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I think of

Malphite tanky Ap mid

and Gangplank ( Gp with blue => MONEY )

both are naturally tanky and can work both against AD or AP , plus they fits lot of team comps

I woud recommend the classic

magic pen red

armor yellow

magic resist blue (I prefer flat for bot lane)

Gold quintescence

magic pen red seems better on zyra than armor because she can poke easy and have good dmg.

Armor yellow are there to deal a bit with her squishyness but if you play safe and poke you can go for gold seals.

magic resist glyphs aren't an option, too good to pass on in my opinion

For quintescence you may go for AP or magic pen if you take gold seals, but I recommend gold.

hope it will help

ps: I main support and I play mid a lot too

the changes on his Q alone are a huge buff

the osama joke and the kha zix games weren't really punishable.

However, "gg easy" is ban worthy. No matter what, it have been stated as punishable by riot, and it's just rude anyway.

By saying this, you deny the ennemy team efforts to win the game, you imply that even if they tried they were too bad to be able to win. Which may be true , but is still rude.

Finally, you seem to argue with ennemy team quite much, that alone can focus their anger towards you. When someone play like shit, he don't want to hear the truth from anyone even if he know it. So, gold advice here would be to don't give a fuck.

I agree on the part that you only deny 1 champ when you could deny two, so you better take a hyper carry to make it worth it.

However , don't you think getting a triple kill mid game would make anyone come back ? The only advantage that darius have here is that he can get a triple kill easier than most of champ. Still against lulu , good luck for him getting it.

So in the end, his best counter is teemo ?

I can see a lulu caitlyn lane swap being the most effective counter. Enormous kiting power combine strong damage that he won't be ale to dodge (cait ultimate), and 2 or 3 ways of countering his ult (lulu , ult , her shield  + exhaust or heal)

Problem is you doesn't simply rush sightstone, however you do rush ruby sightstone. You don't get a lot from philo anymore since the nerfs. Moreover, people tend to go all in more than before so health is a better stat. Finally if you rush ruby sightstone you can have it before laning phase end.

Wich is perfect because sightstone provide only 2 wards at a time wich is only good for laning phase. Then with your ruby sightstone and some pinks for objectives you have the map awareness you need.

So, in most scenario it's the best choice

She may be less cute with the rework but god she need it, and those flammes look very nice. Let's burn people !

Morde is good but you just can't pick him randomly.

1) morde is for mid lane:

-easier escape if ganked (since morde can't escape for **** this is very important)

-more farm available , wraiths , lane creep , ennemy wraiths if do able without risk

-at least when you're mid you can help your jungler / team with your strong AOE dmg (even in early , morde have good dmg , especially with some runes)

2) morde is NOT a first pick champ

-no cc , means he need his team to bring cc. In solo queue you can expect your teammates to take heavy cc just because you first picked morde.

-hard counter by some champ , but can hardcounter other champ. Very good pick actually, if against a non cc heavy team like lee jungle , nunu support , only soft cc.

Finally for Garen , even if you shouldn't be top in the first place , don't facecheck bush , ward them , E bush to check if necessary. Always use your W and your Q before he silence you for better trading (you'll loose those trades even with this) farm and don't push if you don't want to get ganked. Wich means loosing a lot of cs cause you won't be able to last hit properly.

So it's a bad matchup and you can't do anything about it.

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Well, Blitz is great, I'm a big fan of him too; Sight Stone was a huge indirect buff to Blitz for S3 ^_^ I mean, he's definitely top tier, but the higher you go in Elo the less dumb and "grab-friendly£ people are. Still Rocket Grab is simply game changing, and with Power Fist and Static Field its CC power is pretty impressive.

Still is so sad when bad Blitz failgrab some evil Amumu, Alistar, Olaf, completed Zhonya's Morgana, kamiKarthus, etc right in the middle of their own team...

Everytime I see a blitz doing that stuf it just makes me wanna cry. And each time it happen, while the evil alistar/amumu/... is getting hooked into the team with a big smile on his face while in the air, I get to see the image of a crying puppy instead of the adc. (especially when the adc is me)