riot are aware of the fact that giving base stats to some champions will limit the offemta picks. in my opinion the best way to solve this is by changing the ad/ap/health base stats to campion the scale with it. for example, mundo gets more health, veigar more ap, riven more ad. and give us another rune slots for defensive and utility runes(armor,cdr, mov speed, gold/10secs, ect...).
gabetheguy1 votesless off meta picks is better. got a 14 day ban because I flamed a support lucian that claimed to be a god.
rawiazam11 votesthere is a big difference betweem offmeta and straight out troll picks, full ap malphite will work fine with his 100% ap ult scaling, but lucian have nothing that makes him a support, meta says jarvan should play tanky, but a full ad jarvan can dominate the enemy if most of them are offensive champs
DrCyanide1 votesAnything labeled as Adaptive adapts to your champion and in-game item build. If a Rune offers Adaptive Attack Damage or Ability Power, it will grant you one or the other based on whichever of Attack Damage or Ability Power you have more of within your items (defaulting to the stat listed first).
You can use the same Runes for AP or AD Ezreal, they will give you AP or AD depending on what you end up building.
Even better for off meta builds, you can swap to the other mid game. If I decide the enemy team has too much armor, I can swap to AP and my Runes will swap with me.
rawiazam11 votesim not talking about the runes, im talking about the base stats that riot will add