You know who i'm talking about; zed, fizz, yasuo, talon, kat, ETC. you just chip away at their health ability after ability, when BAM They ult you and your dead. Now, i know that zhonya's is a dead counter to this, but once they get fed early game, the damage has been done. How do i compete with people when im playing as brand, anivia, liss and all the old fashioned mids?
redniwediS1 votesThe problem with trying to compete using those champs is that these burst champs are pretty much designed to counter the classic mage mid laners. Except for Yasuo I actually prefer using a bruiser against them. Just experiment with some risky champion picks and see if anything sticks.
DWT123451 votesso old mids are only viable as support now?
trexmixG1 votesno, just a bit harder to use.
redniwediS1 votesI didn't say that at all. I'm assuming you know about counter picking, but in case you don't I suggest you look it up. Picking an old mid against a current high burst mid laner is countering yourself. Normally you try to counter someone else, but there are some situations where you actually want to counter pick yourself.
Now, when you are not against a high burst assassin style mid laner the old mids are completely fine, and scale very well into the late game when played correctly. You just need either a favorable matchup to come along or enough personal skill to make it work anyway.
The key thing to remember is that a meta shift toward one play style does not make the play style it counters unviable. Assassins do well against mages, where as mages do well against other things, and if you're unwilling to adapt to what is currently popular you'd best be stubborn as hell.
SexyTaylorSwift1 votesFiddles is good against Fizz, Kat, and Zed. He is also ok against the other two, depending on skill level of players. He actually does pretty well against some good mids. Drain through that damage lol.