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One of the hopeful benefits of "One for All"

CheftoniFTW··2 votes·492 views

Having studied Media for a few years in college has led me to look beyond what is presented in media. I have applied this to many of League's one-off modes.

In Doom Bots, it was made to make the players feel a complete role-reversal:

  • All the bots had cooler skins than you.
  • They knew their skillshots better than you.
  • They laughed at you when you whiffed a skillshot or landed one of their own.
  • They made you feel completely inferior to them.
  • They taunted you at the beginning of the game and at the end. (More provocatively than they do now)
  • They would even take dragon when there was nothing you could do to stop them.

That was one of the cool things I feel a lot of people have missed from Doom bots and am very excited to have them show up again .

What I am hoping players will learn from "One for All" is the pointlessness of the meta and how easily it can be shifted if you played your cards right. I am the type of player who likes to fight against the meta and pick weird champs. For instance, I had an all Soraka team versus an all Azir team. An often laughed at support versus one of the most popular mid-laners currently. We were destroying them until we started getting cocky and started throwing the game enough to lose. You could argue "Oh, well you had two bot laners and two top laners that could heal one another!" But I was focusing my theory on the mid lane, where there is no one but a solo Soraka versus a solo Azir. The same could have been said against the all Yorick team versus the all Yasuo team I had afterwards. Meta vs non-meta.

I had another game where we had an all Urgot team versus an all Kindred team. One thing I enjoyed the most of that game was that my team had never played Urgot, I was the only one who had experience playing him. My team kept calling out how cool Urgot was and how fun it was to play him! It made me happy that he got SOME shine in the limelight.

What I am hoping summoners will learn from this game mode is to try something new and not completely go with what the pros are playing strictly because the pros are playing it. A quote I could use to sum up: "Just because it is popular, it does not mean it is better."

So I encourage you, fellow summoners, try playing new things, you lose no LP, you lose none of your "precious" MMR. Play the game for the purpose it exists, for fun!

12 Comments

Ralanr3 votes

What I like about one for all is the increased champion pool we get to pick from. I got to try Yorick, Singed, Kindred, and others I haven't tried. I get a feel for new mechanics, even if I mostly lose I find a playstyle that's enjoyable. Now I have Singed on my list as a champion to buy, make him another one of my top laners.

That's really the only thing I enjoy about one for all.

CheftoniFTW1 votes

Try playing Mundo. LOADS of fun!

charcharmunro1 votes

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Try playing Mundo. LOADS of fun!

I did have Mundo vs. Mordekaiser once. But, because Mordekaiser, we still lost.

charcharmunro2 votes

What's annoying about OFA, though, is you'll rarely run into people who wanna do a fun game, like 5 Bards or 5 Rammuses (Rammi?), but instead they'll always wanna play the characters who are just powerful, like Yasuo/Riven/Darius/Mordekaiser (fucking hell Mordekaiser shows up a lot).

CheftoniFTW1 votes

I've had all sorts of champ games so far. By far, the funnest one was Mundo vs Jinx. We just danced while they tried to whittle down our health.

The Great Divide1 votes

Yasuo: yes, he is stupid to play against. But I've never seen a riven or darius do well.... like ever, whether I'm them, or the enemy team is them. If the other team has range, you aren't going to win, and it's risky to pick them

Archon X1 votes

I enjoy threads where bronze players believe they are above the meta.

You can win with anyone in all for one, but don't think it says anything about standard draft pick rift meta.

TDubH4 votes

I love how plat gets cocky and decides to forget out of meta champions because they're so called irrelevant, when the largest factor is a players skill with a champion, ALL champions are above the meta not the player, fucking hell, meta is only "Flavor of the month" it doesn't exist playing above the meta is what changes the meta.

That adc meta real squishy? really high damage late game carries Come poke meta, meet nidalee who'll stab a spear through the adc's heart... repeatedly Come Tank meta, meet Maokai who laughs at nidalee and will body block the spears Come what Tank buster meta which are... Adcs that hyper scale into the late game

Meta is a fucking circle of what counters what, bronze are the idiots who follow it blindly, silver are the morons who can't play well gold are the addled people who have a concept Plat are the jackasses who think they've achieved something by drinking formula and being slightly skillful, diamond are the ones who've made their own formula and drink it.

being an ass cause of ohh "Herp derp" i'm plat is fucking hilarious. I can hold my own in an argument with you in everything except for your stupid cop out "Herp durp i'm plat, u gold u suk"

"But jackass named TDumbassH if you're so good y u no plat" because i have absolutely shit mechanics, i play this game for fun i like discussing random things about and i find ranked to be a hilarious grind.

DrNova3 votes

Arrogant.

Athenes Lulu1 votes

Despite not being the funnest mode (getting only mages and assassins every game DOES get old, you know?), I have learned a few things here and there:

  • I used to say that assassins are braindead and faceroll. Then I did get my hands on them, and realized that they simply have a completely different kind of thinking than that of supports; supports and assassins are pretty much polar opposites in everything. I still don't find them fun, but I DO know that a different mindset and extreme mechanics are what's necessary.
  • Bruisers have among the highest winrates because they had "everything": damage, tankyness/defensive strats, own CC, etc. Garen, Darius, and Cho are quite notorious for this.
  • Supports, when alone, are kinda useless. However, when they team up, shit becomes extremely nasty.
  • Remember in ARAMs where the team with more tanks win, especially when games were forced to drag? Same deal goes to OFA. And even classic SR.
  • 5 Sorakas will make you feel like you are playing MMORPG instead. In a team of 5 healers, too!
  • Pantheon might as well be one of Yasuo's greatest counters, ever.
  • Anyone can run support gold items and remain useful.
  • Sona, contrary to popular belief, is actually not the easiest shit to pull off. I had a game where only I pushed and beat the Ezreals lane FIRST, which tells me that people actually don't know how to pull off Sona properly.

Could go on, but I actually did learn a few things here and there.

CheftoniFTW1 votes

Actually, I could argue the opposite of supports, they are not entirely useless, it's just that conventionally, they are shoved into the support role and people say the support role is the most boring role, so people rarely play them (And those forced into the role tend to play according to their main roles (Mid would have aggressive AP supports (Nidalee), Tops would have tanky supports (Alistar) and ADC will never play supports (XD). If you give the right supports the right items and get to know their kits in depth, you can play them quite well. I remember when I used to have only Soraka as my mid-laner before the nerfs, I only ever mained supports, but she used to kick ass and Leblancs would run in fear from her non-stop spamming of her silence.

But yeah, summoners should take this opportunity to learn new champs and see how well they adapt with their new champ. I tend to play support and enjoy playing them in that role.

Athenes Lulu1 votes

In a 1v1 situation supports aren't so strong as compared to other kinds of champs, such as assassins. I remember in a 5 Raka game against 5 Shacos, the solo Raka lost lane kinda hard.

Once they start bunching up, the entire squad is montrosity; they're so powerful when together. And back to that Raka game... what are Shacos again?

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