Does the game recognize you're off meta?

It does, in fact, if you try troll things like Rumble support or skarner adc, the game will adjust to weaker masteries, because it expects you to feed and do poorly.

If you ever DO manage to overcome those issues, the game will reward you. It's like the game's saying "Alright, well played..."

I believe so. I think the game notices how much time you spend in certain lanes as your character and grades you accordingly.

no it does not recognize your ''off meta''

what it does recognize is your position, then verifies this by a game play analysis of so called events it maps your locations and where you/opponents died and a lot of other stuff.

It compares you to other players to determine your score so ti looks at other players playing the same champ X in mid position, then at other players playing champ X if not enough data for comparison is found.

Since nobody plays Yorick or Sion mid it's been very easy getting S ratings for me on both and i have similar cases with Miss fortune toplane or jungle bard and other sorts of ''off meta'' things i do

In the end thouhg in order to get a high grade you still need to play well though its often easier if you regularly play off meta ^^ Since you have the upper hand since your cheesing your opponents do it well and you can get decent stats like damage dealth cs taken objectives taken down etc etc

Many sheeple simply have no clue how to deal with someone playing waaay outside of the meta and simply don't know how to play vs it since they lack imagination and creative thinking

Your grade depends on your percentile performance compared to all others on the same champion in the same role. So if you're using a champion in an off-meta role, then you're only being compared to other people playing that champ in that role, which in the case of off-meta stuff usually means lower standards (since off-meta stuff tends to be off-meta for a reason). On the other hand though, off-meta picks are sometimes only really played by people who are confident in their ability to use the champion in the off-meta role, so occasionally the off-meta role standards are higher than you'd expect.

It's all relative to other players performances though, grading doesn't care about the absolute numbers you achieve.

Support , S+

Imma leave people discuss here :))

It's not so much off meta as this:

It scores you based on the average statistic of what champion you play in what role. Meta champions generally perform better so they require better scores to get an S.

Based on my experience, yes. I've found it far easier to get high ranks while playing off-meta roles like Sej top and Sona Mid.

It knows what lane you go to I don't think it knows how to judge your build or anything.

I think it knows if you got support items or not

It does, I get a ton of s's, on my main champs, and I'm really not good. :-/

Pretty sure the game detects which lane and role you're playing in and grades you depending on that. I get S and S+ on the majority of games I've played because I mainly play her in botlane as Support. The performance standard is low since no one plays as Support. I perform way above the standard and therefore get a higher grade.

Mostly from what I've seen, you all have the wrong idea. If you get picked into the ADC role and ask to switch with top, and go Riven, it will not identify you as a Bot lane Riven. Instead it looks to where you've been on the map and gives you a grade ACCORDING to the lane you were in most of the game. So, Draven supports as I've seen would most likely be an ADC, as he is AD. If there was to say a Lux ADC but bought AP, means she went support. Technically. So, to get these mastery tokens you want, you'd have to play a character into a role they aren't supposed to be played in. Such as Ahri (ACTUAL AD) bot lane, Riven support, Shyvana mid, etc. etc.

The system tracks your pathing on the map and determines your score by comparing it to other people with similar pathing. That doesn't mean people that have pathing 99% identical to yours, but it means that the game can tell if you are top, jungle, mid, bot, or support. So if you play Janna jungle you will be compared to other people that have played Janna jungle.

I think the way champion mastery works is that it determines how good you are relative to other people playing the same champion, with Summoner's Rift's drafts mode also being compared to others in the same role.

I've had games where I did decently well as jungle Morgana, and got S/S- ranks for those games just because no one plays jungle Morgana. On the other hand, I've gotten perfect games on top lane Nautilus and gotten A ratings just because people actually play top lane Nautilus.

Yes. Your rank after the game is based on how well you do with your champion at the specific role. Each lane is being monitored so if you spend a lot of time on bot lane (early game) the system will register that you were playing bot. For example, if you play jungle Yasuo, your rank will be based on how well you performed on him compared with the average jungle Yasuo player.

It definitely does. I play Leona top on occasion and I'll get S ranks with scores like 4/5/10 with 170 CS at 30 minutes. That's just how low the bar is for Leona top in the system.