I almost never get Mid as a role when farming for role queue tokens, so from my perspective, the very argument presented in the topic is flawed. When I go role queue farming, I end up with pos4 in around 20% of my.games, with pos5 being most common and pos3 being second.

Assuming however that indeed there are people who are getting significant role queue tokens on mid, I believe it is because mid vary a lot in terms of punishment. Water runes on both sides on min2 and min4 means that rarely you can punish an enemy mid in this period of time, while supports rotation can alleviate the pressure on whoever is losing the lane.

Idk, when I search for all roles, I get Support or Offlane 90% of the time.
Would love to get mid though

I get offlane 50% of the time, supports 40% of the time and mid 10% of the time.

4 is free role, you can stay on lane, you can gank, you can farm, you can fight - it’s all up to you.

Pos 4 have fun heroes and game is never on you if you lose and sometimes you can farm enough that you turn game around (like Nyx being able to solo almost any hero with dagon).

Meanwhile as mid you have to sweat in 1v1 skill match up, often playing vs heroes that are really annoying to play against (Necro, OD, LD, Huskar) and more often then not you get flamed for not doing well/better then other midlaner. Also most of your typical fun mid heroes is shit (Ember, Void, Puck, Storm, SF, Exort voker is dead), you are also force to fight more and it wasn’t the case for last 2 years, mid heroes use to farm a lot, now you are required to fight.

I’m mid player and believe that mid ain’t fun no more, my heroes are shit and midlane become such a sweat fest that I play Weekend League in EA FC to relax and that’s telling something.

Yea, complete oversight not to make “high demand” roles not dynamic. Like, what is that, an extra 3 lines of code? Lol

4 is a low stress role that can be played many different ways.

2 is a high stress role that is currently very boring.

The easiest positions to farm MMR right now are the 3/4 role as well. So people are gravitating towards those.

Cuz everyone plays the 4 like they are mid anyway, without the pressure of being mid.

Mid is free BS loss. Doesn’t matter how you play and ppl report you. camp botlane, toplane reports you because you dont tank them and vice versa. see 2-3 teammates died so you don’t go there anymore and farm a camp instead instead of suiciding - report.

Its one of the most fun and least stressful role to play so.

i got mid only once

its mostly supports and abou 10% offlane

RESPONSIBILITY

Pos5 and Mid have the biggest responsibility in the game (particularly within the first 20 minutes) and i think most people know this.

Pos5 because you do not have gold, are on ward duty which dictates the area your team can play in, and have to be slippery (in a sense that you don’t feed). You are also expected to baby sit Pos1 players who by the way are known to be the most toxic role between pinging you when you hit a creep they won’t be able to last hit because it is out of their range or blames you when you are pulling and they got caught out of position.

Mid because you have the responsibility to WIN your lane, get all runes (technically 4 should be helping secure these sometimes), help out struggling lanes, and make space for 1 and 3.

BLAME GAME

* When Pos1 dies, the blame is Pos5 (where’s my 5)

* When visions are dewarded, blame is on Pos5 (where are the vision ~ even though shop is empty)

* When enemy has invi and a kill was missed due to lack of dust, Pos5’s fault for not having sentry

* When Mid is lost, the blame is on Mid (mid ez)

* When a side lane is lost, the blame is on Mid (mid no rotate)

CONCLUSION

Between these two, in order, Pos4, then 3, then 1 are allowed more mistakes and can play the game freely without carrying as much weight as mid and 5.

In fact, lately, I have seen Pos4 and Pos3s play like Pos1s with afk midas farm strat, whereas Mids eventually get relegated as the soft support. Esp. in this Meta where Willow and Muerta are commonly picked as pos4s.

confirm. 5.7k mmr, all u get is pos 5 or mid, sometimes offlane

I always get offlane…

4 is the role where no one blames you for anything and you can blame lose on others.
First in lane, you can afk in trees or chill out while your offlane gets 2v1. When your offlane starts dying, you can call him a noob and your team will blame him for lane loss because he is the core.

Second, you can avoid buying any wards or smokes. When your pos 5 starts telling you to buy wards, you can call him for his high deaths because he died warding many times. Again you escape the blame.

Third, you can pick heroes that don’t help your team and have no save. That way your teammates have no way to blame you because you are not an oracle or dazzle. You are just a 4.

You can stack once for your carry, and fill bottle once for your mid. And boom, you gain favor of your team, you have two cores on your side while pos 5 and 3 hate you.

i hate playing mid. so much tryhard sweaty shit in the lane and you will get flamed for farming too much and flamed for not farming enough. at the moment the meta is boring ass strength heroes. there’s also a high chance in pubs you will have to solo lane against some shit like viper or huskar and have your game ruined from the get go