My No.1 Advice For Reducing Gank Deaths

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[theunwanted]

Taking notes to improve my ganks huehuehuehue

[Lioni]

Great video and explanation of concepts. This outlined a naturally occurring problem of mine that: I often focus too much on dominating lane so that I become very easily gankable. But when I go into the game with the intention of reducing aggression as to not die to ganks, I inherently play too conservatively and miss opportunities. Priming your mindset via threat assessment of the whole enemy comp allows you to approach the game within its nuance.

This also helps me see much clearer how one can play lane with high pressure whilst not just hyper-inting.

[Hazy_Fforest]

This is going to sound really stupid because in retrospect it seems really obvious, but the biggest eye opener in this video was just you mentioning wether or not I have flash changes the level of threat against me. When I jungle I think about flash timers all the time and I always viewed it from the perspective of "Oh flash is down, easy ganks." But as a mid laner I've never stopped to think "Oh my flash is down, I'm an easy gank." Seems obvious but man that was enlightening for me

[Justanotherhuman]

I'm impressed Curtis. This kind of video I usually find disappointing... but this time the approach you suggest really hits home, for me at least. I tend to be too theoretical and think that if I understand the threat, I'll have the mental stacks to react. But the key part is not the understanding but being intentional about your mental stacks! Very helpful. I was also, I believe, heading in the wrong direction thinking my fundamental mistake was understanding jungle tracking and warding better (not that it is not important ofc).

This reminds me of a game where I was with my duo and he is a jungler and he was telling me to beware cause the enemy team had a Shaco. After that game, I was thinking going TP instead of ignite vs a team with a Shaco would be very important... but I had not really grasped that the fundamental principle behind this was that it's more than choosing the right summoner spell... it is about allocating mental stacks... here the summoner spell is just a manifestation of where to choose to allocate your resources.

[Stuss.-.y.-.]

this guys is absolutely insane at pattern recognition and a great teacher. That was a lot of insanely helpful info for all types of players, including junglers that can better visualize opportunities based on laner behavior according to this theory

[briancarnes]

I am enjoying this fundamentals focused content. I find it extremely valuable and difficult to find. Even paid for services like skill-capped don’t touch on this.

[StayMad]

Very informative and I realise that me playing qiyana and always having grass for invis and tons of mobility not to mention the ability to 1 shot the jungler if he ganks, has made me super lazy about warding and leaning and looking at the minimap. My threat assessment is also horrible because Im so used to just going invis the moment anything goes sideways😂 Really steep learning curve now playing mages.

[liamk]

Great video as always, thank you for being such a wonderful part of the league community!😊

[KKFFnr]

Good way to present it, I very much like the conceptual differentiation between actual activities and underlying mindset.

[GiemsaUwU]

I will always love that how passionate you are explaining your reasoning and thoughts when making these videos.
Never change ❤

[wafs]

Very important concept for midlaners. Glad your covering this!

[peterrischel]

Great video Curtis :)

In the case where you play against multiple high threats so you have to play safe, for example in the lux vs lissandra example, how do you avoid lissandra being allowed to roam freely since you have to play far safer? I know it's situational, but I have a hard time seeing how you keep a roam champ like that in lane if you are not able to reliably push them under due to gank threats.

[tuh]

Honestly so many people in whatever lane they are playing, needs to watch this video. As a jungle main i can never comprehend how people can die to ganks when the enemy junglers pathing is extremely obvious. Like i don't even expect laners to track junglers like a pro but if you have a Nunu in enemy team you know she is gonna 3 camp into gank, like just early ward or play safer. Or you know a diana will full clear into a gank, just track where she starts and ward accordingly.

Some ganks are harder to predict but most people die to ganks that they have no business dying.

[mastal]

I LOVE this concept. It is very important to internalize that the mindset we adopt shapes our decisions!

[extraflips]

right after the podcast episode about not being complacent anymore, new video drops (this ain't no coincidence)

[VigilTheProtogen]

Rushed over to this, but one of my issues is that I can't assess enemy threat very well even in loading screen. Ex. My main is Vex, and I thought I could easily survive a Lillia + Taliyah gank so I started shoving for reset. Then I got absolutely ran over because I used my fear on wave and Lillia finished her scuttle or something and sprinted at me like 480 ms, slowed me, Taliyah gets easy W followup. However I do like the concept of this and I'm sure it does contribute to a majority of my gank deaths

[Sam-qzme]

The pareto law to explain the mental stack is pure banger

[Zeergruush]

Good way to think about it! Will definitely try to abuse midlaners with this :'D Thanks Coach! ^^

[hagalathekido]

wow, i feel really stubborn now, ive always tried to do both perfectly always focusing on laning then trying to track as well as I can, its never dawned on me I should actually intentionally focus less on lane

[rakoshiimid]

Never been so early can't wait to watch