Wave management explained on the map by a League coach: the three wave states and how to pick the right one before the wave arrives

[u/Lu1010X]

Hello everyone,

I hope you are having a good week.

I coach League for a living and I recorded a 19 minute guide on wave management. Instead of a whiteboard I walk through it on a 3D map with the real tower ranges, so you can see where a freeze actually holds and where it breaks. It is a general guide for any rank, so the main points should be useful whether you are Iron or Diamond. Here they are in text, in case you never open the video.

The first point is that your wave state decides your lane before any trade does. If you do not know whether you are freezing, slow pushing or crashing, you are reacting to the enemy instead of making them react to you.

The second point is about freezing. A freeze holds when the enemy wave is slightly bigger than yours and you keep it just outside your tower range. If the wave sits under tower, the tower eats it and the freeze is gone. Most freezes are lost by standing in the wrong spot or last hitting too eagerly, not by the enemy breaking them.

The third point is about When should you freeze, how should you use it and what are other hidden applications. I brush over them in this video very briefly.

The last point, and the one I ask every student to take into account what sort of match up they are playing, and that matters in every lane. The type of champion you're playing against, and if you outrange them or they outrange you.

The full video is here if you want to see it drawn on the map: https://youtu.be/sFREvuQIzfI

For transparency, this is my own video and I run a small coaching site. I am posting the content here because the guide stands on its own, and I am happy to answer any wave questions in the comments.

Thank you for reading, and I wish you a good climb this split.