am not watching worlds if we get the same meta for the third year again.

RankOneWakanda··3 votes·1,914 views

everyone has their own opinion of what is fun and what isn't thats fair. this isn't about solo queue. this is about what is fun to watch

am not watching an another worlds where everyone plays passive and waits/baits for jungler to outnumber people. am not watching mid lane stand offs at 12 minutes upto baron spawn and then we get the nonsense baron noodle fights that just end because someone stepped into some tank cc.

what happened to kill lane mages? burst mages? assassins in mid lane? juggernauts and bruisers top lane?. kill lane supports? early game assassins that are actually risky and not some quasi bruisers that just abuse runes and go full tanky anyway (olaf, trundle. you know the rest)

that isn't fun for me. team fights end too quickly. an ordwr of magnitude too quickly. so teams end up drafting tanks. tanks never go anywhere in pro play. its tanks in support and jungle and top lane. and they pick a supportive style mid laner. and an adc whichever one most broken or ashe.

its insanely boring. last worlds was horrible. 2016 worlds was mediocre. but watchable. 2015 worlds was amazing if fiora wasn't too strong it woulda been better. veigar mid, zed mid, azir was good, it was actually risky to do baron.

you can tell who will win and who won't in the first 10 minutes 80% of games. just based on team comps and how the game is going that early.

3 Comments

JoeAnarchy3 votes

hey if you can predict with an 80% accuracy, you should get ahold of a bookie.. make a few good bets..

Fertsa2 votes

Pro play is usually passive because taking a risk is hardly ever worth it.

Currently, you can tell how games will go in the first 10 minutes because taking risks is only worth if you are mostly sure it will work, and you aren't already far enough ahead that it isn't a "risk". Meaning once a team gets ahead, that team does it's best to play in a way that minimizes risk, give the enemy 0 opportunities to catch up.

This forces the team that's behind to either obediently lose or take risks to catch up, but then they need to find openings in the team that's ahead, which won't have many because it's pro play.

The champ picks and team comps may feel same-ey but that's because, in order to be competitive, you need to be on the same power level as the opponent, meaning off-meta picks/comps can only be used if it beats down the opponent's team or if the team doing it is so good at the off meta pick that they can win anyways.

outside of that, whatever the current "Meta" is, is based on what champions are currently strong, but also what high-level people are willing to try, strong strats have been randomly found halfway through splits because someone decided to try something.

LTK KoRo2 votes

Meta won't change, because ADCs went full crybaby after 8.11. We could have a good, healthy meta with both mages and ADCs on bot, but nooo, rekkles can't play so no one can play i guess.

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