top laners going mid

albert vaguet·12/1/2018, 10:28:31 PM·3 votes·1,794 views

Aatrox Fiora Illaoi Irelia Kled Malphite Nasus Renekton Urgot

these champs are now going mid. it's a viable strat, I am cool with it. But since preseason I miss playing against midlaners. it's kinda busted how much tanky/sustain bruisers can easily survive laning phase against assassins and mages (up to a point, I agree on that). The problem isn't that they are unbeatable, after lvl 6 I can beat most of them in a 1v1 if i make a perfect play (or for champs like illaoi i can chunk 50% hp after a full Leblanc combo). The problem is how much they prevent roaming. it's like I can't help my team at all, they push the lane so easily I find myself farming under tower most of the time, and of course that's a lose-lose since they get rewarded for their inherent ability to keep me in lane with turret plating gold. Anyway that's my rant. no constructive criticism or suggestions :)

8 Comments

Alzon12/1/2018, 10:29:58 PM3 votes

That’s supposed to be LeBlanc’s weakness. You can’t have literally everything.

PaffWasTaken12/1/2018, 11:43:08 PM2 votes

Midlane be like: "Mages? Not in MY meta!!!"

Otherlanes be like: "omg Viktor ,Lissandra and Karthus so op oh ma gerd plis nerv rito i cant play aids-d-cee or ay-say-sin animoore"

Mage mains who play underradvantaged champs: http://los40cl00.epimg.net/los40/imagenes/2018/11/12/actualidad/1542031525_179894_1542031764_noticia_normal.jpg

PlantagenNega12/1/2018, 10:55:49 PM1 votes

I didnt even read the article but from the headline I can say that Toplaners are only going mid because toplane itself is too weak and they dont have any impact on toplane so they go mid or bot

Fear the Kayn12/1/2018, 10:56:08 PM1 votes

If they send an AD bruiser mid it means they are probably a very heavy AD comp. Stack some armor.

OneMustFall12/1/2018, 11:21:25 PM1 votes

Rammus Ok.

Bisaknosp12/1/2018, 11:27:02 PM1 votes

pretty much all of these champs build hp which counters mages and assassins really hard early on (mainly those gated by mana) something like irelia and fiora who almost always build tiamat first can still be beaten but it still sucks how easily mages can have denied kill pressure with early merc's/hexdrinker and nullifying orb some might argue that you can just go tabis but unlike them you'll actually lose damage this way so meh if its a full ad comp tho you should have an increased chance of winning the game