How should you push a tower when you have Baron but are not ahead in gold?

Question

Many times as a jungle I call baron at the perfect time and we steal it. I just want to know the best way to use that baron against a full team to push a tower if we are behind in gold.

Should we bait them to attack someone then all jump in? Or should the ad carry focus the tower while our team distracts the enemy team?

Asked by GGClassic-Jona52

Answer

Like so many things in League of Legends, it depends upon and changes based on your team composition and the enemy's team composition. If you have more poke than they do, just sit outside tower range and throw your poke abilities at them until they're so low that staying near the tower risks dying. This is generally the safest way to force an enemy team off of a tower and then you can kill it uncontested.

Another strat is to instantly clear their wave of minions just outside of tower range and then have your ranged carry get a few hits in every time your minion waves is tanking the tower. However, this requires an ad carry that is very good with positioning and understanding how to not get caught.

Generally you only want to go all in under a tower if you KNOW it will results in good kills for your team. Diving Taric but losing your farmed Vayne is a bad trade, for instance. Other times you would go all in is if someone on their team makes an obvious overextension mistake and because of this you can kill them for "free." Taking down a damage dealer on their team allows your team to engage in more favorable terms - 5v4, even under a tower, is still a pretty good fight to engage on. If you're fighting over a lane tower, teams will usually retreat to avoid the 4v5 fight and defend later.

And, of course, there is the CLG/Hotshot strat: split push. This should generally only be done in a coordinated team setting. Have a champ with teleport, strong pushing, and escape abilities push top(for instance) by himself, and the rest of the team can hover near a tower in bottom lane and force the enemy team to split themselves. When this happens, the person pushing top should teleport in and you can force a 5v4 engage to take the tower.

Importantly, try to never get hit by the tower unnecessarily. If there's not a minion wave there to take the initial agro from the tower, you should just stay out of range. There is almost no chance diving into a more well-equipped team with no minion support will work out in your favor, baron buff or no.

Answered by gamei

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