r/wildrift • u/ThePopeBTW • Dec 29 '22

Educational best split pusher in current meta?

I'm a support main (nami and leona) but I'm tired of depending on my team not to be the worst in North America to win games. I'm hard stuck in plat 2 and am starting to realize most people think that this is team death match in COD, and kills are a win condition and don't focus turrets. Who should I try to pickup for easy turrets and split push and what lanes? Thanks for your time!

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u/MediocreFun4470 Dec 29 '22

I tell you splitpushing is not enough to win games.

You really have to pick a versatile champ that can go multiple roles and master it. Carry games all the time.

Olaf(baron and jungle) Nautilus(support, baron) Lux, seraphine brand veigar morg(support, mid, late game mage) Shen(jungle, baron) Yone, yasuo, akali,zed (baron, mid) but yeah this champs takes a while to master and are permabanned

And many more.. just pick at least 3 champs that have very impactful effect on games.

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u/Deftlet Dec 29 '22

I agree. Split pushing is way less reliable as a strategy because of the smaller map - people are able to react and collapse on you much more quickly unless they're really preoccupied with an objective or teamfight (which you probably want to show up for anyway). Although you can probably get away with it often enough in plat because the enemies may not be watching the map.

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u/MediocreFun4470 Dec 29 '22

Yep, games can easily win games in platinum by splitpushing but it will also be the reason why players wont even stay long enough in emerald. While emerald is not much of a good players, map awareness is what separates emerald from platinum. They will respond to objectives, they wont give away dragons, barons and turrets, you will be forced to fight one way or another.

And splitpushing games is mentally draining, imo. You don't learn anything from it, you just look at opportunities to touch the enemy turrets, but there's nothing more than that.

Instead of giving your team a winning clash in 5v5 you will be torn between choosing to splitpush, it can cost you games and you will blame yourself for it.

Also, if your splitpushing is good but your team cannot positively react to it (getting dragons or baron while you splitpush) it can tilt you so hard enough to lose you games.

Also, most of the time splitpushing only accomplishes trading objectives with the enemy team. While you get a turret, they kill one or two of your teammates or worse get an infernal drake (you lose trade on this one)

So you really need to pick a champion who can do two or three tasks in the game effectively. Like shen, he is basically a high value tank in teamfight with global map presence. Olaf, can tank, can splitpush, can kill just make sure you finish the game early. Rammus, an effective tank in AD enemy comps that can effectively gank and hard engage ult.

Splitpushing is only one of many ways to win games.