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sona q triangle self bait

by The Tank Man on Sivir 1677108628268


One of the ways I die in lane is trying to Q both adc/supp - this makes a sort of triangle, which can be bad positioning for you. Corejj goes through this in a video - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v-ec5astbE0&ab_channel=CoreJJ but the main thing is it means you can get cced in front of the enemy adc which is bad. Especially vs champs who don't hook you but can lock you down, like rakan, leona, or annie, it's often fine to get cced if far from the enemy adc; it's not ok to get cced in their range.

BAD - I die here:

https://i.imgur.com/yTqm0sv.png

So the problem here is if I walk the opposite direction from annie, straight away from her, I eat draven autos. But if I walk the opposite direction from draven, straight away from him, I eat annie stun. Ideally I could just walk away from both of them (where my click is) but it turns out no this doesn't get away from annie and I get stunned and die.

For contrast, if not in this sort of triangle I can walk straight away from annie without walking into draven.

GOOD: I get free q here:

https://i.imgur.com/2KbKF8e.png

Ofc it's tempting to Q both of them because hey twice the damage, two for the price of one if you can get away with it (albeit spellthief's/manaflow only once). And ofc sona's lane is picking up pennies in front of a steamroller. But you bait yourself into a bad position sometimes.

And it's possible to win a game where you die to draven level 1, but you can't climb like that.




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