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Evelynn jungle or mid lane?

Widder88·9/10/2015, 11:35:03 AM·1 votes·813 views

Hi, I am an Evelynn main and I wanna discuss which position is best for Evelynn. I started to play her in Preseason 4, and during Season 4 I played her almost only in the jungle, but since Season 5 I played her more and more in mid lane, and my conclusion is that mid lane is just better for her. But overall she is played by 96.9% in the jungle and only by 2.1% in the mid lane (0.6% top). http://www.leagueofgraphs.com/de/champions/stats/evelynn/all

I think she is better in mid lane, because snowballing is very important for her, and in the mid lane she can get a bit more money, a bit more experience and can use Flash and Ignite. Because of that she is naturally a bit more powerful when played in the mid lane, what makes it more likely to snowball.

Ganking is a big strength of Evelynn, but she can do that from mid lane as well as from the jungle.

Evelynn loses health while fighting jungle monsters, what is a disadvantage for her in the jungle. In the mid lane she can get poked, but she has some tools to prevent it:

  • Her health regeneration is one of the highest in the early game.
  • Because of her hate spike she can farm from a longer range than other meele assassins, what reduces poke.
  • She doesn't have to stop moving while farming with hate spikes, what makes it easier to dodge skill shots (If someone stands still for AA a minion, it is a good opportunity to hit a skill shots)
  • She can walk to a minion in stealth, and when the opponent sees her she is already walking away again.
  • She can push the lane by spamming hate spikes, so the opponents has to use his abilitys for farming instead of poking Evelynn.

She can escape ganks with her W.

So I don't understand why almost everybody plays her in the jungle, even most Evelynn mains. Maybe you can explain it to me.

I recommend this build:

  • Flask
  • CDR-boots
  • Morellonomicon/Nashors Tooth or better just Fiendish codex + CDR runes
  • Sheen (Lich bane or Triforce)
  • Rabadons Deathcap (no Ludens!)
  • Zhonyas Hourglass
  • Abyssal scepter / Hextech-Gunblade / Botrk / Liandries / Rylais

9 Comments

Maximum Morde9/10/2015, 11:41:08 AM1 votes

I like playing her mid because it feels easier to dodge skills hots cause they can't see you lol. Then you can punish them with a quick e, spam q while backing off again to get the last hits and go invisible again

Hasztalan29/10/2015, 2:16:08 PM1 votes

item 3115 is not really good for evelyn apart from normal game trolling or if you make a heavy onhit build for ur E.

For midlane Eve i'd definitely buy item 3285 as well it's insane how much it boosts her dmg along with item 3100 .

item 3089 is borderline useless on eve no debate over that. She has a spammale high base dmg not an ap stacker mage. Penetreation and special effects like item 3285 item 3100 item 3151 boosts her damage a lot more.

item 3116 also pretty must have, gives her a really good sticking power combined with luden and lichbane they cant escape u.

EDIT: but with her next nerf lowering her Q with another 20 dmg i'd say leave her rotting in her nerfpit and play something else.

Lord Azır9/10/2015, 4:21:40 PM1 votes

I actually tried mid Evelynn a few days ago and played a few games so it. I had a lot of success during the laning phase and was able to get first blood almost every game. The build I went for was item 3057 item 3115 item 3020 item 3100 item 3285 item 3001 item 3157

I went for Luden's over Rabadon's because Eve doesn't have great AP scaling + the movement speed bufff is a big plus. The early Nashor's tooth let's you out duel almost anyone in lane, which spikes even harder when you get lich bane + luden's proc.

Used 9 ad reds, 9 scaling hp yellows, 3 scaling cdr blues, 6 scaling ap blues, and 3 ap quints