Selfishness

I'm selfish. So are you! It isn't a bad thing, especially in solo queue. I enjoy team games much more than solo queue, but to gain elo, you're going to have to go through hell. Crazy stuff happens in solo queue... like a Nasus+Master Yi bot lane. You think I'm joking? Nope!

This game sucked. It sucked for me and everybody else in it. However, due to selfishness and greed, I won. Not my team, ME dammit. Screw my team. They picked a Nasus+Yi bot lane against a real bot lane. Thank Christ Riot made a new item that I absolutely love. Feral Flare. This item is the epitome of selfishness. It increases your attack speed and gives you bonus damage for every jungle monster you kill. To hell with ganking lanes, those people are idiots! Just look at Yi! Three Phantom Dancers... So you all know, that's a bad plan. But if you look at my score, 18/6/10, you'll see how selfish I can be. I built almost full damage. You can get away with that BS in solo queue. You're in it for YOU.
For example, how I ended this hellish game was a bad idea. I dove into the enemy base 1v4 with my team too far behind me. Luckily one of them actually caught up and we killed all five of them. How, you may ask? SELFISHNESS. I dove straight for the Vayne and got her low enough that she had to flash away from me. she went invisible so I dove onto Kha'zix. I got him low, and the stupid bug went invisible. Garen, their tank, I left mostly alone, and I dove AGAIN onto Sona, a squishy support. I stuck my spear up her ass and Vayne came out of stealth. Back onto her! She popped almost instantly. Then the bug showed back up and went splat under my heavy, massive spear. While this was happening, my team was being stupid and focusing the tank as they had been ALL DAMN GAME. It took all four of them, but they got him! ACE! We kicked their faces in and won the game.

Be selfish in solo queue. You cannot count on your teammates to do anything except feed and take your hard-earned kills. A great way to be selfish is to listen to your music rather than to your team. A trick I learned from Bjergsen, a pro mid-laner is to listen to relaxing chill music. Some examples from my playlist include 'In the Air Tonight' by Phil Collins, 'Baker Street' by Gerry Rafferty, and a sweet live version of the Eagles' 'Hotel California'

Being selfish pays off.

Mid Lane Lux

 VS 

Monday night, March 3rd, in preparation for the upcoming tournament, my team, Kentucky Fried Yordle, decided to queue up for a 5v5 game of League of Legends. Top lane was Dan Lien on Garen, Kyle Fisk jungled as Shyvana, Drew and Shane were ADC and Support on Caitlyn and Leona, and all that was left was a mid laner.

That's where I come in. When I am around, I am the designated mid laner for KFY. The enemy team had chosen Akali, a bursty mid/top lane assassin blindly into our team. Our team composition had a good amount of hard engage in the form of Garen, Leona, and Shyvana, but we lacked burst and had minimal poke in Caitlyn's case. I wanted to choose a champion that could survive Akali's early aggression in lane as well as have a significant impact on team-fights later on in the game.

If you want to watch some pro players on Akali or Lux against the other, follow this link!
http://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=lux%20vs%20akali%20mid&sm=3

If you'd rather hear how my game went, keep reading!

As I looked at it in champion select, I had two choices. One was significantly better than the other. Gragas is a champion with great health and mana sustain in the early game thanks to his W and his passive ability, making it easy for him to stay in lane against a champion like Akali. Shane was our last pick, and in draft, you can trade champions with members of your team. He and I share a similar champion pool, so I picked him Leona and we were going to try to counterpick their mid, who turned out to be Akali. I wanted to play the Fat Man.

Obvious counterpick. Great sustain. Great burst! Overall a good champion.
Of course, Shane doesn't own Gragas. SO, I went to my second choice, Lux.

Lux, as I have discussed, it a great poke champion that can also burst down a single target well. Lux is a great choice against Akali because of three of her four abilities, though it is still a skill matchup. Lux's Q is a snare, which will limit Akali's mobility significantly. Her W is a shield that hits her twice, giving her a good buffer and literal gray area to survive Akali's burst. Akali's W creates an area where she goes invisible, but can still take damage. Lux's E creates an area that slows an enemy that can be re-activated to explode, dealing damage to all targets in that area. Coincidentally, the areas that each champion puts down have the same(ish) radius, making it easy for Lux to hit Akali with some good damage EVEN IF SHE IS INVISIBLE in that area.

Interesting notes about this game.
1. I ended the game 6-0-6
2. The enemy team surrendered at 22 minutes
3. I was able to get first blood on Akali early on because she attacked me while a cannon wave was pushed to her tower.
This is significant because when there are minions in the area and you begin attacking your enemy, the minions will stop fighting one another and begin focusing on you. I was able to put good damage onto Akali with my snare plus the burst from my E, and the minions did the rest of the work for me.

= OP

4. Laser OP too!
 
 

Servers Down

Well folks, today there won't be a gameplay report because the servers are garbage! There is good news, however! Today I joined a ranked 5s team. 5 players versus 5 other grouped players competing in games that actually matter! We haven't done our provisional yet as we're still acclimating to the whole idea of being a team, but we'll get our act together and ill be able to tell you guys all about our adventures. Oh, a name? Yeah, we have one of those. Kentucky Fried Yordle. Yordles, for those of you who don't know, are these annoying little creatures in League of Legends such as Teemo, Tristana, and Rumble, among others. They are some of the most annoying champions in the game, and everyone hates Teemo. So, KFY will be on the rift battling it out with other teams and serving up some tasty Teemo innards.

The Basics of Mid (basic guide)

 

Mid Lane is my favorite lane. As a mid laner, I only have to trust in myself and my ability to play the game. Nobody can be responsible for my actions but me. This puts the mid laner under a lot of pressure to perform well. In this guide, I will go over how to be a mid laner during the early, middle, and late game in League of Legends, with a specific focus on the early game. Then, I will list my favorite champion for the role.

The Early Game

The whole point of the early game is to not die and hopefully kill your lane opponent. You want to "last-hit" as many minions as possible to gain gold and creepscore, commonly referred to as CS.

As it says in the above picture, you want to hit the minions only once, when they are low enough to kill with one shot. Doing so will save you time and effort better spent doing something else. Usually this something else is harassing your opponent with your abilities. This is commonly referred to as poking them. Poke is a great tool for a mid laner to have in their kit. Poking an enemy can put some early damage onto them and zone them away from the minions, putting pressure on them to be more aggressive to get their CS, or making them more defensive. Both of these scenarios make your enemy lose CS because they are being too defensive or it can get them killed because they are too close to you just so they can get their CS.

 

Good Champions for Poke (in no particular order):

Lux

Nidalee

Ziggs

Xerath

Jayce

Ahri

Gragas

Orianna

Zed

 

These champions are great for being lane bullies with their poke. The best pokers are also the ones that can all-in their opponents early on (often at level 2 or 3) and get an early lead.

 

Assassin type champions are the ones you want, however, if you are going to go in for an early kill. These are high-risk-high-reward champs who can establish dominance from very early on in a game if played right.

 

Assassins:

LeBlanc

Kassadin

Kha'Zix

Zed

Talon

Riven

Fizz

Akali

Ahri

Katarina

Yasuo

 

Play these champions aggressively but safely during the early game. If you can get an early kill or even two on your opponent, the lane will become easy and you will most likely be able to roam and snowball in the mid game.

The Mid Game

Let's assume that you did well in the early game. An average of 10 CS per minute was your aim for the early game, and you did fairly well. You have your first core item built as well as some boots. However, you can't seem to get that pesky tower down all by yourself. If only there were other lanes that you could stroll on down the river to to help out. Wait! Top and Bot! Let's GO! But, we need to be sneaky so we don't let the enemy mid laner know where we're going. So, you head on through the jungle towards bot lane, which is usually the easier of the two to gank. The enemy ADC is busy playing whack-a-mole with their minions, and you sneak up on them in the bushes and your support lands some form of crowd-control. You and your AD Carry go ham, and boom! you guys get a kill. You pocket the cash and put significant damage on their turret. Bot lane says thank you, and you go to buy a shiny new item. The item gives you an advantage over your opponent who did NOT get a kill recently, and you can run them over or at least push them back a bit with your poke/harass. Suddenly, you get visitors from bot lane! The ADC and support came to thank you for helping them earlier, and you take down towers and secure dragons. Good job!

 

Disclaimer: Not all games will go like that. In fact, most won't. Mid game is all about sieging towers and securing objectives.

Stay behind your front line so you don't get melted, and try to make the enemy team's carries explode. Roams are very powerful as a 2v2 can easily turn in your favor by adding a 3rd person. If the roam is unforeseen by your opponents, it usually will result in a kill, leaving one person to defend their tower and three people trying to knock it down.

The Late Game

Essentially this is your job. Most people call you the mid laner, but really, you're the APC more often than not. Today's meta has shifted towards the mid laner being the focus of the team as well as their ability to instagib a squishy target http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kF_23_XxaHQ and carry your team to victory like Faker.

 

My Favorite

This is Lux. She was the first mid laner I ever really enjoyed playing. Her kit comes with a snare,

which is great for catching out a target for your team to kill, as well as stopping your lane opponent from running away from you in the early game.

Her W I max last, only because it doesn't do damage. Her W provides a shield to yourself and any ally it hits, and is a boomerang-type spell that returns to the caster, providing the shield up to the max value again.

Lux's E is the first ability that I max, as it is great for poking/zoning your enemies with a slow. The ability creates an area that slows any enemies that pass through it, but comes with a small surprise at the end of its duration or upon activating the ability again. Upon reactivation, lucent singularity will explode and deal damage to any enemies still inside the affected area.

ULTIMATE!!!!!: Lux's R is one of the most overpowered ultimates in the game, some say.

This ability has an immense range and extremely high amount of damage associated with it. Once a direction is chosen, a small red laser alerts enemies that they're about to take a laser to the face.

But, once the little laser disappears, a larger, more powerful laser that loves to snipe people from across the map appears and blows up in your face.