Farming is one of the most important things in the early game. However, as an AD carry, farming is the priority during the whole match.
The ADC’s role is to deal the primary damage on the enemy team. To be able to do so, you will need a lot of gold and experience from farming.
1. Farming Minions Under the Turret
Most of you might know that minions (cs) are divided into 4 kinds: melee, caster, canon and super minions.
Melee minions: 2 turret hits and 1 auto-attack (aa)
Caster minions: 1 turret hit and 1-2 aa (depending on the champion’s stats)
Canon or Siege minions: 7 hit turrets and 1 hit aa
2. When to Freeze the Minions Wave?
- Why do we have to freeze the wave? – To snowball and prevent snowballing, or to get ahead of the opponents.
When there is an advantage in terms of champion’s stat, you can be aggressive for trade so, your opponent will stay away from the minion wave.
The support could zone the enemy opponent by staying in front of the mele minion from your team. Zoning will prevent your opponent(s) to farm and get experience from the minions.
If you want to put even more pressure on your enemy, you and your support can both stand in front of your team’s minions wave to zone out the enemy.
However, if you are behind and got zoned out from your minion wave by the enemy bot lane, you could ask for a gank and put pressure against the enemy bot lane, or for the best, kill the enemy bot lane.
If you still behind in your lane after killing the enemy bot lane, then you may let the minion wave to push near the turret. However, try your best to not let the minions go under your turret, so then your team’s minion wave won’t be frozen.
–> Solution: You or your support can step up to take some minions hits, your job is to last hit as many minions as possible.
3. Fast Pushing
- When do you need to fast push?
- When you need to control objectives, lane priority, have better map control, roam with the Jungler or Mid Laner, or recall for items.
- Advantage:
- To keep up your cs, at least to make it worth the time you roam
- To make plays for combats (combat when the enemy bot lane are too busy farming)
- To get some extra gold by hitting the enemy turret in the early game.
4. Slow Pushing – The best method that High Elo players use
- When do you need to Slow Push?
- When you are ahead of your enemy
- When you want to make it hard for the enemy opponent to trade
- When you want to be aggressive and deny farming
- When you already had a deep ward in your enemy team’s jungle
- In the mid and late game, when you want to join the team combat, but also want to put pressure on the enemy’s lane.
- How to use this method?
- Don’t trade with your enemy and last hit minions only
- If you want your team’s minions to have more than half-full Hp bar to crash under the enemy turret, Kill 3 castor minions then last hit the rest.
- If you want to quickly create Slow Push minions wave, Kill 3 melee minions then last hit the rest.
- Advantage:
- There will be too many minions crash into your enemy turret that at least one of the enemy team has to hug the turret to farm for a while. Meanwhile, you can go roam and force the enemy team off your lane to fight.
- If the enemy team seems not to care about the minions pushing under their turret, then act like you just split pushed to force the enemy team to defense the turret later. (this is not recommended for ADC, but mostly Top or mid laner who has TP; just so they can join the team fight if there’s one)
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