acumen fucked around with this message at 02:01 on Feb 10, 2018

foutre fucked around with this message at 03:59 on Feb 10, 2018

• 6:49: Not a good Teleport. You know the enemy Kennen's TP is still down, since he used it the first time when Kha swung around for a gank, so he's going to have to walk all the way back to lane. You don't have an immediate need to try and shove in to deny as much as possible, because you've already built up a gigantic wave that's going to crash and deny him reams of EXP. I think this one is especially important to note because, less than a minute later, a gigantic fiesta happens in botlane. Your team would have a level advantage going into the fight, and Kha is much faster on the draw than Shyv is. If you had TP available, you could have either ported in and cleaned up or threatened TP and pinged your team away, cancelling it at the last moment, just to scare the Galio off of roaming. As it is, Shyvana - a champion that needs to get ahead to do anything - gets a 350 shutdown on Kha.
  
  
• 12:59: Not a good Teleport, but the macro mistake came earlier. At 9:49, you should've gone into a bush and backed immediately. You're sitting on 1.4k, Kennen has a gigantic wave he has to handle, and you have a cannon wave coming up. Cannon waves are common times to go back to base with, since the enemy can't push them as fast and the tower will prioritize them, meaning that you lose less farm overall. You end up absolutely dumpstering Kennen, but imagine if you'd been able to do that even half a minute earlier. That keeps your TP and then lets you either destroy his turret, rotate down to the fiesta in mid, use your TP to cleanup or threaten, or just spam ping your jungler to help you take Herald. You take Herald after, but you should've reset instead of marching down to bot. That wave's not going to push fast enough to be lost, and you have enough to complete Triforce. Triforce is a massive spike, and the sooner you get it, the sooner you can nonstop push and beat the tar out of anyone who dares try to challenge you. This is especially critical when you have Herald, because every second that you're not threatening to solo take an inhib with a Herald push is a second of tempo lost.
  
  
• 17:29: Not a high value Herald. First, toplane inner is what's classified as a "luxury" turret in that it's not nearly as important macro-wise compared to mid inner or bot inner. The reason is pressure around Baron: if you can take botlane inhib, someone has to sit down there with TP constantly in case your team threatens Baron, and if you take mid inhib, you automatically get mid priority and can control upper redside jungle easily. Second, I'd only use it when you both have a large wave built up and have can see where most of the enemy team is. When you're splitting, Rift should be an implied threat. If you use it willy-nilly when you've only got a small wave built up and no one else is fighting anywhere, it's gonna get one charge off max and then get guttered, which is what happens. Don't be afraid to go to botlane and just start forcing up. Ping your team away and politely tell them to go pressure mid, build up your waves, wait for a random fight to break out mid, and then either rotate over to clean up or pop Herald and go apeshit on their infrastructure.
  
  
• 20:21: Good cleanup fight, but a bad TP. Your team's clustered around botside and top wave's going to crash. Either Galio or Jhin has to go to clear it, leaving a 1v3 or 2v3 for at least 10~ seconds. I think you can ping your team here to go to bot, push up, and take the very weak inner. Even one Q is going to crush it at this point with a single minion around.
  
  
• 22:04: Veigar goes for a cartoonishly bad TP play. The only good thing you can do in a situation like this is to not die. One of the best skills you can develop as a splitpusher is to know when to not bother, and this is definitely a situation where you shouldn't have bothered. If the enemy team had immediately rushed to Baron after killing your jungler and ADC, you might be the only saving grace if you're alive. You can fight off their potential Baron powerplay by shoving out waves and potentially even causing them to lose a turret or an inhib if your waves are in a good spot and they're slow to respond to your splitpush.
  
  
• 25:00: I think it's fine to pressure top until your TP's back up, but the second it comes back up, you should be tailing it to bot and shoving in to their bot inhib turret, both to create pressure and to set up for Infernal. You really want Infernal, because every single person on your team aside from Shen benefits a lot from it. You end up picking a really weird fight at mid inhib turret despite Galio being in their base and Shyv being spotted by Trist, and it kills your tempo and gives away Infernal.
  
  
• 26:50: You have the macro problem that a lot of laners have in League, where they're convinced that they have to go to the lane they were assigned to at the start of their game after every back. You're still huge at this point, and you have TP up. Pushing toplane doesn't benefit your team, because anyone can do that, but only you and Veigar can push bot without putting your team at a massive disadvantage if the enemy decides to force Baron. Take a look at the situation at about 28 minutes in, and imagine if you were instead ramming the wave down bot's throat and threatening to obliterate half the turret's health in one swing. Suddenly, the enemy team has to scramble to send someone bot, your team has a decisive 4v3 advantage, and they can either find a pick in the jungle or force Baron. If they decide to keep 4 people in jungle to try and fight your team, you merrily push into their base and destroy their bot inhib and give your team a massive pressure advantage for the next 5 minutes. Instead of doing that, though, you take a 50/50 Baron with your team and lose, with zero pressure anywhere else to compensate for it. They take mid inhib and the game's pretty much over with the amount of pressure they can exert and their massive teamfight presence in lategame.
  

Vermain fucked around with this message at 06:24 on Feb 10, 2018