As much as Riot supports offmeta, please don't do it in Ranked

Elohaven·May 30, 2018·1 votes·818 views

It's not your fault that offmeta is disliked. It's the game's design.

If you don't play meta, you're usually fucked since this game is mostly decided in champ select unless you're in low elo. And by meta, play champions in their usual lanes.

Even if Riot says offmeta is supported, it isn't because the game supports the meta so heavily that you have a higher probability of losing if you go off meta. Offmeta is fine in norms and Bronze though.

2 Comments

Done25May 30, 20182 votes

There's a difference between someone playing off meta, and someone playing AP Garen support. Certain things just don't work.

DemonBoneJanglesMay 30, 20181 votes

offmeta is really only supported in normal and even there it gets frowned upon unless its something that was used in championships, so no riot doesn't really support off meta as much as we think otherwise it wouldn't be as big a struggle to play champions in a role they are designed for (such as a support mage playing mage instead of support) in this example its often the champions who rely less on their debuffs and more on their damage that can work successfully while other more support oriented champions fall flat when trying to go mage unless they build the correct items