Strengths & Weaknesses
Strengths
- +Provides reliable crowd control and defensive utility to protect teammates
- +Strong team fight presence with area denial and support capabilities
- +Low mechanical skill floor allows focus on macro play and positioning
Weaknesses
- −Low damage output limits solo carry potential and kill securing
- −Vulnerable to burst damage and lacks self-defense tools when isolated
- −High dependence on team coordination to maximize value
Abilities
PGood Luck
Every 5 seconds, Ming's next basic attack deals magic damage and applies a basic attack effect on an enemy that heals himself and his linked ally. Hitting non-enemy targets heals less.
1Flexibility
Bind to a target and increase magic attack, physical attack, movement speed, and attack speed for yourself and your teammates or weaken and damage enemies.
2Endurability
Ming changes the magic weapon effect to strengthen the dual armor for himself and teammates, reducing attributes if the linked target is an enemy.
RLongevity
Uses a magic weapon to deal true damage to linked enemies or heal linked allies, but loses that amount of health himself. When out of combat, Ming regains lost health every second.
Skill Order
Priority: R > Q > W| Skill | 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8 | 9 | 10 | 11 | 12 | 13 | 14 | 15 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
1Flexibility | 1 | · | 3 | · | 5 | · | 7 | · | 9 | · | · | · | 13 | · | · |
2Endurability | · | 2 | · | 4 | · | · | · | 8 | · | 10 | · | 12 | · | 14 | · |
RLongevity | · | · | · | · | · | 6 | · | · | · | · | 11 | · | · | · | 15 |
Loadout
Core Combos
Engage & Protect
Initiate with crowd control, follow with defensive ability, and secure with auto attacks. Use when team is positioned to follow up on your engagement.
Kite & Peel
When enemies dive your carry, use Q for disruption, reposition with Flicker, then W to create safety. Essential for protecting backline in team fights.
Gameplan
Early Game
Levels 1–6- →Prioritize vision control and roam timing to prevent enemy ganks
- →Play safely near your ADC, focusing on harass denial rather than aggression
- →Rotate to help jungler secure objectives when possible without abandoning lane
Mid Game
Post Broken Spear- →Establish control around key objectives (Dark Slayer, towers) with proper positioning
- →Use superior vision to catch out-of-position enemies and enable teammate picks
- →Transition to following your win condition—typically your primary damage dealer
Late Game
Teamfight phase- →Maintain backline protection during critical team fights around objectives
- →Play around your team's win condition, using utility to amplify their strengths
- →Control vision and setup picks rather than forcing engages with low win conditions
Matchups
Ming gets countered by
RazBurst damage and mobility allow him to explode Ming before crowd control can activate; hard to peel against his upfront damage
ZephysMobile assassin that dives backline faster than Ming can react; true damage ignores defensive scaling
QuillenInvisibility and burst negates Ming's ability to predict and protect against engages
Ming synergizes with
LavilleCombined crowd control and team fight presence creates overwhelming defensive utility; stacked CC chains ensure kill setup
WiroBoth excel at team fight initiation and protection; their combined tankiness allows aggressive positioning to enable carries- ElandorrMing's crowd control creates guaranteed damage windows for Elandorr's skill rotations; synergizes perfectly in mid-game fights
Pro Tips
- →Track enemy cooldowns and predict their engage patterns—preemptive positioning beats reactive peeling
- →Leverage your low mechanical requirements to spend mental energy on macro calls and shotcalling for your team
- →Itemize defensively against the enemy team's primary threat, not generically—Ming's value scales with how well you counter-build
Ming is a tier-A support with excellent team fight utility and crowd control, but the 33.3% win rate reflects weak solo queue impact due to team dependency. Pick Ming into coordinated team compositions or when your team has clear win conditions to enable. Best value in organized play where communication amplifies her defensive kit.