2014 assassin meta - people bitched tank meta - people bitched mage meta - people bitched devourer meta - people are bitching.
Time to make a new meta nobody will complain about called minion meta where everyone afks at fountain and see which minions win.
Erockandroll6 votesThey do have a minion meta. It's called Black Market Brawlers.
A Shy Box5 votesOr how about 2014 assassin meta - people shy tank meta - people sly mage meta - people try devourer meta - people fly. Not every one is bitching.
Keevalroy5 votesThat awkward moment when the tank meta was considered the healthiest, most entertaining, and most well-received meta we've had in a long time.
AbstracT Theory2 votesThat awkward moment when the tank meta was considered the healthiest, most entertaining, and most well-received meta we've had in a long time.
And why was that? because teamfights lasted 10 times longer? because there was useless champions that were mained by the entire community? because people like seeing tanks hit eachother for a minute straight and nothing happens? tank meta was boring af to play and watch. Glad its gone tbh
Keevalroy5 votesIt was the period where the most champions were viable at the same time since the "I'm going to kill you in half a second and there's nothing you can do about it" champs weren't in every lane all the time.
Not everything needs to be over the top flashy and in your face just because the balance team has the attention span of rodents and don't like watching drawn out fights in the LCS.
Fadedpf4 votesTank meta was the best one
Xonra3 votes[{quoted}](name=Eye Of Godzic,realm=NA,application-id=3ErqAdtq,discussion-id=db8arlv1,comment-id=,timestamp=2015-08-01T05:21:33.521+0000)
2014 assassin meta - people bitched tank meta - people bitched mage meta - people bitched devourer meta - people are bitching.
Time to make a new meta nobody will complain about called minion meta where everyone afks at fountain and see which minions win.
That's because...if you notice, there is one thing in each of those "metas" that was THE thing.
That will always be bad. People "bitch" because Riot's balance (and lack of any forethought when making certain changes and adding in items) forces certain groupings of champions to be far superior to other groups in certain areas.
Assassins push out a lot of squishy mid laners and made being an ADC a nightmare. Not a good meta, not good balance.
They went WAY overboard trying to make tanks viable, to the point that for a few months junglers and top laners that weren't tanks were putting your team at a disadvantage because the tanks were so damn strong (especially junglers).
What mage Meta? You mean always, when mages were played? This was never a thing comparatively to the others and just a name you slapped in front of Meta to add another example to your list.
Devourer "meta" is starting to become a thing, but it can be classified under "bad item balance meta" next to warmogs, season 3 black cleaver, release cinderhulk, I can go on with this <_<. Again, the problem was Riot balance, and not properly tweaking items (or properly testing or listening to feedback on the PBE screaming "this is way too strong" like with feral flare), so it made the game unbalanced, and shifted power to anyone using those items over anyone not using those items (or not making sense to itemize with them, hence the tank meta happening and top laners taking smite with Cinderhulk)
It isn't a matter of people just bitching to bitch, it is people being annoyed that Riot balances very heavy handed one way or another and makes specific groups too strong because there are so many champions in the game that weren't balanced properly for so long, it is easy to throw balance out of whack.
ModWulf Helhammer1 votesActually, the game randomly picks a side that will win with no champion interaction, so even with a Minion Meta, you would get RNG complainers :P
Deep Terror Nami3 votesYep. Might as well just have a coin flip game where you literally have a 50/50 chance to gain LP or lose it :3
Posui Gart1 votesI didnt actually see mage meta. Mages are either lightly hitting 5k hp tanks who can outdamage them, or oneshotted by Sated Yi/Kayle/Xin/others.
ChaosThief1 votesTo be fair, it's annoying to get killed by a yi who runs 2 on hits and proceeds to go tank, then becomes an unstoppable machine when ahead.
... At least it isn't the league of 
Mylon Requiem1 votesI don't know, I like the sound of that. That means AFK-ing is suddenly not a viable report option.
Feathermane1 votesMeanwhile, the meta is the same the entire time. The fact people consider the addition of a handful of new champions a new meta enables Riot to keep it stagnant. Might as well call it the Tahm Kench meta, for all the meaning it contains.