How to increase your win rate when playing ranked fives

I have noticed a lot of 2v1 lanes, level 3 dives, and just general things that you will see in the LCS, more often, and a lot of times these players fail to pull off the strategy, or just don't do as well as they could have. I want to show you a few simple things that will help players, new and old, pull off these types of strategies.

 

First, NEVER do this as a duo ranked and ask your teammates to go along with it, it rarely works, and they end up blaming you afterwards due to the fact that they fed as Malphite bot-lane. I want to add that trying things like this in normals is always better than taking it to ranked fives (if you are serious about ranked fives) right off the bat and will get you better picks most of the time.

Now I'm going to show you how you can improve your success with these strategies.

Step one: Forming team comps.

Forming team comps is always good. Have a chat with your friends (or teammates) on what champions you want to go before getting into the match and worrying about what champions will work early game and late game. Some good team comps for the 2v1 dive at level 3 strat are mainly focused on picking tanky supports/junglers. Volibear is great for this due to his passive, Rolling Thunder, and his early game damage being strong for a tanky jungler.

Good supports would be high CC (Crowd Control) and high burst champions, such as Alistar. Most of the time you don't even need to dive to ensure a kill with Alistar at level 3. However; incase the enemy player knows the risks of getting close to an Alistar flash combo; it is always good to ensure the kill with things such as a 3 man tower dive. AD Carries aren't very important in this strategy, but it is nice to have a high burst AD Carry such as Graves, Corki, or maybe even Twitch.

Step two: Tanking the tower.

Generally this is where players mess up. The mistake players make is the support/jungler goes straight into it and ends up dying due to the fact that they dove to far and couldn't make it out in time. What you should do is leave someone in the back tanking the tower from a distance if your teamate can handle the kill. Other things you can do is just getting out of there faster than anyone else, do your combo and then run. However; if you can sit in the back and tank it for your teammates for a bit longer you always should.

Step three : Not killing them at all.

You dont need to force a kill to come out on top. As a matter of fact, generally in the LCS you never see the tower divers get a kill. What usually happens is they show that they are there and that they can kill you, and just take the tower, and if their jungler isn't there then this should be very easy.

Step four: Countering these things.

If you are ever in this situation it generally means that the enemy team are premade. What you should do is ask your jungler to come counter gank ASAP.

The place where this is most seen is about 1800 elo (from what I have seen) so if you are a top laner in this elo I highly suggest going to a post by fox112 where he breaks down a 2v1 lane.