Hi Sinstrel, yeah I'm currently sitting around gold 2, so I understand that I'm not exactly top tier here. Yes, as a summoner I never initiate combat and always take the approach you mention. What ends up happening is
a) someone else on my team rushes in and faceplants or
b) they engage, my team splits up far and wide while they keep pushing the crystal and eventually usually winning; especially when I've got several healers on my team and we can't really burst their engager down.

I'm struggling with these scenarios.