MediumMedium riskMid Lane · Minute 6–16
Mid Rune Control
Bottle the power rune, call the 4, and spend it on a side lane or a tower. A haste used to farm a small camp is a wasted rune.
Best for: Mids who win lane and then never leave
Step-by-step
- 1
Track the 6:00 / every-two-minutes timer. Be walking to the river before the spawn, not after.
- 2
Have a ward or a teammate so you are not 1v3 at the rune.
- 3
Call which rune you got. Haste and invis are gank runes. Regen and DD can stay mid if the 1v1 is still live.
- 4
Path through a side lane with the 4. Kill or force a TP — then leave. Do not chase into their jungle for 40 seconds.
- 5
If the gank fails, take a wave or a bounty and go back. Standing in fog hoping is how you miss two more runes.
Tips
- Water runes at 2 and 4 fill the Bottle. Missing those is how you leave lane at 20% HP.
- A mid who TPs to a diving safelane is using the role. A mid who never TPs is a 1v1 bot.
- If you have no Bottle, you still walk the rune. The item is not the only way to contest.