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booplet·6/22/2019, 11:04:05 PM·2 votes·990 views

I'm all for changing the meta.

Personally, League has become a pretty dull place. My duo and I climbed from Iron to Gold by playing Pyke/Zyra botlane with a nearly 90% win rate and it was more fun than any meta comp I have ever tried. More recently, my friends and I took a trio botlane (no jglr-- we played Swain, Zyra, Lux) and that was insanely fun as well.

We've been threatened with reports and bans; we've been told that we're trolling; we've been told we're holding teammates captive, (despite our win rates never being below 50%), but ultimately, none of us have really faced any consequences for having fun.

So.. Nightblue [slayer-jinx-unamused]

I think the real questions that need to be answered here are,

What defines trolling? Where is the line between breaking the meta and breaking the rules? Does intent come down to what is said by the player or what is said by their team?

In my experience (hundreds of games) of breaking metas and pissing off my teammates by going 3 bot, 2 jglrs, roaming support, 2 supports botlane... I have never been banned. So what was different with Nubrac and NB3? Is it the fact it was in a ranked game? Is it that he was playing with randoms instead of a premade? Maybe because NB3 told him not to do it? Or was it just because it WAS NB3 and not any other player, without connections in Riot?

4 Comments

The Ecdysiast6/22/2019, 11:24:14 PM4 votes

Kill lane bot lane often destroys gold and below. Doesn't really matter the exact composition.

Teemo mid lane duo is a massive issue in high rank play, where the meta actually matters. People are forgetting that meta means something is a superior option, not just that everyone is doing it.

preternatural6/22/2019, 11:11:12 PM1 votes

oh look at that, you and a duo played a kill lane combo in bottom lane, no one has a problem with that, you opted in. support mid teemo was not opted into.

Sona Ping6/23/2019, 1:35:35 AM1 votes

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I'm all for changing the meta.

Personally, League has become a pretty dull place. My duo and I climbed from Iron to Gold by playing Pyke/Zyra botlane with a nearly 90% win rate and it was more fun than any meta comp I have ever tried. More recently, my friends and I took a trio botlane (no jglr-- we played Swain, Zyra, Lux) and that was insanely fun as well.

Hey, good for you. Great that you're enjoying yourself.

I think the real questions that need to be answered here are, What defines trolling?

I would think that deliberately targeting players to then handicap their games would be a fine place to start. build off of if you wanted to define trolling. And even if you did not want to call that trolling, if you wanted a different name for that, most could agree that would not be acceptable regardless of it's called. When that's the actual topic, all the rest doesn't really matter.