"Report every single person that does anything off meta in a game you lose. Context doesn't matter."

Yordle Gunner·6/17/2019, 4:49:58 AM·2 votes·958 views

That's what Riot is saying for us to do. If you do anything out of line, you will be banned. It doesn't matter if you have a near 50/50 win rate with it. It doesn't matter if your other teammates AFK on you. If you do anything off meta you will be banned.

Remember when Riot said they wanted to add lane Diversity? Now they are banning players for doing it. They are punishing players for trying new things.

Despite seeing Sona Taric in Pro play. And a host of other strategies that are born from people trying new things when everyone else calls them troll. Riot is telling us it's not ok. It is hypocrisy at it's finest. Especially since RIots code of conduct says you can't be banned for it.

8 Comments

Jamaree6/17/2019, 5:13:39 AM7 votes

There is diversity and then what Nubrac did. If you had someone not jungle to triple bot, you wouldn't be happy. If you were jungle and the support followed you and smote all your buffs for himself calling it a new strat, you wouldn't be happy. You wouldn't be happy if your support said nothing, didn't go bot with you, and left you in a 1 vs 2 lane, please don't act like you would be happy.

ChrisBrownze6/17/2019, 6:36:14 AM4 votes

Its hilarious when people who dont understand what "xp leeching" is and how detrimental of an effect it has on mid lane, think they can judge the difference between trying "offmeta" and "griefing".

To put it in the words of TL doublelift himself: "guys if I was in my promo and game 5 a teemo support ran mid and soaked xp while I got zoned 1v2 I would 100% report it no questions asked"

Kikito6/17/2019, 5:37:25 AM3 votes

As long as "Is it Meta" is typed its not troll haha

Dorans Pants6/17/2019, 12:57:16 PM1 votes

The overarching problem is that there are no set guidelines describing where off-meta ends and "griefing" starts. Right now, your off-meta strategy of today could be considered trolling tomorrow because what you are doing is not as important to the discussion as how others perceive it.