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How has the lane meta not changed yet?

Trash MammaI··1 votes·394 views

With how the new jungle is now I would have expected it to change by now. Junglers are easily soloing dragon pre-5 (and at a decent speed for that level) and dragon no longer grants global gold. The buffs are nice but until the 5th one it isn't as drastic toward the game.

Also seeing as how bruisers offer a good amount of dps and tankiness (let's just use garen for example) can offer a lot of help. I've also expected supports to start being in the mid lane with the ap mages and assassins and adcs having their own fun at top lane.

Top lane is usually considered the boring lane that nothing but farming goes on. (sounds a lot like adcs to me) in which they all have some form of mobility in their kits these days.

Mid lane is usually for assassins/ap mages which roam around the map to get fed off other lanes. (sounds a lot like a support roaming the map to get assist/help other lanes) where as mid lane is the easiest lane to do that with.

Jungle is well, jungle

Bot lane's usual only purpose for being where it is at the time is dragon control, but again junglers usually always deal with that themselves until about the 3rd drag(or if they get a kill bot and wanna fast take it) I can see bruisers/tanks helping more since if they bully someone out it'll be easier to take without much contesting (IF they need help)

This is just something i've been pondering on my mind. Just lookin for feedback

8 Comments

Hasztalan23 votes

Problem is if anything comes onlin which is not rito's enforced 1-1-1-2 setup with the champions what THEY belive is the right for the specific lanes , well they get nerfed immediately and ensuring that the game will stay the same boring shit as allways.

Only Play Darius1 votes

No.

Very Hard Engage1 votes

duo AP bots have been known to be effective so long as they can effectively clear the wave and stay back.

the fear of morg/lux bot......

Volt Cruelerz1 votes

So you want what? ADC top, assassin/support mid, mage+ bruiser bot? Interesting idea...

Midgame, mages would probably spike more due to kills. ADCs would have less pushing power as soon, so you'd take less turrets and dragons. It might work with certain comps like, say.. Vayne/Udyr/Raka/Azir/Riven, but in general, I think you'd get behind in objectives.

Pæan1 votes

I honestly would love to see the adc/support go mid and the ap-mage or assassins go bot lane. That way it would just be more interesting for me and it would feel like there are 2 dueling lanes and then the fun lane in mid :3

youngjake931 votes

Well, ADCs are very poor in 1v1s during mid-game. Supports are because there aren't enough lanes to provide enough income to non-support champs. Certain champs go top lane because they can survive in the solo long lane better with sustain/tankiness/escapes.

Other more efficient options are possible, but they require coordination that you can't get in solo queue. In the pro scene, the support often roams creating plays(often chilling near mid-lane to create kill opportunities) since they don't need much xp or gold to function PLUS you gain xp faster if you are underlevelled so roaming early is very efficient. However, in solo queue if you roam, the ADC will often try to 1v2 randomly and die+blame you.

ADCs will go top to avoid hard lanes in the pro scene and sometimes you will even see the jungler make sure to farm the jungle on that side so that they can proxy against their top laner to starve them out of xp and cs or set up for a dive. Even in a duo, you still can't really pull that off because your mid laner will randomly go to base and let the enemy mid come kill both of you.

So basically the lane meta has evolved a lot in the pro scene, but solo queue will never catch up because going against the standard strategy requires multiple people to be on the same page and that will never happen with 5 random people paired together.

Arcade Andrew1 votes

the lane meta isnt forced by riot its just the toxic community who thinks you can have a support go mid with the mage cus bot will be 1v2 and feed

even though if you send two mid the enemy has a choice: lose mid turret (if you win) or keep the pressure bot

ideally the best lane setup would 1-3-1-1/2 one top 3 mid 1 bot and the 1/2 is the third guy mid who goes to get buffs and roams when needed but ignores the other jungle camps, whenever he isnt needed top or bot hes mid with the support and mage

Matthias91191 votes

ADCs typically don't go in a solo lane because they'd get murdered early by a bruiser/mage, or the enemy jungle could just camp the lane and completely deny them farm. People did this back in season 1 because having a dedicated jungler wasn't common.

Also, mages/assassins (ie, champs that deal most of their damage from abilities) scale better with levels than items early on, so they do better in a solo lane.

If you have a double lane you usually want it bottom or mid for early dragon control. Yes, junglers with ranger's (or heavy sustain ones like WW) can veeeery slooooowly solo dragon early, but if the enemy team wards it then that's a free kill and a free dragon on top of that.

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