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Does a Professional Have Play a Champion in a Non-meta Role for the Role to be Normal?

ThyRoyalJuice·6/4/2015, 4:44:51 PM·5 votes·1,718 views

The meta is good and all but I never seem to do good using champions in the lane. I always do well when i don't play meta champion like tank support or jungle that also makes the champion fun to use. I have been doing this for about a month now but this past week i have been receiving hate from my team almost every game that breaks the win streak that i was on. For an example, the last game I played, I called jungle and went in champion select because i won the past 5 games as her in the jg and one of my teammates was crying that he wanted jungle the whole selection process but when he saw that I went jg then he started to hate me and he locked in jg. When we loaded into the game I tried to glitch the camps but every time i was about to kill the monster comes in and steals it preventing me to gain experience because i was too far making me lvl 1 for the first 5 minutes. When he stole my camps he always tells me that I can't jg and laughs about it. Eventually I finally hit lvl 2 at 5 mins but my kda was 0/7/1 because everybody else was 5 levels ahead of me and they all 2 shot me. That is when the support and adc on my team starts becoming negative and tells me i suck. It is even worse that they left me to die most of the time during team fights then they start to feed and blame me for everything that has happened to them. We obviously lost and that brought a question to my mind. Why do people only play champs the exact same way that professionals play them? I never got that because I always played with my own style. People skip all because not a single LCS player used him until this year making him "Urgod" because he is "now" really good. He was always good even before LCS its just that he wasn't meta which shouldn't make a difference on opinions about it but it does. That's the problem, people are to overly attached to the meta. They are afraid to try new things until they are played by a famous person plays him which bugs me. I could rant on about this even long but I will stop right here. All I need to know is why do they hate people who try to have fun just because they broke the meta? (P.S. I run on every champion)

22 Comments

Swampmajikk6/4/2015, 5:14:27 PM4 votes

I hate the idea that there is a meta at all. People refuse to try anything different and that's just boring. I'm sure something to way off meta would destroy the current meta but no one is willing to try it or be supportive of others trying it.

Tl;dr This game is full of meta sheep crybaby idiots..why do I play it again?

Oh and gun blade was better before they shaved the ad. Now it's too ap oriented. I do like it on ms fortune and Elise.

GroundRuleDouble6/4/2015, 5:06:24 PM2 votes

The answer to your question is yes. The LCS trickles down to the average player (even though most players might not even know the LCS exists).

So someone in the LCS plays a champ, then people hear about it and start playing it. Then players who don't know about the LCS see this guy being played here and plays it.

A good example of this is Varus mid. Varus is NOT a mid, but someone in the LCS played it BECAUSE THEY ARE PROFESSIONALS and can make anything work and can counter well. Well, people saw this and thought "I can do this," and they are usually terrible with him (can you tell I'm still bitter?).

So many times, people complain about off meta picks. For example, I was last pick, and our team chose: Tryn (Top) Zed (Mid) Braum (Support) Master Yi (Jungle)

This left me with ADC. Well, our team is all AD champs, so I said I'll play APC LeBlanc. Well, everyone threw a fit that I wasn't playing a typical ADC and threatened to dodge, feed, etc (I'm in Bronze V, so people do this all the time since they won't get demoted any more), so for the sake of the game, I switched to a typical ADC, and of course, we lost after everyone on their team built thornmail.

TLDR, nothing is acceptable by the average player until the LCS plays it. If I play off-meta, it's usually something like Katarina top or jungle or Brand support* (things that are only slightly off meta) so I don't get trolled.

*Speaking of Brand support, I played this before the LCS played it and got trolled a lot for it. I played it while the LCS played it and no one said a word. I still play it, and people threaten to dodge/feed when I pick it (since it's not in the LCS anymore).

PS, all of this is referring to ranked solo queue.

ModWulf Helhammer6/4/2015, 4:52:05 PM1 votes

Question: Does playing Quinn ADC (and Ashe before her rework) as my main ADCs, and Nautilus top lane count as off meta?

killd0zer6/4/2015, 5:25:51 PM1 votes

Pros dont play something and make it good

Something good get played by pros

7ha7guy7776/4/2015, 8:20:45 PM1 votes

I'll typically try some off-meta botlane duos with a friend if the rest of the team is ok with it in normals. Especially when we can get a 5 man premade going so we know who is doing what before champ select. We usually try to do unconventional stuff that has some sort of synergy like swain malzahar (root + silence is almost a stun) or maokai blitzcrank (get pulled and you die before you can even fight back thanks to the cc lock) to name two examples. These combos typically only work if the team knows about them early enough to not end up picking a full team that does almost exclusively magic damage. I really want to try AD attack speed mundo but i don't think it's ideal

Duke Anax6/5/2015, 9:31:25 PM1 votes

The weird thing is, People cry Meta! like Azir cries Shurima! but they don't even know what meta means.

Meta means taking a long hard look at the game from outside the game and realise certain conditions, then play according to them.

Like: Mid always get's the most XP. So you pick a champ that benefits from levels to go mid.