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MSI turning into teleport meta ?

swordsky93·5/20/2018, 12:53:48 PM·1 votes·770 views

Recent MSI games have shifted more and more towards teleport, roaming meta. Teleport have started to be taken upon top, mid, and adc roles.

Champions played are "mostly" with long-range map control abilities like ryze, galio, taliyah, tahm kench, sion, ornn, aurelion sol, vladimir, gangplank etc.
Is this healthy? It seems whoever can roam faster and provide map pressure gains the upperhand.

Multiple teleport provides the tool to not lose pressure during the laning phase, and it deters split pushing (in later stages). They can just gank a split-pusher, without worrying about baron pressure. Since everyone can teleport over, if the other team dares to start on the objective.

There is also very little counter-play towards ornn, camille, galio type of combo. Ornn ultimate is just too strong for the "best" teams.
The amount of crowd control, also forces support to go morgana, tahm kench, braum and janna in every game (except rakan).

Tanks are very strong at the moment. If your adc is not ezreal, or tank shredder like kaisa / kogmaw (rageblade users). Once your team falls behind, it is almost a game over (70-80%).

Do note that this post is about the current "competitive games". The matches are nice, but it just makes you wondered if something should be done about the meta in esports.

1 Comments

GeminiRune5/20/2018, 1:04:06 PM1 votes

Note that this is still on 8.8 which also features the pre-changed Spellbook along with other factors. Not only that, but the multi TP comp was kind of just a Kingzone constructed strat for them. It wasn't exactly the kingpin meta to follow throughout the tournament. But a way to match up against it is to level the field of summoners which RNG is doing that.

To me, It's too soon to say it's now a meta thing. I don't see it necessary to imitate unless you are genuinely aiming to keep to the farm. Realistically it could have always been such but if you're an imitator, you'd only be that of either flamed or astonished when you take or see it in Live prior to this exposure.

Not to mention, this is the finals. There's nothing left to this MSI meta if there was one to begin with. Everyone played their own style in order to top the opponent.