League of Legends: Zoning Tutorial
Why Arqade Stack Exchange recommends it
Gaming Stack Exchange (Arqade) answerers and askers point people to it as the standard explanation of zoning for questions on countering zoning, positioning and when to push in League of Legends.
Recommended by 2 people across 3 different months, 2011 to 2012.
What it is
A 2009 tutorial by the channel Shurelya that explains the zoning mechanic in League of Legends from a technical point of view. It covers how positioning and threat range control last hits and lane pressure in the early game.
What people said
Recommends Raven Dreamer · 2011-02 · Arqade Stack Exchange · on “First thing to learn when beginning League of Legends”
Map Awareness Riot has garnered some pretty effective videos with their Video Tutorial contest (Links posted below). As a beginner, you want to primarily focus on making sure you don't get ambushed by the other team (called a "gank"). While some of this involves Map Awareness , you also need to learn to not overextend, as well as keeping an eye on the enemies you're fighting in your lane. If you cannot see one or both of the enemies in your lane, let your teammates know ! Last Hitting Killing minions and enemy players nets you gold to buy items. However, if you don't land the killing blow on an enemy minion, you will get ZERO gold, even if you've done most of the damage to it. The faster you
Recommends Raven Dreamer · 2011-07 · Arqade Stack Exchange · on “Positioning? What's the right way to go about it?”
Firstly, I would suggest you check out this question and answer [LINK] if you haven't already. More specifically, I think you should at least watch the following video on Zoning, produced by Shurelia, one of the developers at Riot Games (who make League of Legends)
Recommends Shaun · 2012-03 · Arqade Stack Exchange · on “How do you counter getting zoned?”
If you are getting zoned [this video] and cannot receive help from your team (in the form of a gank or a lane swap), you have a few options: Aggression If your melee champion has a slow or gap closer (or you took a summoner spell that helps you close gaps), make the ranged opponent pay for their pokes. The key things to keep in mind if you are going to be aggressive: Ward any approach vectors that someone who would gank you would likely take (river, ti-bush. Expect that when you go to last hit [LINK] a minion, you will get poked. Immediately slow/close the gap when you see the approach for the poke and get a few swings in yourself. Because of game balance, your melee champ will usually hit a bit
Cites Borror0 · 2011-02 · Arqade Stack Exchange · on “How do I know when it's time to push?”
I'm fairly new to League of Legends and I learned of the concept of zoning [this video] recently, and it makes a lot of sense, but no source that I visited tells me when I know it is time to push. The most information that I found was "around level 6" which is hardly useful, if at all. So, how can a beginner know when it's time to push?