Any tips on how to enjoy the game a little more?

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stop playing. that's it.

-Meta is stupid and too enforced -Meta champs are all boring

I play bot lane adc/apc and have been sucessful

Been forced to play a lot of Meta champions recently. Always had the most fun with showing people that really outlandish shit can work, was a Sion main before his rework, both AP and AD, also a Taric main with his mana-scaling on-hit passive and an according build or AP Taric, later with his armor scaling on-hit passive, both before his rework. They always were not only really fun builds but also actually viable and often caught people off-guard.

Now I feel like I can't do this as much anymore. Non-Meta champions seem to always underperform and even if they turn out to be decent, trying to learn new champions in a Meta were one single fuck-up will mean that you will have a really bad experience just makes it much harder than before - not that I could do anything about the Meta though. Kinda tired of having to pick Darius all the time.

I've also been maining jungle and toplane for the last few seasons but they are just unrecognizable at this point, they've changed so much over the years and aren't the lanes I grew to love anymore.

Lastly, frustration in general. The game isn't as casual as it used to be, if you don't tryhard and handle all the pressure that you have to deal with these days it's just really hard to have a fun experience. In general, the pace of the game and how unforgiving it is right now is just hard to deal with to the point where it's just really bad for my mental health because they are almost as stressful as work. But yet again, can't really directly change the game itself, right.

Just posting this so that I somehow might find a way to cope with what the game is right now. I grew to love it and have invested a lot of time and money into it, I want to somehow have fun with it again instead of just quitting it after all these years.