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laner

laner

9.1
A player who controls one path in an online team game
  • noun
  • /ˈleɪnər/
  • Jargon
translation icon : jugador de línea
  • a mid laner
  • a top laner
  • a Korean mid laner

Examples

  • Six-laner headed straight through the heart of Shadow Valley.

    I'm Not There (2007)

  • The top laner focused on farming and securing kills to gain an advantage for his team.

  • As a mid laner, she needed to control the flow of the game and communicate effectively with her teammates.

  • The team relied heavily on their experienced laner to maintain control of the map and protect the turret.

Synonyms

zoner
vslaner
  • Jargon
1 8.7

A player who controls space by keeping opponents far away

focuses on holding one fixed path in the game rather than keeping opponents distant

Surface Forms

laner singular
laners plural

Morphology

laner = lane (transparent) = lane + er

This sense is a straightforward lane + -er formation, with the lane metaphor extending naturally to the game context.

Etymology

Laner in gaming comes from lane, the path on the game map, plus -er meaning 'one who', as in baker. So a laner is 'one who plays in a lane', which is why it means the player responsible for a specific lane in the game.