Ah . Thank you . <| sep |> There it ' s pretty situational . If you ' re a support like a leshrac or a shaman , you can take a tower at about the speed that they do , just make it a worthy trade like their safe lane tower for your mid . If you ' re not , still push out the lane but be constantly looking at mid making sure you ' re ready to TP and know where to go the second a fight starts to break out . Try to convince carrys to have a TP , but that ' s not always going to happen . But think of it this way , if they have 5 heroes sitting mid , even if they take the tower after 2 minutes of standing around staring down your heroes , even if you have even one person in another lane that ' s one more person you have farming and getting solo exp than they do . If they can push a tower , it will almost always be worth the trade . Players at that bracket also don ' t expect you to instantly TP , just make sure you ' re watching the lane closely and get in ASAP . Your spells showing up when they weren ' t expecting you to show up while fighting under your own tower gives your team an advantage as well , which often times will win you the fight , especially if you were able to pick up an item while being elsewhere . You can then transition that into a push . The key is knowing if you can take the fight and win , or if you should split push and go for trades , which is entirely situational and hero dependent unfortunately .