Mid Lane Tier List: Best Mid Laners in Patch 26.19

Yone is God Tier in two lanes, at the head of mid and third in top. He builds crit into a champion who dives the backline and gets back out, and his ultimate lines a whole team up for the follow-through. The combos take real hours to learn. At these ranks the enemy rarely has its crowd control ready when he commits, so those hours go further here than they do higher up the ladder.

Fizz beats the mages that fill mid lane. He hops out of the one spell they needed to land and answers with a kill, and past the laning phase he roams with almost no risk and deletes a backline in a single rotation.

Lux is the forgiving pick in mid lane. She clears waves from a safe distance, so she's useful even in games where she never gets ahead. Her root catches two people at once and her laser finishes kills from off screen. She's fragile when caught, and she'll get caught if she wanders into fog while the enemy jungler is already ahead.

Xerath hits from further away than anything else in mid lane, so the lane runs on his terms and the enemy spends it walking back to fountain. Once towers start falling he sieges from a range nobody can close safely. Every spell is a skillshot: easy to pick up, slow to master. He opened this patch in God Tier and sits in Tier 1 now. There's no escape in his kit, so anyone who gets through his range usually kills him.

Malzahar asks almost nothing of the player. He shoves the wave from a safe distance and his passive shield eats the first poke of every trade. Then there's the ultimate: point-and-click suppression that pins a carry in place for his jungler. He's slow, though. Anyone who can reach him through the minions makes it a long lane for him.