[Patch 3.07: Nerf Everything Not Nami] General Discussion…

Harrass is a huge part of LoL, its done from early to end game and by all roles in different forms, i'll split it into a few categories and give a short overview.

Harrassment is when you want to disrupt / hurt the enemy, wanting to kill them is something different, which usually stems from good harrass, if you get a good engage on harrass, going all-in for the kill is common.

1) Carries (ADC / Mid / Top)
2) Jungler.
3) Support.
4) After Lane-Phase

1) Carries

So carries have a couple rules when they are going to harrass and is pretty easy to follow.

1) Will i go even or come out ahead.
2) Will he lose CS?
3) Will I lose CS?

Will you do equal or more damage to your opponent then what he will do to you? Including actual damage and CS loss. Its a simple thing to follow.

For example - You engage toplane and deal 20% hp and take 15% hp damage yourself. You lose 3 CS and they lose 5. That is a good harrass / trade.
Another example is choosing to auto attack caitlyn as ezreal bot, you hit him with 1 skill and an AA (Auto attack), the support stuns you and you take 2 AA's and caitlyns Q. Bad trade.

Jungler

A junglers harrass is usually just coming into lane and forcing the enemy to back off. If a lane is struggling just walking into lane and hanging around (like sitting in a brush and making sure they know your there) can give the lane enough time to recover and catch up / get ahead on CS.

Try not to camp the lane too much as the longer you sit there, the further you get behind yourself. 15-20 seconds of presence is often enough if you're not planning to gank.

Support

Supports focus on harrass, they have nothing to do early game other then harrass and ward. A supports harrass will be on disrupting the enemy ADC, making them lose CS and opening them up to harrass from your ADC. They can do this by just walking around looking angry (Leona / Alistar) making the ADC back off and lose a CS or getting aggressive and letting the ADC poke them (A taric stun.)

If you're getting aggressive its important to ask yourself if your ADC is in the position to take advantage of it, just like when you go all-in for a kill. Ask yourself this.
1)Are they in range to take a potshot?
2)Are either of you low enough to have it turned around on you if they decide to fight.

Harrass "Presence" in lane is just that, make yourself known. As a leona i like to walk around throwing random E's at the ADC when they are about to take a last hit forcing them to back off and lose it. This is lane presence. Often just walking up to them can make them run scared, because they fear what you COULD do.

A support AFK in brush is a bad support. Yes, even a soraka.

4) After lane phase

Once laning phase is over, harrassment takes on two forms - Pushing and Poke.

Poke - Poke is just that, when you're in that 5v5 mid situation where your all dancing around taking potshots at eachother, those potshots are poke. Being able to damage the enemy before a fight so you have an innate advantage when it happens.
Firing off long range skills / aoe's / Auto attacks is what sums up poke, doing damage before the fight happens.

Pushing - Pushing is difficult to explain, it can be used for and against a team so i'll explain both

Pushing advantage - If the enemy team is all focused on pushing bot. 1/2 players of your team could go and push top lane while the others defend, its infinitely harder for their team to engage you under a tower while your team free-pushes the other lane and gets towers / CS while the enemy are being useless elsewhere.

Pushing Disadvantage - 1-2 members of your team are pushing botlane. The enemy see's this and rushes to baron and starts it. You cant react fast enough because 1-2 members are out of place and you'll be fighting at a disadvantage so you either take a bad fight knowing you'll lose or you give them a free baron. (This works for dragon too.)

Thats all im confident enough to tell you, for fear of typing pure bullshit thats wrong.

Creep Score (CS) Is the number of minions killed. It is vital that you keep these numbers in-line, as each kill grants gold and gold = items = power = kills = win.

At 10 minutes, a total of 108 minions will have entered (and died) in lane. This can be multiplied for higher timings (15, 20 etc) This is disregarding the farming of jungle creeps (Mid - Wraiths most predominantly.)

So:

10 Mins - Total minions = 108
15 Mins - Total minions = 162
20 Mins - Total minions = 216
30 Mins - Total minions = 324

Now, past the 10 minute mark everything goes to shit and the game runs at different paces so saying "have X CS by 20 min" is unreliable. Prior to 10 mins, everyones in lane doing their own thing.

The general rule for CS at 10 min is above 70. Always try and get above 70 CS by 10 minutes. This allows for 30% of the total CS available to you to be lost in fights / ganks / harrass / b2b's (back to base)

If your just freefarming and no action is taking place / you dont have to back then 100 CS at 10 mins is entirely possible.

So try to have:

70 CS - 10 Min
100 CS - 13-14 Min
175+ CS - 20 min (Varies)

Last Hitting

Last Hitting is waiting untill you can 1 hit kill (1HKO) a minion and then doing so. This grants you full EXP and Gold with the following advantages.

Now you all infamously took the piss out of me when we all played bots for doing this (Hi multi.) but its extremely useful in PvP for these reasons.

-Its the most effective and reliable way of scoring CS.
-It doesnt push lane super hard and open you up to ganks.
-It gives you time to harrass, poke and position against the enemy.

Last Hitting is the best way to play in lanes due to these advantages. You'll get more gold, be less open to ganks and be able to concentrate more on what you / your enemy are doing then slowly chipping away at those creeps. Knowing when to CS and when to harrass an enemy champion takes practice.

Using skills to kill minions is often stupid. Especially as an ADC. Exceptions are things like Morgana's W and skills equivilent, which are freefarm mechanics. Or top laners being shoved out of lane. Like an olaf using his Q to pick up CS so he doesnt die / take insane poke. Save your mana for dem champions.

The way the minions work, a good 80% of the time they will focus down one minion which means you wont lose CS from having 2-3 die at the same time.

Once lanes start stacking this becomes unreliable and you are forced to use AA's (Auto attacks) to even it out, this is advanced and even i dont know what im doing with it because its pretty hard, but the general principle is:

Use auto attacks to even out a lane so you can last hit them all. For instance - 2 minions at 80% losing 10% hp every 2 seconds. You would hit one of them for 20% so that they would be 60% - 80% and dropping 10% at the same time, so that they get low at different times and you can kill them both one after the other.

Pushing lane / sieging.

All of this goes out the window once you want to push the lane to tower and start sieging.

This is sorta related but more a harassment technique. Shoving to the enemy tower causes them to lose CS, it is infinitely harder to CS under tower as it hits for a crap ton of damage, wheras you can practically carry on doing your thang (at risk of ganks.)

So i figured i'd start a thread for us all to suggest our tips n tricks for LoL.

- In ARAM its a good idea to have someone on the team build aegis / bulwark - it gives that extra bit of added def / MR to everyone and as your ALWAYS teamfighting, its very efficient, also nobody ever builds armor / MR so you'll give them at least something. Generally someone who is melee / tanky so that the others can go ragemode.

- The above also applies to items that offer team buffs (Zekes Herald, Wisdom of the ancients etc)

- Use the correct runes / masteries for champions, it helps ALOT. You can find the optimal ones in a good build on TSM's or any respected build website.

- Before you jump into a teamfight (Initiate) drop a ping on who your going to target so that 1) Your team knows you're going to fight and 2) your team knows how to focus. How many times have you initiated only to have your team walk off or attack someone completely different leaving you dead and 3 of them at 50% hp.

- Always keep wards up in your lane in a Summoners Rift 5v5. To prevent ganks and know enemy position.
Blue: http://www.snickersnacks.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/02/blue_wards.png
Purple: http://www.snickersnacks.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/02/purple_wards.png

- Ties in with the above - Always keep wards up when you're pushing lane so you dont get sandwiched and bumfiddled.

-Again the above, Always try to know where the enemy jungle and other lanes are. Make an internal checklist.
Lane 1 - Check
Lane 2 - Check
Jungler visible / not nearby - Check
Then push.

- Dont trade kills (1 for 1 etc) if your ahead, it just feeds up the other team because your worth more.

- Suicide is often worth it to claim an opponents bounty (kill streak) - think your worth 150g, they are worth 500g.

- Did i mention wards.

- Use proper builds. "Winging" it is usually suboptimal and leads to you being ineffective. There are plenty of websites for good builds.

http://www.solomid.net

Good website for builds and pro-streams. Only use builds that are Featured or Approved.

http://www.lolking.net/

Shows yours and other player's game stats + Other stuff i havent used before.

http://www.championselect.net/

Shows you counterpicks. What champions are good and bad vs others.

[OUTDATED]
http://www.mobafire.com/league-of-legends/build/rune-tips-what-secondary-and-primary-means-and-more-24255

Runes, a guide on them, primary, secondary, best for each role etc - Outdated but still useful.