A big concept in League of Legends is teamfighting. Teamfights are very important as the game progresses and they tend to get more difficult. Winning a teamfight will open up opportunities for you to obtain objectives freely and with little interference from the enemy team. Many factors go into planning a teamfight from your team’s composition to your abilities. This guide will help you build upon your teamfighting ability.

Teamfighting is a very dense idea, as it has many aspects to pay attention to. Knowing how to play these fights and having the option to turn them in your group's advantage will lead you to numerous wins. This article will break down the aspects into sections and go into detail on each aspect.

Team Composition

Team compositions will determine who wins a fight and how. Based on your team’s champions, you can formulate how to engage based on their abilities. When playing ADC with a team of hard crowd control abilities, you will want to stay back and let them engage using their CC so you can come in and deal out the damage to win the fights.

When drafting your team, take into consideration the synergies in your team. If your team is lacking hard crowd control, then maybe you could try to draft someone with crowd control. Ashe is a great example of an ADC with crowd control that can win you the game. Landing an Ashe ultimate on an enemy carry can win you a fight, so look to draft champions with crowd control when your team is lacking such abilities.

Using Your Abilities

The timing of your abilities determines the effectiveness of your champion in fights. Some champions ultimate abilities are great for clearing waves, but if you see your team grouping, it is best to save your abilities and mana for the fight. Lucian’s ultimate ability, The Culling, is great for wave clear, but it can be used in fights to dish out a lot of damage very quickly. The same can be said for Ezreal’s ult. It is great for waveclear, but it can start a fight if it is used to chunk a group of enemies together.

When on a crowd control champion like Leona, Nautilus or Rakan, you will look to be the hard engage that initiates these fights. Look to land a CC ability on the carry or carries and then use your abilities to keep them from turning the fight in their favor. Don’t focus the tanks on the enemy team, as their durability will allow them to stall out while the carries focus you and your carries. Always look to engage on the carries so your team can get to the backline and kill them.

As an assassin, your job is to get behind enemy lines and kill the squishy carries using their abilities. Attacking the carries after your team uses their CC is the best approach as they won’t be able to CC you and kill you before you get your damage off. High burst damage mid laners should take this approach also, as they can kill squishy targets very quickly.

Positioning

Positioning is extremely vital to staying alive in a teamfight and winning that fight. When playing the role of the CC dealing support, you should be on the frontline protecting your damage dealers if you’re a tank. If you aren’t tanky, like Lux and Sona, then you should look to engage and then position yourself behind your tanks to stay alive.

Top laner positioning varies on the champion type. Bruisers should look to frontline and deal out damage. Tanks should look to frontline and CC the enemy team or try to make a play with your mage/assassin to take out the enemy ADC. Bruisers like Irelia and Renekton will look to get in the backline and kill the carries using their high damage and sustainability.

Assassins will stay back until the fight starts or they will probably die. When the fight is initiated, assassins should look to engage on the high value targets in the backline. Mages should be hitting skill shots from a distance and trying not to die as their damage is very important.

ADCs will play one of the most important roles in the fights as the main damage dealer. You never want to die in the teamfight, so your positioning is crucial. As an ADC, you must use your range and your abilities to deal damage from a safe distance. Kiting is literally so important in teamfighting, you have to always be moving. If you don’t kite in your teamfights, then you will pose as an easy kill to the enemy team and they will be able to hit their abilities with ease as you are standing still and moving rarely. Below is an in-depth video on teamfighting as the ADC.

When and Why to Teamfight

Teamfighting is a great way to get enemy attention off of you taking objectives. Winning a fight and leaving the enemy with low resources creates a window of opportunity to take a tower, dragon or baron. Don’t force teamfights if you are behind unless you have a great engage. Sometimes enemies can be so ahead that they can win a fight, despite your team engaging first. If your team is great at clearing waves, while the enemy team excels at teamfighting, you will look to push big waves to distract the enemies from objectives, but they will look to teamfight instead. Try your best to avoid fighting them unless you have a great engage.

Before teamfighting you must identify your team’s win conditions. Will your team composition win by split push? Or will your team win by team fighting? All of this has to do with your team’s composition and how your champions play off of each other. If your team lacks the waveclear, but has hard crowd control, then look to teamfighting to win the game. Below is an in-depth video on teamfighting that excels at explaining the mechanics behind it.

Conclusion

Teamfighting is essential to winning games and at the same time very difficult to master. Once you have master teamfighting concepts, then the wins should start coming as you can gain advantages off those fights.

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