If you saw someone go Kennen Support or TP Smite shyvana top 6 months ago, you'd probably threaten to shank them with a knife soaked in lemon juice. But since it was played in the LCS, it's automatically META and the best thing to ever happen.
Reminder that you're probably 5 entire leagues below these players, and this stuff may not even be good, but just for show.
Anything works. Quit getting asshurt over a game.
Kingsgrave4 votesThe meta isn't dictated by the LCS, its just highlighted by them. They don't decide what is or isn't meta, they are just far better at figuring out what the most efficient way to break the game is.
The Tilted King2 votesBig tourney decides the meta, what's better worse, etc
Oh hey ... Reminds me of something... Ycs?
I don't agree with it though. I hate that crap like the lcs (yea I said it) decides the game so much. Nevermind that riot will buff, nerf, destroy champs and items because of it.
Screws things up for whole community
CreationFlaw2 votesEh, if I want to play Veigar jungle I will. Sure, having 50,000 people playing Veigar jungle would suck, which is why I agree that they jump on the LCS prometa train, but still. I like seeing things that are fresh, but then they go stale like Nautilus support is every three games and stuff like that. Bah. +1
hgjkdlsaf jeldvb1 votesPeople seem to miss that part where these teams are highly organized and plan comps around these picks to bring out their full (or at least increased) potential. I want to kick the idiot who picks ezreal mid in solo queue because they clearly don't understand what makes it work. They just see 'pro do thing. I do thing. I be pro' and do it.
Here's the thing. There are champs are that just strong.
Nunu for example, is way too strong. Nunu didn't really get any direct buffs, but the increased jungle respawn timers and emphasis on dragon control puts the game in a place that suits him much better than it should.
Urgot is strong in LCS because the teams understand what they sacrifice by picking him and what they need to do to make up those weaknesses, or compound the strengths. Urgot is very low damage compared to the ADC or mid laner he replaces, so the damage has to be made up elsewhere.
<Insert AD mid here> is very strong generally, but fails quite often because picking them mid means that no one will make up the lack of magic damage. This is because people care more about their picks than the team as a whole.
Amumu is very strong is solo queue because of his potential to win engages with his ult, but is susceptible to counterjungling. Pro teams will exploit this weakness, so you don't see amumu in LCS. Katarina is the same way, just, replace counterjungling with cc.
Basically, champs that require actual consideration for their team comps are likely to do poorly in solo queue., but well in LCS. Champs that are hard to exploit without moderate organization are strong in solo queue, but can often be dismantled in LCS. Champs that are just overpowered will have high win rates in solo queue, and be picked in LCS.
Partholonian1 votes[{quoted}](name=hgjkdlsaf jeldvb,realm=NA,application-id=3ErqAdtq,discussion-id=EqZVJiHq,comment-id=0002,timestamp=2015-05-16T00:41:02.050+0000)
<Insert AD mid here> is very strong generally, but fails quite often because picking them mid means that no one will make up the lack of magic damage. This is because people care more about their picks than the team as a whole.
Assuming you're talking about things like 
, the pros usually play them with someone like 
(or formerly 
). Soloq? Not so much.
: Why are we doing no damage? Tank meta sucks, Riot plz nerf.
: (facepalm)
