The current meta is the worst it has ever been.

BerylCrab··1 votes·916 views

Allow me to elaborate.

  1. There is no reason to pick anything that not a tank or an assassin because it is nearly impossible to kill tanks with carries, while at the same time you have assassins in nearly every role that isn't a tank running around killing you in one or two hits.

  2. Since the tanks that are currently dominating the meta take FOREVER+1 to kill, it makes pushing even after winning a team fight very hard to do, especially in lower elo where players don't fully understand what to do when they have won a fight. Silver elo is a nightmare for this reason. People win fights and by the time they are done killing off the tanks, they can't secure any objectives, or worse still, the enemy team has already respawned as is securing objectives of their own.

  3. It is incredibly annoying. More often than not in this meta, if you get hit by anything, you are cc'd from 100% to 0% with no counter play and no way of avoiding it. Chogath and Maokai are great examples of champions that are either nearly impossible, or actually impossible to avoid the cc from. I've had games where i am trying to play AD carry, and the entire game the only thing that happens is maokai initiates with his targeted root, then knocks a teammate back into his team before they can react and then they are chain cc'd and killed having no chance at all to even flash or do anything.

This meta is horrible, and the balance team should feel bad for subjecting the community to it. The only people who like this meta are people who want their tanks to be incredibly tanky, have more burst than a mage, and have more sustain than an adc can deal. Making the only possible counterplay to pick something that is identical, leading to an all tank meta, with some assassins sprinkled on top.

15 Comments

SIEGE2UK2 votes

I pulled it out of the fact that you complain about Tanks and Assassins killing you, but they do the same on your team as well. Assassins have had their items buffed because they were next to useless. An armor pen stat, that scales on a target that is 2-3 levels LOWER than you are? Can you see why that is useless?

Now the items scale properly, with the person who is playing well and doing their job, assassinating ADC's and Mid laners. This is why you feel threatened, it's how it is supposed to be. If you are telling me that you always get killed and non of it was your fault, you are talking shit. Yeah sure some games your support doesn't peel properly, you play more cautiously.

Assassins are easily killed when you play it out properly.

Cocho2 votes

tl:dr

  1. Too many classes viable, we want to see fewer classes.
  2. Low elo has bad players
  3. teamwork op
SIEGE2UK1 votes

So what you are saying is, only tanks exist on the enemy team, you never get tanks that do this for you?

BerylCrab1 votes

Where in the world did you pull that out of?

Siyther1 votes

well in low elo yes that is exactly the problem. enemy plays tank while your team is entirely squishies. See in low elo everyone is told to play carries not tnaks to try to climb. Visit youtube and watch some viseo id u dont belive me. They tell you there is no teamwork so its is piontless to play a tank. Well prob is right now if u aint playing more tanks than the enemy you have most likely lost in champ select .

SwiftSwifties 1 votes

You get it Siyther without teamwork a tank is just a ocean drake with a stun or slow (assuming they have ice born gauntlets) But in low elo when trying to climb going a tank is a risk.... Its like i can go a tank and support my team tank for them and help the carries carry harder but wait my carry doesnt know how to play the game...So i went a tank with no damage to back me and now im useless.

MrHaZeYo1 votes

You think this is the worst meta? It's not lol.

It's all opinion though.

BerylCrab1 votes

I mean, it's really bad. i guess its possible there has been a worse one, but it couldn't have been much worse.

MrHaZeYo2 votes

I actually enjoy this meta sooo. It's all opinion.

SIEGE2UK1 votes

Another salty ADC main stuck in Silver, looking for more excuses and things to blame.

SwiftSwifties 1 votes

What i hate is retarded carries who cant comprehend the fact i just landed a 5 man sion ult with a 5 man sion E with a 5 man sion Q with a 5 man sion W and did half the hp of the entire enemy team including my ice born gauntlet hits inbetween so they just 5 man me with the stupid carries running away as i tank 5 people for 30 seconds. Btw asassins are out of control when a shadow kayn does 1700 damage to a 240 armour tank and 140 mr its out of control...Atleast when an adc shreds a tank its they arent as mobile, i just dont want assassins one shotting tanks or shredding them.

BerylCrab1 votes

Part of the reason adc might be running away these days is that they get blown up in less than a second by champions that leap over walls and crap. but yeah, I hear your gripe and if you want to duo sometime i'd like to, good initiators are under rated. But just for the record i do think that its a little ridiculous that you can nearly solo the enemy team as a tank, while your carries run away terrified, and rightfully so.

Anags1 votes

You don't even play a meta adc so I can see why you wouldn't like it.

Ezreal is your most played champ this season and he is basically the worst adc this season. If you played a meta adc it would likely be a little different.

BerylCrab1 votes

yep, "balance" is fun. Tank/assassin meta is awesome.

SwiftSwifties 1 votes

Its a tank meta since everyone plays assassins.....If we had more vaynes xeraths azirs and other people with tank shred instead of only full lethality talons that one shot anyone below 3 thousand hp a tank meta would be non existent. Instead people want to feel powerful and one shot the adc everytime they got in a 5 foot radius. I wouldnt be playing tanks as much if everytime i went a role i wasnt getting one shotted.Oh btw its not nearly solo the enemy team its called i got a perfect combo off and comboed it perfectly. If someone can land all 4 of the abilites they have on 5 people and comboing with a ice born gauntlet they deserve to 1 vs 5 for not making a single mistake.

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