I find the boards not addressing the real problems this patch has.

Craft Zeppelin·9/30/2019, 6:04:34 AM·6 votes·3,065 views

Every post is about Master Yi or Tryndamere or Yasuo and I swear these people just only play normals or don't know crap about the state of the game. My opinions? Well I'm low elo myself (gold), but I will say out my thoughts on role positions I'm familiar with.

(Stats are referenced from leagueofgraphs)

The "vertical cheese gank meta" by tank junglers. https://www.leagueofgraphs.com/champions/builds/jungle/by-winrate If you take a look here, you will notice a pattern that the jungle is now a competition of which jungler can pull off the hardest to avoid low level cheese ganks by mobility with tankiness and ludicrous damage on contact. Nunu Zac DrMundo Vi Volibear Hecarim. Did you know that maining Nunu can potentially gain you a 59.7% winrate and 55% on you first 10 frigging games and it keeps rising like it has no end? Because the camp respawns timer are adjusted these champions just vertically dive you over and over. Counterkilling them is really hard as a laner because of their superior lockdown and tankiness. You people complain about Yi but I never even seen him over a damn week. Do you people even play this game? The ranked que is dominated by mobile tank junglers and I'm so fed up with it.

Midlane is the most stable lane. If you want to climb stressless and take time. Go with it. The midlane meta has hardly changed over the past seasons. Lux's ridiculous winrate was hard nerfed and any champion played by a decent player has a 50% fair chance. There are NO "overpowered" champions in this lane because EVERY champion played in this lane with over 50 games has a potential to go near 55% winrate. It is determined by pure SKILL. Sure I hate a few champions, but that is besides the point. If you play this game in midlane, chances are your champion has something bullshit anyway and if you lose, you just haven't unlocked your true potential. This applies to Yasuo the most. You outplay or get outplayed. That's midlane for you. Handskill is everything in this lane.

You fell for Riot's marketing campaign if you play Kai'sa or Ezreal. Contrary to popular belief. chances are if you main these two your winrate will be around around a flat 50%. Since fights will be decided by the position where the tank engages, it is better you play adc, plant down your legs and unload hell on your enemies and disregard mobility to win this patch.** Ezreal frigging sucks this meta.** There is no way you will chew through the tanks unless you build bork fast enough and the tanks will STILL chase you after you used E anyway. If you REALLY want to win with an insurance policy, just play Tristana. And I swear to god i'll report you if you run TP and lose an early trade and get dominated by Jinx.

18 Comments

JesusTHC9/30/2019, 6:57:45 AM3 votes

vi is more a brawler than a tank

Tahminatrix 9/30/2019, 7:30:07 AM2 votes

Problem is most tank junglers just force fights rather than actually win them, especially in botlane where 3v2 is less easy to pull off than a 1v2...

You pretty much require your laners to

A: Not be much weaker than the enemy champs (Very problematic when you have a poke laner that isn't landing poke)

And

B: Be good enough at the game to follow up, so low / high elos will see opposite problems of tank junglers being too weak / too strong.

Only way riot could balance that out is by giving tank junglers less utility / engage potential early game in exchange for a combination of more base damage and tankyness/scaling.

Hi im 129/30/2019, 11:48:23 AM1 votes

the only viable tank jungler in the game is nunu, but you're right low elo players don't know how to deal with these junglers so they are pretty decent over there.

Ragnaveil9/30/2019, 3:31:59 PM1 votes

The reason why tank jgs are doing good is because of agro junglers kinda losing damage, so they have to rely on items. That means is if they rear their head that them with Aftershock, they aint gonna do shit.

TekkenPlayer9/30/2019, 4:54:26 PM1 votes

Midlane isnt exactly stable either with a bunch of toxic non counterplay champions running rampant in the past and present:

Aatrox Akali Irelia Qiyana Pyke Vladimir Pantheon Malphite EkkoZoe Kled

ChrisBrownze9/30/2019, 8:22:27 AM1 votes

hardest to avoid low level cheese ganks

item 3340 Here you go. Now use this and look at your map.

ShyImagoghnar9/30/2019, 6:08:34 AM1 votes

the boards never "address" real problems. it's always QQ that either disregards statistics or pretends challenger problems are also silver problems