Why is the lethality meta back?

hi im SapQT·Jul 17, 2017·2 votes·987 views

Everyone from casual to pro thought the lethality meta we had a while ago was the worst state league has been in, so why are we bringing it back?

6 Comments

Samura YukisunaJul 17, 20171 votes

Because the tank meta was re-introduced to counter the lethality meta, and now the tank meta turned out to be pretty awful as well.

On a serious note, i think Riot is simply trying to give us a little variation to have something to fill in the time until they can launch the new runes and masteries. Those will be real game changers, and until they go live they're probably scared of creating new metas because even if we managed to adjust to the new meta, we would have to adjust once again when our runes are taken away and replaced.

hi im SapQTJul 17, 20171 votes

Literally no one wanted another lethality meta. 7.13 the game was actually in a pretty good state, you could pretty much play what you like, while yes tanks are strong (the problem is the ones who can kill you while also not being able to be killed).

Lethality doesn't counter the tank meta that's not how it works. It's flat armor pen not percentage. Now they shifted it back to the person buying lethality vs opponent level. You'll see a graves come out of the jungle two levels up on bot lane with and destroy them again. Anytime lethality champs are meta the game is more and more toxic.

Samura YukisunaJul 17, 20171 votes

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Literally no one wanted another lethality meta. 7.13 the game was actually in a pretty good state, you could pretty much play what you like, while yes tanks are strong (the problem is the ones who can kill you while also not being able to be killed).

Lethality doesn't counter the tank meta that's not how it works. It's flat armor pen not percentage. Now they shifted it back to the person buying lethality vs opponent level. You'll see a graves come out of the jungle two levels up on bot lane with and destroy them again. Anytime lethality champs are meta the game is more and more toxic.

I never said the lethality meta is a good thing. I definitely agree that the beginning of the season was the worst state the game has been in since season 1, but that is besides the point. I simply stated my theory as to why Riot is mixing things up seemingly without any direction or purpose - its because they are buying time for the enormous game changer at the end of the season.

Evil YasuoJul 17, 20171 votes

They should just change lethality to anti tank items instead of anti squishy items. Flat damage should be the thing to kill people without armor.

RaxistaichoJul 21, 20171 votes

Can we have a mage meta sometime? 2017 has been the Year of AD one way or another.

RalanrJul 21, 20171 votes

Because every time Riot buffs or changes lethality, they introduce some new utility to the item that gets hilariously abused.

item 3147 99% slow is a big example of this. Even ADCs, who are supposed to be worse with it since Lethality scales with your level are using it. It's getting (or got hotfixed) nerfed to make the slow melee only though.