Ranking all 24 mids at the League of Legends World Championship
By Josh Tyler
Who is the best mid laner playing in the 2019 League of Legends World Championship?
We’ve already looked at who the best top laners and junglers playing in the 2019 League of Legends World Championship are. Today we will grade and rank every single starting mid laner based on their statistical performance during their domestic 2019 Summer Split regular-season performance. We’ll be using the same metrics we used to evaluate the other two positions, but the ratings here will be relative to other mid laners.
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Here are the average statistics among the 24 mids at the World Championship:
- Average Kill Efficiency = 3.58
- Average aGPM = 420
- Average aDPM = 489
- Average VSPM = 1.09
- Average laning score = 0.00
How do the mid laners at the World Championship compare to each other? Who is the best mid laner in the World?
24. Tanner “Damonte” Damonte (Clutch Gaming) – 62 OVR
Listen, I know we loved watching us some Tanner Time in the playoffs and regional qualifiers and yes, his statistics in the playoffs and regional were better than his regular-season ones. But honestly, they weren’t that much better.
For instance, Damonte‘s damage output and laning numbers were better than his putrid ones in the regular season (352.5 aDPM and -1.54 Laning Score). However, his aKDA went down from his below-average one in the regular split (2.75 aKDA, 2.76 Kill Efficiency) because he averaged almost half a death more per game in the Regional Qualifier. The fact of the matter is Damonte is an electrifying player with a limited champion pool who could easily get bodied in the play-in stage.
23. Bruno “Goku” Miyaguchi (Flamengo) – 64 OVR
On the plus side for Goku, his laning stats (177 gold advantage, 4 CS advantage, 26 experience deficit at 15 minutes) weren’t that terrible. The bad news, though, is that if he’s only putting up below-average numbers in the CBLoL I have little confidence that he’ll be able to survive even his opponents in the play-in stage let alone groups.
22. Kyohei “Ceros” Yoshida (DetonatioN FocusMe) – 65 OVR
Ceros is a guy with a very unique champion pool, as he’s played mostly Azir (5 games) and Heimerdinger (4 games) during the LJL Summer Split. This explains why he has such low kill participation (60.1% raw KP, 90.9% aKP) but not why he is the worst mid laner in terms of income (379 aGPM). My guess is that DFM has chosen to give more resources to their powerful bot lane, but I can’t help but wonder if Ceros’s limited champion pool is also a reason why the team can’t seem to provide him with more resources.
21. Trần “Kiaya” Duy Sang (GAM Esports) – 66 OVR
As much as I love GAM and their uniquely aggressive style, this team has some serious deficiencies when it comes to their carry lanes. Kiaya, for instance, is the worst laning mid laner that we will see at the tournament.
Kiaya averages an 863 gold deficit at 15 minutes when the next-worst gold deficit is only 222g. His average CS deficit is 12, while the next worst is 8. Luckily, he does not have the worst experience deficit at 15 (that would belong to Damonte) but he’s only 34 XP ahead of the worst mark. In a group where Kiaya will face FoFo and DoinB, Kiaya could get absolutely ravaged.