Botlane meta

VDc0zCqe0w··2 votes·426 views

The botlane meta is insanely horrible right now, i mean you can only play all-in supports, all-in AD carries (or Kalista), and ultra peeling supports (Janna, Lulu AT TIMES).

I keep asking for a sustain/poke support but no one ever picks them, it's kill or die every single lane, the game is frenetic, there is zero room for diversity, POKE and SUSTAIN lane are non-existant.

1 month ago people picked Soraka and Sona too, but now they are both nerfed (yeah Soraka's Q is buffed but it doesn't mean a shit, she's worse at sustaining), so no one picks them anymore.

It's been like this for 2 years: S4 preseason Annie/Thresh/Leona, then Thresh/Morgana, then we had that BLESSED period when we had Janna/Nami but it didn't last long honestly, not long enough at least.

I can understand that people feel poke/sustain patterns lack counterplay (no they don't lack, but w/e, people like to pretend they do), but playing every single lane as a all-in lane is terribly boring, incredibly exhausting, and leads to zero strategic diversity.

Also, i dare to say that all-in lanes are incredibly anti-fun: they all in you, you all in them, someone dies, then who lost proceeds to get ROTFLstomped for the whole laning phase unless the jungler ganks him.

Where's the fun in that?

Bring back S3 Sona/Zyra/Thresh meta for fuck sake

Thanks

3 Comments

Wootnoober1 votes

You sir, play with the wrong people. Everyone seems to forget this thing called "communication" in champion select. I main Leona(then again who doesn't) but if someone chooses a sustain adc, then I get Zyra, Sona, Nami(can poke and all-in), EVEN Zilean(specially with Tristana).

Poke will beat kill lanes all day. People just don't want that. After they implement diminishing returns on crowd control, more people will play those champs.

VDc0zCqe0w1 votes

what's diminishing returns on crowd control?

i swear you i ask for them every time, but they really rarely pick them

i ask for a Sona because i want to play a smart lane with Ashe, and he picks Blitzcrank, i mean...and it always happens...

Wootnoober1 votes

" or feed"

People will play what they want, which is why I usually play with a duo when doing ranked. As far as the diminishing returns, say hypothetically speaking Leona stuns you for 3 seconds, then someone else comes in and stuns which on their kit is also 3 seconds, HOWEVER with diminishing returns, that stun will/might last only 1.5 seconds. After that its pointless to stun/fear/knock up. I see the reasoning in this because their are comps that are so CC heavy that whoever they focus won't be able to do anything which is not fun. World of Warcraft implemented this a long time ago and its kept things "somewhat" balanced.

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