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Farming past laning phase as a Mid Laner

Connoriam·7/6/2016, 9:20:58 PM·1 votes·1,897 views

Alright let me get started off by saying this, please hear me out in this, every time I explain this to someone I'm basically flamed.

Now, I leave laning phase, say 60-90 farm at 10 minutes, nearing 15 minutes my bot lane starts to rotate over to mid, all normal right? Everyone is playing the game, no problems. Then, being a mage, I have this greedy ADC coming over, which is what she should do, but this ADC is just last hitting my minions. Several games I have had the ADC rotate over, literally to see them stand by the minions and last hit the minions that got low, even when it was me getting them low. I don't know if you understand my problem here, but mid laners need farm too, and I find it a struggle to be mid and try to push my lane while still keeping up 100 farm per 10 minutes. I see challenger players doing it, and its a standard I want to get to, and I feel like the only way I'll get that much every 10 minutes, is if I take raptors, and big waves bot and top whenever I can, all of this being outside of my lane, while my ADC is taking farm mid, which isn't too big of a problem, but whenever I'm trying to get farm mid aswell, I seem to not be able to get much while my bot lane is there. Now not only my ADC does this, but my jungler, and my top laner do this too, now Top laners are normally tanks, and if they aren't thats okay, you can definately take farm mid too, but that doesn't mean take as much as you can mid, and when that 20+ minion wave hits your tower top, you abandon your team to go get that big juicy wave right as an infernal dragon spawns, you need to push the lane before it hits towers, before the dragon spawns, so we can group as 5 for the upcoming objective. Now, the jungler.. This one isn't as common and I don't have junglers taking farm mid that often, but they have an item that literally gives them more money frmo jungle camps.. But people take their camps too, but junglers are normally tanks as well, they dont need as much farm. That sounds rude and greedy to say I know, tops and junglers need farm too, they all need money, but mids do too, so just let us share or something? I don't know how to put this but dont walk up to the minion waves with a goal of getting all 6, you have other people who want that farm too... Please feel free to comment solutions to my problem? I have no idea what to do as a mid laner, when i have 3 people contesting me over farm that i thought was mostly mine to begin with. Also, is this just a mid laner mentality? am I wrong to think all of this? please expand my knowledge, everytime in a game i ask for people not to take all my farm im flamed as if Im playing incorrectly.. Thanks! [slayer-jinx-catface]

2 Comments

PhantomGG7/6/2016, 10:04:43 PM1 votes

The way challengers mantain this farm level is 4 ways

1-Players at that elo understand that the priority of people who should be given farm is the top laner, the mid laner and the adc. So the Support and jungler will almost never take lane farm and almost always hand it over to the laner. So honestly it's near impossible for you to mantain 70-100 farm every ten minutes because players in our elo just don't understand which members on the team should be given lane farm priority. The only way to do this is if you are playing champions who can easy farm like yasuo or malz.

2-Taxing, as a mid laner, assuming you are good, you probably roam time to time. However you probabbly just do the following.

-Roam -Attempt to gank -Leave when done

What you should be doing is

-Roam -Attempt to gank -Tax 3-4 minions -Leave when done

People get pissed when you tax, but if you gave a roam, you should always do it, or else you fall behind

3-Manipulating the wave

I am no expert on it, plat and diamond players understand this much better. But before every back, you want to make sure the wave is where you want it before you leave. It is not always possible to do this, but every time before you back, make sure your minions are under the enemy tower. That way they miss farm, and the lane pushes toward you while you are walking back to your lane, which minimizes the farm you miss. Doesn't always work, but it's important to do.

4-Split pushing/clearing waves

So players in low elo get really nervous about doing this, and especially mid laners, and for good reason.

"Do I split push and get some farm? Or do I stay with my team and protect them"?

If you stay, you get no farm most the time, if you split you get farm. If you leave you run the risk of them dying without you than flaming you, if you stay you run the risk of nothing happening and just missing out on farm. It is important to learn when you can split and when you can't, once you master this your farm per 10 minutes will increase dramatically.

Hope this helps.