Last Hitting

What’s up Lol no elo readers. Missed a few days there, but that ain’t nothing new. Today I’m here to talk about a theory that I have been at least partially convinced of. Here it is: Your level of game play is directly tied to how well you farm. Every champion needs to get gold, and the most predominant source of which is farming.  If you want to get better at this game, work on your farm.

Step 1: Learn how to last hit.

Just auto attacking isn’t helping you out as we here have mentioned many times. Try and continue moving at a reasonably close distance to the minions so you can easily queue up that auto attack at the right time. If your last hitting with spells, set them up so you get maximum use out of them.

Step 2: Learn how to manipulate the health bars.

When we look at last hitting we see that just hitting the minions doesn’t move us into gosu pro tier of farming. The main reason is that when waiting sometimes two minions are dropping in health equally. This means that when it comes into last hit range, you can only get one. This is no good, we want all the farms. This is where the health manipulation comes into play. If you notice the health of two minions dropping equally throw in an auto attack or two to differentiate their health bars. This way one will be ready to be last hit before the other and you can get both.

Step 3:

Learn how to position yourself. Positioning yourself can have a huge impact on your farm. If you stand too far away you might mess up your timing with having to move and then auto attack. Make sure you position yourself so you can optimally grab all the creeps. Sometimes the wave gets split apart. Even if you can get this creep you want to make sure you’re positioning yourself to get the next one as well.

Step 4:

Harass and farm. Harassing your enemy can make it easier to farm, but generally is seen as lowering your own farm. This isn’t necessarily true. Generally there are periods when you don’t need to interact with the creep wave. Use this time wisely, through either harassing or zoning.

So there are my steps for getting better at farming. Remember, all objectives boil down to map control and gold. The best way to get gold is through farming, if you farm well, you will carry more games, I guarantee it. Also as Mr. Cat has said we got some riot nasus skins to give out from comic con, but we haven’t decided on the format yet. I will also be coming out with a video to illustrate some of these steps, so keep an eye on the horizon. Flame me at TheWoebringer@gmail.com.