What mid laner should I learn if I'm just starting?

I would recommend Lux.

Easy to last hit with (E and passive), high utility (Snare, slow + vision, AoE shield), long-ranged and great burst damage.

She is fairly simple to play and useful even if you fall behind since you still have utility and enough damage to burst squishy targets.

Azir

after annie you can branch out into

also can double as a support mage

Annie for standard easy mage. Zed for easy assassin. Diana for ap assassin. Cho gath for cc and tank

RIOT has the "starter pack" of champions, which include some of the original OG champs, these tend to be less mechanically intensive which takes pressure off of you and allows you to look at the games as a whole, the mini map, timers, objectives, items, gold, creep score and so fourth. These are probably your best bet, I personally used udyr, but can use other like annie, master yi and Garen. I know ryze is there but he got several reworks. hope this helps.

also you can use her at a support if need be as well... so you have a champ for two roles

Actually, i get the feeling annie is really BAD for a champ to start. Firstly, she has like unlimited mana, which hinders the starter to learn about the aspect of it. Second, she is like point and click. Which makes you not learn about skillshots Thirdly, her play potential is just flash and ult. You barely learn anything from that.

I reccomend Velkoz. Really good auto attacks to learn how to cs with mages. Good cc, and Q second cast which prompts you to land good shots. Passive which makes you to learn how to combo. One of the highest winrates in mid.

And yeah, nobody can resist the laser.

thank me later

Azir is easy. Trust me*[slayer-jinx-wink]*

hmmm...I started off with TF(dont do that ffs) donger is funny because u can sit in between 3 turrets and spin on your head, let turrets and occasional dong bomb plus rockets do the work, zhonyas with ult'ed turret is RIP if they try to dive you.

Lux Leblanc if you're aiming for ap. Lux has nice farming and intuitive combos. leblanc is an assassin with surprisingly good farming and nice roaming. Going for ad i'd recommend talon for nice aoe.

Watch map movements from jungler That's why no one likes ganking me :p

Just rmb if they auto you when they're near your minion wave you can play aggressive and win trades

Ideal situation is to push your wave to help your team

To freeze lane and open enemy laner to Ganks is what you should try to do

watch the map to assist your team or to avoid ganks

Rmb to Ward sides

Pick something easy like Annie or morg They're not mechcanically heavy

I'd recommend Lux and maybe Ahri

Twisted Fate and Ryze. These are not my words, but Faker's. Every mid laner should know how to play Twisted Fate and Ryze. Twisted Fate because he teaches you to look at your minimap, and Ryze because he teaches you what keys to hit at what times.

That being said, that was regarding the old Ryze, so maybe not this new one.

Question, why are you Mid?

If you're doing it because:

Easy to carry games. Easiest to learn. You saw E-Sports.

Just don't. Its better to not specialize when leveling up and see what you like hands-on.

Super safe with decent utility. Xerath is the hardest to learn of the three mechanically, but probably has the safest lane phase. Morg is the easiest mechanically, but hardest to position in teamfights. Lux is a balance of both and best to start with, but is really mana hungry with CDR in extended fights.

For learning, I'd go with

She's entirely skill shot based, which forces you to learn to use them. The lack of mobility makes positioning more important (especially if you try and weave her passive in). She does both damage and has utility which means that you still have to pay attention to your team.

She's also exceedingly basic and easy to understand as a champion. Her optimal cases are fairly obvious, but her ceiling is reasonably high due to relying heavily on your own personal aim and positioning.

She's also flashy enough to get some cool moments out of, while being safe enough to be somewhat forgiving. If you ever decide to learn mobile assassin mid's start with LB.

She posses mobility, damage, CC and is not restricted to be a one trick pony, or entirely focused on skill shots. She has both good aoe dmg and team fight contribution as well as assassin capability. She is not stationary and too risky as are champs like Lux, Vel or Xerath. Oh and good wave clear and sustain

When I started a year ago, I found myself using lux a lot for both mid and support. She's very easy to learn and master. So easy, a boosted animal such as myself can use. Even if she falls behind, just slap on a dark ring on feed off of assists and kills. when you land the q e r combo, you can almost smell the enemy team's spaghetti that has fallen out of their pockets.

Annie and lux are ussually the go tos for beginner mid lanes

is the best mid laner