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They would just go together if they go in the river." "Bot lane pressure is kind of what we learned from NA teams," Unicorns of Love jungler Andrei "Xerxe" Dragomir said after Rift Rivals, "because they were just pushing bottom and the jungle/support were resetting together. Tank picks have also influenced the trend, as teams with a tank in top lane and jungle might not have enough kill pressure early on, but if they manage a successful gank even without a kill, the top laner can get a push advantage and roam mid. Rather than having the mid laner roam to side lanes with a push advantage, supports with a lot of crowd control have gone mid more often to set up ganks on mid. These champions can also affect the game in teamfights and keep mid pushed easily, but picks such as Orianna, Cassiopeia and Syndra don't have the same ease of roaming as assassin mid picks.

Matchups between a lot of these champions can be extremely dependent on influence from the jungler after a certain number of levels because of the ease of wave clear. Patch 7.14 so far has led to a high presence of waveclear mid laners including Orianna, Taliyah and Syndra.

A combination of factors has made it most convenient to drive leads from the bottom lane to the rest of the map. Whether or not one agrees with the general consensus that Wolf has brought his team down with his champion choices, it forces an examination of the role of supports in pro play. In SKT's nine losses before its turnaround against Ever8 Winners, Wolf played six ranged mage supports (such as Lulu, Zyra and Karma) while many of his opponents have ventured toward more of the flavor of the month tank engage picks such as Thresh, Blitzcrank or Rakan. Mid no longer wins side lanes bottom wins mid.Īs such, when grasping at SK Telecom T1's flaws and trying to pin down an easy explanation for its struggles post-Rift Rivals, the one thread commonly pulled by critics and analysts goes back to Wolf's picks. The advent of tanky supports, junglers and top laners has made the game much more about using the jungle-support two-on-two to control river around mid. Traditionally, winning mid lane has allowed teams to transition leads from mid after pushing the wave out into roams to side lanes. What does it matter if Lee "Wolf" Jaewan plays Zyra? What's in a lane? Bottom lane takes the lead in current League meta You have reached a degraded version of because you're using an unsupported version of Internet Explorer.įor a complete experience, please upgrade or use a supported browser