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Is there a point to playing stuff that isn't meta?

Morgana Excellus·8/29/2018, 3:38:20 AM·2 votes·1,046 views

I play a lot of Morgana mid. It's my main. I generally stomp mid and then lose the game because she has almost no solo carry potential. Everyone says Morgana is just a support. That's the thing though. She was made to be a mage mid laner. Why can I not play a champion who is designed as a mid mid and win?

I just don't get it. Do I HAVE to play Morgana support to be successful?

I had a game earlier where I was 7/0 mid. It didn't matter. My teammates made one poor play and it cost us two inhibs. I was massively ahead of everyone. The enemy team, however, had a Fiora who had average farm. Fact: A fiora who is behind is just stronger than a Morgana who is ahead. A fiora who is behind takes at least 2 people to stop when split pushing. A 7/0 Morgana can easily be solo killed by anything if caught out.

It's just so absurd. I really feel like there is no reward at all for being good at this champion mid. Oh and she just got nerfed mid because she happened to be a support that was a counter pick to that broken ass Rakan meta.

Has anyone seriously managed to climb as this champion mid? Is this completely hopeless? Do I need to be a support main?

10 Comments

Dope Solo8/29/2018, 4:24:36 AM1 votes

Looking at lolalytics, she's still a platinum tier mid. The problem, there are 14 diamond tier and above champs who are artificially overbuffed, imposed imbalance "counterpicks". Those champs are overpowered and thus, better. >>>>> Ahri Talon Zed Yasuo, no surprises there, and 10 others, most of which wouldn't surprise you. Because LC$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$

VoraciousX8/29/2018, 4:30:05 AM1 votes

What are you building? Morgana can do a lot of damage as long as she hits a binding, so I don't see how she doesn't have solo carry potential. I've solo carried games as Morgana by being ungankable and dealing most of the damage.

VoraciousX8/29/2018, 5:16:10 AM1 votes

Morgana is more of a sustained damage dealer and you're building burst items. Try RoA>Rylai's>Liandry's as core, then go from there. Morgana's always done extremely well with dot damage builds. She's harder to burst and deals a ton of damage over time. For runes I generally go comet, manaflow band, celerity, Gathering Storm with biscuit delivery/magical footwear.