Lately I've noticed a lot of mids (AD/melee mids) go crystalline flash and three health potions. How do you deal with that? As a caster I don't have enough burst or mana early game to kill them and they just keep harassing me ( I harass back but they just outlast me till 6 then all in), and by the time I'm done with the one pot I have they still have 3 left.
if they go flask you should have more damage and health. Try to poke until you are both half hp then force a fight. You have more dmg, more HP. Ignite and profit.
Take pots?
Take Crystalline Flask + Pots, or play a non-mana caster. Or just ignore that they exist and farm instead of trying to trade with them. What kind of casters do you usually play?
get a gank thats most effective (flask regenerates your hp so its useless when enemies kill you fast) second thing is to poke them hard with autos for instance because they dont have enough dmg to just trade you
I'm a big fan of using boots and not trading with them.
I do this with my early-sucking fizz, because there's no way you're gonna win a trade with dorans if you got counterpicked, or against a ok pre-6 mid laner. So i use the flask and 4 pots (recall at 1:20 and wait for the 35g and go to lane before the first minion is dead) and try to farm, just farm, not to trade, so you should be using your abilities to dodge harass and go for that double dorans asap, go bot, do a triple kill, get sheen = GG WP.
It Works for me, and it's situational and depends of the champ. You're not gonna take flask w/ akali or kat... The main objective of that start is to SURVIVE, not other. I play in LAN, sorry for my English, pls no haterino n.n
