#Solo Carry Mid Champs

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boreal valve
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Switching to mid just wanted to know what champs have that solo carry potential?

spice quarry
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there is no "solo carry" champ because technically any champ can do that. But if you are new to mid I'd recommend starting with annie or veigar

rocky condor
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almost all

shut chasm
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sylas

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katarina

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viktor

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but yeah, come to think of it, anything can snowball nuts and carry

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yas/yone too, other mages like veig, leblanc, liss

boreal valve
fair cape
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I'm partial to champs like viktor and veigar who scale really well. Mostly viktor because he doesn't really need to sack the lane phase vs stronger laners and he's just naturally much safer.

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Sylas seems to me like the strongest mid atm if you can play him well.

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Kat/Kass/Vlad are also viable solo queue stompers if you play them well.

lofty shell
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vladimir

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akshan

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rumble

shut chasm
lofty shell
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ekko

crimson dune
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taliyah is extremely good but shes a bit harder

fair cape
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I can vouch for Akshan and Ekko too^

crimson dune
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and she got reworked to be a scaling champ

fair cape
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The lack of people playing Akshan boggles my mind; that champ is nuts.

crimson dune
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kled for top is hella lowkey

lofty shell
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taliyah is ok but she's more of a counter pick

spice quarry
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horribly designed champ btw

crimson dune
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he's probably the most broken top rn

lofty shell
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idk jax, riven, darius, fiora r more effective top laners imo

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maybe lower elos kled is rlly good since u can force fights with ulti

fair cape
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Kled is way more match up dependent than a lot of the meta top laners right now

crimson dune
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i just had one dive me while a full item down and after smacking my turret while i got his skaarl away

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i killed him lvl 1 and lvl 3 with jg and was a full lvl ahead

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he then proceeded to 3v1 late game as a champ who isn't meant to scale against gp jhin and ashe

lofty shell
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what elo?

fair cape
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Akshan is a really fun champ if you were saying he's horribly designed I don't get that lol

crimson dune
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fucking around in gold

lofty shell
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that makes sense

spice quarry
fair cape
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Kled is situationally very strong and people who main him are scary af

crimson dune
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he wasn't good and i'm just limit testing gp in this rank but it's stupid

lofty shell
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champs like kled ww shyvana top r op in gold

fair cape
lofty shell
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since no one knows how to play against it or has hands to play against it

spice quarry
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nilah and akshan exist

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living proof

fair cape
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I really really don't agree with that lol

lofty shell
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nilah most underwhelming champ imo

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she's like a worse samira idk

fair cape
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I've been playing a lot of nilah recently and she's treated me really well

lofty shell
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that kinda seems underwhelming to me

fair cape
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I feel like she's more comp dependent than other carries cause she's vulnerable to being kited, but otherwise she just feels incredibly strong to me

spice quarry
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strong doesn't mean good design

fair cape
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didn't say that, but I do vehemently disagree that it's a bad design

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offering players new ways to play the game is a good thing

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and as a person who mains ADC but loves melee champs, I like her quite a lot

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I won't pick her into heavy kite comps but otherwise she can do a lot of things other ADCs just cant

lofty shell
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the question is why pick her instead of some1 like samira

spice quarry
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if a champ's only defining characteristics is being a melee adc it's a bad design

crimson dune
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she's just too low range for bot lane

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just gets poked out

lofty shell
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if she misses q then u can't do anything to trade

fair cape
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samira is far too snowball reliant, less self-sufficient and does quite a lot less damage, whereas nilah can literally be the one to engage if she wants to

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Nilah is a very very strong duelist

spice quarry
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i wouldn't call nilah engage

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shes more of a follow up engage

fair cape
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If you flash E into ulti and then use W, she's quite capable of doing so

lofty shell
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idk I've never seen a nilah do anything in diamond+

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she feels like more of a liability

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at least her split push is rlly strong

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with q being able to dmg towers

fair cape
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whereas Samira has the follow-up style especially considering she has to build up her ulti first

spice quarry
fair cape
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I just think it's a very alternate playstyle that ADC mains haven't adapted to.

spice quarry
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once braum engage riven can follow up the engage so she won't get instnatly bursted

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same thing with nilah

fair cape
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idk, in my experience she's very very strong and I haven't been given a reason to think otherwise

spice quarry
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shes strong but not a good design

fair cape
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oh shut up jfc

shut chasm
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@stiff raptor taliyah is getting nerfed s

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o

spice quarry
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her entire kit is built around beating your opponent through superior stats

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either through free xp, healing, armor pen, or shielding

shut chasm
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why is discord like this

spice quarry
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or just blocking damage with w

fair cape
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and can be kited all game if played incorrectly or against the wrong champs

shut chasm
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I can't edit my comment so sorry whoever I pinged lol

spice quarry
fair cape
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there's nothing wrong with stat sticks my man. They have their own vulnerabilities

spice quarry
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stat sticks tend to be more toxic to play against

fair cape
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Nilah is rewarded for being low range with little to no escape by giving her a ton of damage and durability; there's nothing wrong with that

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If you think otherwise well that's you

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You're free to your own opinion but I couldn't disagree more

spice quarry
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imo a player should be rewarded by playing a champ well but stat sticks just reward you for simply having better stats

fair cape
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are we pretending that nilah can't get severely punished for playing incorrectly or what

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She's still a high damage carry at the end of the day. Those champs naturally take more skill to play through decision making alone.

spice quarry
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anyone can be punished for playing incorrectly

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but nilah's gameplay is extremely toxic and can lead players to feel like there is little to no counterplay

fair cape
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the counter play is there, just not if you're a melee character that can't outduel her

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which is what she excels at

spice quarry
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i don't think "just don't be melee" is very interactive counterplay

fair cape
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in which case, that same logic can be applied to a lot of champions

boreal valve
spice quarry
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akshan is poorly designed in another way

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his kit is too clustered

fair cape
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it feels like I'm talking to the living embodiment of reddit

spice quarry
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it's true ¯_(ツ)_/¯

fair cape
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It's an opinion and a very anti-fun anti-variety opinion at that

spice quarry
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describe akshan in 1 word

fair cape
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fun

spice quarry
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that is a super vague word and a well designed champ should be easily described in a short phrase

fair cape
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you said one word homie

spice quarry
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example samira is style/combo

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camille is precision

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jhin is four

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jinx is excitement

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what is akshan

fair cape
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I'm gonna do something else; you're on some shit

spice quarry
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also most champs are describable in a single word, short phrases are for slightly more complicated ones

shut chasm
spice quarry
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right that is one part of his kit but what about the 7 features he has