Do us all a favor before you go off-meta in Ranked Queue

JavelinJoe··7 votes·562 views

Make absolute sure that you have mastered you off-meta pick tot he point where most situations wont put you behind. Going off-meta is a part of league. It keeps the game fresh and somewhat interesting. But when going into a ranked game, players are bringing their all. You cant just go someone off-meta for the first time in a ranked game. Chances are you will fail pretty hard.

Another point is that by you going off-meta, the rest of your team has to work around you. Even if you feed. You are considered a liability to many. For example, Twitch jungle. While not a bad pick necessarily, he is not nearly common enough for the general player base to be use to it. SO don't expect your team mates to know what to do with your game play. Because of this you have to more or less make your own situations and "carry" yourself to where you can be a useful member of the team. Sure the team will try and help if possible, but don't expect instantly everyone comes running or help set up a gank by your presence alone. You will need to baby them and TELL THEM EVERYTHING.

Also, If going off-meta you more or less lose your right to complain if you get camped, focused, invaded, etc... You chose your champion, and you went off-meta. So expect a constant enemy threat for your life because you gave yourself a nice target and a good handicap which they will take advantage of if they are smart. By mastering a champion in an off-meta role, you help alleviate many of those difficulties which probably would not even be there on a normal, meta champion.

Basically, do not play a champion who you cannot play decently from behind (sometimes very behind) in an off-meta role if you are going to play them in that off-meta role in Ranked Queue.

5 Comments

Linna Excel6 votes

As a sub point to this, let people practice off-meta stuff in normals.

Subject 52 votes

Singed Jungle is one of my main junglers in ranked atm.

Because if my team underperforms in the early game, it doesn't matter when the game is going on for 60+ minutes LOL

Teh Song1 votes

Dear stranger, there shouldn't even BE a meta in the first place.

Unstoppable Monk1 votes

Most of the problem from proper off-meta is other players throwing a salt fit over nothing and passively throwing the lane with the off-meta under the bus trying to prove the point that the off-meta is bad, completely misleading players to believe that the choice is particularly bad.

A decent off-meta in ranked is not a liability, unlike the "legitimate" meta choices that are actually bad fake supports.

People feed, bad build, bad keystone, bad fake support all the time but oh no for offmetas somehow you must get the permission to breathe from 4 teammates in the span of 30 seconds or whatever.

Let's not pretend that people are "metaing" Yorick right now and feeding hard. It is pretentious, just like believing the support is somehow the ADC's bitch instead of a teammate.

Season 6 has opened up a lot of strategies and people who are too ignorant to know that a plant champ can jungle shouldn't dictate the terms of someone that knows what they are doing.

The Last Ballad1 votes

Honestly, it would be weird if Zyra and Maokai couldn't jungle. They both came from a jungle/forest respectively.

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