Boards›[ARCHIVED] Miscellaneous

Why hold onto the meta so hard?

FreeLanternRides·4/15/2015, 2:52:12 AM·1 votes·515 views

So i just finished a ranked game where i went yasuo top (not that off meta) and from champ select the second i picked my champ people were like "really Yas top" and "this is ranked you know why pick yasuo top" they even looked me up and saw that yasuo is a champ i have relative success on and even after that they wouldn't stop hassling me about the champ i picked. And finally the game starts and i go up to face off against my lane opponent (Nautilus ) funny how the didn't seem to think that was weird however my lane was going good i was up CS and even got first blood no one seemed to care at all even though i was seemingly proving them wrong. And then bot lane started to do bad (which is something i have just come to expect from solo q) they tried to go for a tower dive and it did work and they gave graves a double kill because he timed his heal very well no one said anything it didn't seem to faze them at all and they continued on to play. and then i made a bad play up top i thought i could burst down the ammumu quick enough to kill him so he couldn't ult then i could save my tower but due to some good tower tanking buy naut he soaked up the damage i was hoping would go to ammumu from my tower and i died and then we lost bot and top tower at the same time pretty much and after this happened it instantly all became my fault because i played yasuo top. And they just kept flaming me in chat because of my champion choice and they wouldn't let up on me even though i told them i get that your mad at me for doing something but they kept calling me and the champ i picked useless and that i should go play bots or normals or something. to which i replied "yasuo isn't worthless" and they kept telling me that im not a diamond player (obviously being that im playing against bronze and silver players that would only make sense right?) and that you should only play meta champions because im not good enough to play anything else and by this point i had been pretty mad and i in my rage decided to show them that they were wrong by giving the enemy team a kill (looking back now i know it was wrong and proved nothing except that im actually just a bad player) and i apologize for giving up that kill if any one from that game is reading this i truly am. But this only angered them more and led to much more of them telling me that this loss is all my fault alone and that i should feel bad for picking yasuo top lane. so long story short they were trying to blame me for every mistake made on our team because i picked yasuo top and were even blaming me for feeding every single kill to the enemy when out of the teams total of about 30ish deaths i had died 7 in the whole game and they were spread out amongst their whole team and not to one person alone. I'm sad that they decided to take this route instead of just staying out of chat and trying to carry the game on their own without me, But its the decision they made.

so what i am trying to say is that there is no need to let someone picking an "off meta" champion ruin your whole game and let it drag you down to the point that you need to flame him/her in chat. It never helps someone who is having a bad game to tell them how bad they are doing and reminding them constantly and please dont blame the person that is playing an off meta thing for the entire game and all of your mistakes because what you are doing is just increasing the chance he doesnt play that champ any more and you dont get to see the champion and longer which leads to this game that is always the same and you see nothing but the same champions and do the same thing game in and game out which makes it incredibly boring and no longer gives league the feeling you get when you do something different and it pays off because your just doing what someone has done before you.

Riot has put every champion in this game for a reason (for people to play them) so stop raging at people who do something your not accustomed to so that this game can move on and maybe we can see a new "meta" of champs and let the game unfold how it is going to. Because at the end of the day the tank meta that is for now is fun and all but i don't want to see nothing but tanky junglers and tanky top laners until the end of time so please allow people to do different things and play the game in their way

now could i have done better in the game i am talking about? Hell yes i made several mistakes that i can take in and try to learn from and may no longer try to play yasuo into an incredible tank any more. But simple mistakes that one person makes does not allow you to blame the entire teams mistakes on him. Should i have continued to talk with them on the chat? No i should have muted them and continued to play my game my way but i didn't. And lastly should i have allowed myself to get that angry to a point that i felt the need to feed the enemy team the one kill that i did? No at no point should i take what someone said online personally and allow it to affect how i play this game.

Sorry for how long this is but i just wanted to try and say something i am sure this is filled with misspellings and grammar mistakes i wish i had a potato to give you but i don't (9 gagers will know what i mean)

1 Comments

Kouga4/15/2015, 3:02:09 AM1 votes

Damn son you type a lot.

tl;dr

First off you're right in that Yas top isn't that uncommon. I have started taking him top myself and I enjoy it way more than mid.

Second, in defense of the idea of a "meta", meta isn't just the Champ you pick. It is also the distribution of Champions (1 top, 1 mid, 2 bot, 1 jungler) and, to some degree, the classes that usually fill those roles (Assassin mids, Fighter top, Marksmen and Support bot, etc)

The reason why there is a meta though is not the same as what the meta is. In short, the meta is whatever works. However as a whole the "metagame" isn't decided by individual games. The meta is not "On THIS specific game, I won as Yasuo top" its "over 100 games, more people won with Yasuo top than lost with him"

So the meta is whatever works. But some things work better than others. Back in Season One (or before there were Seasons at all), the mid lane "meta" was completely different. And junglers were not a must-have every game. You had champions who were favored because they could run a 1v2 lane well (Morde, Jax). Supports were not a thing - or at least, not in the rigidly defined sense we have now.

But over time, certain strategies win out. Players realized that one ADC in bot lane getting all of the gold farm was much more powerful than 2 ADCs splitting the gold, particularly when the second player was a "Support" type champion like Soraka who didn't need the items as much. This in turn developed into a fully fledged "Support Meta" where we now have entire item build paths devoted to this role.

So why do people hold onto it? Because metas work. The problem is that people don't change quickly when the meta stops working. And, on an individual level, the meta doesn't mean as much. In any single game, if you win, then your comp doesn't matter, because it worked.

EDIT: Damn, I type a lot.