Rift games are starting to just feel like...

Dewott610·Jul 23, 2018·30 votes·10,582 views

Who picked the better champion in todays meta, and no matter what hey will always carry unless they're either hard countered/really bad at the champion. It really just aggravates me becuase no matter what, will just face roll pretty much anyone that can't hard CC him or out range him, or will oneshot anyone even remotely squishy and they'll just carry their team to victory unless the enemy team itself is really bad. It's getting to the point where I'm considering taking a break until they adress this issue or something...

14 Comments

Baron BarianJul 23, 20185 votes

Idk about you, but I've been having success murdering Darius with Yorick.

PaíntchipJul 23, 20185 votes

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Idk about you, but I've been having success murdering Darius with Yorick.

Urgot beats him too.

But, since I quit jungle. Urgot and Yorick are my go to top laners. They both can handle the mess of obnoxious that is up there it seems.

Shiphturs NoseJul 23, 20182 votes

Don't you run into a lot of quinns top when picking Urgod?

y0r1ckJul 23, 20181 votes

And Quinn beats yorick too

ZtokaJul 23, 20184 votes

Hasn't this been league forever? Only difference is as time goes on, there are more toxic/cancer/op champs being released, which bans just don't cover :(

Arcane Blue BoiJul 24, 20181 votes

when a lane has more than 5 champions viable i'd say its a nice meta do play in

Talon Fizz Yasuo Zed MonkeyKing

BigFBearJul 23, 20183 votes

I play Volibear Jungle, he is absolutely not meta. Lowest pickrate jungle. Pretty low winrate.

I can't complain. It was a bit hard 2 Months ago but now I climb pretty decent.

So I can't agree with you.

remakoroJul 23, 20185 votes

League has a lot of "sleeper" champions. Considering his shitty playrate voli might be exactly that. Community wont realize that something is strong unless some pro/streamer demonstrates it. So im really not sure if what you said can be used as argument. (though i dont agree with OP as well)

Love AnastasiaJul 24, 20183 votes

Wukong itself is an example of that 1 month ago nobody played him (Except me) and I had 65 % winrate or so in Mid-dia solo queue

Same with Nocturne. Nobody played him until Mlxg showed him with Lethal Tempo at MSI

Alex h8721Jul 23, 20181 votes

Voli, at least for soloq is kind of meta. He has a strong lvl 1-3, is good at dueling/skirmishing in the jg 1v1-3v3s over scuttle, and he is the strongest in midgame which is when a lot of games are decided right now, can peel in teamfights & has respectable damage output while being beefy as hell especially when his passive is up.

The only reason he's not meta in higher tiers is that he's pretty predictable on ganks, just gonna run at you.

IllabetheJul 24, 20182 votes

There's no such thing as better champions.

There's such a thing as better personalities and team players and knowledge though.

It's amazing how many people see nothing wrong with dying 20 times or feeding 3-4 times before level 6, or think level 1-9 total unreactiveness as a jungler is "healthy."

About 70% of the population is stuck in this mess of random "not caring or learning." About 70% are currently experiencing major bot lane mage feeders taking over 80% of their games. About 70% are in an elo where the vast majority of those players do not know how to deal with several strong engage champs who can move entire games ( Zed Tryndamere Yasuo Garen Talon MasterYi )...... and the funny thing is..... even if YOU know how to counter them, your team doesn't, and they feed the game beyond redemption. About 70% are caught on teams compromised of people of whom at least one has major contempt for their own team before the game has even begun and fully intends on trolling you. About 70% is stuck in an elo where smurfs come to stream Twitch feeds of them stomping less skilled players.

See a pattern?

70% of the complaints about the game are coming from people who want someone to blame other than players, and find it easier to lash out at Riot than their fellow players, blaming champ mechanics, when in reality, while it's still Riot's fault, it's more or less because Riot and players have created a nexus of loss at Silver which compromises the pure game which tends to be less tainted the higher you climb.

And what's sad is..... a lot of this 70% doesn't even know all these things are going on. They just think people are int feeding. Sometimes they don't even understand there's a smurf, and that the feeder simply isn't respecting them. And then in comes the toxicity and erosion of team atmosphere. Then no one want's to win. They just want it over.

Dewott610Jul 24, 20181 votes

Im just tired of it because even if I know how to counter them, most of the time my team doesn't, and most of the time, I'm a squishy meele jg assassin and can't do anything to darius or in team fights becuase he focuses me down before I can pick anyone off. Then theres also the teams where we do really good early game, and then they get so cocky they keep chasing and dieing because 1v2+ in enemy jgs. Or the time where I tank as top lane and my team just runs while im tanking, solo q is getting more and more aggravating [sg-janna]

DrugothJul 23, 20181 votes

I hate to break it to you, but you're gonna be taking a rather looooong break because Riot doesn't really see any issue with the current state of the game. Otherwise they would have told us as much...

WolfeurJul 24, 20181 votes

It's always been like that.

You've just improved to the point where individual skill on a champion has less impact that the champion's inherent strengths. It's not the game that changed that way, only the skill of your teammates and opponents.