The current meta must be the most toxic inducing I've seen

Fed by Snu Snu··2 votes·495 views

Let's even take away the usefulness of the ADC role out of the picture for a second.

In the current meta, the junglers control everything. Laners have lost their ability to control vision so much, that whether you get ganked by a jungler is more an inevitability than anything else.

You warded? No problem, I'll just take a camp and return, your useless trinket will be over by then.

That would be fine if not for the snowbally nature of lanes, with lanes often losing their ability to influence their destiny even completely.

At this point, it would still be fine if not for the game being balanced entirely around scaling with items. So playing safe is an option, but you can never play safe enough with just getting exp. You will be just as useless later as if you straight up kept dying. You will also be fairly easy pray to just be tower dived anyway, so you can't do that either way.

And that's where the breaking point is. This meta has bad scores much more than ever. And teammates always want blood, doesn't matter if you couldn't do something about it. Doesn't matter if your own jungler could and never did, etc.

To use some fancy word that people like these days: This meta takes away a lot of agency from the lanes and yet the laners keep on taking the blame.

At least give us back proper warding. Then blame someone all you want for not doing it.

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Sett up 4my gank1 votes

This is one of those things that is just poor knowledge, you have ample ways to avoid being ganked while getting xp / gold. Your wards are not even close to your only tool for defending yourself. Every single ward on the map helps you defend against ganks in your lane. Where your jungler is positioned helps you defend against ganks in your lane. Where the enemy jungler was spotted last helps you defend against ganks in your lane. How your enemy laner is playing helps you defend against ganks in your lane. You probably just arent using your full arsenal of tools if you think you can't do anything against junglers to keep yourself safe.

Rexxiee1 votes

So you just realised what has been happening since season 5~6?

Junglers have been overpowered for years.

Fed by Snu Snu1 votes

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So you just realised what has been happening since season 5~6?

Junglers have been overpowered for years.

I've been away since S4.

Every single ward on the map helps you defend against ganks in your lane. Where your jungler is positioned helps you defend against ganks in your lane.

Neither of those are under my control. That's only validating that my own control over the lane has been diminished and I am at the jungler's mercy. I never said that this doesn't include my own jungler.

And what wards? The map in the current meta is so dark it's not even funny how many times I've seen people facechecking bush traps. Just waiting in bushes might as well be the most fool proof tactic right now.

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