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Is it meta needs to stop

reaper4042·12/3/2018, 3:57:00 PM·25 votes·11,263 views

Recently I got demoted from gold5 to silver1. Ill climb back to gold soon enough but good lord, will i have to tryhard. This new Is it meta bullshit is starting to get out of hand. Literally every game has one person who doesnt know what they're doing, and they either int or afk. Set a new loss record btw, 9 games in a row. I even sent a ticket to riot and they explained to me how their matchmaking algorithm works. Evidently as it matches you with people similar to your skill level, it does not register player behavior. In essence you can freely feed as many kills as you want and as long as you dont afk or say any banned words, the system won't pick it up. Putting aside how broken that is, why is it that I can't play rakan and have fun, when my 2/12 ezreal flames me for not being good enough. I dont deal damage dipshit, learn to fucking land a q. Literally all my games, bot lane is the worst when compared to other lanes. Idk how tf there is such a massive difference between 4 people who are "matched according to elo" but evidently going 2/12 then staying at base is acceptable.

Welcome to the the new meta boys, Preseason intfest.

54 Comments

Crispy0Snake12/3/2018, 4:07:38 PM2 votes

I'm gold 5 -3lp and idm demoting because rank resets on the season start anyway and gold 5 will become the equivalent of silver 2 in terms of lp above the lowest rank (Bronze 5/Iron 4) 0lp so Gold 5's will probably start the season at Silver 4 after placements (Conversion here )), so all the lp you work for atm is gone at the season start anyway.

That's why a lot of people don't care too much about winning or losing in preseason. I know your mmr is still effected and that does cross over but the changes to the outcome of your placements will be marginal at best, unless you play a ton in preseason.

Dragons12/3/2018, 5:42:08 PM2 votes

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Recently I got demoted from gold5 to silver1. Ill climb back to gold soon enough but good lord, will i have to tryhard. This new Is it meta bullshit is starting to get out of hand. Literally every game has one person who doesnt know what they're doing, and they either int or afk. Set a new loss record btw, 9 games in a row. I even sent a ticket to riot and they explained to me how their matchmaking algorithm works. Evidently as it matches you with people similar to your skill level, it does not register player behavior. In essence you can freely feed as many kills as you want and as long as you dont afk or say any banned words, the system won't pick it up. Putting aside how broken that is, why is it that I can't play rakan and have fun, when my 2/12 ezreal flames me for not being good enough. I dont deal damage dipshit, learn to fucking land a q. Literally all my games, bot lane is the worst when compared to other lanes. Idk how tf there is such a massive difference between 4 people who are "matched according to elo" but evidently going 2/12 then staying at base is acceptable.

Welcome to the the new meta boys, Preseason intfest.

The "Meta" is completely unforgiving. So if you make one mistake you lose. It doesn't matter how good you are. It only takes one mistake.

MasterEvawesome12/3/2018, 8:17:10 PM2 votes

If you cant climb out of gold theres a reason youre there. Most of the people here are complaining and dont actually know how to play around the things theyre complaining about.

Seer of Mind12/3/2018, 10:11:13 PM2 votes

if anyone can beep explain to me who thought that leaning into the already trash-tier troll culture of preseason with this IS IT META? shit was a good idea and why needs to be fired tbqh 3 months of "lol it's preseason" "it's normals xd" boop me it's a team based game and you just wanna attempt to win the award for most selfish beep on the planet by playing things that you know are going to ruin the game for your team mates? it's actually an enjoyable patch, besides akali and dark harvest, but the players at this time of year just ruin it I'd guess about 60% of my games get hardcore trolled, things like ad leblanc or zyra or just straight up running it down for no reason other than "i'm bored" but no punishments because it's preseason normal games so #isitmeta am i fucking right?? haha big xd funny enough I don't sign up to be potentially trapped in a game for 40 minutes with someone's perverse definition of fun as they go 0/19 full hp karthus or some boop

copied and pasted from ezreal mains.

Dracocrash12/4/2018, 3:02:33 AM2 votes

Sorry but if you continue blaming your team/meta for ur drop you will find it relatively hard to climb back up xd

The Trent12/4/2018, 10:18:48 AM2 votes

tbh once I hit plat all the is it meta kinda faded away. People are only playing meta sheep or counter picks to meta sheep champions here. I see a teemo every now and then for whatever reason, but I've only gotten meta picks for a while. It seems only the normies/casual fanbase which ranges from low gold to bronze actually took inspiration from that video. The rest of them kinda realized... huh I should probably play something that won't cause me to get extremely behind and unable to play the game. Playing non meta things is pretty dangerous because the current meta is literally just a snowball blow up people fest. If you're not picking a champion that can just blow up people have fun requiring someone to really mess up to be half as good as the champion they picked.

PhearBunny12/3/2018, 11:45:50 PM1 votes

Season7 I played Jungle Leona to Plat1 with a 57% win rate(500 games, got hardstuck after they dropped her Q damage down to 10.) Season8 I played Nocturne top to Plat1 with a 60% winrate. This preseason ive meddled with Leona jungle again, its better than it was in Season8, but still bad, not even remotely near its capabilities in Season7. So im sticking with Nocturne top, which actually is even stronger now.

typically with these new runes ill take Grasp of the Undying+Taste of blood, start corrupting pot with TP+Flash. Logic behind the build is, unlimited sustain- you cant force me out of lane and I can instantly shove waves and back off to safety. With the steroids baked into Nocturnes kit he is naturally good at taking tower plates, so when you inevitably recall, I am going to take atleast 3 plates if your jungler isn't healthy and protecting your tower.

The downside to it is, Nocturne himself isn't a high impact champion. I can heavily win lane, take first tower, but I cant carry the game like a Jax could.

But my point is, if you enjoy something enough and master it enough, I think u can play a lot of off meta things very successfully

Oleandervine12/3/2018, 5:40:48 PM1 votes

You know ranked is irrelevant at this point, correct? It's all getting reset when the new season starts, and the only things that matter is your MMR. Even then, the new season is going to have role specific MMR, so your overall MMR (which is what is currently running ranked) won't even matter that much.

GigglesO12/4/2018, 12:36:20 AM1 votes

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Idk how tf there is such a massive difference between 4 people who are "matched according to elo"

Its preseson so players are playing new roles... they aren't actually good in the roles they are playing.

deadlychuck12/4/2018, 10:00:43 AM1 votes

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q2iB5YEGwec

Handy Sandy 12/3/2018, 9:22:31 PM1 votes

If you main support then get a duo or play ADC. Carrying as a support is harder to do because you don't do any damage unless you're Zyra Brand

SanKakU12/4/2018, 7:50:04 AM1 votes

Riot's matchmaking obviously doesn't know what skill is.