Bot lane meta is probably the worst it has been in years.

Jie Chen·10/5/2017, 4:54:24 AM·19 votes·2,243 views

When the only viable picks are hyper carries because it's impossible to kill them early game when they run barrier+heal on support. And they always get to scale extremely well and turn into a hyper carry way too early in the game because of ardent censor supports.

Riot has stated that they dislike passive power, yet here we are that the BEST soloq supports right now are all just ardent censor healing ball of stats.

Once ardent supports get even slightly ahead, you can't fight them because they just run you over with their big balls of stat.

Healing needs to get reworked on champions that have it as a major part of their kit. Bot lane bullies are literally non viable right now because of ardent censor supports using heal+barrier to negate ANY chance of them dying in lane. This is literally anti interaction. Heals are too strong and the champions with the heals have no way to demonstrate they are good because their kit are so simple that they can't fuck it up. There's no decision making with ardent supports, push their heal when their adc is hurt, push CC button when the enemies engage on you. Run away. It's not interactive and it's not fun to play vs the current bot lane meta. The problem of the all in champions that used to counter censor bots is that they are all just too weak right now in lane. They can't deal with ranged auto attack harrass early game and they get outpaced on items because coin is literally giving ardent supports 3x the gold of relic shield.

Rework heals to grey health, so that it's not instant and there's some counterplay to it. Grey health makes it so that assassins can ACTUALLY kill the adc when they get on the adc instead of the support literally outshielding+healing the assassin's damage.

16 Comments

Winterwings10/5/2017, 8:40:40 AM3 votes

I never understood these suggestions to rework healing into "gray health" mechanic... It wouldn't work... or at least would leave healing supports in a state where there is absolutely no reason to pick them...EVER...

Let me explain:

  • "Gray Health" is a out of combat healing mechanic. It requires you to take damage first, then stay out of combat for it to kick in and heal a PORTION of the damage you took.
  • It was also intended to be used on bulky melee champions that are EXPECTED to take damage, hence why TahmKench has it... and not some squishy champion...
Jie Chen10/6/2017, 4:21:11 AM2 votes

Almost every pro agrees that the ardent censor meta is not very fun to play in. Pro supports don't like playing ardent censor supports, pro mid lane and top lane doesn't like the fact that their game becomes babysitting bot lane because the game has been so warped.

ZeroAgainst10/5/2017, 10:28:08 AM1 votes

healing shouldnt have ever been viable like this they should of stuck with how morrelo wanted healing to work.But he gon sold the company to $encent

Daddy Ants10/5/2017, 8:26:59 PM1 votes

I'd rather have an ADC meta than a Tank Meta.

Best princess EU10/5/2017, 8:58:07 AM1 votes

weren't you playing in duo with 41noob in season 4? well in season 4 it was the same meta

Rins Thigh Socks10/6/2017, 6:09:33 AM1 votes

Dude what are you talking about I love being stronger than bot lane for a hot 8 minutes before they start outscaling me.

Almost as much as I love it when your jungler doesn't realize you only win by sitting in bot lane for the full duration of the game. Or watching all the Trist/Twitch pentakill montages.

Ungrateful Thug10/7/2017, 7:31:18 PM1 votes

What? You don't like going 3/0 as a solo laner only to have no opportunity to do anything useful once the fed Tristana/Janna show up into your lane?

Always angry tbh10/9/2017, 7:27:16 AM1 votes

Oh you think it's just bot lane? Midlaners are almost forced to roam bot thanks to hypercarries in the mid-game, elemental drakes and the bot lane tower being easier to take. They often take TP now just to tp to bot lane.

The jungle got nerfed so jungle farming is really bad right now... Hmm, that means that carry junglers are not really good anymore so we play cost efficient tank or support junglers that can easily sit.. Hmm... Bot lane! And get first tower and drake with... Bot lane!

Top, idk, they buffed tanks (probably to counter ADCs that were running rampant but all it did was making carries in other than ADCs less viable) so we mainly see those top now. Usually tanks that can set up nice tp ganks. Where you ask? In the enemy jungle of course. (Nah jk, bot lane.) Sure, champions like Fiora and... Well, can't think of any top lane carry that is alright right now.

What I'm trying to say, or tl;dr: Riot stated they wanted more action to happen on and around bot lane because they thought it would be cool, but they overdid it and now the entire damn game seems to be about bot lane. I currently hardly play the game, like 1-2 matches a day instead of the 4-9 matches I used to play every day because I have noticed that whenever my bot lane plays poorly we'll likely lose the match no mater how well me and the next guy play since the game seems to be all about bot.

(And for some reason my bot lane is usually the one that loses even if I hand my ADC 3 kills for free. The second I step out of that lane they do some kind of monkey ritual dance under the enemy tower or whatever.)

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