User blog comment:TeaIsExplosive/Going ham in Silver/@comment-1985493-20131029115704

As an avid J4 player, I used to make the mistake that it seems like you're making. Often my style of play would be "see fight, take fight" without realizing what I was doing. Often, I'd be doing things like jumping in while maybe one or two memebers were occupied a nearby buff or ulting onto the full tank Nasus of all things. After a while, I realized that if a fight doesn't look like it can be overwhelmingly won, backing off a little is always an option. This is  especially true if it doesn't look like you're going to get a proper engage. I usually look for a fight when I notice that:

1) We have the numbers advantage

2) A potentially vunerable target is in a vunerable position

3) We clearly have the advantage.

However, it's still possible to lose a fight even with any of these three being true at the moment just simply off of a bad engage. You may E-Q-R Cait, but if you just ran past Darius and he's busy carving Ezreal a new one, you chose a bad time/position to engage. Hopefully this helps :)