The TRUTH About Midlane in Both Dota and League

The Midlane Matchup is one that can oftentimes decide the fate of the game for the rest of the map. As a midlaner, it’s your job to set the tempo for the team and play as your team’s ace. And the truth is, you’ll need to have an ego if you want to consistently win your lane. Here’s why and how to cultivate a healthy ego.
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[@triforceofgaming9841]

How to play mid: Step 1: Tell your team "mid or feed" Step 2: Proceed to go mid AND feed Step 3: Blame your supports for not ganking and refilling bottle

[@Lastofhiskind_]

And see your enemy midlaner hit lvl 6 while you're lvl 3

[@RaveTheo]

next time type "mid -/+ feed"

[@drelouder]

There is a quote I hear somewhere that if you are midlaner without bloodlust you are a weak midlaner

[@munchiemunchie5226]

I mean, the logic applies to everyone except support. In fact, that logic is even more applicable to the Jungler who will almost always impact the game far more than any Midlaner could hope to dream or ADC's who know they will be more valuable than their Midlaners if they get fed and have the mentality to pair.

[@Derpe69420]

@@munchiemunchie5226to be a good jungler you need to be very calculated in the risks you take. You have so much agency to solo win the game but going for bad ganks when you could've been getting stronger can let you solo lose the game instead. I think that, besides support, jungle is the least ego driven role in the game

[@zzasserzz]

I can attest to this, I can steamroll mid but if I don’t I become weak to the enemy midlander … so I play support instead hahaa

[@seamuscorkum9935]

⁠@@munchiemunchie5226Every role has bloodlust and if you don’t then your bad. You should always want to fight when someone makes a mistake and if you don’t then your not capitalizing on advantages regardless of the role. It’s kind of funny how you put support down but talk about uglier controlling the entire game. Support and junglers normal have the highest kp at the end of the game because they always fight and impact the map. Bloodlust isn’t a role based emotion, it’s a player itself.

[@LcieKJ]

I thought you were talking about Ogre magis buff.

[@ventu7907]

Good to see someone who actually has a toughtful discussion about both league and dota

[@lukagrujic2912]

I didn't expect this video will be blue lock reference

[@Acex2ron]

ORE WA STRIKER DA

[@odukomaster5473]

"Bottle is like a refillable potion from league, but it also refills mana" I see that everyone has finally forgotten about corrupting potion after its nerfs.

[@Acex2ron]

In the thousands of League matches I have played, I have purchased that item just four times lmao

[@Niick3015]

Pretty sure corrupting pot has been removed.

[@user-vl8lm9si4i]

@@Niick3015 just bought it last game

[@milannovak1813]

@@Niick3015 no

[@Lastofhiskind_]

You can heal your teammate with your bottle too.

[@xxEchoDecayxx]

*WE ARE RUNNING DOWN MID WITH THIS ONE* 🎉🎉🎉

[@Lastofhiskind_]

We are hitting the enemy from low ground and missing hits with this one

[@muhammadrizalullah898]

Im a mid laner myself and this is the truth, but the main thing imo is that midlaner exist to create space for carry to farm and get ahead of enemy carry. A good midlaner is when you actually do 4vs5 situation and get value out of it thats why most of mid lane heroes are really good at early-mid stage of the game but their impact fall off in late game because you cant solo kill outplay enemy heroes anymore in late game

[@Acex2ron]

Definitely more the case for Dota than in League where champs like Yasuo, Yone, and Sylas exist! But I do agree-as a midlaner, you’re the star up until your pos 1 carry can delete people in just 4 seconds. And if it gets to the point where he can do that, you’ve done your job!

[@usx8778]

Just play azir and be the most important carry. If the adc is actually good and locks a hyper carry, now you have 2 marksman carries dealing different types of damage. Its just a bonus

[@castillejan]

If you play mid in DoTA, you need to go into every game with complete confidence that you are the single most mechanically skilled player in the game, and a BURNING desire to prove it.

[@aliencreative9360]

“If you don’t think you’re a bad bitch who else will??” - me, a mage main. As a midlaner main, I agree we have one of the biggest egos. It’s actually mandatory and necessary to have it to compete in mid lane tbh.

[@stickystevie9047]

I actually disagree with this (also mage player). I suppose it is determined by the specific playstyles & tactics you prefer to utilize.

[@sprinklesandtrumpettoots7151]

As a Support main, this is going to encourage me to target the enemy midlaner even harder than I already do to facilitate maximum mental boom. One good hook is all it takes to initiate the tilting phase. UwU

[@Acex2ron]

Yes by all means, gank my opposing laner 👏

[@matka5130]

supports like you is what we need

[@Lastofhiskind_]

"They're usually the flashiest players on the team" Meanwhile necrophos mid spams Q and dominates mid

[@fajaradi1223]

Malpractice makes perfect

[@kaisheng4269]

Sniper spamming Q or just right clicks as well 😂

[@whitedarkness97]

OD spamming astral imprisonment , Bane spamming brain sap and nightmare, Ember spamming sleight of fist , SF spamming razes , Zeus spamming arc lightning , Viper spamming poison attack , Rubick spamming fade bolt , Kotl spamming illuminate

[@Lastofhiskind_]

@@whitedarkness97 I mean ember spirit is a very flashy hero so ember makes sense. We're talking about heroes that are not flashy and can play mid.

[@FrankieWilliams-kx9gp]

If we are talking about the average ranked lobby in league, the mid laner probably has the most skill just because it’s the most popular role, but jungle and support have more impact on the game. From my experience the roles with the most potential to be the deciding factor of winning or losing from greatest to least impact are jg, sup, mid, and then adc and top are kinda even (top does better in lower elo while adc does better in higher elo).

[@Acex2ron]

Junglers and Pos 4 in Dota are definitely X-factors, especially the former if they can secure/steal objectives reliably. I also think you meant to type Toplaner, which does feel like they have the least impact until they’re up 3-0 on their role opponent and start taking their snowball elsewhere.

[@FrankieWilliams-kx9gp]

@@Acex2ron Im dumb, fixed it, thanks m8.

[@kwoltekublai3337]

Adc is above mid in agency atm in league, rest of your list is correct except jungle and support are tied for first imo. There is 0 agency in mid anymore tbh, jungle and support dictate all the moves you can make and it's just a question of who plays off these two better.

[@kwoltekublai3337]

​@@Acex2ronout of interest what elo you play both games at?

[@Acex2ron]

@@kwoltekublai3337 I don't actually have the patience for ranked these days lmao Though I last calibrated Ancient in Dota and Gold in League (just to get victorious skin lmao)

[@IchSpieleZuVielLoL]

Very nice video happy i found ur channel it deserves way more attention

[@mickolesmana5899]

wow I didn't know that in the league you "can't" take your jungler camp, since dota uses a farming priority system, pos 3 (off lane) or 4 (soft sup) kinda automatically give their farm either for pos 2 or main carry, hell I even, as a mid lane would just find a new camp to farm if our carry is near

[@CrucibleOfHate]

It's not a system, it's a strategy - but yeah that

[@Antidote-hx7if]

Junglers have priory all the time, it is acceptable for the adc to take a camp occasionally after 25+ mins (by occasionally I mean if ur split pushing top they can take krugs, which are far away and likely respawned) however mid laners taking camps is a no no, they already get loads more xp and gold way more than jg gets so it would be incredibly rude and greedy, (fuck that yone who full cleared my jungle after I stole drake)

[@Acex2ron]

Personally, it really depends on what Jungler you’re playing. If I’m on Yi or Hecarim, I’d prefer if my laners stay away from my camps. If I’m playing Rammus? By all means, take my Krugs and Raptors, I’m too busy camping their Yasuo to take it anyway

[@1nhumanewastaken]

that's why the carry is actually more important than the midder

[@munchiemunchie5226]

​@@Antidote-hx7ifthey definitely don't get as much gold. If you're playing right as a jungle in soloQ and prioritizing yourself, you won't fall behind. It's just general common decency to not deny your own team farm.

[@Slateproc]

I hope this turns into a 5 video series. I personally belong in the off/top lane and wanna see this done for the utility pseudo-cores that live here

[@Acex2ron]

I’d be happy to provide if the demand is there!

[@vo1ce147]

Nah as the Legendary Jenkins said about offlane is "offlane are the biggest idiots in all of dota they want to be like a core but they themselves don't want to farm"

[@Slateproc]

@@vo1ce147hey hey hey, glue eating is a perfectly valid hobby

[@Sei003]

My pre-game ritual is usually exiting off the game or alt+tabbing to watch a funny video completely unrelated to the game I'm playing before going back a few minutes later to pick a random hero and trying it out in practice lobbies for a few seconds before queueing up lmao. The difference in my performance was Honestly shocking ever since I started doing it as I now average like 70%+ WR in about 200 matches(since I don't have all the time in the world to grind 🤣).

[@Acex2ron]

That sounds amazing! Maybe I should try this out to raise my rank 👀

[@Sei003]

@@Acex2ron I honestly wouldn't recommend it if you're grinding since the pre-game stuff takes more time than the game itself sometimes but yeah, I think it's pretty effective in resetting my mind after a game(whether that's a win or a huge loss). Takes my mind out of it so I don't really worry about what the next game's result is gonna be. Most of the time, that's really where I struggle, especially during rank up matches. Now, I feel like ranking up is just a breeze lmao. Note: The added benefit of being untilt-able in any match is honestly really great. After all, you carry out the good vibes and expel all the bad vibes you had last game.

[@onicyka566]

Love ur content u r the one that ACTUALLY plays and REALLY understands both games and I can feel that ur closely inside both of the communities . Pls do more.

[@kjyu]

Ana IO reveal during TI was one of the greatest flexes I've ever seen in dota, still got goosebumps when you shoved the clip!

[@deadmememachine7209]

my pregame ritual is contemplating if i wanna play league or not

[@idid6776]

im loving these dota AND league content rather than dota VERSUS league. i have played dota since age 9 (2008) and league since 2012 so with time grew able to play both games and enjoy them separately, each with their own essence. no need to compare better or worse, just two games that can be really fun or get u really angry.didnt know there was a whole community with a similar story but yeah.. dota is harder

[@claryalbertadhikary6600]

This was SURPRISINGLY very interesting. I never thought about the ego thing until you said it. I have been binge watching your dota and LoL comparison videos.. and im ending on this one. AND BOY am I glad to end on this one.

[@nickknacker3538]

Not for a moba, but for shooters I have a warm up. I'll do 5-10 of an aim trainer, shoot at a wall in the game for x number of bullets in different positions to get comfortable w/ recoil control/movement/sensitivity/tracking a dummy target, and 1-2 rounds of a tdm to practice on live targets, and start playing. Even if I play bad after, my confidence would be high and it was a really easy source to maintain confidence resilience. Breaking the ritual would really hit my confidence, regardless of how well I played after, so I try not to even if my friends are condescending about it bc they might be forced to wait - if only to preserve good mental.

[@duduvec5971]

Idk, i always had nothing on midlaners on dota. They are strong and they are important but i think that pos 5 and carry does way more. Of course winning mid could make or break the game but i feel that there are a lot of things that are more important like a well timed pos5 ult/gank or your carry being online and i think that midlane works more as a catalist of those things than really being a difference maker most of the time.

[@somedude8182]

Yeah It's not really always the midlane anymore especially during the recent meta when the playstyle gives off more value on offlane even It always depends on more on the hero pick because no way a farming midlane hero is the one setting up the tempo

[@Inuzika]

does smoking a bowl during champ/hero select count as a pre game ritual? lol

[@bragiodinsen4604]

high players perform better than kda players ive found

[@Acex2ron]

Eh that’s one way to enjoy MOBA games

[@TheFirstSSJ]

It makes you a useless loser

[@ImKioto97]

I usually do this for a warmup in League. Load a practice game with a Lux bot (Medium diff) on the enemy team. Go botlane (that's where lux will go) and just try to farm perfectly without using spells to last hit. You can't back, you can't interact with Lux, just try to dodge her spells and keep the wave in a neutral state. It might seem easy but as soon as she gets a minion or HP advantage over you she becomes extremely agressive and zones you off of creeps, so there is little room for mistake. Do this until 4:30 minutes (4:30 wave is the last wave you're allowed to farm). Here you have some reference points to evaluate your performance: -Total number of creeps including the 4:30 wave is 44. So 44 cs would he a perfect score -40+ is great -35-39 is really good -30-35 is okay-ish -25-29 is not good enough -Less than 25 means that you really need to work on your last hitting since in a real game you will have to balance all of that while dealing with a real oponent and trying to harass them. You can make it easier by allowing spells to last hit or more difficult by not buying any starter items

[@FarazMazhar]

Hitting the play button is my pre-ranked ritual.

[@EliTheGleason]

I would loooove to see a video about the jungle role and why it doesn't exist in dota

[@Acex2ron]

I’ve covered this topic partly in my first video! But my initial thoughts would be that the Dota team designed it so that team resource management would play a role in deciding the outcome of games!

[@EliTheGleason]

@Acex2ron oh cool I will check it out. Also yeah that seems pretty appropriate. Also the whole way the creeps spawn is different though I don't know if that came before or after the league jungle role emerged

[@pataruwu]

hello mr ace I really love your content. i played both games for a while myself and one of my confusions when im pivoting to league from dota was the absence of TP scrolls. I think the biggest risk in diving the enemy tower on dota is the ever present threat of enemy counter initiation by just bringing sheer numbers in mere seconds compared to just being dead in 2 tower hits. i would like to see your opinion on your future videos. cheers

[@ChaosHeroDoods]

the only warmup routine i do is going through stat websites and checking what build works this patch xD

[@HappyLittleBoozer]

I used to play a lot of Dota 2 in my late teens/early twenties and that last point about playing against an opponent who doesn't know what to expect of your gameplan rings extra true to me. I loved playing unlikely/weird mids with my absolute favourite being Oracle - on release nobody expected a hero considered as a hard support, to be playing mid/solo off and that's the only thing I did. I already knew how to play against most mids, while my opponents were usually dumbfounded at the aggressive playstyle and pretty much handed me kills for free by going out of position during my power spikes - if you don't know what the enemy is capable of and have no reference sheet for his scaling, you won't know how to prevent yourself getting annihilated in two seconds from an attack you should've seen coming. I don't really play Dota anymore but I revisit it occasionally and the difference between how people used to approach a support on mid back then and now is night and day. It's been years since Oracle's release, so most players understand his nuking potential and play it safe on the lane; while originally I would get dozens of opportunities for kills in an average match, later on that number steadily decreased down to about the usual for a nuker mid. I'm still sad they removed extra physical damage on Fate's Edict. That nerf singlehandedly killed his solo offlane potential, but at least he was still a viable (though risky) mid last I played.

[@anakah01]

Topias "Topson" Taavitsainen would like a word with you, proved that Mids dont need insane ego

[@raprap543]

I hope you make a video on all positions specially pos 4’s in Dota which are mini midlaners/playmakers that have the job of roaming the map while securing small amounts of gold

[@alexr4834]

The 25% chance to miss uphill is balancing for Ranged vs Melee hero's. Ranged hero's can of course deny and last hit from a distance. Melee hero's have to be close to get the Cs. So since you can drag creeps hg you can nerf their harass damage by 25%. It's the same reason why Melee hero's have an inate chance to block a small portion of attack damage. To avoid Ranged hero's being so dominant

[@ichigoichie369]

Love to see this as a midlaner. Also, the random genshin ost in background is funny.

[@3ryuken]

Idk, most of the champions I enjoy playing are coincidentally mid laners

[@TW-fs3fj]

To be fair, mid lane responsibilities in LoL are more closely attributed to the pos4/5's. They are the jungler, support, and mid lane but without the ego to match

[@Smylesss]

Always a fantastic day when Acex2ron posts !!!!!

[@Acex2ron]

Loving the support! Hope you liked the video 😊

[@1nhumanewastaken]

this video is exactly what I've thought before, but then ive seen some dota coaches videos and many of them say that "mid is not the most important role/position/player on the team, the carry is. the main goal of mid is to create space for their carry." that's why mid heroes are usually strong early and mid, when carries are strong mid/late. was kinda eye opening for me, since mid players usually only think about themselves

[@peterkirk8510]

Tbh these days mid can feel like just as much of a carry role, generally not in the same way the 1 role is, but it still is. Providing heavy amounts of control and a serious amount of damage compared to a fuckton of damage and maybe 1 good utility spell - like, both are important. Sometimes the mid even does a ridiculous amount of damage lategame too, like OD/TA 6 slotted refresher invoker is going to run over a team with the amount of control and utility he provides, puck has easy access to backline to prevent supports from actually playing the game along with serious damage to contend with as well. What you said reflects more traditional dota

[@1nhumanewastaken]

@@peterkirk8510 but ig this all applies to carry if they get space to get their momentum

[@peterkirk8510]

@@1nhumanewastaken right I’m saying mid is at least as important as carry generally, the “carry is the most important role” is an older way of thinking

[@Acex2ron]

True, but this is definitely more true in Dota than in League where anyone can carry!

[@peterkirk8510]

@@Acex2ron except for the carry 💀

[@PaulAvramBodea]

the staying alive part of an adc is much more complex than it looks, as an adc main in a teamfight am like a paranoic scared guy calculating every angle enemy asasin could use to kill me in less than a second. and in late game it can mean most of the time winning or loseing the game, so yes is not so complex in general but a mistake in a teamfight can lose the game.

[@Acex2ron]

I hear you. I just dislike how the role is also heavily reliant on another player (your support) which is why I would say Mid needs a stronger ego, whereas ADC must have some of that ego while also being able to play around his team (when it should really be his teammate playing around him) to maximize his effectiveness.

[@PaulAvramBodea]

@@Acex2ron wow you responded, yes is rly hard to play with no supp but i like the team work on botlane. nice video btw and i like it cuz i can learn more about dota2 too i never played.

[@SirWinnigton]

That warlock gank almost went so bad lol

[@anargument1192]

before i play ranked on league i start a private match against an intermediate lux bot, pick teemo, run bot and farm until 10min trying my best to only last hit minions and not miss a single one while i don't hit the bot so that it actually has a chance to kill me/poke me out of lane. (im a 1M points master teemo top otp)

[@kyojurorengoku7479]

I play neither league nor dota but I love ur content as ik pretty everything about the games but can’t play cuz my country has no server. May the algorithm be with you

[@bwunomaws12]

as a dota 2 player who played midlane for 6 years and recently change role to soft support (because i feel old and my reflexes are not that good anymore lol ) i find the hardest part of midlane is fight for last hit and denied.

[@gabsy5752]

i play professionally for a collegiate league of legends team as a midlaner and being the win condition really feels nice as hell

[@TKIvanov]

Talking about pre-game warm up and Invoker AND NOT showing Dendi casting all of vokers spells in like 3 seconds is SUCH a missed opportunity.....

[@sigadop3492]

My "pre game ritual" is just stabbing air with yasuo as soon as i spawn, and then ball with it

[@Celmondas]

You want some small Tips for Ori? Maybe I can help a little: When you are near the max range of your ball it might be better to just step over the line so it pops back to you instantly and moving it from your position instead of moving it all the way. You can max W first to get much better burst/short trades and Waveclear. The CD of your Q will be a bit higher but you will have quiet a lot more damage in your poke. Remember that your E deals damage when passing through something. So you wanna put your ball behind the enemy and recal it to deal a little more damage. Also comes in handy when clearing waves. The CD on your E is not that short. So remember that you can just use Q to move the ball on top of you if you wanna pick it up. That way you will still have the E to put it onto an ally. Oh and youir ball wont pop back to you while you are casting your are. So you can use R while for example Nocturne is flying out of range with his R and if you time it correctly the R will hit his target even if its to far away normaly. Just takes a while to get used to. (I didnt see you do it but if you ever consider getting Malignance dont. It procs on the first frame of Ori R so you will move the enemy out of the zone with your R)

[@Acex2ron]

That last tip is something I wish I knew when I was playing with a Lee! Thanks so much for these!

[@GiantBUThead]

My midlane ritual is my friends forcing me mid because no one besides me plays mid as an offrole and getting my ass kicked by a tinker or arc warden who may or may not be having a helping hand from a script. In league I play mid when I want to have some fun but my fun gets stopped by yasuo's stupid windwall because it fucking stops everything now doesn't it? Or of course katarina or zed because isn't it fun to have a million dashes and a billion damage even when you lost your lane. Seriosuly fuck those heroes/champions.

[@Vuosta]

As far as prep goes i play Singed so i load up a 3 hour eurobeat mix called "eurobeat mix for winning at video games" and i win at video games (or meet some hard counter and feed my ass off and don't queue ranked for a week).

[@bikcatfish3327]

pre game bong hits hard

[@MercurialDecree]

I played some rakan mid back in the day, and let me tell you, you absolutely do some crazy shyt as a midlaner. Like you can basically do whatever you want if you're good enough.

[@king_of_noobs1790]

i go into the demo mode and i try to last hit with the hero i planning on playing

[@Lemur_OS]

Your videos have made me want to try and learn dota, I'm a mid lane assassin player, primarily katarina and talon, are there any champs in dota that you'd recommend? I don't mind putting time into a difficult champ.

[@Acex2ron]

Gladly! The assassin playstyle in this game is kind of limited to Carries instead of the Mid role. But if you like high mobility champions with huge outplay potential to be played in the midlane, I would recommend Queen of Pain or Puck. They’re more on the magical side but they play around weaving in and out of fights, and dealing big damage and just generally being a pest.

[@Acex2ron]

You may also want to try Ember Spirit and Void Spirit since they’re also high-mobility, high-skillcap heroes

[@Lemur_OS]

@@Acex2ron will look at all of these recommendations, do you suggest watching videos before i try jumping into the game, and if so any creators you recommend, or is it best to just go play and learn as i go?

[@Lastofhiskind_]

​@@Acex2ron storm spirit as well

[@Lastofhiskind_]

​@@Lemur_OS watch gameplays then try with bots then play with real people

[@brendansantos3066]

Is this a Filipino content creator? Great video bro!

[@dollymix5]

Ss was miss. Never heard people calling this way. Usually in Dota Allstars we called my skill name

[@BanditLeader]

In very early league you used to be able to deny minions like in dota 2, but it was (un)fortunately removed in alpha week 2 2009. Therefore dota 2 requires more skill than league

[@Variability11]

I can coach u on ori ?

[@adamhercik581]

I personally make sure all my friends are in the same party before doing things. Otherwise, It's pretty hard, especially mentally.

[@indiananimeroyalty9154]

pov u just watched blue lock

[@ZeRasseru]

As a Dota frog. When I decide to play mid 1. Quick 2 sessions of Last Hit training 2. 4 Turbos - EarthShaker, Morphling, Rubick/Puck, Baby Voker. 3. Look if I'm in the mood to tryhard or no 4. Always practice some retarded combos while waiting in queue 5. Pick one of the 4-8 heroes I decided to spam this week Edit. I can't play without skins.. I feel like I'm..... Naked

[@dcd3lt4]

1:17 Damn, why'd you have to make me feel so old brotha.

[@Acex2ron]

We gotta keep our history alive 🤧

[@DiggityDi]

That was a good video

[@Acex2ron]

Thank you! Better content to come 👀

[@sara8913]

Sometimes I practice my jungle clear before a ranked session also HOLY loud ding noise

[@DelTa-ym1xq]

I literally play better with my main if I say the most narcistic shit ever made and outplay the enemy, this also let's me have a stats like 13/3 and keep my calm because I treat being ahead as the standard

[@Acex2ron]

You got that dawg in you 🫡

[@stickystevie9047]

I go the "chess player" route of mid. Very safe, LRLR sort of shit, and that's encapsulated with Ryze. Simple, fundamentally sound, and does his fuckin' job. The slow game is an art often left unused, but its potency has never waned.

[@kenrixcanedo6450]

Pre-game ritual? Press Q and W atleast 100 times before anything else, I personally don't know why.

[@rol9834]

I am an Aurelion Main (I do play quite a few other champs, but the majority of my games is on ASol) and I recently reached Master for the first time (in flex, dont judge, I have friends). I could not play by myself though, I really need the moral support of playing with at least one friend. Even if we are both getting run over in a game, it feels much more bearable that way. Since I play a champ that scales well into the late game, my friends have accepted that them losing in the early minutes of a game is not a sign that the game itself is lost. They do joke that I often sell them out and abandon them, but it is all in jest, as they all follow the belief that I can and will find a way to claw my way up the killfeed. I take huge pride in the fact that my friends have enough trust in me to deal with being behind for like 30 minutes before we win on a regular basis. It is common fuel for jokes amongst us that the worse our usual top main starts into a game, the higher our chance to win is. Fun thing is, I dont have myself get camped by my premades, we just go for brawls and fights that feel right. Although one of us (not me) is the actual head of operations and calls most general shots, the more they try to force a "winning lane", the worse it usually goes for us, so we just stick to intuition and the occasional call. All in all, I wanna say that I am truly grateful for the faith my friends have in my abilites. I could not imagine keeping a fighting spirit up in such horrible looking games (my friends usually dont, but they play it out anyways). I think a truly good Mid Laner shines in their ability to search for opportunities to gain advantages and I would like to believe that I usually find a way to get fed, even in bad games. (my average kda on ASol is 9/3/9 lol). But there is so much more to it and I love the ways you can express your knowledge and general feel for the game. I absolutely despise all other roles (mostly because I simply perform worse there because my skill set is not suited to them), so I am glad to call mid my home. Thanks for listening to a crazed League player rambling.

[@Acex2ron]

Aurelion is the hardest champ to play on Solo Queue because you have to convince the four other apes on your team to NOT FF just because you're not snowballing early on

[@AliceMill69]

Is league made by Pixxar animation?

[@ShakerGER]

Don't give people your bottle below 4k; you won't get it back. Made that mistake twice

[@FenixPlateado]

So what youre saying is I as a mid lane main am THE striker?

[@Acex2ron]

Only if you’re an egoist 😉

[@projectsanctuary7944]

didn't riot change minion walk speed to match all lanes? side lane minions walk the same speed as mid lane minions, it's been changed few months ago, to nerf rotating

[@NoOne-ie4xl]

Why do I feel like you just recently finished watching blue lock and related it to moba.... Bc I did a year ago lol

[@whitedarkness97]

make a video about Ashe and Drow Ranger

[@TKIvanov]

Do you have Dota footage thats NOT from Turbo mode? lol

[@the_primal_instinct]

10:10 I actually prefer my enemies to underestimate me. I rarely use any skins and I don't even use DotA+ so my mastery level is never above 5. But then again, I'm not a midlaner.

[@trollwarlord4870]

i always change avatar and name when im on losing streak,

[@Hezmarglive]

As an anivia player in low elo. Having a sizable mastery pool is only good in aram. My midlane picks are my bread and butter, and because Anivia is a knowledge checker low elo one tricks have no shit on me. And that's right i remember you, that one Fizz player. You are decent but you only know fizz, who the fuck dives anivia with both spells on level 2? You do that for other champions for the firstblood lead but you can't do that for Anivia. So check mate I'm still better.

[@SirWinnigton]

"Mechanically complex hero" shows puck. NUH UH

[@adamhercik581]

"If someone if HIM"mel.

[@Fine_Mouche]

when it's karma / ori / lulu / morg mid, it's not flashy >

[@stefanristic9245]

In league adcs are tje ones who choose to either win or lose the game mid laners and top laners can just sit and watch

[@Acex2ron]

That could be true until the Talon Mid goes in and one shots the ADC lmao Maybe once upon a time, but the ADC role is kinda whatever atm

[@byda6525]

Mid player is the flashiest player on team? I don't if you guys played solo queue this season but 90% of the games are pick a mage, clear waves and go under your turret and hope your team wins 50/50 every game. Ofc go teleport so when enemy mid kills you, you can tp back and punish him for your own mistake.

[@ihavehiv5815]

This is true for dota but in high elo league the midlaner is just the junglers/supports slave for the majority for the game. Playing hard scaling hypercarry mages or assasins (unless your name is akali or sylas) is basically never meta in high level league and always prefers control/utility mages. The worse midlaner can win lane and seem more useful if their jungler and support are better more often than not.

[@konigstiger3252]

Pre game ritual: spam voice line

[@mst-4898]

Moba jesus back at it again

[@Silverhand404]

I eat something saucy as my pre game ritual. I am a pudge main.

[@musa5326]

Best feeling is whent you win midlane against Viper (especially as TA). Just stomping down Viper picker, saying SIKE "YOU WILL FEEL LIKE PILE OF SH**". Simply incredible.

[@HalIOfFamer]

It's not bad to have a huge ego. It's bad if you can't justify having one. A god of gaming like miracle, faker, dendi, kennyS, and so on, are fully justified in believing that everything rests on their shoulders. But when my guardian 3 midlaner is going 0 5 then blaming soft supp for no ganks, I might just lose some communication score.

[@shapeshifter7676]

Puck and Invoker... you mean Leshrac and Pango?

[@neon6x]

Cool video 🫡

[@Apple_Beshy]

Love

[@BlackCloud2469]

This might be the reason i'm a yone/yas main

[@giantsfan419]

Love mobas and this is great

[@ikthranithul6000]

My pregame ritual is more of a pre session ritual, i down a liter of coffee and slap a snus in my mouth :D The epitome of health, I know.

[@tangoconcorazon1861]

It's a nice video but this is clearily a league only perspective. I appreciate you've tried to include Dota in the mix but the midalen in dota isn't as simplistic.

[@Feligresa]

I think you have the wrong impression of Mid in League. What you're describing with "nobody expects you to play for the team" is top lane in League. There's a reason we call it an island. Got a bad start on top? Chances are you're on your own for the next 20 minutes. Good luck getting any CS or EXP while you're zoned into fountain. Got a good start on top? Chances are you'll still just be going top to continue killing the enemy top laner for the next 20 minutes. Obviously this isn't the case indefinitely, but neither is it for any role. Mid is expected to roam, gank, teamfight and generally enable the other lanes & jungler much more so than top laners. They're closest to all objectives. They have the easiest time shoving lanes, thus the most free time. Diving top or bot towers with your Jungler is risky. Doing it with your Jungler + Mid is not. Even Bot would be a better fit for that description, as the ADC has to expect the team to play for them, not the other way around. "Supports can play the game on autopilot" Lol, no. Have you ever seen a support that starts roaming while the enemy ADC is freezing the wave? A Draven being allowed to proxy because the support just never comes to bot? Similarly, do you think warding in the very same spots for the 7th time while they have a Jungler that can gank from any angle will work? Do you think you'll be allowed to blind ward Baron 1 minute in advance if the enemy support warded 2 minutes ago so they can re-ward and deny vision safely later? Do you think pretending your ADC is a tank and permanently staying behind them on lane rather than helping with trades will win it for you? A bad support is a loss condition just as much as a good support is a win condition. If anything. ADC is the brain-off role in that regard, since the support is making the calls. - ADC Main

[@Radialzzz]

ad carry has more ego tbh

[@Acex2ron]

Lotta ego for people who just get one-shot by my Rengar 💀

[@RainerRilke3]

Which is astounding coming from the most useless role lol

[@sortileges5474]

and then theres mobile legends. where the midlaner is expected to play like a support

[@Monte_Carlo451]

If you pick shadow fiend or invoker, you have my respect If you pick huskar, you have my pipe coming for your kneecaps

[@DoctorPhanan]

Invoker's... everything. 😂😂😂