Looking at the Meta with a Raid Mentallity, OpenMinded... Open Meta
Ok, this is my first post, however I did start playing league at the end of S4... and I did buy Warcraft III for PC on it's release date.... And Kassadin is the Lich King I'm just saying.... Anyway..
{The Discussion Focus}
1st) I'd like the post to revolve around properly fulfilling your role or roles in a specific lane's Meta without using the traditional champs for that lane.
2nd) Exploit the exploiters, share ways to counter your counters in lane
3rd) Duo and Full Team Comp builds
{Breaking down the Meta and Defining Discussion Terms}
I am going to start with bot lane, more specifically support... So all you S2 (Season of the Support or so I've been told) Meta Conformist put your flaming fingers away and open your mind to the New League!!!!
SUPPORT IS WHITE MAGIC!!!!!! (remember the white mage you never used in the original Final Fantasy... She was a Support)
ADC IS RANGED!!!!!
"Technically" bot lane has the most options to play around with, but it is also the most meta stringent, cuz no matter what bot lane needs to have a Ranged Champ, and a Shield Magic or Heal Champ...of course heals and shields can be achieved via Builds, but the amount of gold required to do so may make it a bad Idea in most situations... but not all situations
!!!!!RRRRAIIID!!!!!
Ok so in a 5 man Raid (according to my x-wife) you need to Cover all 7 sub roles, Ideally....
Tank, Healer, Marksman/DPS, Fighter/High Burst Damage Mage/AOE Engineer/Team Buffs *throwback to tribes.. cuz I couldn't think of a better title Scout
But how.. There are only 5 of us.. so you say.. Then 2 of you need to cover more positions then your roles you picked entails
The sub roles MUST be covered... DPS BEING THE MOST IMPORTANT, and anytime you can double up make sure you clarify with your team so you don't have 2 health tanks... Only problem is no one ever takes objectives seriously, so no one on your team can hurt a turret, even though they all one shot, and you are up in kills 97 to 14.. the other teams wins out of nowhere with your whole team fed, if only your support had put his bowl of wet noodles down, grew a pair and went full AttSp AP..
(Situational Example) Take Urgot as your ADC and build a tank with High AD Burst Damage , he has AOE/DOT abilities along with a shield and some light cc, Therefore most of your Bot Lane Prerequisites are met by 1 champ...So your unless your SUPPORT has heal they are completely useless during the laning phase... and remember, you can buy potions so really you don't need a support, but everyone else on the team is building either tank or high damage output Items, and don't really need support item buffs either... So a support build in this circumstance would be utterly useless.. However a High DPS build would win the game.
I hope this thread not only inspires, but also helps the community to discover new synergy between champs that not only breaks. but destroys the meta