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Can The Lane DIstribution Meta Ever Change? (I have ideas)

Diri·1/15/2016, 12:06:52 AM·2 votes·1,587 views

Hi everybody. I have begun to ask myself why it is that for so long there have been no role styles other than solo top, solo mid, solo jungler, dual bot lane. And began to brainstorm with a few friends about the possibilities of other role styles. My favorite idea thus far is below:

Top lane: solo tank/fighter. Bot lane: solo tank/fighter. Mid lane: upper jungler, bottom jungler, damage carry.

The idea consists of bottom lane and top lane essentially being what top plane currently is. A heavy hitter, or in some cases an assassin. Mid lane would be the biggest change, where one jungler farms the upper side of the jungle, one jungle farms the bottom side of the jungle, and while in the lane they act as supports for a squishy damage carry who will farm off of minions and kills.

There are some obvious kinks here, if it were to be wide -spread used than top and bottom lane would be hogged for constantly, and mid laners would be difficult to find. But as far as ranked and upper levels go, I think this takes advantage of team work and cooperation that there is a lack of in early game. I believe that some incredible pre-level 6 gameplay could arise from this strategy.

I'm eager to know what you all think of this so please let me know.

4 Comments

disregardable1/15/2016, 12:11:47 AM4 votes

There are only 4 sources of income. There's not enough jungle to support two junglers, one jungler is cash strapped as it is. A support is pretty much mandatory in the game.

Myrmiron1/15/2016, 12:20:09 AM2 votes

There used to be multiple option to play this game, but the European way proved superior during the season 1 championship. For example, it used to be meta to put an adc solo midlane. This isn't the case anymore because adcs usually have no burst and low mobility. There are some adcs beeing played in midlane, but those will have either one or both of them (Corki/Ezreal)(Varus is an exception to this rule since he has very high range and decent poke with his Q making him basically a long range poke/siege mage). Any other adc will get outranged, or simply murdered by the common assassins that occupy the midlane.

Double jungle used to be a thing, and it very much is in some soloqueue games. The only problem is that you leave your adc alone versus potentially a leona lane (this never end well). With a tank/fighter botlane it could work, but most (read: all) solo queue players don't want to give up carry potential, means they won't go into a disadvantageous lane if there isn't a good enough reason. Also, doublejungle simply gets too less resources. With the game right now, a single jungler can already barely keep up with the laners experience and gold wise. And you're now cutting this limited resource in half again meaning if the enemy laners play smartly they simply won't push out and just farm under their turrets until lategame, making your 2 junglers pretty much dead weight for the team.

Edit: Also with the new championselect Riot basically enforces the meta even in ranked play.

Dominick Destine1/15/2016, 12:12:56 AM1 votes

Earlier this week my team won a game where our bot lane was Taric (me) and Vel Koz vs. Vayne and Janna.

We shredded them. If you coordinate well enough, you can play strange things successfully.