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Does anyone enjoy this "meta"???

CHUNKY QUEEFS·11/12/2015, 4:33:19 PM·6 votes·689 views

I haven't had one game, ranked or otherwise, that hasn't been decided at 15 minutes. And not because of kills or gold. Just a matter of which team decided to push over the paper towers.

I understand the "Starve tactic" wasn't the pro's favorite. But the game was in a REALLY good balance outside of a few specific 100% bans (Morde).

I was expecting this patch to change some of the non-counter play champions (Annie?) Or remove teleport to off set the split-pushing ability

Instead we get the most unbalanced version of the game I've played since Season 2.

WHO TESTED THIS, HONESTLY??? I WANT NAMES. How did Scarizard make that video with a straight face, there's no way he played a game with real people. If anyone at Riot is a video game fan, have someone spend 50-70 hours in CS:GO and pick up WHY the ranked experience is SO MUCH better. I'm sure you have a bunch of college degrees there, they'll understand "Sharing and Acquiring best practices from competition"

Obviously did way too much all at once, Learn this lesson-- this is a huge failure.

BRB Fallout 4 & Battlefront next week. Plebs will keep queuing though.

24 Comments

King 0f Rapture11/12/2015, 4:57:28 PM4 votes

It's trash, everyone either permaban or pick the exact same champions over and over, if you don't pick those champs before they do then you might just have already lose the match. Riot is pushing the meta down our throats thinking it's okay. Hell I'm starting to hate playing this game, they made the juggernauts op as fuck and won't do anything about it and they did the same with adcs so fuck this game.

MudintheWater11/12/2015, 4:45:20 PM4 votes

Every game is a snowball. It's annoying as hell.

Keevalroy11/12/2015, 5:13:49 PM2 votes

I didn't think it could get any worse than juggernauts...and I was wrong.

Meep Man11/12/2015, 4:34:46 PM2 votes

If there is one thing I noticed so far, its that communication and teamwork helps a crap ton in this meta.

CHUNKY QUEEFS11/12/2015, 7:16:17 PM2 votes

I guess the real problem is the towers. If the towers worked exactly the same as pre-patch, This would be a more fun, faster paced game. But paper towers make inhibs down @ 20 minutes almost every single game.

LadyRenly11/12/2015, 4:35:49 PM2 votes

I love all my towers dying at 9 minutes if we so much as back/die/teleport/roam

Ralanr11/12/2015, 7:15:38 PM1 votes

Wait...people actually focused on destroying towers rather than farming kills?

They actually went for objectives?

Catastrop11/12/2015, 7:17:25 PM1 votes

I like DoTs and Supports, I'm having a ball.

RengClaw11/12/2015, 4:35:05 PM1 votes

one way to fix is to remove double crit chance on YASUO

Bemapon11/12/2015, 7:31:23 PM1 votes

Everygame I have played so far with only one exception was whichever team gets the first tower wins.

13743411/12/2015, 4:36:57 PM1 votes

Its a little early to call this a meta. Obviously they are going to tweak champions and items...it is preseason.

luckmallory11/12/2015, 4:42:10 PM1 votes

This is the best Meta we have ever had and I have been playing since Beta

Dukues11/12/2015, 4:47:17 PM1 votes

Only played a few games, idk I am sure they will fix it up before season 6 starts. It just sucks because I was just starting to feel better about my play and my understanding of the game and then login yesterday and no idea wtf is going on. That and I generally like to stay away from champs I think are annoying or no skill - im a noob don't hate. (like yii, tyrn, fizz). I have always really loved graves and was excited to hear them doing some work on him. I enjoy playing him in ranked but was always afraid to pick him early knowing caitlyn pick was right around the corner. After versing graves in lane last night though I realize they made him a monster and if no serious work is done on him he is going to be perma banned, always picked, and just generally hated. This just generally makes me sad. I mean... they have had minor MF reworks over the last year which made it "ok" to pick MF in ranked. I have only tried Caitlyn but just seeing all the items with their crit and all the other changes, just makes me unexcited to see where the game is going.

To bash myself though I do main Annie mid hehe

iTziLLiRL11/12/2015, 4:53:29 PM1 votes

I resented this patch heavily for the past 24 hours... very angry.. but I started to watch diamond+ players play.. AP champs, ad champs, tanks... it's still rather balanced(Besides yasuo) but theres even more reason to focus ADC's right now. AP tanks are stronger than before Deathfire touch is stronger than a lot of people realize. Esp on champs like brand w/ liandry's. Swain, vlad do well with this tanky AP build deathfire touch builds also. You can reduce summoner spells by a ton now. Even the changes to minions pushing onto yours there are HUGE advantages, people see the negative sides of it but it opens up a lot of gank potential to turn the game. Global gold from killing sprees(Now starting at 2 kills) there are a lot of opportunities for the defending team to turn it around and get a gold advantage. AD casters are in a beautiful place right now too compared to before. Balance is important more than before now too. tanks cannot go full 100% tank and expect to do their part in team fights(Unless the team strategy is just to send a tanky support to zone the adc buying time for your kogmaw to shred their whole team while the enemy ADC is busy twiddling thumbs sacrificing your support for their adc) there are so many opportunities right now, runes are a big deal because JG is a big deal now, EXP is much easier to gain so jg's can spend more time out of the jungle trying to make ganks. for AD junglers its a lot easier now than before(Maybe for not starting though) I like this patch a lot. Give it some time things will start making more sense

Stawoopid11/12/2015, 4:57:23 PM1 votes

One thing i can say is I like the warding now, it feels very smooth.