How to break a heavy poke team's siege?
Last game I was against a team which had massive poke and some sustain. To make things worse they also got baron. With that they could just stay behind their minions and launch skill after skill wiping out big chunks of health every time they hit one of us. In the meantime their minions were covered by their endless skill spam and could take down a turret slowly.
Our team was: Gnar, Rek'sai, Swain, Graves and Braum.
Theirs was: Jayce, Nidalee, Xerath, Caitlyn and Sona. Nidalee was a pretty tanky cat though...
So how to deal with a team (or minions) that is sieging and has a lot of nasty poke?
Best Answer
It is easiest to explain with the supports.
You have melee supports that have to all in and kill enemy from 100 -> 0 (leona, braum)
You have supports that do a lot of ranged poke damage. (Zyra, morgana, lulu)
You have supports that have sustain and some poke in their kit (sona, soraka)
Kill beats Sustain beats Poke beats Kill
sustain beats poke: The sustain lane has weaker poke damage than the poke supports, but after this poke it can heal themselves up, staying at full hp while the poke lane is damage.
poke beats kill: poke lane has high damage and also does constantly damage to the kill lane supports. This mean that these kill lane melee supports are often around 50% health and will be killed if the engage.
kill beats sustain: sustain heroes usually lack the escape skill and are quite bad at trading, the kill support jumps on a sustain hero and locks him for an easy kill
since your team lacks sustain - it will be quite hard for you to take on a poking team
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