because taric can stomp the primary damage from hurting the turret long enough for maokai and caitlyn to erase the attacking creep wave and forcing the enemy team to turret dive themselves in order to get kills or an objective?
your caitlyn also had shiv, which just makes her even better at stalling on top of piltover peacemaker. even taric can contribute by wing and ring the wave since those cds are really low
maokai can just ult in front of the turret, reducing the damage his creep takes and then using the ult to break their creep line, also saplings
you made a bad play.
A 3v5 dive on a turret is a lot easier than a 5v5 dive. Especially when there's a Hecarim healing from Spirit of Dread, and a Vladimir healing from everything.
Vlad, Zed and Graves can push like mad too. Graves and Zed have high burst.
And then there's a Blitzcrank.
They could have just either grabbed someone with Blitz, or outright dived 3v5 with or without creeps , bursted Caitlyn, and then not given a damn about me and Taric. It was 39 mins in, they were tanky enough to dive easily.
And they would have had all their ults except maybe Blitz ult, because they're not gonna waste ults if two people dive 5 under a tower without backup... so that's Hemoplauge, Onslught of Shadows, Zed Ult and Collateral Damage to just obliterate Caitlyn instantly.
Maybe it was a bad play, and I can see where you are coming from about the waveclear we had, but the way I see it, there was no way we could have defended 3v5, and as such, on the spot, I made the choice 'Welp, we gotta save these two morons'.