People overreact about off-meta picks

Shroom Junkie··4 votes·669 views

I'm jungle Teemo. Okay, off-meta, I do it all the time though. Its viable. Even high-elo do it like Ivan Pavlov and some famous challenger Korean I can't remember the name of that mains Teemo jungle.

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But for some reason, whenever we lose and I'm on the team, I'm to blame.

Take this match for instance.

I mean bot fed their lane so hard, kept pushing and never hugged tower even after Jinx died for a 5th time and Bard for a 3rd, but yeah sure lets blame me. Not like I had a successful gank top and mid, or I got fairly good jungle when I wasn't invaded by Udyr and their fed bot lane. Sure, I didn't get dragon, but that wasn't my fault considering Udyr got it before he even started his jungle item besides the base blue machete, and their already 2/0/1 and 0/0/3 bot lane helping and then invading me promptly after. Bot lane pushed even after they admitted and blamed me for being 4-man ganked four times, all of which were just outside of tower or even further showing they were either pushed or didn't move. Either way they sucked and they're blaming me for it. All because I'm playing Teemo jungle, which is actually a viable off-meta pick that I'm experienced with.

Now I'm fine with them blaming me, sure, its normal for them to blame the jungler, that's just League, anyone loses lane they blame the jungler. But when Yasuo is telling me to be sated at 12 minutes or I suck, even though both dragons were taken and Yasuo never listened to anything I said in regards to Rift Herald or ganking or duo-taking tower early game, yeah I'm pissed. When I get to the end-game screen and even the enemy is blaming me and being a bunch of arses because I played Teemo jungle, I'm pissed.

Just for the love of all things good and righteous get your head out of the Cloud9.

6 Comments

L Psy Kongroo3 votes

I love the hypocrisy surrounding off-meta picks: "Don't go X unless you're good with it". How does one get good with an off-meta pick? By playing hundreds of games with it, duh! Oh but wait, that means you'll have to be flamed and insulted for hundreds of games before you become good enough with that off-meta pick that people will realize you know what you're doing. It's a catch-22. You won't get flamed if you're good with that pick, but in order to get good you have to get flamed.

I swear, everyone's like: "Yeah, I don't mind if you go an off-meta pick, off-meta picks are great. Just don't do that shit in MY games."

PrinceBedazzled2 votes

Okay the bot lane did suck, and thats not on you. But to be fair a good jungler can turn the game around even with feeders like that. Teemos ganks are pitiful, everyone knows it. Im not saying youre wrong or theyre wrong. But taking none of the blame is just ignorant.

Junsui Aoi4 votes

I wouldn't say he's taking none of the blame, the problem lies in the fact the people automatically tilt just cause something is a little different. Teemo especially. And they blame him all the while taking no responsibility for their own actions.

Shroom Junkie1 votes

Its not that I'm not taking any of the blame, its the fact they're blaming me specifically. They aren't like "Oh well we did screw up but you never ganked us either," they're literally saying "WTF jg no ganks and you expect us not to feed?!"

And Teemo's ganks aren't pitiful... maybe Devourer Teemo, but he's made for late game. Runeglaive Teemo can pack a huge early punch. Maybe not as much consistent damage as say, a Yi, or a Shyvana or whatever, but his burst early is better than Kha's. Sure there's Rengar who has better consistent damage and burst, but why play any assassin except Rengar if he's so good? Because honestly its just boring to only ever play Rengar. I have and I have some 41k mastery on him if memory serves but he gets boring just one-shotting carries all the time because he's the best of his class.

Vekkna2 votes

No matter where you play Teemo or how well you do, you get blamed for losses. Riot's joking about Teemo turned into actual stigma somewhere along the line, and it's shocking how much abuse you get in game after game for no reason. I stopped playing him for that very reason.

Even in games where I've fed my ass off as Yorick top/supp/mid I never got the kind of hate and abuse from just an average game as Teemo. At the start of this season I was spamming Teemo mid with a win rate near 70% after 30-ish games and was still treated like a trash troll feeder.

MLDzXnRRR1 votes

People need ganks to win their lane. Teemo has poor ganks. Someone like Yi, Shyvana, Diana pre 6: great clear time and bad ganks - and your team will often blame you for losing the game not picking jungler with CC that can gank.

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