HOW TO SIDELANE AS A MAGE IN LEAGUE OF LEGENDS

so I pop out take the hex head gate and I walk um okay so here I actually didn't initially go towards bot and the reason was that they had too much control around here so when you go to the side lane ideally you want to like a bit of control around um and we were playing for drag so I thought they'd all be here if I walked all the way to the sideline here I'd probably get ganked so I decided not to a good way to get control before you go to the side lane is just a group with your team which is what I did here and because Zuri recalled I actually went mid So This was oh no it didn't come in okay so yeah actually was going to be here in time so I went pop that's right okay so now I'm into the sideline I'm I'm in bot wave um we're getting dragged so because I know that Evelyn's top there's no threat onto meatball which means I can push as as far as as I want right like there's no threat on me whatsoever I come in DPS to drag I go back to bot yo thanks for the bits JJ much appreciated here right remember no surround to me even though hecarim's on the other side of the map so most of the time you probably wouldn't want to do this but I have pretty decent vision and I also have my bot Lane nearby and Evelyn doesn't ever so I feel comfortable pushing as far as I can safely which is probably up to the tower it's about here am I safe hitting the tower I'd say probably not so I walk back a bit um now I try and sync up with hecarim right mid jungle's a Duo you want to play together just because it makes all your plays go better right like if you invade with your jungler it's it'll be like 2V1 it's kind of like this right because hecarim and I are together it ends up just being a really easy play whereas like neither of us could do this one we want but because we're playing as a mid jungle duo or like we were in Duo Cuba because we're playing together basically um we're able to do that here I didn't have like a ton of Mana so I was like thinking I want a recall but here's the thing whenever you push a wave all the way under the tower you have a lot of choices right so your choices are when when you get this wave here there's a lot of stuff you can do you can hit this Tower it's not normally the best at this Tower because it's quite it takes a lot of time and you don't actually get the payoff until you fully kill the tower right like let's just Chunk in the tower it's like sort of low pressure normally it's like if I can do something else I will other options are I could base I could come top or I could make a play mid but the important thing is because you push the wave all the way under Tower you're not going to lose anything no matter what this wave will always push back to you so whatever you do you're not going to lose anything like if we actually just ignore the mid play for the moment just watch the ball away like this will crash um and eventually it's just gonna like this way it's gonna build up and push back down So eventually I'll be able to go and collect it but because I have a lot of priority I thought able to come mid let's go ahead e so I don't know why he didn't uh Dodge that but anyway yeah I can't mid I get a free kill and then I decide to recall okay it's a pretty simple once again passing out of Base where do I go so my options here is like well the three lanes I could go top middle bar probably can't go top volleyball's already here not going to get any CS kind of just a waste of time right could I go mid sure I could go mid but I think zerry kind of has that covered and do I need to go mid before going Bob I would say no like I have a lot of vision in this bot side jungle right full control don't really need any extra safety for my team so I'm just gonna I'm just gonna pop out one I can kind of be as greedy as possible here um now okay so the reason I ended up swapping here is because volleyball based and Pinky was going more if volleyball state top I would stay bought because volleyball wants to go but I'm gonna go top okay now here was kind of the scary part of the game this was like probably the scariest moment of the game for me why is it scary because all my vision is bot side my jungler is bot side like basically everything that's safe about the map is bot side and even worse I see Evelyn passing top side right so this is like I'm playing a squishy immobile Mage in a side lane with no vision and no jungle help so this is like this is you have to if this situation happens in your game you can grade and get the wave like I did but honestly the most important thing here is do not die like no matter what do not die because you give her so much gold you potentially give them a baron if it's up and you just like completely [ __ ] the game and if you if this happens to you guys and you blame the jungler you're stupid like there's no other way around that like this you have to adapt to what the jungler is doing maybe the jungler should be here right like maybe he should maybe I should be bought instead of volley but you adapt to what's happening in the game you don't just like blame your teammates because you can't adapt so again pushing top um here I was like thinking okay I want to get this wave ASAP and get out I kind of knew that Evelyn wouldn't be here yet but what I didn't think about was the fact that Renekton would be so close I think he took the hex tech gate let's actually just check I'm assuming yeah okay so Renekton covered a ton of extra distance because he took the gate so he was here a lot earlier than I expected which was definitely like sort of annoying um ultimately this sort of it was okay like most importantly I didn't die and I did trade all sums I would say this is slightly better for him because playing in no sums Mage is much worse than playing like a no Sun's Renekton but most importantly I still got the wave and I still died right oh sorry I still lived I did not die okay come to base pause once again all right what's the play here could go top except it's extremely risky once again no vision I have the jungler on my side but because I have no sums everyone can honestly kill me before hecarim can show up so instead what I do it's actually just try and group with the team so it would be nice like if I could I'd love to push this wave but I just can't it's just too greedy I just can't so I'm gonna come group with the team um we do Baron everyone tries to come stop it this kind of has nothing to do with side laning so we end up just picking this up that's kind of clean okay um and then I decide that I'm gonna quickly come fix this wave because again I know everyone's dead right so I have a quick little bit of time where I know I'm not threatened on the side lane because everyone's dead I'll just come up here clear out the wave no problem at all reset okay what's the plate from here so this can be a situation where it's kind of hard to tell what to do because top wave is really far away bot wave has no vision whatsoever um and in this situation normally you just want to do the safest thing so most of the game right you want to be really really efficient you want to like try and pick up as much Farm as you can you want to like spread out as much as possible like not share the gold XP all that sort of [ __ ] right but when you have Baron that's like the one part of the game where you can actually be inefficient and just kind of Brew um now the reason like so like what I would normally do here is I'd group with my team and then I'd like regain control and then I'd go to the side lane but I thought I could be greedier here and the reason was I again I have my jungle right next to me and their jungle is still dead if their jungler was alive definitely don't do this if their jungler is alive you should path mid regain control get vision of bar river then you can sideline but here okay I'm kind of skipping steps because I know I have like a little less threat on me because the jungle is dead and I have my jungle next to me so I come out but quickly make this plan Renekton and get the kill awesome and now here because I have hecarim shadowing me I'm again free to push this wave this is really scary if your jungle is not here again all the vision is topside um and I have no sums so it's really scary right but the jungler's right next to me and I think he can be here before everyone can kill me so I decide okay as long as I'm right next to hecarim should be no problem right always thinking mid jungle do a mid jungle Doom a jungle do it like that's got to be in your head at all times and here when I noticed hacker and backing off I back off as well right I walk away um now this I would say is kind of just our team ending they're playing too aggro while we're doing dragon like we kind of said that before if you're making a play on the other side of the map while your team is making a play on you know the other side of the map that's really bad so volleyball dying unnecessary I'd say um and here I just groups made so there's no bar wave to farm so it's really easy I can just go play for team fight pretty simple nothing else really to it right just come group and and like I said if there's a time to group it's with Baron like you don't need a beast normally you want to play two waves with Baron but as long as you can be kind of like grouped as a team with Baron at least at some point it's pretty important just so that you guys can really use your pressure I'll play with the Cali on Madden light game um pretty much the same like you're just looking to push side Lanes get flanks and team fights it's yeah getting planks in team fights is probably the most important thing okay and then I think from this point the game was like pretty much over there's not really any side laning I guess I'll talk about why I didn't go top here so I we still have like a little bit of Baron I think it's about to expire but I could go top but the problem is I don't have TP so if you don't have TP it's really hard to go to the complete other side of the map because you will just end up losing like too much for it basically right um if I go top and a fight breaks out but there's no way I can be there in time also it just takes me so long to get here like look how far away this is it's like literally the across the entire map so I'm just like okay I'll just ignore this and group with my team um I do have sums here so I could maybe go top but it's just like sort of not necessary right like I don't really need more farm at this point and also think it's just kind of a waste of time maybe if I had TP I'd go to this but there's also maybe an argument that if I go to the sideline with TP I might just die to Renekton so I'm not really that enthusiastic about going to that but you can see like despite the fact that I've given up some sideways still 220 at 24 because I've taken the time to kind of make sure I'm side laning at the at the right points of the game basically and then play this all out and then I think we just ended off this right yeah we just killed them why were the enemy mid lane and be sidelining if their junglers are nearer them as you said don't be unless jungle is near so it's going to be too if they're playing sensibly well it's like a lot of like they don't just want to give up waves right like imagine this like this Towers up they're not just gonna let waves die under Tower like even if your jungler's not there you still have to come Farm waves at least when it's here like you probably won't feel comfortable pushing all the way up to here if you don't have your jungler but you still want to farm at the tower like you definitely don't want to just give up waves for free because like waves are just too important so and that's actually another thing right it's like if you have priority on the side lane it actually makes it much harder for the jungler to enter that side which kind of like further increases like your strength on the sideline it all kind of like flows together I suppose

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Length: 10min 20sec (620 seconds)

Published: Sun Mar 05 2023