Tired of People saying to play Meta Champs

GhostOfTsushima·Apr 8, 2016·2 votes·351 views

Like "FUCK YOU HELL NO"

I will play what I want and there's no stopping me I will play comfort picks that I know I will do good with, I don't need some idiot in game telling what works and don't

If I feel like playing as support I will Don't like it? Then Dodge

Why does people always fucking follow the Meta? For real?

etc. These are still OP asf broken Champ if fed, just as Rengo

How do you know whats Meta and whats not?

If they don't show up in LCS that mean there not Meta? Some stupid half assumption

3 Comments

RalanrApr 8, 20162 votes

It really depends on the context of the situation. If it's normals, you can still kinda get away with awkward picks because there is no real punishment for losing. But if it is ranked, you're starting the game with not only a very odd support choice (I'm not saying it can't work, I'm just saying that they cannot do it on equal levels as actual supports) but with a teammate that doesn't think they can rely on you (in low elo I can't imagine people really trust each other either, but they trust the champion as well).

Now this doesn't mean comfort picks are bad. Mine is Sion . The problem is that comfort picks can strengthen or severely weaken a team comp. Sion is a pretty broad pick because every team should have a source of hard CC and being a tank is a bonus (like an actual tank, not some Garen / Darius "They build tanky, they must be tanks" bullshit). Course in some elo's, if you're good enough with a champion then you can carry with them (I don't like this mindset, but that's the mindset).

Is the meta bullshit sometimes? Yes. I shouldn't be told that I can't play Sion jg because he isn't in LCS. But going Warwick support isn't an off meta pick, it's a cheese pick. You're basically abusing your enemy's confusion towards seeing a Warwick support (though he has an attack speed buff that allows it). An off meta support would be Nidalee or Kayle who both have the support tag (secondary) and have multiple support abilities (I'm not sure about Nidalee , but Kayle has a heal, defense shred, and a NOPE ult).

Comfort picks are fine, but they don't work anywhere. If it's ranked, get some comfort picks for every role that make sense for that pic. If it's normals? Go nuts. I went Gragas mid and completely shut down a Zed a while back.

TehNACHOApr 8, 20162 votes

Wasn't aware Nocturne was a meta pick, or Kha'Zix for that matter.

Are we talking Normals or Ranked here? If Normals, yeah go ahead do whatever. If you're playing Ranked? Honestly you're probably doing way more harm to yourself and your teammates than any good. Warwick, Ashe, and Teemo are not efficient supports in any sense since they're either really gold reliant, mid or late game orientated when supports need to be early to mid game orientated, or just plain bad at either carrying the ADC out of lane or defending them from the enemy Duo.

You know what's meta when it fulfills your role's job. Supports need to operate at minimal gold and carry the ADC out of lane so that the ADC can carry the team through the game, something your picks do not do as well as, for example, Alistar.

RocketRelmApr 8, 20161 votes

I think the thing is that there's a difference in degrees of effectiveness and viability. There's "not top tier, but 95% as good" which can be picking the worse of rengo and kha zix. Then there's things on the level of AP Hecarim, or Tank Global Taunt Teemo, which have an effectiveness that is so low as to be fearful for it being on your team.