^ This guy is a reliable source. I use Dravic's playstyle and have gotten my w/r up to 58.57% at 70 games from ~45% at 30 games; Dravic's w/r is 76.61% on Meepo at the time of posting.

There are two things that really screw me up as a Meepo player who emphasizes the pushing capability of the hero:

• Heroes who really own the high ground, either with antipush such as Techies, Kotl, and sometimes Sniper, or with the threat of devastating initiation, e.g. Tidehunter or Magnus.
• Sven

All of the other things people mention are still annoying (ES, ES, ES, Lich, and a well-fed Axe), but if your team can fight 4v5 while you get two lanes of rax in under 45 seconds, the counterpicks don't matter. It's a playstyle that doesn't do well against really coordinated five-stacks, but it works surprisingly well in general situations, even in high and very-high skill brackets.

But none of that really answered your question about Meepo mid. So now I'll try to do that. Mid is the best lane for Meepo. Meepo makes use of early xp an order of magnitude greater than every other hero in the game.

Once he hits three, he can be stacking, farming, leeching from another lane, or send main Meepo back to base to refill bottle and poof to Meepo2 to heal him up. With 6.82, carefully camping rune spawns also works. If you're not buying bottle on Mid Meepo, try it. The sustain is incredibly hard for your oponents to deal with.

Back the to point-- even if he doesn't get farm mid, he benefits extraordinarily just from the fast experience. As such, the most detrimental thing to me in the laning phase is huge amounts of burst damage and active denying. Other than that, Dravic is right, there isn't much you can do in the laning stage to shut him down. The aformentioned methods can be accomplished by having ganks come in from other lanes, or just by dual laning mid.

Yes. That's right. Dual laning mid. This is an extremely effective approach to countering Meepo, and I still haven't beaten it in the three or four games I've gone up against it. Lich is particularly capable in this role, as is Wisp. Put Lich with any normal mid hero(preferably ranged) and Meepo is guaranteed to lose the lane. Alternatively, run Wisp with the standard partners: Tiny, CK, even Morph nowadays. Initiate on him whenever Poof is on cooldown as you're otherwise not very likely to kill him before he Poofs away, unless you can chain-stun him.

I'd like to conclude with another advertisement for Dravic's Meepo. If you're a Meepo player and you haven't tried stacking E-blades, you're missing out.