Is it possible to effectively block friendly minions in League of Legends?
In the start of most DotA matches, players would block their minions to make the first battle take place closer to their own tower. I haven't seen anyone do this in LoL. I've tried a couple of times and failed.
Is it my lack of skill or just harder to pull off in LoL?
Best Answer
I don't think this is possible in LoL. Anyways, you will certainly not be able to delay them long enough to be significantly closer to your own tower. However, you can easily let the minions fall back to your own tower, by not attacking the enemy minions (except for last hits).
As long as your lane opponents attack your minions, while you only last hit theirs, you will be at your own tower within one or two minion waves.
The worst possible case is if you're solo against two enemies. Then they will position themselves between you and your minions to drive you away, hence, you will not get any experience. In that case, there's not much you can do (if you engage at level 1, you normally die). However, the opponents will last-hit your minions, hence, pushing theirs. Again, they can only starve your XP for a wave or two, before everything is taking place in your tower's range.
(Note, however, that you usually don't want to fight in your tower's range all the time against ranged heroes. They will continually be able to hit your tower and eventually get it down.)