My Experience in this State of the Game

With the recent start of Season 8, and the release of Riot's new cinematic I was stoked for ranked.

I was lucky enough to place Silver II after finishing Gold V in Season 7. Not godly like some people, but satisfying for me, knowing that the games that had gone in last year actually showed.

I fairly easily steamrolled back up to Gold playing Lucian, my beloved mechanical adc, but then the meta attacked! Lucian is not a great adc to play in this meta, and while i had a great time using superior mechanics to climb the Silver tree, when I breached the Gold barrier I noticed something.

Everytime I played after that I was having a nervous breakdown in Champ Select. "Who do I ban? Trist? Will they ban Vayne for me? But what about mid? God what if it's another Leona Miss Fortune???"

I was having the most stressful parts of the game, OUTSIDE OF THE GAME. Whenever I saw a lulu, leona, tristana, twitch, zoe, or nasus getting picked it was a swing of childish resentment of the enemy being "No good Meta Abusers" or relief of MY team getting decent picks. I have only been playing since the very end of Season 5, I have never seen such a clearly defined meta (besides the meta of "Any champ that can use Ardent" that sucks all the happiness out of me.

You can imagine my happiness when I saw that so far Zoe is not seeing any nerfs to her numbers. (ahAHAHAhahhahAHA)

I know that League of Legends will always a Meta, as is the nature of having patches, but this one feels like hell sometimes.

Do I still enjoy League? Of Course! I love the team play and the mechanical skill required. But "Do I like PLAYING League?" is starting to depend on what the enemy team picks...