Downside of Off Meta Picks

Overloadroad··9 votes·1,383 views

Except for maybe some being bad, what I always hated about playing off meta champs was, that the players on MY team, had no idead what my champ does. Let's take for example Mordekaiser, a champion I picked 1 or 2 months ago and had been playing non-stop Morde. I always hated, that my team didn't wan to engage, because it was scared. But with Morde I can put my w on them and heal them, they just don't know. In the end we get poked down, and die.

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Sahn Uzal11 votes

The enemy most likely hasn't played against Morde either tho

Overloadroad2 votes

I know, that kinda evens it out a bit. That's why I love off meta champs, my enemy has like no clue what to do xD

Mimy5 votes

I usually go off meta supports in normals...

The thing that drives me nuts is the fact that after I pick the off meta support the ADC decides to go Jhin A squishy, imobile, no self peel, no escapes.

They yell at me for not picking a real support as they're dieing so much to blitz hooks and other positioning matters.

Honey you better find yourself a TahmKench main because only that support can fix your BRONZE positioning.

I don't own Tham, and not everyone does. Honestly whether I went a real support or not wouldn't of changed the outcome of that lane.

DarkRitual2 votes

Nothing I love more than supporting an ADC who can't dodge a blitz grab. Just last week, had to lane with an EZREAL who got hit by every fucking Q. Wasn't even trying to Shift out, just ate every one. Like... I'm Janna, I am severely limited in what I can do to help. So I'm just gonna shield you then watch you get murdercombo'd before I can get a Tornado off. I will however, be taking all this sweet farm under turret.

Then it's even worse when you go off-meta...

crippler381 votes

even I, who sucks at adc and position as a bronze 5 player, would never ever not try to shift out of a hook!

Mimy1 votes

My off meta support - Teemo So if my ADC sucks ass and I get the CS under turret..

My build late game

item 2301 item 3006 item 3153 item 3085 item 3115 item 3124


Person: Why is our adc such a cry baby?

Me: Idk.. something about him wanting kills and CS?

MrMinish1 votes

Then you get Draven which keeps running it down mid Draven

50000000000000001 votes

Can I add you to my club "Off Meta Support Mains?"

That said, there are plenty of tanky off meta supports. My favorite is Maokai, who plays like Leona in lane, and be amazing at vision control in mid/late game, as well as a good peel tank, all while being an off-meta pick. What off meta pick did you have that match? Teemo?

RogueWill1 votes

My fav is sejuani, is like a leona but with higher CD is exchange for more damage

50000000000000001 votes

I wanted to try her for a while, but I've never got the chance.

Mimy1 votes

I would like to join your club, but I frequently take breaks from league, then I come back and Binge play it.. It's healthy to take breaks.

My off meta supports..

Teemo Kennen Veigar

Nidalee You don't see her support a lot, well they're nerfing her heal so if she was even the tiniest meta support... she isn't now..

Gnar I got this to work as a tank support. It almost worked as an AP support... It's just soo hard like you really gotta put effort into that. It really depends on your ADC... I did this and my friend went ADC kennen, we wrecked house botlane.


Im also an ADC main and you'd be surprised to know Im able to take

Teemo Kennen and Gnar

All positive as ADC...

50000000000000001 votes

I can see how everything else can work, but how does Gnar ADC work? I thought he'd get poked down because of his short range. It's also hard to make use of Mega Gnar when you're squishy, right?

Mimy1 votes

He is pretty weak till about level 8...

I would classify him as a Mid-lategame ADC to go ham. He does best with any support with CC...

Love to try him with a Maokai support. xD


Basically if you have like 50-70 farm by 10 minutes... your golden.

That and I don't build him like a regular ADC.. item 3078 item 3085 item 3006 item 3074 (Situational)

lets say I never gotten to the last two items. before the game ended. but they'd be something like item 3022 item 3053

And yes, you still do.. a shit ton of damage.

Tyrone Lannister1 votes

Well thats more on player experience. Theyve probably never played against or with morde before. Did you at least tell them "hey could yall engage so i can do my thing?"

sirwaterfles1 votes

Or that they take drag without you or that they just b or go farm jugnle even if you got your pet dragon.

inplane1 votes

People tilt from having off-meta picks before the game even starts. People don't even praise off-meta picks when they do good.

You get them kills? Pure silence occasionally followed by a "GJ adc".

You getting killed? "omg we lost why tf didnt you play a real champ".

Spoofghoul1 votes

supportJax b.. b. . but. ..

inplane1 votes

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supportJax b.. b. . but. ..

To be fair, any champ can work as a Support below Master. Hell, there are some weird off-meta Master players. I know there's one who mains Support TF and he's in Master. People are so caught up in whats meta that they often forget this is a game that doesn't have rules on what to do and what not to do. If there were rules, Koreans wouldn't be creating new shit that become extremely popular every so often.

Spoofghoul1 votes

yea i play draintank yorick

enemy has no clue what to do about it since they simply do not expect yorick to heal more then mundo, but he can if built the right way

seriously catches people off guard lol

or assassin sion which is also fkin awesome to do, been doing it with various iterations for almost 1,5 years now.

or no boots hybrid mf, still faster then anyone else with 6 items ^^

then again this is about off meta picks i guess but i kinda only play off meta or off builds anyway they are often a lot more fun and work perfectly fine you just need a bit of imagination to come up with stuff, with the 1 rule that it has to have working potential, so it has to function

one of my latest inventions is on hit ivern which i have to tinker with some more and get some practice but it shows real promise so far, hes the only champion who can use runaans to proc both spell and on hit effects at the same time which is awesome

Bârd1 votes

Another downside is that they are prone to being removed, which fucks you over if that was your main.

Remember AP Trist? AP Kog? Solo lane Raka?

MunchCrunchLunch1 votes

the downside is that your team mates usually tilt at champ select and not care about that game

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