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Ranking the mid laners at Worlds

OHminus·9/16/2016, 11:59:31 AM·2 votes·1,692 views

Disclaimer: My opinion, feel free to disagree

  1. Crown (SSG)
  2. Faker (SKT)
  3. Maple (FW)
  4. Bjergsen (TSM)
  5. Scout (EDG)
  6. Kuro (ROX)
  7. Xiaohu (RNG)
  8. Jensen (C9)
  9. Westdoor (AHQ)
  10. Athena (IMAY)
  11. Perkz (G2)
  12. Ryu (H2K)
  13. Sencrux (SPY)
  14. Kira (ANX)
  15. Huhi (CLG)
  16. Tockers (INTZ)

12 Comments

Unstoppable Monk9/16/2016, 3:20:52 PM6 votes

Here's my list, feel free to disagree on the order.

  1. Bjergsen
  2. Bjergsen
  3. Bjergsen
  4. Bjergsen
  5. Bjergsen
  6. Bjergsen
  7. Bjergsen
  8. Bjergsen
  9. Bjergsen
  10. Bjergsen
  11. Bjergsen
  12. Bjergsen
  13. Bjergsen
  14. Bjergsen
  15. Bjergsen
QuartzGolem9/17/2016, 8:15:25 PM2 votes
  1. Scout
  2. Faker
  3. Kuro
  4. Bjergsen
  5. Xiaohu
  6. Maple
  7. Crown
  8. Athena
  9. Westdoor
  10. Jensen
  11. Kira Here's a fitting quote for the others: "The rest are non-existent, especially CLG" -Dyrus
LankPants9/16/2016, 3:13:06 PM1 votes

You're underestimating Kuro hard, he's not just being carried by Rox and he's a laner who has frequently outperformed your top 2 laners. Rox is the best team in the world right now because they have at least a top 3 player in every position on their team, putting a player like Bjergsen above him who has done nothing but crush his way through a region with notoriously weak mids is pretty absurd.

If I had to construct this list I'd have something along the lines of

1.Kuro 2.Faker 3.Crown 4.Scout 5.Maple 6.Xiaohu 7.Bjergsen 8.Westdoor 9.Perkz 10.Athena 11.Sencrux 12.Jensen 13.Kira 14.Tockers 15.Ryu 16.Huhi

I'd even consider swapping Scout and Crown TBH. I don't think it's justifiable to have Crown as the best mid in the world, he seems to be consistently somewhere between 3rd and 5th in Korea. Sure he has a few games where he looks amazing, but then he'll go and get absolutely destroyed by an utterly average Korean mid like Fly 2 games in a row. The thing that makes Faker and Kuro better than this is that they are super consistent, they don't have bad series. They may have a bad game every now and then but they won't play two bad games in a row.

I also think you are heavily overestimating NA. Remember that this is the region that has historically had the weakest mid laners in the world. When Bjerg and Incarnati0n used to play in EU they weren't special, there were always other mids who were as good as them, most of the time better than them in the region. This hasn't changed, there are still EU midlaners who are constantly pressuring the top and driving the overall quality up in the region.

I don't understand peoples reasoning for elevating these players. The only recent international tournament involved a reeling SKT who went on to shit the bed for the first 5 weeks of the LCK seemingly having no idea how the jungle role actually worked and a G2 who seemingly forgot they actually had to play League, instead thinking they were going to some sort of fan greet. The only region who really performed as expected at that event was China.

Hardstuck G49/16/2016, 1:22:10 PM1 votes

I feel like you seriously underrate Athena and Westdoor

Takito9/17/2016, 12:55:31 AM1 votes

Seems like a legit list but i would trade Maple and Bjergsen.

Also , the way he has been playing lately, Jensen might deserve that 6 or 7 spot.Dunno about this one though.

Raiyza9/17/2016, 1:18:12 PM1 votes

You're overestimating Jensen. He needs to go down 3 pegs. Bjerg is in a good spot there.

R7 Factor9/17/2016, 8:01:00 PM1 votes

I would say swap kuro and maple, also westdoor should be ranked higher

III BAKURYU III 9/16/2016, 4:14:26 PM1 votes

1FAKER 2MAPLE 3KURO 4SCOUT 5CROWN 6BJERGSEN 7ATHENA 8XIAOHU 9JENSEN 10SENCUX 11RYU 12PERKZ 13WESTDOOR 14HUHI 15KIRA 16TOCKERS

TBakes9/16/2016, 1:55:57 PM1 votes

Mid lane is STACKED