What are Your Thoughts on the Current Meta?

ZombieOfun·4/3/2016, 5:25:25 AM·1 votes·730 views

I mean, at some point we had an assassin meta, then we had a complete tank meta, now it seems to lead more towards ~~bruisers~~ juggernauts and sustained damage from ADCs. What are your thoughts? How does the fun of this meta stack up to to others? Any complaints? Compliments? If a Riot employee happens to see this, I would LOVE to know the philosophy behind some of the shifts in the meta-game, more specifically when it went from assassin-heavy to anything but.

Thanks for reading, -ZombieOfun

13 Comments

Bravoh4/3/2016, 6:30:33 AM2 votes

There is no meta, there is only powerful and not powerful. Currently do to the mass overhaul of game mechanics powerful is lots of hp with mediocre damage.

Champions like Poppy and Nautilus who require a some serious skill to effectively use properly are the top tier top lane currently. They scale so well with hp based items that barely require any offensive itemization due to their overpowering CC. A Poppy can smash you against a wall, stunning you then knock you up in the air making you useless for 3-5 seconds depending on how much tenacity you have with a full rotation of her spells.

ADCs on the other hand are very balanced with the new itemization. item 3508 item 3031 item 3087 Gives you CD reduction for building Critical Strike. What an awesome idea. ADCs now spend 9000 gold, and effectively get 13,000 gold worth of stats, which makes them the most powerful role in the game.

9L9L9L9L9L9L9L4/3/2016, 5:31:18 AM2 votes

In my opinion I'm really getting bored of tanks and bruisers, I want assasins besides Zed Talon and mages to thrive once more like they did in Season 3.

AstroFerrari 4/3/2016, 5:38:45 AM2 votes

I'm kind of over all the tanks, weak towers, and terrible death timers. Other than that I'm having fun :)

Streeton4/3/2016, 5:30:44 AM1 votes

Remember guys mages are completely worthless and should have infinite mana regen, utility and no counters!!11!1 Thats the meta i want.

Apocalypsic4/4/2016, 1:31:17 AM1 votes

Tanks are completely out of line and id like to see them all get their damages cut across the board so they can properly serve their role and stop crowding out fighters.

Malfini4/4/2016, 1:32:33 AM1 votes

It's either dominate playing off-meta champions or using meta champions. The former is better as it will show your true skill compared to the latter.

Sohleks4/4/2016, 1:46:28 AM1 votes

Riot buffs champions that didn't need them. Gragas Ekko

I can see why though. Ekko underperformed stastically in lane, and Gragas did too generally. However their utility... they were never weak... just too balanced and intricate for the average player (and yet not intricate enough to not succeed with with moderate experience)

Ekko needs offensive reductions using zero ap builds. Gragas, well he always disturbed me.

Part of it is itemization though. item 3068 item 3025 being godmode on high base dmg champs