After never before seen diversity

WarWork·9/1/2018, 4:07:16 PM·2 votes·1,276 views

We're back to the same old same old tournament meta siiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiigh*[slayer-jinx-unamused]*
What makes this hurt even more is that the bot lane diversity let for diversity in other lanes/ roles. Picks were exciting with the only thing predictable being the band, with some teams using that to leave the OPs open and throwing a wrench into the other teams plan. Now we're back to tanks everywhere and the team with the stronger ad carry winning.

I think the huge meta change is why some teams fell off so hard in play-offs it hurts when the strategy you've been using all split is just not strong anymore

7 Comments

GeminiRune9/1/2018, 5:22:31 PM2 votes

Well that's what happens when the meta re-conforms itself on top of the community making the biggest gripe about how the game is falling apart at the seams; all for nerfing marksmen enough to enable more flexibility with a single role which even made quite valuable use of multi-man rosters within orgs. And even still, you had the likes of some of the world's best marksmen refusing to conform and proving that there's still life in the class if you play the game right.

But no; the community continued to intoxicate itself from yet another midseason change. The diversity and thought process of flex roles was quite fun but it was also considered something of trolling, silly, and outright ridiculous (especially in NA and EU when everywhere else had its discord) but that's like everything nowadays that isn't the norm players grew with. It is already an unsettling season to play the game at hand due to said toxicity added with the fact that players are prone to imitate over innovate so everything that was happening and working competitively was causing the general game to either flip out of their minds or just become worse.

But you know, it happens with this game and scene. "Order is restored." Or is it? Welcome back to hoping for that one innovative player to make an innovative pick, praise it (and imitate it) if he does well, and flame him forever if he doesn't.

BigBellBrute9/2/2018, 3:45:43 AM2 votes

We had to change the meta. TSM was about to miss playoffs.

Sincerely, Rito.

WarWork9/1/2018, 4:09:35 PM1 votes

PS. Not looking to flame riot, I just hope they do something to shake things up or we in for a boring worlds

Zardo9/1/2018, 4:20:57 PM1 votes

LCS may have been more entertaining to watch( I don't know I stopped watching anything but lck games because of the bo1 format), but soloqueue has felt terrible to play lately.

On a side note, I prefer watching games that are decided more by macro than fla$hy lee $in insec outplays. Flashy outplays can exist in a macro focused game as long as the reason why they won the game off of the insane insec was because they set it up ahead of time with macro. Even in the LCK, the best region when it comes to macro, there were clown fiestas all the time. It was literally just get an early lead then end. No macro, no wave control, no vision control, just early game snowballing.

Skullgetti9/2/2018, 3:47:54 AM1 votes

I'd like to be able to play something else than the 10 useful oneshot mages or assassins, thank you very much