Tasks of the Individual Lanes in the Game
Top Lane – Typical Champion Roles: Tanks / Various
Depending on where the jungler starts, they may need some help with the first monster in the jungle. If they start near your lane, you should briefly help the jungler and then go to the minions to start last hitting.
Once you can, you should try to attack the opposing champion alongside last hitting. But be particularly careful in the early levels because the enemy minions will focus on you and deal a lot of damage in the beginning.
You should also pay attention to which summoner spells the opposing top laner has chosen. If they have Ignite, you should play a bit more cautiously. This summoner spell gives extra damage and reduces the healing of the target. If you hold down the Tab key, you can see the summoner spells of the individual players.
A slightly more defensive but globally mobile summoner spell for LoL top laners is Teleport. This allows you to quickly return to your lane or quickly assist at other points on the map.
With your trinket, you can place a disguised eye every few minutes that reveals a spot on the map. This eye is best placed in the river at the start so that you can see when your opponent receives help from their allies on the top lane.
Jungle: Typical Champion Roles: Various
As a jungler, you start, as the name suggests, not on a lane, but in the jungle. You also need the summoner spell Smite for this task so you can buy certain items for this role and have an easier time against the monsters in the jungle.
Basically, your game consists of killing many monsters in the jungle to buy better items and being at the right place at the right time in a lane to help your allies out of a dangerous situation or help kill an opponent. This support of the lanes is called Gank or Countergank if the enemy champion on that lane also receives help from an ally.
The most important spots in your jungle are the camps for the blue and red buffs. If you kill the largest monster in one of these camps, you receive that buff. The red buff gives you damage over time on your auto-attacks and a slow effect on the targeted enemies. Additionally, the bearer of the buff regenerates 1% of their maximum health every 5 seconds.
The blue buff grants ability power, cooldown reduction, and increased mana or energy regeneration – especially mages benefit greatly from this buff.
These buffs can also be given to your allies throughout the game by letting them make the last hit on these monsters.
There are also buffs that affect the whole team. This includes the Dragon and Baron Nashor. Since these monsters grant particularly strong buffs, they are always hotly contested in games. So prepare for a team fight when these monsters are alive.
Mid Lane – Typical Champion Roles: Mages/Assassins
As a mid laner, your gameplay looks similar to that of a top laner or marksman. The most important thing is last hitting and controlling your lane. In the middle, there are several entrances from the jungle through which an enemy jungler can come to help your opponent kill you. Therefore, you should pay particular attention to placing a hidden eye in at least one spot so you have an escape option if the enemy comes from the other side.
As a mage in the middle, you don’t deal much damage at the beginning. However, once the first ability points have been allocated to your abilities, your damage will increase significantly.
The “typical” summoner spells for this lane are hard to determine as they usually depend on the player’s champion or the opponent’s champion on this lane. There is a high variety of heroes played in the middle. However, there is often a summoner spell that helps you move faster or gain distance. (Ghost & Flash).
Bot Lane / Marksman – Typical Champion Roles: Marksmen
As a marksman on the bot lane, you have, unlike on the other lanes, an ally by your side who can support you with their abilities. The opposing team will likely also have a marksman and a support on the lane, which is why you usually play 2 against 2 on the bot lane.
Marksmen tend to be weak in terms of survivability before they have purchased their first important items. As a marksman, you deal most of your damage through auto-attacks and abilities that benefit from AD (attack damage).
Because you deal a huge amount of damage, especially in the late phase of the game due to the items you purchase, it is crucial to position yourself correctly in team fights. As a ranged fighter, you have the option to hide behind your tanks and other allies to deal safer damage from the backline. To avoid dying in these fights, your supporter should always keep an eye on you.
Bot Lane / Support – Typical Champion Roles: Supports, Mages
The supporter on the bot lane is, as the name suggests, the one who supports on this lane. As a supporter, you are responsible for helping your marksman with your abilities. This can happen, for example, using shields and heals that you can distribute, or through abilities that can root, slow down, or stun enemy players for a short time.
In this position, you don’t necessarily have to play tanks, as even heroes that don’t absorb much damage often have many supportive spells.
As a supporter, you should not make last hits unless you have a special item like the Relic Shield in your inventory, which allows the gold earned from last hitting to be shared with the marksman. Your task is to ensure that your marksman can make last hits without too much harassment from enemies. Furthermore, you should try to prevent your marksman’s deaths or ensure enemy deaths.
Usually, items are purchased that support your team through auras. In team fights, you protect your allies and try, if possible, to remove or weaken the biggest threat in the enemy team with crowd control effects (slows, stuns, or the like).
On the bot lane, you are also responsible, along with the jungler, for maintaining control over the dragon in the river. This is best done with hidden eyes, which should be placed at important spots on the map throughout the game.
