Playing Non-meta in blind-pick norms

Sky Beacon·1/31/2016, 2:06:32 AM·2 votes·333 views

So my friend and I like to try out new things that generally don't adhere to the meta. Usually in the champ select it will be clear that we are not playing the meta because our role and champion will be known. This works out sometimes and other times one of us can have a bad game - which can happen even if we are playing in the meta. I think that blind pick norms are the best mode to do this in because draft is usually more competitive and obviously it would be wrong to do so in solo queue ranked.

Lately, a lot of people get extremely upset at us and report us and try to /ff because they don't understand that not playing meta can work. However, this never happens in games where I'm doing well. It only happens in games where the team is doing poorly and that is rarely due to me playing against the meta, its just a bad game.

I'm sometimes worried because I do get reported, but I feel like i'm way less toxic to the game than those who get extremely upset and constantly bicker and cuss at me, and give up. I never give up a game because I've had tons of crazy comebacks and I think learning how to comeback makes you a better player.

Basically, I want to hear people opinions on playing non-meta or playing with someone non meta in blind pick games. Should it be a reportable offense? Does it warrant people to flame you the whole game? Are there any people who enjoy playing non meta norms that wanna add me?

2 Comments

Raka Flaka MD1/31/2016, 2:09:38 AM3 votes

Off meta isn't breaking the rules. If you get reported and you did nothing wrong nothing will happen.

Mysticman891/31/2016, 2:23:38 AM1 votes

Off-meta picks are one of the main things I miss about team builder (which was essentially a blind pick norm).

In team builder everyone is generally on-board with it since they'd just kick you (or find another group) and it's a matter of seconds to find another group usually.

In the current normal queues, I'm pretty sure queue dodging penalties come into play, so people not so ok with it will let it go in-game instead of dodging, and then be salty about it if the game is lost (even if the off-meta wasn't the reason for the loss), and even in wins it's often felt that the win was hard fought by carrying the off-meta people, rather then the off-meta people carrying or even holding their own.

It's certainly not bannable or reportable and shouldn't be, but I can understand why some people might be salty that they're 'forced' into games of that sort.