How to play mid lane?

Rainbow Cookie·8/6/2015, 8:02:55 PM·1 votes·1,284 views

Hello, I'm a Bronze I player and I'd like to know everything about mid lane. I wanna make it may main so I can carry myself out of this. So, I'd like someone to tell me all the details, small and big, about mid lane. I'm sorry I took your time and I hope to get some help here.

7 Comments

SantaGetsPenta8/6/2015, 9:25:14 PM1 votes

There are tons of guides out there for you bro. On mobafire. Most important thing in midlane is that you have to know that your in the center of the map. Your lane is the most important. So if you ever have the chance, roam if you can. You see that the enemy toplaner is pushing hard? Ping that your going top to help your ally toplaner.

Oh, and keep both bushes warded! Don't be afraid to spend that 75 gold for a ward. If that saves your live even once, it is worth it.

This is important in every lane: ''Take as mutch as cs as you can''. Your Bronze 1, so if you just focus on those last hits.. Then you would be ahead in CS for sure. Keep in mind that 18 cs is the same as a kill.

I'm silver 5 right now, but i'm working my up. Hope this helps a bit, and please take a look at the guides at Mobafire. It helps a lot more then i can help you.

T RexHasTinyArms8/6/2015, 10:05:39 PM1 votes

My tip would be find a style that works for you. I play heimer top/mid and usually win through objective control. Taking mid tower by poking an opponent out of mid then stacking dragons early and rotating bot/top to take their towers and increase the gold of my teammates. I picked this style up because I like being able to support and protect my team and win through making them stronger (Nunu jungle is so fun).

Recently I've been looking to pick up TF because he can be supportive to the team and get side lanes really fed. Other people though prefer assassins because they want to solo carry rather than building up the team. I don't pick good times to go in with assassins and don't enjoy the style enough to practice and improve so I just play a different style. Try different stuff and see what fits you, then just get better at it. Also work on predicting when a fight will break out in a side lane and rotating sooner than your lane opponent. This can crush hard in bronze bc you get fed and save your team so the enemy doesn't.

WalkingInACircle8/7/2015, 4:39:17 AM1 votes

With midlane, the point of what champions are chosen for midlane is based on the close proximity of your tower, and therefore safety. Squishy champions with long range and mobility like the lane for the ease they can reach safety from ganks. As mid is the most gank vulnerable lane, this is pretty important for them and for a midlaner to take advantage of. It is of course also the lane with the best map presence, able to roam and gank on its own.

For a few straight up tips: Know the enemy jungler and the probability of when they'll be trying to gank you. Eg. Warwick probably won't bother you until he's level 6 but Shaco will show up in your lane at level 2 with red buff.

If you're going to leave the safety of your tower, ward one side and stay on it. Maximize the vision you have for incoming ganks.

Most matchups have you either standing in the corner of the lanes (against passthrough skill champions) or in the center of your wave (against skillshots that hit the first target)

Waveclear has several uses for midlaners. It can neutralize a losing lane. It can shove a lane quickly before you roam, to disguise you leaving.

An early pink ward makes life much easier. It's usually best in the bushes near the river on your blue buff side, but if you choose to place it in the lane bushes, keep it as close to yourself as possible.

There are a lot of aggressive players mid. It takes practice surviving them, but as you get better they start to only become jungle bait. They get aggressive, they push the lane, and then they get ganked.

Don't go roaming just to go roaming. Your jungle really should be the first person on your team ganking. Farming your lane has a lot of value in its own right. Rather, you go gank side lines when the opportunities line up. Top is pushed, my ult is up, our top is able to help, I can leave mid while disguising my intent. Okay. But even just getting seen by a ward along the way makes it a waste of time while your opponent gets to shove your tower. You can also do things like clear jungle creeps and place deep wards when your minions are away from your tower.

ClumsyFerret8/8/2015, 3:27:50 AM1 votes

This doesn't specifically point to mid lane, but general map awareness is amazing. A tip I received from a diamond player is to check your map every 3 - 5 seconds, and get a count on where everyone is. If top, mid, and bot are all in place, you're mid, and you see their jungler leave top and start going towards mid, you might want to back off for a short while to attempt to make him not want to gank you.