Mid more important than Bot now.

Caytheles·May 18, 2016·1 votes·494 views

These last few games have been Me and my adc Dominating the bot lane to where their adc is more than 100 cs behindlategame... But since our mid lost to the enemy mid. We lost the game.

bot lane has become somewhat irrelevant in the winning of a game since the Mymu.
Supports have been effected by the Mymu with mages in the bot lane being carries.
once a mid laner Mage gets ahead they are now impossible to shut down.
People keep playing Complex Mages like azir with no clue on how to use them

5 Comments

brisker6May 18, 20161 votes

Nah

Wrong post is wrong. Games are variable. Had AP Zyra supports spank the titties off the opposing mid laner, even when he had friends. More like the ADC role is irrelevant as ever.

Edit: With the exceptional outliers like rageblade vayne

CaythelesMay 18, 20161 votes

The adc and support i cnsider as one, (im a support main) and true. also with the new Rageblade Jax is broken as shit so.... new thing to ban right?

Leopards GhostMay 18, 20161 votes

nah. anon posted about this earlier & it's true:

The potential for a failed botlane is cripplingly OP with regard to match viability.

tl;dr meta is for trolls.

BluePolarizerMay 18, 20161 votes

nope I've been absolutely crippled by a terrible botlane too many times.

With some team comps, yes, mid is more important than bot. For most, bot lane is still the most important in the game.

ZelnickMay 18, 20161 votes

From my experience, it's often, but not always that mid is more important early game because of their position to roam either top or bot lane, the fact that their lane is the shortest distance to the enemy nexus and can force team fights and sieges, help their jungler in either their respective north or south side against invasion, help take either dragon or herald or help their jungler invade either camp themselves. However, even though bot can also help with dragon most of the time, bot is more important late game because bot is what will carry a team fight and take objectives like baron with its consistent damage from crit strikes which are not limited to single spells with a high cooldown, whereas the mid takes on more of a support or pick role with its own cc. I usually see more quadrakills and pentakills from adcs than mages, and that usually happens late game.

The reality is though that it also depends on your team's composition and how well everyone's done in lane. If your mid lane is more of a late-game mid laner who wins by scaling with high ap ratios and winning late team fights, but your bot is some early game adc like draven, then bot is more important for maintaining the integrity of your team's progress through different stages of the game since bot will be useless and won't be able to contribute to sieges and team fights when late game arrives unless they have a good early game. So, unless they are against a particularly aggressive early game assassin like leblanc or zed, a late-game mid mage won't generally need ganks unless they are in a lot of trouble from getting ganked themselves or misplaying. This also brings up another point which is that you also want to consider which enemies are more of a problem. If you let leblanc or zed win early game, she can roam and annihilate any other lane, thus allowing the enemy team to take towers. But, if you let some late game mage like Viktor win his lane, you could very easily lose team fights and lose objectives like dragons, so it depends on your team's strategy as well, there's no real one-size-fits-all answer.