Not sure if this goes here, but... I need some help getting better at mid-lane.

Zencharm·12/31/2014, 4:30:42 PM·1 votes·647 views

Recently, I've taken a liking to mid-lane champions, such as Ahri, Syndra, and Yasuo, but I'm no good at mid-lane. I did do well however, during a match as AP Ezreal mid, and a match a while ago during a free week with Heimerdinger. Other than that, I'm good at ADCs, Supports, and Junglers such as Udyr, Vi, and Sejuani. I recently bought Nami, so I don't have nearly enough IP to buy another champion. Out of those three Junglers, I only own Udyr. So yeah, guides, gifting champs, anything helps, tbh.

2 Comments

Drunk Rummate12/31/2014, 4:50:57 PM1 votes

good midlaners this season will be judged by their ability to manage mana properly while maintaining high farm. ahri/syndra will be very good this season since they have relatively low mana costs and they typically went DFG over Athenes anyways.

highly recommend grabbing 5 mana regen seals for your AP page if you don't have them already. i take them even versus Zed when I Ahri just because it basically gives you nonstop Qs in the lane phase which translates to health (passive) and pushing power/harass.

i wouldn't touch yasuo unless you feel like dedicating a huge amount of time to learning the champ and the compositions he works in. he is not easy to play. ahri and syndra are a ton of fun and both very useful (borderline OP) in soloqueue though.

TehNACHO12/31/2014, 8:24:56 PM1 votes

I tend to find that, especially for melee midlaners, learning how to abuse Cooldowns is key to victory.

For example, let's say you're playing a champion like Yasuo against one of his natural lane counters, like Malzahar. "Oh no, I can't block his abilities with Wind Wall, total stomp right?".

During early levels, Malzahar's shortest cool down, the Q ability, takes a grant total of 9 seconds. If Malzahar uses his Q to, for example, farm or try to harass you but doesn't hit you, that's a 9 second opportunity where Malzahar has one less ability to hurt you. This can easily lead to a well timed level 2 or 3 engage, utilizing Yasuo's E to get right up to Malzahar, smack him with an AA-Q-AA, and get out before Malzahar can even hope to respond at full strength because, if you abused his Cooldown, one of his probably really important abilities is literally on Cooldown while you wail away at him. Granted, Malzahar also has his voidling that you need to work around, but it's still the same concept: focus on finding openings in the opponent's Cooldowns to abuse their momentary weakness.