Mid Laners that need a buff
I feel like the current meta doesn't let ap mid laners, especially ranged ones, carry games to victory. It is either the adc, top laner,or sometimes the jungler. The support arguably has the potential to carry games as much as ranged ap mid laners rn, which to me shouldn't be the case. I've seen mid lane yasuo, leblanc kassadin solo carry games, but thats about it. Here are two champions I think need a slight buff.
I think Lux just cannot carry games no matter how well she is doing if her team is braindead. I get that she deals high damage and has very long range in exchange for being immobile and extremely squishy. However, her passive forces her to get into auto attack range just to deal a tiny bit of extra damage, and she is an easy target in the late game if she gets that close to an enemy. Her kit is literally all skillshots, yet I feel like she doesnt do as much damage as she should for her squishiness. This is probably because of her w being a shield instead of a damage ability, but I dont think that's really the main issue. I feel like Lux's passive damage should be buffed so it does more damage late game, so good Lux players who take the risk of it getting too close to an enemy to finish them off feel rewarded instesd of suffering a guaranteed death . Even if she lands her q, they are only rooted for 2 seconds, so they can still cast abilities and such. A passive damage buff late would help her wave clear a bit as well.
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Ahri only does enough damage now to finish off onesquishy enemy tbh. I get that she used to be very strong, but they completely gutted her. First they nerfed w and ult but buffed charm, then mini rework removed her q giving movement, etc. She doesn't do enough damage as an assassin should, even with electrocute. I think this is because of her ult that makes her a very safe champion, but other champions deal twice as mich damage while being just as mobile. Ahri also has extremely high mana costs that cripple her laning phase. I think Ahri should get something like a charm buff where instead of dealing 20% bonus damage to a charmed enemy, she deals 25% or 30% more to charmed enemies with her abilities and auto attacks. It would let herpick off one enemy better, so good Ahri's who charm te right person actually have a better chance at making sure the person actually dies instesd of having to wait for ult to come back up (cooldown is super high) then go back in, charm q w all over again.
I'm sure there are a couple of othermid lane ap range champs that could use a slight buff tbh, but I feel like it's so unfair how ad champs cough yasuo can just auto attack with high mobility and basically solo carry games with their lifesteal while ap mages with skillshots and less dfe ensive stats cant do the same even if they land all of their skillshots.