It kinda seems like the meta is either walking blocks of lead stunning you or counter strike style 2 second burst fights
This game lost the middle ground
Im nnot saying i don't want tanks or assassins but just that the whole game seems to be either burst or bricks
Old Man Teeto1 votesRiot has that month'ish period where bruisers are strong each year.
Then everyone screams "Tank Meta" for some weird reason and we get overbuffed ADC's for six months.
Hammermancer1 votessometimes i want to salt the earth of bot lane and scatter the adcs into the wind... or put them all in variious lanes.. that would be cool too
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Riot has that month'ish period where bruisers are strong each year.
Then everyone screams "Tank Meta" for some weird reason and we get overbuffed ADC's for six months.
Bruisers often mean duelists. Champions who will out duel anyone (Tank or ADC) if they get fed. Especially for top laners since they tend to have higher level and CS count when Top lane becomes an island. (Because they don't often roam, and their not the Junglers focus.) And it becomes that infamous top lane meta, where the winning top lane Bruiser become a near unstoppable split pusher.
As for the whole tank meta. Riot was trying to give Tanks more positional diversity by giving cinderhulk their hyper tank scaling back, along with additional clear speed. Hoping they could be viable either top lane or Jungle. (And the meta Said, "Why not both?")
As for over buffed ADC's. it kinda feels like power creep, because Riot felt the need to adjust itemization to allow more variety in the ADC meta. It start with the ADC 2k17 snafu and cry fest, Riot said "okay, maybe we took the Lethality nerfs a little too far." Brought us back into the Apen/lethality meta we just left. Then they buffed BotRK, and as tanks started to get looked at, ADC's were starting to go back to higher DPS builds. And at some point, they buffed the Energized items to better compete with Hurricane. (Instead of nerfing Hurricane)