PSA we are not in a lethality or assassin meta, we are in a tank meta

Rexxiee··6 votes·501 views

Right now games in high elo and comp play is all about stacking the most tanks you can get on a team and abusing items like stoneplate and locket + other broken support items.

Just for awareness, as some ppl seem to think that duskblade is taking over the game when its literally irrelevant atm, in fact the only reason lethality isnt garbo is because of duskblade as it actually allows assassins to snowball again and have a win condition (even if only in solo q as assassins are still trash in competitive and they are only going to get worse with further duskblade nerfs) against those op support items, but even then tanks still destroy them and most other classes like ad fighters or bruisers atm (hello bramble vest the auto win item for 900 gold vs ad lanes).

And dont worry, riot will probably destroy duskblade and the lethality stat again over the next few patches, so we can enjoy wolrds games with 6~7 tanks in them + late game/high dps or utility ad as the only damage class being played + your average utility/never bad in any situational mid mage like ori/syndra.

I have no idea how can anyone enjoy a tank meta, the skill expression is just so low and you just get punished for playing non tanks in 3 out of 5 lanes, imo the 7.13 patch meta was great and there was a lot of variery even with a few problems, but now with 7.14 tanks just have taken over, and we all know how long riot takes to nerf them back down (often takes a whole season).

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Penns4 votes

But fights are long so they take skill because right clicking the tank with your sunfire and spamming your maokai Q off cooldown for a minute is an exciting and skillful fight hehe

Rexxiee2 votes

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But fights are long so they take skill because right clicking the tank with your sunfire and spamming your maokai Q off cooldown for a minute is an exciting and skillful fight hehe

Its hard to press stoneplate + locket when you throw yourself in a fight though :/

Ahristocats3 votes

"we're in a tank meta but people are only playing one tank per team... janna soraka sona were picked yesterday in NA LCS still a tank meta"

"we're in an ADC meta, there is one adc per team in each game shut the fuck up, that's not an adc meta we don't have more than one adc in each team"

k rexsauR LUUL

Rexxiee1 votes

[{quoted}](name=i am Rubick Sama,realm=EUW,application-id=3ErqAdtq,discussion-id=kxxmaTLu,comment-id=0001,timestamp=2017-07-24T07:35:35.201+0000)

"we're in a tank meta but people are only playing one tank per team... janna soraka sona were picked yesterday in NA LCS still a tank meta"

"we're in an ADC meta, there is one adc per team in each game shut the fuck up, that's not an adc meta we don't have more than one adc in each team"

k rexsauR LUUL

Theres tons of comp play games going with 5+ even up to 7 tanks per game.

Top/jungle/support are tank favored atm and you cant deny about that (but yes janna and sona are strong too now), with some tanks like galio showing up mid sometimes, cinderhulk buffs made tanks op in the jungle, bramble vest kicked out ad fighters from top lane and the sheer strenght of locket/knights vow/etc + overtuned champs like thresh makes tank supports strong too.

Ahristocats3 votes

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Top/jungle/support are tank favored atm and you cant deny about that (but yes janna and sona are strong too now), with some tanks like galio showing up mid sometimes.

Top is not tank favored, stop those fcking lies already top4 toplaners in pro are jax j4 gnar jayce, and ok i admit that gnar is a tank in his mega form but he is not in his mini form

supports are not dominated by tanks, only thresh and braum that are busted. Alistar and taric are as much picked as sona/janna/soraka, Morgana also got picked few times and Rakan isnt a tank

Cinderhulk is being nerfed, because we know that tanks are a problem in the jungle

so now stop complaining about tank meta, it's like saying we're in an ADC meta because of jayce corki lucian graves being picked in pro in different lane than bot

TEA Nietzsche 2 votes

That means Gnar is atleast half a tank and still tanky in his other half, J4 builds tank which is relevant to the item debate as he could build Duskblade aswell. Jayce is not top 4 by a long shot, imo the only toplaner who could pick him is Khan. Jax is a Korean/Chinese phenomenon for the most part and still not as popular as Renekton (same as J4) and Shen. Maokai has made a comeback aswell and Kled still has a strong presence.

Overall toplane is dominated by Divers and Tanks while Skirmishers are represented by Fiora (basically dead) and Jax (not quite a meta pick yet).

Jgl is tank>divers

Support.. So two tanks (or tanky "catcher" lul) are top two and afterwards it's still tanky favored. Rakan is a tanky catcher aswell and 0 damage Kennen shows the tendency. Other than that we also have BC and T'K - I just clicked myself through 3 pages of reddit post match discussions and most picked champions were either tanky catchers or tanks - and if something else was picked it was due to bans.

E: Oh I forgot about Galio who dominates mid and the only reason why he isn't picked somewhere else is that he is too broken mid. When we see games with 7 tanks (or 6 if you really don't wanna count full tank J4) it's time to acknowledge that we have tank meta.

Ahristocats3 votes

galio dominates mid?

http://www.gamesoflegends.com/champion/picksandbans.php?id=ALL&season=S7&split=ALL&patch=7.14&role=MID

do me a favor and shut up if you don't watch pro

j4 builds tanky, doesn't matter because he isn't a tank you can call this a bruiser meta if you want, but tanks are not dominating toplane

TEA Nietzsche 3 votes

LCK is not included in the 7.14 data which is why his popularity is that low. He has proven to be very dominant in the LCK (see here) and with the tank item buffs I'd expect to see LCK shift to an even tankier style. Those few western teams which practised Galio have had their fair share of success so far.

J4 building tank matters because of the ongoing item discussion - he has been very strong with offensive builds yet he opts for an extremely tanky itemization proving the superiority of tank items (that are frequently called weak on the boards).

Tanks are probably not dominating toplane, but they are certainly top tier - and looking at the big picture we've got tanks and tanky divers top (tendency divers/half tanks liike Gnar), tanks and tanky divers jgl (strong tendency tank) and tanks support.

It's great how you call me out for calling Galio dominant (which he is when you look at LCK and think about how 7.14 will affect him, the other regions are simply catching up) while you don't adress your HUGE FAIL in not calling tank supports dominant.

One great quote of yours:

[{quoted}](name=i am Rubick Sama,realm=EUW,application-id=3ErqAdtq,discussion-id=kxxmaTLu,comment-id=00010000000000000000,timestamp=2017-07-24T10:13:32.275+0000) Alistar and taric are as much picked as sona/janna/soraka

http://www.gamesoflegends.com/champion/picksandbans.php?id=ALL&season=ALL&split=ALL&patch=7.14&role=SUPPORT

Alright dude, Taric has a higher P/B than all of those 3 combined and Alistair is even more popular than Taric.. ANd a whole bunch of tank supports is more popular than Janna who is the most popular among the 3.

Let me give you another quote of yours:

[{quoted}](name=i am Rubick Sama,realm=EUW,application-id=3ErqAdtq,discussion-id=kxxmaTLu,comment-id=00010000000000000000,timestamp=2017-07-24T10:13:32.275+0000) do me a favor and shut up if you don't watch pro

Penns3 votes

P sure support is still mostly thresh rakan braum tho, playing sona once doesnt really make her meta

MLDzXnRRR2 votes

Most people are in silver and gold. Do you think that anyone cares about the high diamond, master, challenger meta? They want to have fun in the game and spam assasins and high damage nukers, not meatshields.

Sujiren1 votes

Locket's stats should be reworked to give cdr mana regen or something and no resists, so only squishy supports that stay back like nami/ janna would ever consider using it.

Jinzo Torrance1 votes

I know, the team with the most HP wins right now, not the one with more brain cells.

Ralanr1 votes

Giant slayer still exists.

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