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zulu_nation8
Profile Blog Joined May 2005
China26351 Posts
August 27 2012 03:56 GMT
#21
theres a bunch of reasons ADs get the babysit lane and APs get the solo
Elite00fm
Profile Joined January 2008
United States548 Posts
August 27 2012 04:34 GMT
#22
put an AP top
have a bruiser jungler that can use blue like WW/olaf/jax
I think it could work
Craton
Profile Blog Joined December 2009
United States17281 Posts
Last Edited: 2012-08-27 04:47:35
August 27 2012 04:46 GMT
#23
There's no moving your AP carry out of mid. You only get an AD solo (top) by going double AD with a tank support and tank jungler.

Even if you work your team to have an AD mid, Ashe is probably among the absolute worst to put there because she has none of the tools you want for mid. She can't survive against burst, she has no escapes against ganks or aggressive, she has no burst to threaten with.

If you try to do something like Kennen top and no other AP source your going to find teams just laugh at you and have an easy time itemizing.
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Chiharu Harukaze
Profile Joined September 2011
12112 Posts
August 27 2012 05:04 GMT
#24
I am not convinced Ashe can solo lane. She has no escape out of Flash (and slows are useless against the million gap closers now-a-days) and she has the lowest defensive base stats out of all AD Carries apart from Vayne. You're going to get all-in'd by someone or repeatedly ganked and die.

With a rune set up like that I can't see how you survive against most AP Mids. Even a low level Ryze or Gragas is going to walk up to you and chunk a large portion of your hp with a single Q. You die way too fast to burst. Someone like Cassi is going to laugh at you and then all-in and kill you at level 2. Either that or you get zoned off the creep wave forever. You're going to need a lot of babysitting by the jungler which gives up pressure on everything else on the map.

You also have really low base AD so you're not very threatening outside of the initial crit. You really need Dorans to last hit under tower too so just pushing the wave to your tower is viable against you and then you're stuck last hitting while the other AP mid roams.

In a casual setting, sure anything goes. But in a more serious level of play I don't see how you survive instead of rolling over and dying every time someone like Nyaahri looks at you funny.
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yenta
Profile Blog Joined April 2006
Poland1142 Posts
August 27 2012 06:09 GMT
#25
Recently saw an MLG prize fight with I think Legion vs TSM. Legion put an AD ezrael mid vs Regi's morgana, the ez had a ton of armor pen runes. It completely shut Regi down in mid.


On August 27 2012 12:29 Sufficiency wrote:
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On August 27 2012 12:16 arb wrote:
On August 27 2012 12:13 obesechicken13 wrote:
On August 27 2012 12:01 1ntrigue wrote:
On August 27 2012 11:51 obesechicken13 wrote:
There's also this gimmick with ashe where you run teleport on ashe, put a ward in middle, then reach level 6 and let your enemy push a bit. Fire your arrow and tele in so that you arrive in time to reach them as they're stunned and get a kill on them. I'm not sure if this trick is reliable enough to let you win lane.

If it is then ashe mid is viable. Just running AD carries against AP carries is usually pretty dangerous.
There's a lot of other gimmicky crap in the game. As shaco, if your enemy jungler is a blue starter, you can rush your own blue and then head to their wraiths. Then you just set up traps in the brush to wraiths and wait for them. 60% of the time it always nets first blood and set the enemy jungler behind. I'm not sure if this trick is still possible with the boxes nerf.

The point is many things are viable in solo queue. I personally think kill lanes tend to be stronger than ad carry support in bot lane. I just don't think ashe mid will fly in tournament games.

It depends on the AP carry, and Ashe with blue or levels + philo can just volley clear waves npnp. I'm more open to this idea on 5s, and I think it will be viable if you run a kite team with initiation/diving possibilities (after Ashe arrow), which will have a monstrous lategame with double AD (e.g. Ashe + Ez/Kog/Vayne/Trist which all benefit hugely from the Ashe slow).

The huge weakness of Ashe mid imo comes from easy counter-picking and lack of presence in other lanes apart from random arrows, but I really like where the OP is going since the meta is trending towards a farmfest mid-lane and a farmed up AD carry is arguably more dangerous than a farmed up AP carry given sufficient protection.

I don't think ashe can instaclear. At max rank ashe's W does 80 damage + 1 ad. That's about 3 volleys if I'm not mistaken to clear the ranged creeps. It's pretty cheap at 60 mana. I don't know where you've seen an ashe instaclear a wave even late game. And blue buff isn't infinite mana. I think someone mentioned it's around 25mp5 for people with higher mana pools than ashe. Add on that these people get doran's ring and have harder hitting spells, ashe is not instaclearing waves.

Are you advocating having two AD carries on your team? Like just ignore having an AP carry? You can do that, it's just that each class generally brings a lot to the team. The AP carries bring magic damage, burst, and clearing/pushing power as well as really strong cc that isn't conditional on it hitting from far away to stun for a long time.

Again I have not tried Ashe in arranged 5s for any period of time. I'm just pointing out flaws that I see that may arise when you try it.

Run some mage like cass soraka something bottom, as your AP


Cass 1v2 lane? She will die horribly.


Not 1v2. Cass + Soraka in 2v2 lane. I used to see this as Malzahar + Soraka bottom lane and Ashe/Cait mid. There was also some variation of dual AD where you would put the 2v2 lane mid and a second AD top.
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Craton
Profile Blog Joined December 2009
United States17281 Posts
Last Edited: 2012-08-27 06:20:20
August 27 2012 06:20 GMT
#26
I think that's kind of a niche case where you can abuse Morgana's laning. It's not as good as its cracked up to be, especially against low cd repositioners.
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yenta
Profile Blog Joined April 2006
Poland1142 Posts
August 27 2012 06:40 GMT
#27
Think of the possibilities if you displace the ap mid. I think the main reasons you throw an ap mid is because:
- they tend to be squishy, mid lane is shorter, safer
- they tend to want to roam to help gank top/ bottom/ help versus invades

If you build a teamcomp where you put an ad, ad + support mid, suddenly the ap either has a lack of farm or the ap needs to switch top or bottom. I do think that the ad you put mid has to have either a bursty quality, like ez - or massive sustain, like how alex ich used to play trynd mid before the heal nerf.

All theory league though.
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Jumbled
Profile Joined September 2010
1543 Posts
August 27 2012 07:05 GMT
#28
On August 27 2012 15:09 yenta wrote:
Recently saw an MLG prize fight with I think Legion vs TSM. Legion put an AD ezrael mid vs Regi's morgana, the ez had a ton of armor pen runes. It completely shut Regi down in mid.

That's a very different case from Ashe. Ezrael is a single-target duelist with good mobility - he's great in a solo lane.
clickrush
Profile Blog Joined May 2010
Switzerland3257 Posts
August 27 2012 07:28 GMT
#29
On August 27 2012 13:46 Craton wrote:
There's no moving your AP carry out of mid. You only get an AD solo (top) by going double AD with a tank support and tank jungler.

Even if you work your team to have an AD mid, Ashe is probably among the absolute worst to put there because she has none of the tools you want for mid. She can't survive against burst, she has no escapes against ganks or aggressive, she has no burst to threaten with.

If you try to do something like Kennen top and no other AP source your going to find teams just laugh at you and have an easy time itemizing.


I allways thought that mid champs are the ones who can control areas well (hawkshot, W, arrow). can gank well (arrow, slow) and can push decently (W). I think ashe works pretty well mid. ap carries tend to be weaker from lvl 1-2 than ad carries, and arrow is probably the best gank-assist/ganking tool which is not utilized as fully bottom as it is mid. The problem is that there are alot of champions who do very well against ad carries including ashe. I think gragas for example.

and the other problem is that ppl are too stupid to not play the same strategy all the time in soloq.
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gaizka
Profile Blog Joined August 2008
United States991 Posts
August 27 2012 10:57 GMT
#30
On August 27 2012 12:56 zulu_nation8 wrote:
theres a bunch of reasons ADs get the babysit lane and APs get the solo


What I hear all the time is the argument that adc scales with gold and not levels, apc scales with gold and levels. But the newer ad carries, and with changes to the type of damage on the abilities of some adc... I'm just looking at Graves, his abilities scale with his levels because of his itemization. Graves mid op
Carnivorous Sheep
Profile Blog Joined November 2008
Baa?21244 Posts
Last Edited: 2012-08-27 11:17:05
August 27 2012 11:16 GMT
#31
On August 27 2012 19:57 gaizka wrote:
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On August 27 2012 12:56 zulu_nation8 wrote:
theres a bunch of reasons ADs get the babysit lane and APs get the solo


What I hear all the time is the argument that adc scales with gold and not levels, apc scales with gold and levels. But the newer ad carries, and with changes to the type of damage on the abilities of some adc... I'm just looking at Graves, his abilities scale with his levels because of his itemization. Graves mid op


Problematic because you have to push lane to trade with Graves, easier to camp mid and get free kills compared to bot, esp. with the higher burst on the other side from the ap carry so graves will probably die a lot to jungle pressure.
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Silencioseu
Profile Joined June 2011
Cyprus493 Posts
August 27 2012 11:25 GMT
#32
On August 27 2012 11:28 1ntrigue wrote:
It's certainly true that Ashe mid is safer now with the farmfest mid lane that is going on these days, but the issues that gtrsrs raise are still relevant. Perhaps running an AP bruiser top with tanky cc jungle/support and double AD (e.g. with Ez which can kite like a god with Ashe lategame + global) could be pretty good though.

Double AD bottom is bad, its better if one AD goes in jungle and the tanky cc babysits adc bottom
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Schwopzi
Profile Joined August 2010
Netherlands954 Posts
August 27 2012 11:36 GMT
#33
On August 27 2012 20:16 Carnivorous Sheep wrote:
Show nested quote +
On August 27 2012 19:57 gaizka wrote:
On August 27 2012 12:56 zulu_nation8 wrote:
theres a bunch of reasons ADs get the babysit lane and APs get the solo


What I hear all the time is the argument that adc scales with gold and not levels, apc scales with gold and levels. But the newer ad carries, and with changes to the type of damage on the abilities of some adc... I'm just looking at Graves, his abilities scale with his levels because of his itemization. Graves mid op


Problematic because you have to push lane to trade with Graves, easier to camp mid and get free kills compared to bot, esp. with the higher burst on the other side from the ap carry so graves will probably die a lot to jungle pressure.


Quite a few aps push lane to trade; this is not such a big problem. Graves is, when keeping his passive up, a ton tankier then most ap mids; so he can survive allins better. Graves also has smokescreen & quickdraw for escaping while buckshot & collateral damage give him strong burst.
However a commonly shared characteristic on high tier ap mids is that they can waveclear fast. This gives them some huge advantages over champs that cannot clear (as) fast. Firstly it drastically shortens the window in which they are exposed to ganks in midlane. It also forces the other champ to stay put or miss out on farm. Thirdly it opens huge windows (can be 40 sec+) in which roaming/jungle farming can take place without missing the main mid farm.
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oscar62
Profile Joined May 2010
Canada417 Posts
Last Edited: 2012-08-27 12:03:39
August 27 2012 12:02 GMT
#34
uhh yeah at the pro level bot lane is fairly passive

but try maxing hawkshot, using butt masteries and forsaking armor yellows and see how far you get vs. anyone that isn't soraka

the concept is cool for mid, would be absolutely terrible bottom.
Cloud
Profile Blog Joined November 2004
Sexico5880 Posts
Last Edited: 2012-08-27 14:10:06
August 27 2012 13:24 GMT
#35
Ad carries do just fine mid, even though ashe is one of the weakest, she can still rape some champs like akali. Try draven, graves, vayne, urgot or caitlyn. Gold per 10 quints is really a waste on any laner that isnt a support though. You should also be maximizing damage with your masteries/runes.
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Sufficiency
Profile Blog Joined October 2010
Canada23833 Posts
August 27 2012 17:10 GMT
#36
On August 27 2012 22:24 Cloud wrote:
Ad carries do just fine mid, even though ashe is one of the weakest, she can still rape some champs like akali. Try draven, graves, vayne, urgot or caitlyn. Gold per 10 quints is really a waste on any laner that isnt a support though. You should also be maximizing damage with your masteries/runes.


Really? Even if Akali gets 0 CS by level 6 she can still easily rape an Ashe by going all in.
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Ente
Profile Joined October 2010
Germany1795 Posts
Last Edited: 2012-08-27 18:53:48
August 27 2012 18:52 GMT
#37
I actually think ADs mid can be quite nice. Might actually get a bit more popular again. For example Moopz often plays it now in solo q (corki) I can see some others working aswell, the main problem is how to get your aps in that setupd (bot or top both might work)

For masteries etc obviously standart and not 3 g/10 thats not good. Enough calculation showed that its horrible and esp for midlane if you cannot push you should never do that else you get outpushed. Maxing hawkshot on Ashe is terrible aswell (what you could do is put 1-3 points into it instead of your Frostshot to get some more gold and range on the "CV" which is not to be underestimated)


Edit:
Problematic because you have to push lane to trade with Graves, easier to camp mid and get free kills compared to bot, esp. with the higher burst on the other side from the ap carry so graves will probably die a lot to jungle pressure.


wtf? midlane atm is pretty much perma push lane you push -> wraiths (or wolves) -> keep pushing the problem with AD carries might be that they push not fast enough not that they push too fast.
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wussleeQ
Profile Blog Joined June 2009
United States3130 Posts
August 27 2012 18:58 GMT
#38
If any AD can go mid, it's ezreal. And he's only good there to fuck up their ap. I have tried ez mid with ori raka bot which works pretty well. Raka goes with almost ap bot though lol.
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arb
Profile Blog Joined April 2008
Noobville17922 Posts
August 27 2012 20:31 GMT
#39
On August 28 2012 03:58 wussleeQ wrote:
If any AD can go mid, it's ezreal. And he's only good there to fuck up their ap. I have tried ez mid with ori raka bot which works pretty well. Raka goes with almost ap bot though lol.

Did corki just disappear? He's hella good mid too
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United States4236 Posts
August 27 2012 20:44 GMT
#40
On August 27 2012 22:24 Cloud wrote:
Ad carries do just fine mid, even though ashe is one of the weakest, she can still rape some champs like akali. Try draven, graves, vayne, urgot or caitlyn. Gold per 10 quints is really a waste on any laner that isnt a support though. You should also be maximizing damage with your masteries/runes.


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