12] about earlier this means when i walk up
[5:13] for some cs i'll just let them die since
[5:15] i'm anticipating that he'll try to
[5:17] contest it it's kind of tricky doing
[5:18] this in low elo since i don't know what
[5:20] they are thinking this applies to skill
[5:21] shots as well it's really hard to dodge
[5:23] the player's skill shots since it feels
[5:25] like they're just random it's 100 easier
[5:27] to dodge high level player skill shots
[5:29] world crazer walks into the brush though
[5:31] so as i walk up and clear some minions i
[5:32] wore the brush to see if he's recalling
[5:34] in it if he was i would definitely stop
[5:36] him last second since i might have a
[5:37] chance to kill him here sadly
[5:39] mordekaiser hits me with an isolated q
[5:40] here and hits level 5 then hits me with
[5:42] another isolated q to make me too low to
[5:44] fight him at this point i won't be able
[5:46] to use my item advantage to look for a
[5:47] kill but that's fine i'm not in a
[5:48] terrible spot or anything although if it
[5:50] was high yellow i could easily be dove
[5:52] i'm just going to let motocross crash
[5:53] the wave at this point but while i'm
[5:55] doing that my skarner shows up trying to
[5:56] gank so what i do next is an extremely
[5:58] important concept that many players fail
[6:00] to understand or know i can't help my
[6:02] skarner in this gank if he can kill mort
[6:05] alone that's great but the risk reward
[6:07] here isn't good for me it's way too
[6:09] risky if i try to help here and the
[6:11] enemy jungler counter ganks we lose the
[6:12] 2v2 since i'm level 4 and have half
[6:14] health i would die and lose all these
[6:16] minions and my lane would be unplayable
[6:18] on top of this if i help skarner here
[6:20] and chase the mordekaiser i'll still
[6:22] lose all these minions to the tower so i
[6:23] won't even be gaining that much if we
[6:25] kill him especially if i get the assist
[6:26] and not the kill then it actually
[6:28] wouldn't have been worth it for these
[6:29] reasons i don't help skarner and i just
[6:31] focus on the wave notice what i do with
[6:33] it though i don't just let it crash i
[6:34] use my e to tank it and avoid letting
[6:36] the wave crash on the tower this is
[6:38] because i want to freeze and if skarner
[6:39] kills mord or even chunks him hard
[6:41] enough to make him recall mord would be
[6:42] forced to tp back to lane because of the
[6:44] freeze but when i noticed that skarner
[6:46] backed off early and didn't really chunk
[6:47] mordekaiser i just let the wave crash so
[6:50] i'll be honest here this mordekaiser has
[6:51] played pretty well so far he's exceeded
[6:53] my expectations this is where he starts
[6:55] to slip up though because he's missing
[6:56] some important fundamental concepts it
[6:58] only takes one remember as i'm clearing
[7:00] this wave i noticed my low health makes
[7:02] the mordekaiser stay in lane and he's
[7:03] sitting in the brush he might have
[7:05] forgotten that i ordered it earlier but
[7:07] this is a huge mistake from him since he
[7:08] could get a big advantage from just
[7:10] recalling after the skarner gang just
[7:12] like we talked about earlier with what i
[7:13] did to him in the first three levels the
[7:15] wave will slow push back to him so he
[7:16] could walk back to lane and i'm so low
[7:18] that i would be forced to recall and use
[7:19] tp since the wave would be frozen i
[7:22] wouldn't be able to crash the wave on
[7:23] his tower before he got back then he
[7:24] would have the tp advantage to punish
[7:27] this i'm going to act like i'm recalling
[7:28] to bait him out of the brush before we
[7:30] see what happens let's say neither of us
[7:31] touch the wave from this point will the
[7:33] push to him push to me or stay where it
[7:36] is
[7:41] because the even minion rule meaning
[7:42] when the waves are even it will push the
[7:44] opposite way it's slow pushing to him so
[7:46] i don't stop my recall to bait him into
[7:48] using an aoe ability on the wave either
[7:50] his q or his e now the wave is pushing
[7:52] to me and look at where my next wave is
[7:54] it's close enough that the mordekaiser
[7:55] won't be able to crash the current wave
[7:57] before my next one gets here so i start
[7:59] channeling my recall i buy a sheen which
[8:01] is a big power spike for jax and tipped
[8:02] me back to lane right away while
[8:04] mordekaiser is trying to clear the
[8:05] cannon wave last time i only had a long
[8:07] sword advantage on him this time though
[8:09] i had the long sword plus an entire
[8:11] sheen mordekaiser is overstated as
[8:12] welcome a bit too long now so when i tp
[8:15] in i gladly take the fight even though
[8:17] he's level 6 and i'm level 5. my item
[8:19] advantage is too big especially when
[8:21] he's missing this much health already so
[8:23] i get the kill like i said it only takes
[8:25] one piece of game knowledge that you
[8:26] could be missing that your opponent can
[8:27] use against you like this
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