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Off Meta

Griseous·6/22/2019, 2:08:50 PM·4 votes·1,194 views

So I played Bard jungle. I know there are better champs for jungling, but I wanted to have fun and I know I'm good with my champ. My mid laner from the beginning of the game spent all their time complaining about my pick. We lost the game. She was 1/7. She kept asking for ganks, she didn't ward all game and was pushed up. What am I going to do, gank the Malzahar under turret range so he can ult me and then argue with me about how Irelia was right? Or how about how my team's support (Maokai) went 1/7 vs. Sona&Jinx. Tristana was 1/3 by the end of the game, but that's my fault.

The only teammate who did well on my team was our Garen, he was up against a Teemo. I ganked for Garen because he wasn't pushed up, he warded and he had good mechanics. Garen and I did really well early game which is a big deal for jungle Bard who has a shitty early game.

Offmeta doesn't work for a few reasons, one is there are more viable options and the other is people spend all game bitching instead of focusing on their selves and being patient. Everyone in silver only cares about kills, no sense of strategy and people would rather blame each other than work together and god forbid you play something they've never seen they'll just call you a troll and implode with negativity.

I know I'm complaining here about my team, but in my defense I didn't blame anyone. I focused on the game and my plays. When I saw people were being negative, I muted them. OH and because I muted my mid laner (Who was very toxic) she then proceeded to take half my jungle. :/

BUT MY BAD FOR PLAYING BARD.

6 Comments

MordridtheBlack6/22/2019, 2:13:30 PM2 votes

that's the thing, there are off meta picks that do work

the problem is knowing which ones do and which ones don't

I play off meta supp cass every once in awhile and it does get questioned but overall it generally works due to her poke and cc

Jimmy Rustles6/22/2019, 3:33:10 PM1 votes

People like to act like children in this game

They see the slightest thing they don't like and tilt themselves instantly, then play the victim card the rest of the game

Bard jg is fine

Kai Guy6/22/2019, 3:59:38 PM1 votes

IMO, Off meta works if its viable enough to make game winning impact. When it cant, its just trolling or messing around. Some times... it takes a bit of trial and error to find out if its viable. Also, just personal philosophy here but if your positive its viable but your mechanics are not good enough yet it can be beneficial to play the meta build to get down champion abilities up to par.

Now I do feel that there is something you can do better that accomplishes the same exact play pattern you should do that. Note, not if there IS something better, it has to be person to person. If off meta on X is how you accomplish pattern Y best. Then going meta is a mistake because your intentionally playing something your weaker on. Basicaly good off meta builds accomplish things other champions cant and that's either because the build does things others cant or the player just is not able to preform better with something else. Some times both.

I love going off meta with Bard also thou I do it off build and runes rather then role. item 3512 item 3153 are my core items as a support bard. Runes provide item CDR. I stack a lot of actives.

ZZrot is terrain. So Q stuns on it. Gives me a good OnDemand solution to peel crap like MasterYi Zed from the ADC. It also has good synergy with the bard R as it sets up the stun to be usable at every portion of the map regardless of minions or terrain. Plus with it on a short CD you can use it to stall games by protecting towers, split push side lanes forcing them to lose obj or send 1 to stop a big wave (which then hey time to shine with that R engage for a nice 4v5) The portal and lings provide vision so lots of the map can be covered even when your maxed out on wards. In addition to its standard use for hurting towers and snagging you some extra income which helps compensate for the builds $.

Botrk? Counter intuitive but one of the single most damage upping items for bard. WER do 0 damage. ER only see CDR scaling 0 ratios outside of that. So.. Passive and Q = 0.95 damage scaling per point of AP. Passive and Q = 1 point of damage scaling per AD. Each additional trigger of passive? 0.3 AP vs 1 ad. then theres the burn which ramps your dps up and the active for little damage and the slow + MS boost. Is the AS wasted? no.. why? becaue self synergy with the item but also because it helps enable your ability to stack meep procs so that your enemy is chain slowed by the ability to overlap the passive. Life steal is a low value but each point of effective hp goes up with tanky items so its better then expected.

Bard Just a great and super fun champ until you fk up an R or have random lag. Can decide games with a good play or cost your team the match with a shit one.

Gabresol7/15/2019, 3:10:35 PM1 votes

Midlaners are just the most toxic. You will find no other lane where the players run it down as much. No other role who complain more about missing vision while having a vision score of 0.