Mid feels worthless.

Divewing··4 votes·347 views

I'm beginning to lose even the ability to care anymore... It's just not fun at all, Mid lane feels like the most worthless role in the game right now unless your name begins with Yasu and ends in OP At first I felt the vision changes were good, now because of the moronic turret changes, I absolutely hate it. I died twice in lane early-ish (7-13 minutes?) to a gank and as the result of a counter-gank. On the first one I think my opponent DCD so there was little follow up, but on the 2nd, the renekton alistar and elise managed to take not only the remaining 70/80% or so of my t1 tower, BUT THE WHOLE T2 TOWER BEFORE MY 20 SECOND DEATH TIMER HAD ENDED. I was so shocked and horrified. I'd read the changes, and knew all about the resistance removal, but honestly the way you worded it riot, it sounded like it wouldn't make much of a difference until 25+ minutes. Blow that for a joke. I realised immediately right then and there, DYING IN LANE WOULD RESULT IN A TOWER FALLING. But I have next to no vision as a mid laner to protect myself sufficiently from anything more than a half-arsed attempt, not to mention my inability to clear my opponents vision (also, imagine trying to farm up and play the game in what should be a lane with both t1s up without your t2 ;D. Again with nowhere even close to enough wards to be safe ^^). Oh yeah, and every item on my suggested items list has increased in price bar item 3020 and item 3001, and there is NO GOOD MASTERY SET UP FOR AP MIDS, OR EVEN MOST AD MIDS.

I'm ready to give up. I don't think I have the champion pool to play anything other than Azir right now, who only works by virtue of his ultimate and late-game scaling, which even then requires me to GET THERE FIRST.

I remember a time when mid was a strong lane with impact. But I cannot recall a time where mid excelled at the expense of the bot lane. I never like bot to begin with. Supports were usually ok, but most of the adcs came across as super entitled to me, and I did always wonder if they along with The Egghead (LeeSin) were favourited by Riot. I've sat and watched as Syndra had her knees broken, Talon was kicked in the crotch, Azir was put into a coma (he luckily came out of it), and Lissandra got sent a warning to not get popular again (unfortunately....), but this is the lowest I have ever felt in my coming-up-to-2-years playing this game.

But the absolute worst thing. Is you won't even talk to us. Forget about admitting you screwed up and reverting some changes (HAHAHAHAHHAHAHAHA AS IF), you refuse to even own up to the despair you have made a large majority of the community feel. Certainly by looking at the boards there doesn't seem to be many people who are indifferent let alone pleased with these changes. Honestly I'm beginning to wonder if you consider your changes AS A WHOLE, AND HOW THEY INTERACT WITH EACH OTHER, or just individually. Cause god knows buffing ADCs immensely and reducing towers to bug-zappers IN THE SAME PATCH was idiotic.

For god's sakes one of my friends IRL hates it, and HE MAINS ADC!

7 Comments

NoPaxt4 votes

I now find MID the most rewarding... I always felt like mid was farm and survive, wait for ganks, and farm and survive. Now mid feels like the more important lane. Protecting RH and Dragon is immense and mid controls that.

NoPaxt1 votes

Down voted for liking mid.... so sad.

Divewing1 votes

Mid is likely no doubt the most important. But the changes this patch has brought managed to nerf almost the entire mid-roster, as well as mid laners' vision. In other words, theres too much crap Mid is currently supposed to help/be responsible for, that they CANNOT because of these changes. ON TOP OF ALL THIS. Mid is also the easiest lane to goon-squad.

I don't know where you went to buy your rose-tinted glasses, but Mid lane is a miserable experience right now. The only thing mids are good for currently is providing CC. Damage isn't needed and we have basically become solo-lane supports.

Ionian2 votes

Yep, not much point in playing Ahri anymore.

NoPaxt1 votes

How is Ahri pointless? She's still very strong...

Ionian1 votes

Compared to what? Urgot? Katarina? Zyra? Nida? Leblanc? Mana pots removed, didn't get ONE single base mana / mana regen compensation. All items she builds had their cost increased except abyssal. MR is cheaper. Keystones are horrible for AP mids. Yasuo is too OP atm and counters her.

Would get much better results playing ADCs mid.

Divewing1 votes

The fact is, mids take too long to freaking scale. We've got ADCs running round off 1 item power spikes 1v5ing, meanwhile im still waiting for enough gold to buy freaking zhonyas. Mid lane was bent over backwards and treated really indecently by Riot with this patch, and no amount of new jungle camps will change that, the ONLY mid that benefitted off this was Yasuo, and that is literally solely by virtue of being a MADC, him being a mid laner is a coincidence.

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