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Duo Queuing Strategies in League of Legends

Playing League with a friend is more fun than playing alone, and it can even be a great way to increase your win rate and climb in solo queue, provided that you and your duo partner know how to play together. But that’s what most people get wrong. Duo queuing can actually hurt your ability to climb if you don’t know how to work together with that friend. Since in any situation where the matchmaking system can’t find another duo to put you against, then it will actually consider that your team is advantaged because your team has a pre-made duo and your opponent doesn’t. As a result of this, the matchmaking system will generally give you lower ranked teammates compared to the ranks of the people you are facing. Meaning, if you duo queue with a friend but don’t take advantage of the fact that you’re pre-made, well, you might just end up making your games harder on yourself, which is what makes this guide so important.

What are my qualifications to speak on the subject? Well, I have this screenshot of me and my duo partner hitting both rank one and two in challenger on the entire server, all making use of duo Q. Despite the downsides of sometimes facing a slightly higher ranked enemy team, the upsides of duo queuing are enormous if you know how to work together. There are a ton of different things I’m going to go through in this guide. From a trick that bot lane durers can use to get ahead in any matchup to wave management tricks you can use to pre-plan ganks in champion select before the game even begins. This is everything that you need to know before you queue up for that next game of duo queue with one of your friends. My name’s Rogue, and I played League of Legends professionally for 7 years now.

Syncing Up with Your Duo Partner in League of Legends

Let’s start off at the very beginning of the game. So, what can you do in order to better sync up and make plays with your duo partner early on? Well, you just do the exact same things that pro teams do in order to pre-plan literally any early game macro. You just look at the minion waves, specifically the predictability in the way that they move. Almost any time you see a minion wave crash into a tower, you then gain the opportunity to pre-plan a play up to one minute in advance since you can easily predict what the wave will now do. Here, I’ll quickly explain why. As the blue team minions crash into the tower, the red team minions that were entering the lane get stuck on them and join the fight.

This allows the newly arriving blue team minions that are mirrored to that wave to walk all the way over to the enemy side of the lane, getting stuck in front of their tower and forming a slow push. 30 seconds later, when the following waves arrive, the same thing happens. Red team minions arrive sooner than blue team minions do, which wakes the wave naturally slow push back towards blue team’s tower, crashing into blue team’s tower about 1 minute later. Of course, this process then repeats itself once the wave hits the blue team’s tower again, starting a slow push that will predictively build up for about two to three waves, crashing into red team’s tower about 1 minute later. If you introduce champions in the mix, results are generally the same given that the matchup isn’t too one-sided and that both players are playing well around the natural advantages associated with having a bigger wave than your opponent, such as level up timers, a height and risk-reward, and plenty of others.

This predictability is what allows pro players to pre-plan all of the macro plays that they do in the early game, and it’s how we’re going to do the same thing with our duo partner. Now that we know how predictable a wave can be, we can see that there’s a ton of things that you can do with that. Now, what I’m about to talk about is something that can be done with any combination of a jungler dueling with a laner.

Setting Up Ganks in Mid Lane

It can be done in top, it can be done in mid, it can be done in bot. But my favorite example is done in mid lane. So, if you look at a lot of mid laners that are good at setting up ganks that like dueling. So, think about things like Ahri or Leblanc or Landre. These are champions with good gank setup. They’re really good in 2v2s because they have the crowd control to focus down one target and they’re really good to be played with the jungler who is a duo.

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So, what you can do on a lot of these champions is force an early two-wave crash. Now, if I’m playing Ahri, for example, and I want to do a two-wave crash, it’s not very hard for me to do. I can just start Q and just throw Q at the wave. Now, if I’m throwing Ari Q’s at the wave, I’m going to take push in almost any matchup, which allows me to do a two-wave crash. Well, now that I’ve done exactly that, I’ve crashed my second wave. I can go place a ward and come back.

Now, why did I do this two-wave crash is the question. Well, I can now predict the next 1 minute of the lane, just like the pro players do. So, this wave went into the turret at 2 minutes 30. It will come back into me and crash at about 3 minutes 30 or just after. What’s happening in 1 minute from now at 3 minutes 30? Well, at about 3 minutes 30 is the timer for when a jungler finishes a full clear. is the point where a jungler has no camps left to farm, all their camps are respawning, and they have literal free time where they can gank without any risk.

By doing a two-wave crash like this, you speed up the rate in which the wave pushes back into you by 30 seconds compared to a traditional three-wave crash, which forces the wave onto your side of the lane more quickly and makes it align better with the timer for when your jungler finishes a full clear.

So, we’re at 3 minutes 15 on the clock right now. Remember, a jungler is getting here generally around about 3:30, give or take, which you can see here, I’ve let this wave come in. I’ve trimmed it down a bunch. And my jungler is going to be arriving here any second now.

So, you can imagine with this lane state that I have against somebody that I want to set up a gank against on something like Ahri, well, I’m perfectly set up for a charm flash. I can set up that gank for my jungler and it makes for a kill that you can pre-plan in the champion select because if I know I’m going to get pushed first two waves, I can set this gank up before the game even starts.

Now, that’s great and all to say in a training tool match like this, but we need an example from a real game. Lucky for you, I have one. Now, what I have here is a game of Le and I played in solo Q a few days ago, and you’re going to see that it’s pretty easy to get a kill using the strategy by just syncing up with your teammate. So, I’m starting on blue buff, pathing to top side, and we’re going to be playing around our Silus.

Optimizing Top Lane Strategy

So, if we go look at top lane, we’re going to see Silus do the perfect thing to set up this gank. He takes push on wave 1, starts trading heavy. He burns the flash on wave two. Really good job, Silus. But then, as we saw before, he does a very fast two-wave crash because it will speed up the rate at which the wave comes back now. So, now with the wave coming back, he can let it come in. He does a little bit too much damage on the wave here in order to try and get trades, but that doesn’t matter because with the wave so close to Gragas‘ tower, it is always going to slow push back into us. It is a guarantee. There‘s not really anything he can do about it now. Ion Le have just finished my full clear.

It’s about 3 minutes 15 and I’m walking into river now. The wave hasn’t quite come back yet because Styles did a bit too much damage on the Mave, but that’s fine. I’ve got time to take my crab. And after taking crab, take a look at the situation top. The wave has just hit a point where Gragas can’t farm. So, I can ward hop over the wall and pick myself up a really easy kill. Now, what’s really important here is that if I had to wait another 30 seconds for this wave to come in, I would be late to my first camp respawn. My first respawn camp is the Gromp, which spawns at 4 minutes 20, which is in about 25 seconds, which is about the amount of time that I need to reset and run out of base and get there at exactly the time that it spawns.

If I had to wait top for that wave to come back in by 30 seconds, the gank might still work, but I would be risking a lot more because I could potentially be counter juggled on my bot side or at least lose some efficiency in my farming. But by doing the two-wave crash, it guarantees the gank and doesn’t disrupt my farming at all. So, some really simple advice for you. Anytime you’re dueling with a jungler, communicate to your jungler when you crash a wave into the enemy tower, as it essentially functions as a one minute warning for a possible gank that you can set up. And if you already know that you can take push in the first few levels of laning, well, now you can just tell your jungler in champion select that you’re going to do an early wave crash like this in order to set up a gank off the bounce. Bonus points if you play something like Darius top lane that just gets pushed level one in every matchup. You and your duo can make these early ganks part of your pregame plan every single game if you want to. As a bouncing wave state early like this is either just a free kill or at a bare minimum a way to force a 2v2 fight against the enemy laner and jungler if you think you’ve got better champions for it.

Smart Bot Lane Strategy

Now for that bot lane trick I promised. This one is insanely simple, but just grossly underutilized by the average player for some reason. Just stagger your recalls. For some reason, people feel the need to always take recalls at the same time as their lane partner. But there are a lot of situations where it’s just simply better to stagger them apart.

Recalling Strategies in Bot Lane

Let’s say, for example, you’re on 20% health and you have to reset. Well, if you’re playing top or mid, bad luck. You’re just going to have to lose a minion wave in order to get that health back. But in bot lane, you can always just send one member back to base, in this case, the ADC, while the other member stays to catch the wave. Therefore, as a team, we don’t lose the wave at all. Then, when the first member gets back to lane, the second member can just take the reset. The ADC in this case will get to catch back up in XP after losing a wave because they get to take an entire wave of solo XP.

Beautiful. It seems like they are going to try and push. There we go. So, I’m going to wait till the last exact second before I pop around this corner and they see me so that that they think it’s going to go in and they don’t chase it up. Yeah. So, they’re already starting reset. Let’s wait till the last possible second and then we hold it. So, if they cancel reset here, which is what they’re doing, which is best thing they can do, we just let it go in and then we chase out them so they can’t get their recall here.

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So while he takes these last hits, I chase and we’re going to deny them from getting these resets now. Keep chasing. There you go. So now we’re just up in items and their bot lane’s completely checkmated by staggering recalls in order to hold the wave. Affilios gets to base for free and come back to lane with a combined 1,000 gold worth of items and full HP whilst the enemy bot lane is simply still stuck here with only starting items. As mentioned before I played the clip, this clip was taken from my Patreon where I post a ton of educational POV commentaries for both jungle and support, my two main roles. Now, let’s give some love to one of the most underrated duo combos, top and mid.

Maximizing Mid Game Power

And it seems really weird to duo with these two roles since they don’t really have much interaction in the early game. This is true, but the real power of this combo comes from syncing up together in the mid game since that’s where this combo truly shines. At the absolute apex tier of proplay, macro functions in an extremely bizarre way. The best teams in the world play a weird style where they designate mid waves to contest as a team. This is mostly up to the side laners to decide.

Essentially, when a team’s side waves are pushed in and need to be answered, a team will designate not to contest the next arriving midwave, meaning side laners are free to go to the sides and push out the side waves. During this time, junglers are free to farm camps. ADCs can take red buff and wait to receive the midwave at the tower. Supports can hold onto their wards since they know they won’t be able to defend them, and anyone who needs to recall can do so.

Then, usually on the following wave, the side laners have now pushed out their side waves. They will call to contest the next arriving wave out of base, at which point Everyone on the team hovers into the mid for the following midwave contest. Enemy side laners will be showing in both side waves that you just pushed in. Whilst your side laners will be off vision, moving towards mid, giving you a 3v5 on mid lane. So if the enemy team tries to contest the midwave, you hard engage with a numbers advantage and you clean them.

And if they don’t contest the wave, you either show up mid with five members and take the mid tower by force, or if you think it’s too hard to break the midtower, you can instead perform a shift where you instead move into one of the side lanes which has already been pushed out earlier. And with your big group of teammates that you freed up mid, you can now show up to that side lane and take the tower. Now, I didn’t have to search for very long to find an example from a pro match of sidelaners sinking up to contest a midwave because it happens all the time.

So if you look at the blue team’s mini map right now, they are pushed in in both of their side lanes. Both of the waves hitting their turret. So they have to answer them. So they’re going to designate this as a wave where they’re not contesting. And you can see everyone making use of that. Ziggs is basing, Lilia is basing. Everyone is chilling out. People aren’t really stressed about contesting mid waves. And even on this midwave, Ziggs is going to get it, but he’s just got a soft contested. He’s not really trying. But at this moment, both of the side waves are being answered by the Yon and by the Scion. All right, great job. So, we conceded the last midwave.

Understanding Midwave Management

Now, we’ve gotten both of our side waves past River. Good job. Which means we’ve now designated this following midwave to be a wave that we’re contesting. So, you can see three People moving up towards mid with Son threatening alt down. And at this exact moment, we are showing up mid in force because this is the wave we designated to contest.

Blue team now shows up with literally five members and just breaks the tower 3v5 because both the enemy side laners were forced to contest the wave at the same time. Now, this might seem like a lot, but in solo Q, things really are not this complex. That’s for sure. 90% of the time when you fold into mid, you will just end up fighting your opponent. So, what’s important for you and your duo to do and to incorporate into your play is to just synchronize when it is that you fold into mid so that you do it on the same wave. This way you always have the insanely strong engage window that comes with a 3v5 numbers advantage. And you also get a pinser movement where you come from both bot and top side as you move into mid, allowing you to surround your opponents from both sides and just force down mid towers like we just saw in our proplay example.

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