I like Ryze, but he's probably most notable for being a favorite choice of players with Inappropriate Mid Acquisition Disorder.
Studies suggest that IMAD may be the most common lane-related disorder among LoL players, possibly even surpassing Jungle Instalock Disorder. Although research is ongoing, IMAD is generally believed to have two main causes: either a deep-seated desire to reach level 6 as fast as possible regardless of any tradeoffs that result as a consequence, or the ability to recognize sustainability and solo power as a requirement of mid, paired with an inability to recognize the necessity of an effective range no smaller than an AD carry's autoattack. Common symptoms of IMAD include feeding the enemy loads of minions with absolutely no risk or pressure to recall for health, and relying on jungler ganks as a crutch.
If you know someone with IMAD, or suspect you may have IMAD yourself because you keep getting zoned and the jungle won't loving help gg, there is hope: IMAD champions are effective in bottom lane at all levels of play, with or without help from a jungler. Here's a handy list of champions that are frequently favored by IMAD players. If you or someone you know frequently plays mid with any of the following champions, it may be potential Doing It Wrong, and an intervention with a pro may be required:
- Akali
- Annie
- Kassadin
- Katarina
- Ryze
Lane-related disorders are particularly tragic, because they can occur even at moderately high levels of play to players who are otherwise highly skilled at their champion. Don't let this continue; please join the fight to raise awareness and help stop IMAD. Thank you.
edit: So I'm reading through the topic and that's the first I heard of the stealth rework whaaaaaat
I totally understand why they're doing it, but that doesn't mean I like it. Much like the Alistar rework, they're changing something that works perfectly fine for me in order to make the game better for the average player on the whole; I can't genuinely be upset for something that damages my play experience a little if it benefits the play experience of many, many other players quite a bit. I already was in the know that RIOT had been annoyed by stealth since at least a few months after release, which is why after twitch and evelynn, they never made any more "long stealth" champions: it simply could not be balanced for all skill levels, being either OP at the lowest skill levels or UP at the top, because it relied way too much on intelligent counter-play to stop stealthers instead of them having a lot of obvious and inherent weakness.
Unlike the Alistar rework - which rendered extinct an
entire champion role so that people would have a champion they could
concieve playing with minimal development time by the team vs. a brand-new champ - I'm not convinced that the stealth rework is going to be inherently bad or reduce the overall depth and fun of the game. It will be very different and there's a definite tendency to say "they changed it now it sucks" if you're a veteran, but if we stifle those feelings for a moment it could turn out all right. I don't envy them trying to make it work, since stealthers will now just take flash for ganks, but it could stabilize them, since they will need to be buffed to work at all under nerfed stealth, meaning that they will be less useless when not ganking.
