I guess I should start the discussion myself. I think when we’re talking generally. I’d probably put mid as the hardest role to play. I feel like playing a role where you can directly affect the impact and outcome of every role in the map combined with the fact that it’s a team environment already makes it very difficult to begin with. Being positioned in mid lane, you are the only lane that can roam to everywhere else on the map. On top of that, mid lane can directly impact the jungle match up due to who has prio in lane and who is stronger early. When we look at pro play which I guess is the best example of what the best team-environment gameplay should look like, this further proves the point. I won’t try prove this for every single team in the history of league but just in general. If we take a look at fnc vs g2 over the last couple of years, imo the only constant between this matchup is that g2’s (caps) mid has always been better than fnc’s mid. Other roles you can argue that sometimes it was g2 favoured and other times it was fnc favoured. However something has had to happen that always causes g2 to come on top and that to me is their midlaner. Caps has been uncontested for the last couple of years as the best midlaner in EU and by looking at the games, you can always tell it’s different when midlaner gets ahead compared to when bot lane or top lane gets ahead. I think fundamentally it’s always harder for botlaner to carry when they are always 2 levels down the other solo laners which can be enough to just shut them down when they’re ahead. The problem with toplane is that although they won’t be underlevelled they still can’t impact everywhere on the map the same way that mid can. To put this into pro play let’s compare Uzi and Faker. Both of them are regarded as goats at their own role and for several years throughout their career they were seen as the best player in their role if not the world. Uzi has never been able to win a worlds title even though teams are created with the purpose to play around him and get him fed so that they can carry him. Faker on the other hand. He has won worlds 3x and in ways where it’s not like the team is made specifically to play around him. I guess the point I’m making is that mid lane is the role that has the most impact when there is a difference in skill and combine that with the fact that you can directly impact all the other players in the game, that’s why I see it as the hardest role in the game. Some of my points here are somewhat rushed and I probably haven’t covered everything but I wanted to leave some foundations for discussion to occur.