In this loop
Yuumi is at her tower with no minions under it, and Shyvana has no angle on her
Yuumi starts her recall
Shyvana has neither the time nor the angle left, so she pulls off
I come into frame running back toward the lane, still well outside the tower
The clone splits off and charges straight at Yuumi
The tower locks onto the clone and fires twice, both shots landing on it
A clear Q lands on Yuumi under the tower, she goes down, and I walk back out
- 0:00Yuumi is at her tower with no minions under it, and Shyvana has no angle on her
- 0:01Yuumi starts her recall
- 0:02Shyvana has neither the time nor the angle left, so she pulls off
- 0:05I come into frame running back toward the lane, still well outside the tower
- 0:07The clone splits off and charges straight at Yuumi
- 0:09The tower locks onto the clone and fires twice, both shots landing on it
- 0:10A clear Q lands on Yuumi under the tower, she goes down, and I walk back out
The tower shot first, just not at me.
The reads
Our jungler Shyvana had Yuumi low and was in their jungle behind the tower, but with no minions under it she couldn’t find an angle to finish the kill. When Yuumi started to recall, Shyvana could see she had neither the time nor the angle, and she pulled off.
I was running back toward the lane and got close enough to send my clone straight at her. The basic trick to diving a tower as Neeko is to make sure the clone comes out of invisibility before it walks into tower range. That way the tower sees the clone and targets it before I’m anywhere near the range I need to finish the kill. Here the clone took two tower shots on its way in, so the Q that followed had a clear, easy line, and Yuumi went down under her own turret.
We lost the game anyway, a Xayah penta and all, but the dive is worth keeping: clone first, let the tower spend its shots on it, then step in for the kill.