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Introduction

theangrytoast

Hello everyone, my name is theangrytoast and my favorite role is solo. In this guide I hope to give you an idea on how to build, lane, rotate, and play effectively with a wide variety of gods, as well as shine light on different gods you can bring to the solo lane. Whether you enjoy or are a hardcore player, this guide is for you!

Secondly, I would like to warn you that although the solo laner does rotate, the nickname, "Solo Island," holds true. This guide should help guide you through you solitary life in the solo lane.

The Basics

In this section, I will summarize the job of the solo laner, including position, wards, and basic laning. Also, I will group which gods I think can solo into an easy to read passage for all those of you who like to skim.

Where Do I Go?

Enter the classic conquest map. Your position on this glorious battlefield is always in the short lane, next to the fire giant, as highlighted. Other close objectives (although minor) are the blue buffs, and depending on which side you start from, either the red or orange buff.

Different Starts

There are two possible sides to start on in conquest. The light side (lower half of your map) has an attack buff closer to the solo lane where as the chaos side (upper half of the map) has a speed buff closer to the solo lane.

The jungler always gets the speed buff and you get the mana buff, meaning that if you start on the chaos side, you are at an advantage.

If you happen to be on the light side, you start at the mid camps and move immediately to the mana buff.

Early Game

Starting Items

The early game can be either advantageous or deadly, depending on what god you are playing. It really all depends on your relative clear. The less minions there are, the less the amount of damage you are going to take. This brings us to rule #1 in the early game DO NOT FIGHT INTO A MINION WAVE!

Your main objective in the first 7-9 levels is too clear as fast as possible, then apply poke. If you plan on being aggressive early, save you for the wave, that way you can immediately eliminate half of the minions (preferably the archers) before you start fighting.

NOTE: The Hammer Advantage

Some bruisers (as stated previously) do not require , for this example we are going to use .

has great healing prowess from and mana sustain from , meaning that a is redundant. In Chaacs case, he can settle for and (preferably if he is fighting a physical character).

This build allows to be aggressive early, something that would be harder to do with .

Also note, since the recent nerf of , I no longer recommend this item, as it is too expensive to allow you to buy , which makes laning difficult with some characters such as and early game.

Early Game Objectives

The Mana Buff

This buff is critical to most solo laners; since the lane is so solitary, you tend to clear a lot more then you would in other lanes, meaning you are mana hungry. This buff is on a 4 minute cooldown and provides you with 5 MP5 and 10% cooldown reductions. You ALWAYS need this buff.

The Enemy Tower

Although destroying an enemy tower in the first 10 minutes of the game is impressive, it does not usually happen that early. Each tower has 2000 health, 200 physical defense and 100 magical defense. You will deal significantly less damage to a tower if none of your minions are near by. Also, stacking items such as stack with the tower. Destroying a tower will grant your team gold. Once the solo laner has destroyed his/her tower, he/she begins to roam, usually to counter jungle and gank the other lanes. Always make sure to defend your lane though, free farm for the enemy is never a good thing.

The Mid Game

Unlike the early game, the mid game focuses more on rotating and split pushing, and less on solitary laning. The usual indicators that it is time to rotate are as follows:

1. You have destroyed the enemy tower and have the wave pushed up.

NOTE: It is never a bad idea to push up even more, but you have to be more careful the farther you move up the lane. The more you advance, the better the chance of you getting ganked.

2. You have bullied the enemy out of the lane and have established a considerable lead on your adversary.

NOTE: A considerable lead is being an item ahead of the person, not a just a kill. Just because you enemy is weaker then you does not mean he/she cannot destroy your tower.

3. Your adversary is missing and you think there may be a teamfight.

NOTE: In the early game, the solo laner usually only rotates to fight around the mid camp closest to him; no further. Once the laning phase is done, contesting gold fury with your team is a good idea.

Also NOTE: If you believe your team will win the teamfight without you, split push. Winning a fight and taking down a tower is always a good plan.

Where To Rotate

The Picking Phase

Alright. Consider this, what is it that the solo laner does except for complaining about how lonely he is. Well, to answer that, you must first grasp how the solo laner fits into the team composition.

To start off, the solo lane player is not restricted to any one class; he/she can pick a wide variety of gods that are tailored to be most beneficial to the team comp itself. For example:

The gods layed out in front of us are very diverse; is a high attack speed tank, where as is a squishy burst mage. is a melee burst character, and is a high damage guardian. These four characters are very different, but can all solo lane.

Why is this?

UTILITY. That's why. Each of these characters can picked to compensate for a lack of something else within a team composition, such as portals, or an anti-heal, or even possibly a literal backstab move. Literally. Lets go in depth with this.

Main Utility: Portals! has the ability to portal through walls, whether it be with or .This can be crucial when rotating, especially if one of your teammates is caught out.

Lane Style: Watch your step. When laning with or against a , both people in lane are farming extremely carefully, one wrong step and you fall through a and are looking straight at an . Ouch.

Overall Consensus: can survive in lane, and offers good utility to the team. Ergo, can solo.

Main Utility: Invisibility! is one of the few gods in the game who can go completely invisible. Also, allows him to be extremely mobile, which in turn allows him to effectively split push.

Lane Style: Now you see me... generally uses his Decoy to clear, and then either can poke (via and Aimed Strike) or slink back under tower. although not the best in lane, compensates with his scary bleeds and invisibility.

Overall Consensus: is squishy, but compensates heavily with his burst damage and split push potential. Definitely a decent solo lane pitch.

Main Utility: The anti healer. Is a really scary god. High attack speed, a tanky kit, and an ult that completely shuts down any healing, pretty much nullifying and s attempts to keep their team alive.

Lane Style: I'm a bully. , paired with , , and Flail can completely push most gods out of lane (maybe with the exception of ). Furthermore, can clear with / Auto Attacks, and poke with and , making him scary and effective.

Overall Consensus: is strong all game, possesses good utility, and can make for a good secondary front liner. A definite solo lane pick.

Main Utility: ~~2Chainz~~ 3Chainz. in my opinion has one of the more interesting ults in the game. He can literally divide the teamfight, pulling away all those unfortunate enough to buy beads into an area where his teammates can quickly crush them.

Lane Style: Multitasking. can majorly lay on the hurt with and clear the wave with . Once he builds into , he is literally impossible to lane against (if you happen to be a melee character).

Overall Consensus: has teamfight potential, good damage, and great zone control. Although it takes some skill to make him work, is still viable in the solo lane.

Continuing on with the idea that picking a god to fit your teams weakness, lets analyze this imaginary 'team'

Why Zhong Kui?

To conclude, although other roles are restricted to only certain types of gods, the solo lane favors those with large god pools, not those with very small margins of expertise.

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Introduction

The Basics

The Picking Phase

An Unfinished Solo Guide From Another Age...

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