Duel Lane Tips

**What Is Duel Lane For?**

1.Support teammates and help them take the lead. The duel lane is the shortest lane and it takes the least time for troops to encounter here, which means it is also the first to finish clearing troops. Considering their close distance to growth laners, economy laners, and junglers, duel laners are responsible for quick support and clearing troops.

2.Provides river vision. Duel laners have almost a full vision of the river area and are able to predict movement of enemy junglers, duel laners, and supports, so they can protect teammates from ganks.

3.Farm efficiently to offer considerable crowd controls and damage output for your team in the early and middle game. Since the duel lane is where troops gather the fastest, it is usually the best lane for farming and leveling up quickly and suitable for mages who have excellent troop clearing ability in the early game, high demand for experience and farming, and decent plays in the early and middle game. In general, they are able to provide remarkable damage or steady crowd controls in early teamfights.

**Who Are Recommended?**

1.Cannon Mages (e.g., ***Flavia*, *Crystal***): high sustained damage, long range, weak self-protection, low burst damage

2.Functional Mages (e.g., ***Lunaria*, *Pandora***): numerous crowd controls, abilities with team buffs, low damage output

3.Assassin-Like Mages (e.g., ***Heradias*, *Estrath***): flexible, high instant damage, insufficient sustained damage

4.Burst Mages (e.g., ***Guirec*, *Albus***): high burst damage, short attack distance, insufficient sustained damage, weak self-protection

**How to Play Duel Lane?**

1.Hero Selection: Generally, select a hero that counters the opposing team’s duel laner. Suppose that the opposing team picks Heradias, then you select Flavia.

2.Powerful Period: For early-game heroes, clear troops rapidly to dominate the lane, and then gank more to extend the lead of your team. For middle-game heroes, focus on farming in the early game, ganking and jungling sometimes, and then try solo ganking in the middle game. For late-game heroes, concentrate on farming and play safe to avoid deaths and teamfights in the early game, preparing for storm attacks in the late game.

3.Items: Suppose you pick Crystal for the duel lane. Magic Prism and Dawn Staff are recommended for their endurance, cooldown reduction, and ultimate ability refreshes. If there are multiple assassins in the opposing team, Pharaoh's Shroud is a good choice for protection.

4.Ganking: Observe your allied jungler’s movement and gank with the jungler together to increase the success rate. You also need to be careful with the enemy jungler to avoid being ambushed after ganking. You may gank the economy lane first if the enemy economy laner has less dashes available, or the lane with few advantages in troops and enemies pushing towers fiercely.

5.Ambush: Deceive enemies with false intent and ambush them. You may also ambush at common spots. Setting up ambushes ensures a high success rate of ganks. Be aware of the enemy duel laner’s ambushes and signal your teammates immediately when the enemy duel laner disappears.

6.Teamfight: While in teamfights, pay attention to your position and timing for abilities. If you are a functional mage, your main job is to protect the allied marksman and cast abilities against the enemy DPS who aims at your allied marksman. If you are an assassin-like mage, wait for a good time to engage and give the enemy ACD a fatal strike. If you are a cannon mage, harass enemies with ranged attacks.