Decision Making 101: How to play Solo Lane if you don't win the 1v1 (Dehaka Example)
Added 2025-07-23 22:56:56 +0000 UTCHow should you play the solo lane in a losing 1v1 if you have better wave clear ? This is exactly the situation that I found myself in this example Grandmaster game, and I will explain in detail all the important decisions that I make at every point in the game in order to achieve the best chances for victory! Additional decisions include when to soak vs when to go for the teamfight? Which target to go for in the teamfight? When to play for shrine vs push buildings? and much more!
I noticed a lot of people were asking for decision making related content/guides in the last post where I asked what was missing from the Patreon, so let me know what you think about this type of video and if I missed anything or if you would like something changed/added/removed.
Comments
Excellent Video Fan, I was literally just asking a friend those questions about Dehaka on that specific map! Thank you!
Sagi Talaat
2025-08-11 02:19:24 +0000 UTCSo this is at 26:16 in the video for anyone else wondering. Couple of things to mention, first top fort on dragon shire is not particularly that valuable, bottom lane is better for reasons I explain in the dragon shire map guide. Second, when I press dig there I am pretty confident I can at least catch thrall as I have racecar movespeed and he is pretty far up already, so in my mind its very unlikely we get anything less than 2 kills there. Even if we dont and we only get 1 kill however, that would leave it a 5v3 on botside and 0v1 on topside. With a 5v3 on botside you could definitely do things such as push bot keep, it might be hard to get more kills on heroes but they would not be able to easily stop a push on a building in a 5v3 situation as well so you'd get damage on keep + 1 kill for top fort which is not bad.
Fan Yang
2025-08-06 22:10:42 +0000 UTCReally informative content. I think one of the hardest decisions to make would be giving up the top fort when bruisers + Qhira are coming in - was it likely dead anyway? If, when you went bottom, enemies just let Imperius die alone (Thrall and Whitemane retreat) it could be 4v5 on map, hard to push keep, not guaranteed DK, and our top Fort is dead.
Freewalker
2025-07-31 22:22:19 +0000 UTC
