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Mid lane is completely screwed up

LegitBusinessman··1 votes·505 views

I feel the situation in mid game is completely screwed up. Mages feel utterly useless. Why?

You can play an assassin into a mage. That's all you have to do.

Laning as a mage against an assassin is unfun. You can't cs safely, or often times you can't cs at all.

Truthfully, abyssal scepter is not enough to stop an ap assassin from 100-0ing you. It's not sufficient.

Zhonyas? Zhonyas has too long a build path. The zed or talon will hit 6 and 100-0 LONG before you can finish this item.

My question then is this: Will the mage update address the fact that playing an immobile mage into assassin feels unfun and unhealthy to the game?

4 Comments

MasterSomething2 votes

An immobile mage usually has range or extreme damage over the enemy. Use that instead of QQing.

LegitBusinessman1 votes

That's theoretical, but it's not practical. Of course i can farm long range, eventually ill run out of mana, the assassin doesn't need to do that, he can safely last hit because I can't come into auto range safely. The other issue then, is that most assassins, talon, zed, fizz, etc. can tower dive you with relative safety once the lane is pushed up.

GetBoomedOn1 votes

Went abyssal> athenes as ahri and leblanc was still able to take 70% of my lifebar with one Q -> Dash

Definitely Bait1 votes

Lux Anivia Malzahar Orianna Swain Annie Morgana

So you honestly cannot play any of these into assassins or even cs with any of these?

I mean they're all immobile mages.

I'd also include Karma + Lissandra to that list if one didn't have a telegraphed teleport and the other didn't have a speed boost on the shield.

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