Talk:Farming/@comment-98.219.85.48-20130117163456/@comment-67.237.69.141-20130118185014

I recommend playing Annie, or someone with some easy lasthit abilities in a custom game. Go mid lane, lasthit, and ONLY lasthit as many minions as possible using your q and autoattacks, until 20 mins in the game. Do not attack towers, just last hit. After 20 minutes, see what your score is. Copy it down somewhere. Now, make another game, do the same thing, and try to beat that score. Doing this, you won't have the external distractions of a enemy champion. After you get around 150 CS by 20 mins, this is pretty good. Add a bot to the other side, go to the lane they do, and practice lasthitting, WHILE balancing the lane in the middle. You can do this by attacking the creeps and trying to keep the amount of health your creeps have equal to the health their creeps do. This is good practice for real games, when you want to keep the lane in a specific spot. But remember, don't only focus on balancing the lane, focus on last hits as a priority.

Keeping a lane balanced, while at the same time last hitting is an extremely valuable skill. If you can keep the wave JUST outside your turret's range, you can lasthit from the safety of your turret, and still get all the farm. You will also expose the enemy laner to the threat of jungler ganks. Learning skills like this is the key to becoming a better laner - in any position.