League of Legends’ growing roster of mid-lane champions is bursting at the seams with powerful mages and deadly assassins.
In League of Legends, mid-lane is at the heart of the map, allowing its players more control than both the bot lane and top lane. Having access to all areas of the map, including the enemy jungle, the mid-lane is an important role with some of the biggest potential to impact other lanes, capable of adding or reducing pressure across the map, and affecting the outcome of lanes.
Due to this importance, the mid-lane roster is dominated by high-damage champions that can easily move about the map or control fights and assist their team. This ranking covers the best champions in the mid-lane in League of Legends Patch 13.21. 7 Aurelion Sol, The Star Forger
Despite receiving nerfs in patch 13.21, Aurelion Sol remains a strong pick in the mid-lane thanks to his insane scalings and huge ultimate potential. Riot’s balancing team made a decent attempt to deal with Aurelion Sol’s Q damage, targeting the space dragon’s late-game scaling. In patch 13.21, Breath of Light’s additional damage based on level was removed and had its scaling with Ability Power reduced by 5%.
However, thanks to Aurelion Sol’s current build-path of rushing Rylai’s Crystal Scepter, which applies a slow to enemies hit by any of Sol’s abilities, this change isn’t likely to be too dire. At present, Aurelion Sol excels at melting enemies with his Q while Rylai’s keeps them from leaving his range. In combination with his Astral Flight ability, it can feel impossible to escape the space dragon’s onslaught, making him an extremely potent and viable pick in the mid-lane. 6 LeBlanc, The Deceiver
LeBlanc has had Riot’s balancing team in shambles during Season 13 thanks to the rise of Attack Damage LeBlanc. LeBlanc saw multiple back-to-back nerfs in an attempt to stop players from using the Statikk Shiv into Trinity Force build, before the team ultimately decided to obliterate her altogether, pushing the assassin into the depths of the mid-lane roster.
In patch 13.21 LeBlanc is looking to return, after receiving a little bit of love and increased damage from the balancing team.
