LPL player power ranking: why Knight is the best mid in the LPL

12. Lei “Corn” Wen – Victory Five

Victory Five have bigger problems to deal with than their mid laner (like their abysmal bot lane and jungle), but an underperforming Corn in mid doesn’t help. Unlike Twila, Corn at least has something of an excuse as to his champion pool, having been put on Galio four times this season.

11. Hu “Yuuki” Hao-Ming – LGD

LGD is a complete mess, but Yuuki is one of the surprising bright spots in this lineup. In particular, his damage numbers, kill share, and kill participation are all respectable, indicating that he’s been forced to carry his underperforming teammates. Yes, his 3.9 deaths per game are worst in the LPL, but when you’ve got a 2-8 record in games played this year, you’re going to accumulate a lot of deaths.

10. Huang “KongMing” Yi-Jun – Rogue Warriors

While he has split time with fellow Rogue Warriors mid Tian “HuaTian” Mai, KongMing has played the lions share of the games this split, so he’ll be the one ranked for this team. And, in all honesty, Rogue Warriors has no reason not to make him their full-time mid laner, given how much better he’s performed than HuaTian.

The team has gone 3-3 with KongMing in mid, as opposed to 0-4 with HuaTian. KongMing also betters his teammate when it comes to deaths, assists, GPM, and kill participation. While HuaTian has higher kill share and damage numbers, his solo-carry style doesn’t seem to be helping the team as much as KongMing’s team-oriented style.

9. Su “xiye” Han-Wei – WE

Take everything that was said about KongMing and HuaTian and it could apply to xiye and his teammate, Chen “chen9” Yi-Bing. Unlike KongMing, however, xiye has shown himself to be very capable at solo-carrying WE when he is the starting mid laner. Not only is he on more aggressive champions like Jayce and Leblanc this season, but he also has one of the highest kill shares of mid laners in the LPL this season, leading WE to a 2-2 record with him at the helm.

8. Zeng “YaGao” Qi – JD Gaming

YaGao is something of an enigma. He has some games where he can be the big carry for JD, others where he performs decent, but none where he performs badly. Unfortunately, the highs don’t seem to be high enough to propel him into the top echelon of LPL mid laners.

7. Lee “Scout” Ye-chan – EDG

The first real “big” name on this list, EDG has certainly played below expectations this year and Scout is a big reason for that. While his numbers are generally respectable, and he’s had some really big moments like his massive Vayne mid game against Vici, unfortunately, he’s being outshone by his contemporaries in the mid lane.

6. Li “Xiaohu” Yuan-Hao – RNG

Another team that’s underachieved, RNG has played the fewest games of any LPL team so far, meaning they can chalk up their slow start to limited sample size. Unfortunately for Xiaohu, though, his stats are likely inflated by getting to feast on LGD in the second of RNG’s two series this season. In their other, when facing Suning Gaming, Xiaohu was unimpressive against Maple, going a combined 1/5/2 over two games to Maple’s 6/3/11 (who we’ll get to in a moment).