This double teleport meta has made solo q really toxic

Omiwom··3 votes·1,535 views

Bot lane's success doesn't even depend on the ADC or Support anymore. It's now up to how good the rest of the team is. Often times the bot that gets camped/loses rages really hard at their team, and in some cases afks. And honestly I don't blame them. I would be real annoyed too if every time I went for a kill on the enemy ADC I got gold carded in the face and run over by the enemy top and jungle.

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Lord Azır6 votes

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Bot lane's success doesn't even depend on the ADC or Support anymore. It's now up to how good the rest of the team is.

Wow it almost sounds like this is a team game?

Omiwom1 votes

Maybe I'm wrong as to why, but what I do know for certain is that there has been an increase in raging, toxicity, afking, and matches that are complete stomps and end in less than 20 minutes lately. And I can't think of anything else that could be responsible other than the lack of power bot laners have right now, especially in the early game, and how frustrating that is.

Lord Azır1 votes

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Maybe I'm wrong as to why, but what I do know for certain is that there has been an increase in raging, toxicity, afking, and matches that are complete stomps and end in less than 20 minutes lately. And I can't think of anything else that could be responsible other than the lack of power bot laners have right now, especially in the early game, and how frustrating that is.

Because of Darius Fiora Garen Skarner Shyvana MasterYi XinZhao. Not to mention assassins like Zed Leblanc Diana back into the meta. No longer is the game bot focused. Now it's all about mid / top and jungle more than anything.

Hayaishi21 votes

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Wow it almost sounds like this is a team game?

Too much teamwork is bad, playing bot lane is horribly frustrating.

Dediguise1 votes

try top lane. Bot laners always bitch when the meta changes and it no longer revolves around bot. Right now I feel that the meta is the most balanced it has ever been. In all the games I've played today, guess what won the game... our team working together to protect our adc.

Double tp is far from the most toxic thing in this meta. Top lane was completely irrelevant for over two years until the jugg update. It being more important does not make it the most important. Welcome to a meta where every role means something. Similarly Mid lane now incudes champions that have poor early games that can just tp back to lane so they don't lose farm.

Yes it's frustrating to be camped... GOOD. That punishes players who don't make use of vision and rewards teams with cohesive team work instead of their ability to duel. It hurts splitpushing and it makes warding even more important. And it costs a summoner spell... usually ignite. That's a huge drawback and it will make champs like mundo and swain viable.

Wow slight meta changes, rather than adapt let's complain. Oh and it's that inability to adapt that leads to players being stomped and them being toxic.

cause and effect

Renaille1 votes

"how dare people try to 5v5 in my 2v2 game"

xJLx MCHammer1 votes

This is why I hate playing boy lane. It's not that I suck at it. I got to gold playing mid/Jun/adc

But not lane can be harsh if there is a lot of tp or roaming champs

howstheweather131 votes

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This is why I hate playing boy lane. It's not that I suck at it. I got to gold playing mid/Jun/adc

But not lane can be harsh if there is a lot of tp or roaming champs

Engrish prz.

Eedat1 votes

"Omg! Now TWO people take the same summoner spell on the same team!"

Meanwhile summoner 4........

HaIlMonitor1 votes

Bot lane feeding?!?! What is new? LOL

LadyRenly1 votes

It's not a meta, people literally just copy/pasta worlds tactics and scenarios and imitate them in solo q with zero regard as to why

howstheweather131 votes

Speaking from experience prior to s5 league has never been this diverse in terms of gameplay. You can call BS but the people who complain the most are usually at lower elo's, people who are just too lazy and/or just too impatient to strategically figure out how to win games.

I love how people love copying the outrageous things the pros do but never the tactics, if you're getting seiged other lanes should be pushing hard for objectives. Grow a pair a " Deez nuts and get good ".

Dediguise1 votes

Shen

UBcrawlin1 votes

All of you people raging at the op are being unfair. Top laners in particular have way too much influence at the moment. Whoever has the better teleport wins lane for bot, gets the first dragon, and potentially gets the bot tower. This leads to a huge advantage that can be abused in top to push your laner out forcing them to use their teleport defensively and creating a huge mismatch for you to use your teleport offensively. The counter to a lot of these juggernauts are adc's that can consistently deal damage and stay out of range and right now they have the ability to completely disrupt any path to late game that the enemy adc has. Champions like Ezreal and Lucian have difficulty doing enough damage to take down the common top laners forcing adc's to pick champions that scale really well which often sacrifices their mobility to avoid ganks.

An early successful teleport can easily net 2-3 kills for your team 6% damage increase from dragon and a tower for global gold. This tower being taken also means that the enemy bot lane is even MORE susceptible to teleport ganks.

Split pushing top when they teleport and disengaging bot lane seems like a great idea until you realize that anyone with significant pushing power in the top lane is hard countered in lane by these juggernauts.

Don't flame the OP because he wants to play a different role than you do. I can 99% guarantee that you are all top laners that are enjoying having way too much influence on games. Bot lane is a joke at the moment.

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