Thought this was a stragedy game...my bad.

Next time it happen take a potion, Sigil, Orb of Defiance and use it once their in the towers. Laugh manically and enjoy your experience and gold.

if you're dead, no cash.

  Really... it sort of makes sense to be able to chase someone down who you nearly killed and then runs away, soooooo, you give chase. Good players will toy with you though. They'll let you ge them down to 1k or so and then run into towers once you're deep enough, blam they cast an instant 2000hp and you sir are f'd in the a.

If your tactics arent working change your tactics not your opponents.

This potion comment is not really a good idea imo, since beyond level 7 or so nukes can really hit you hard. If you stop runnin for a mere potion you may very well get killed for stopping. Therefore stopping may not be the most wise thing you can do. At low level however it may be viable.

It still remains a crappy tactic though. When the opposing DG flees you can just count rhe time you have gained in which you can do what you want as the reward.

I made the "potion comment" assuming that we were all talking about lower levels, since if you had already been killed plenty of times by getting chased down during the early stages of the game, and your opponent had taken advantage of all the gold and xp that he/she had earned from killing you early-on, you would stand no chance in your high levels, cuz your opponent would already be much stronger then you from said gold and xp, and all you'd have left to do is watch your citadel fall down.

The "potion comment" was merely a suggested solution to the problem of dying early-on in the game (say...levels 1-5/6/7). If you take your potion in those early levels, and your opponent is still in his early levels, he will most likely not have enough health to finish you off in time before the towers/you kill him. That's just the way it usually goes early on in the game...everyone doesn't have nearly the amount of health they will later on, and the towers are actually a threat, instead of a minor hinderance, as is the case in the later stages of the game. If YOU are the one finishing-off your opponent early on in the game and bringing in heaps of gold and xp as a result of your kills, then YOU will be the one with the advantage later on in the game, and your opponent will find himself/herself in a fair bit of trouble. Your opponent was the one who chose to use the high-risk "tactic" of chasing you into your towers early-on in the game, and since you hopefully were prepared for it (with Potions/Sigils/etc.), he's the one that payed for it.

And sure, even if you take some potions/sigils with you early game and use them in your towers when you're being chased, it isn't gonna guarantee a kill. Especially if you're against an Oak with Shield or a Sedna with Heal. But what it will most likely guarantee is that your opponent will recognize that if he/she continues to try and get you, it'll be way too risky of a chase, and if they're smart, they'll back-off and rush back out of the towers. You didn't get a kill, but look on the bright side...you didn't die either. No gold or xp for them. You have a much better chance later on in the game.

Yes, it can be risky, but if your health isn't in too bad of situation yet, you can devastate your opponent by stopping to hit the potion button in just the right place. Say, right by several Towers of Light/Darkness, and an Archer Tower or two. Early-on in the game, those things can seriously kick your ass if you're not careful, and this "tactic" of chasing somebody into their base early-on in the game is practically the definition of "not careful". If you've hit that potion right by your towers, and your opponent hasn't yet clicked somewhere outside your base to escape, use your health boost and the towers that are completely surrounding your opponent to YOUR advantage. Several towers, combined with you pounding on your opponent as he tries to flee, equals massive amounts of DPS and, most likely, a kill for you. Which also means more gold/xp for...YOU.

And, yes, I'm still referring to early levels. If you've already been decimated in your early levels by your opponent, then their is pretty much nothing you can do. He/She just has way to much gold and xp from killing you. My suggestions are just some ways in which you can prevent your opponent from grabbing that early-game advantage, that would end-up devastating you in the later parts of the game.

A competent opponent will not be seen using this tactic of chasing you into your base early game...ever. The potions are for those opponents who are very reckless in the early parts of the game and are trying to "kamikaze" you for gold and xp. If you are prepared (with a potion or a sigil), then they just completely failed their kamikaze. If you aren't prepared for this reckless attack...well, then you really don't qualify as a competent opponent to them either.

Oh, and since you feel like playing the role of grammar police in this thread...you spelled "competent" wrong.

your silly.

LEARN that if a team does this tactic against you it is still benefical to YOUR team because it EVENS the playing field at the time e.g. 3v3 would become a 2v2 for 30 seconds.

suicide kills are dumb, and the reason why it is dumb is because YOU DONT NEED KILLS TO WIN. IF U JUST MAKE THEM GO BACK TO THE CITADEL THE GAME BECOMES 3v2 FOR  the next 15 seconds, AND IN THAT TIME U COULD POSSIBLE GET A KILL SAVELY WITHOUT DYING AT ALL. LEARN THAT MAN COME ON.

I play DG regularly with quite a few really good players.  That said, I am often the Kamikaze in the bunch.  If I kill you by following you past the point where I will live (a tower for instance), then you die and I will most likely die.  Pretty simple logic, right?  But the math is the interesting part.  Let's say we are in a 1v1 fight.  We are fighting it out.  You decide you are going to die if you stay, so you pull back.  I agree that you are going to die, so I pursue.  I do some additional math and decide that you will die if I keep following past your towers and realize that I will die as well.  But the math isn't as simple as I kill you, you kill me.  It's I kill you and get money, and you kill assist in killing me, but your tower might finish me off.  This means, I get the kill and get MORE money.  You PROBABLY will get a kill and earn less (assist money).  IMO - if you will more than likely get a kill (typically, I apply this rule EARLY game), then go for it. 

But, the easiest and best way to avoid me chasing you is to simply run like hell when you think you are close to dying. That quickly ends any crazy math I have going in my head anyway.