If you look at the midlane in the current e-sport of League of Legends, you often see ADCs in the midlane. Mages are hardly seen at all. The midlaner from Fnatic explains in an interview why that is.
What is the current state of Mages? If you look at the stats of the top leagues on gol.gg, you can see a trend in the midlane. Among the 10 most frequently chosen midlaners, only four are AP champions. The top four are Corki, Tristana, Yone, and Lucian.
Tristana and Lucian are actually classic ADCs that you would expect more in the botlane. AD currently dominates the e-sport matches in the midlane. Why that is, explains the professional player Humanoid, after his bitter defeat against G2, in an interview with Sheep Esports.
In the latest LoL mode, the meta can be ignored:
It just doesn’t make sense
What does Humanoid say about the current meta? In the interview, the Czech midlaner Humanoid is asked for his opinion regarding the current midlane meta. Currently, he plays professionally for the European team Fnatic. He says that while he is happy with the current meta, it shouldn’t last too long.
I am satisfied with it, but it shouldn’t stay like this for long. They should mix it up a bit. The problem is, that every single ADC has a movement speed of 450 for no reason. When you play a mage with 380 movement speed and try to cast spells on an opposing ADC who also deals more damage than you do, it just doesn’t make sense.
He explains that it is difficult to hit an opponent with attacks when they are inherently faster than you are. It makes no sense to try that. He only mentions Azir as a counterexample because you cannot miss abilities with him.
He calls the difference in movement speed a systematic problem
. That ADCs have so much movement speed is baseless.
What about the normal
players? If you look at the current stats for the midlane across all ranks on U.GG, you see that of the 10 champions, only three are AD and none are ADCs.
This can be explained with the current patch. The normal LoL is playing on 14.14. Tristana and Corki have already been nerfed. The professional scene was still playing on 14.13, so this will have to be observed in the future to see how it develops. By the way, if you look at the botlane, many mages also dominate there. The loser queue is a big myth in LoL, now a player has tried to prove it scientifically: A player analyzed 178,500 games to find out if the most persistent rumor really is true
