Metas Of Season 8
When the season first started, the meta was Tank meta.
Meta 1: Tanks: People like Malphite, Rammus, Maokai, Alistar, and Tahm were dominating the games with all the power they had. Taking no damage and dealing tons. Tahm going top being able to kill people easily with his swallow ability, Malphite with his quick team fight turn around bursting enemy squishies 100-0, rammus being able to 1v3, alistar being unkillable and Maokai just a pain to play against with his easy tower dives, amazing team fights, and ult ganks.
Tank meta died after a short while, and the went to ADC meta.
Meta 2: ADC: People like Draven, Dark Harvest/Kelpto Ezreal, Jhin, vayne, and kai sa were just able to one shot anyone. Tanks were useless, bruisers useless, everyone useless except ADCs. ADCs were going in every lane, MF support, Ezreal/Graves Jungle, Lucian Top/Mid, etcetc.
People were getting annoyed about this and soon the nerfs to crit items happened. Which led to the Assassin's Meta.
Meta 3: Assassins: Nocturne, Eve, Shaco, Rengar, Talon, Zed, LeBlanc, Pyke, Ahri, Fizz, Akali, and Irelia were just as strong as the adcs. Able to kill people in .27 seconds from about 2 abilities. The assassins were able to kill almost anyone at level 4 with one combo + ignite + electrocute. Which of course led to the nerf of Electrocute which brought assassins down a bit but not too much.
Which leads us to where we are now. The Bruiser/Mid Laners Meta.
Meta 4: Bruisers/Mid Laners: Voli, Garen, Yorick, Sion, Ahri, Talon, Nidalee, Heimer, Kled, Irelia and Leblanc. First lets start with Bruisers. These are the champions that are building items like Trinity Force, Deadmans, Ninja Tabis, Warmongers, Black Cleaver, Steraks, etc. They out damage someone building full damage or full tank. They stack over 3500 health in items and deal tons of damage from their abilities and items in general. The only way to really counter them is by shutting them down early, or building bork. Once they get first back and buy resistance, its pretty much useless to even try to poke them. Bruisers are able to 1v3 a lot of times all at once. Now to mid laners. Mid laners are the new bursters, Ahri, Lb, Nid, Heim, Talon, all of them can wipe you off the game faster than a human could react. Only way to counter this, is to stack mr/armor and become a bruiser.
Now obviously I left some champions out, but i put it in the ones that are/were the most popular at the times of these metas this season. I just wanted to end off by saying this, each season had about 1 meta. S7 was ADC, S6 was Bruisers, etc etc. This season is just everything, which is why I think it might be dragging people away. Because the meta is changing so often, players have to learn how to play the game completely differently every 2 months. Its basically like playing Pre-Season over and over again. Then the meta changes, so its back to starting over with learning how to play again. Its very annoying and time consuming to actually learn the meta, and I feel terrible for any LCS player having to go through this with their teams, could only imaging the frustration theyre having.
