
On the other hand, imagine that the enemy bot lane is running it down. According to my Attention theory, it’s natural. That’s why when one lane is blown apart, other lanes have a higher chance of losing. It’s all because my attention is diverted to bot. I keep finding myself moving towards bot too, and that eventually leads to higher chances of getting my ult or teleport cancelled. Then I have no choice but to spend a lot of my attention checking on the status of my bot lane. Say my bot lane is running it down every 30 seconds. This is another example of attention being stolen away. Then you realize that the enemy support is roaming faster than your own support. You divert 40 of your attention to the minimap, and try to find the reason behind the pings. If you see 4 caution pings, then you are forced to spend about 10 attention per ping. In a mid-jungle 2 vs 2 situation, all 4 players are using all 100 of their attention on the skirmish. Pings act as a way of stealing away attention. Then if a situation arises, you have to revert some of your attention to that. You have to spend 3 seconds doing that, and then go back to laning with 100 of your attention. That only leaves you with 70 attention to lane with. It takes about 5 attention to check the time, and you have to spend 10 to predict the pathing of the enemy jungle. You have to spend 15 of your attention to look at the position of your jungle and figure out his pathing.

Or to be safe, 3 seconds before the 2 minute mark. Even if you start off the game spending all 100 of your attention on laning, you have to have to spend some of your attention on other things at the 2 minute mark. What happens if you spend all 100 of your attention on those three rules of laning? (Reads chat) Yeah, you just die to ganks. Let’s assume you have a total of 100 attention that you can use. Your way you play out the game is dependent on how much attention you put on each of those rules.

All laning plays are derived from those three basic rules. This is actually pretty easy, because the trajectory of his Q is telegraphed. When he actually uses his Q, I’ll sidestep it and avoid being harassed. Since I know that, I’ll stand behind a low health minion to try and bait his Q. Xerath, knowing those three theories, will obviously want to last hit and harass me at the same time. Since I know they’re going to use their skills, I’ll use that chance to trade more effectively.

If I try to last hit, the enemy will try to harass me, so they’ll use a certain skill at a certain time.

Both players know that last hitting is important, so they try to last hit as well as they can. You have to avoid being harassed by the enemy when last hitting yourself.Īll other plays related to laning, in the end, are ultimately derived from these 3 aspects.You have to harass the enemy to stop them from last hitting.I personally think that there are 3 rules you have to focus on when you lane. You probably didn’t understand that, so I’ll explain with some examples. It’s the idea that a human has a limited amount of attention that they can actively choose to focus on different aspects of the game. So what is the Attention Theory? You’ll probably find this interesting, so just listen to what I say. It’s related to the theory of ‘concepts’ that I talked about earlier, and is another part of my ‘world view’. There’s another theory of mine that I’d like to talk about. So I probably won’t be translating that one, but I might translate it anyways if you guys want me to.Įdit: I translated the second video too, and posted it on this subreddit. I noticed that someone else translated the second video that Dopa uploaded on his channel. If you haven’t read the first part, check it out in the link below. This translation is the second half of the first video Dopa uploaded on his channel, not a translation of the second video.
