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Do/would you report someone for breaking meta, if they do it to have fun?

CaptainTatertits·3/4/2015, 7:02:53 AM·3 votes·1,233 views
League of Legends Match History

OK, so in normal draft champ select, we quickly notice that the enemy team isn't going to follow meta - aka a "troll team." One of our allies immediately goes to all caps and begs for someone to bail or to report all of them. They get a Kat and 4 ADC's. We get a team that we think can counter them well enough. (including 2 tanks that plan to get armored up).

Obviously, the entire enemy team is OK with it. We eventually figure out that it is a 4-man premade, with a rando who is cool with it (the Kat, though she doesn't also get smite like they insisted she did). We go on to have a great game. Everyone is laughing and allchatting with funny crap. Good times.

Fast-forward to post-game. This champ on my team (wont say which) reports their ENTIRE team, and insists everyone else do so as well, for "trolling." He says, if he were the random, that would have pissed him off, and that it is not OK to do that kind of team.

So, fellow League foromers, what do you peeps think?

The link is the match History for that match.

Personally, I honored everyone in the game. I had a blast.

12 Comments

Oxbridge3/4/2015, 7:40:42 AM4 votes

Okay, so if Normals is the accepted place to break meta and have all kinds of crazy fun, where are ppl supposed to go and practice their real, actual meta-game without hampering their ranked stats?

OhOkYea3/4/2015, 7:22:21 AM3 votes

Wish this could happen more often. doesn't matter if you lose when you're having a fun instead of doing the same old routine every game.

IcyPepper3/4/2015, 7:30:23 AM3 votes

It's... a game. Like, even Riot doesn't (officially) enforce any meta, because the metagame can change. But that's not the point.

Ranked is competitive play. Think of it like a football game, where you NEED a quarterback, linebacker, etc if you're playing actual opponents in an actual team. Normals is more like playing football at the park, where there's less tryhards and more people just trying to show off and have fun.

Should you throw a game and just troll? No. Is breaking the meta a bad thing? No. Hell, sometimes I go AP Leona just for kicks and do just fine.

Think of playing video games at a friend house, say Call of Duty or something co-op. Who would you rather play with: the friend who yells and screams at you because you chose a sniper class over assault rifle, or the friend who competes with you to see who can get a 360 no-scope?

THe point of playing this game is to have fun. Ranked play is competitive, but normals is where it's just a pvp game. Nobody rages if they die in a duel at Runescape, or rage quit if they lose a pokemon battle (okay, people do, but it's rather silly). What makes LoL any different? It may be considered an e-sport, but even football is played for fun and not seriously every time.

BatchBustsMeta3/4/2015, 10:23:53 AM2 votes

Yeah... Ive been playing for 5 years. Playing literally whoever I want in ranked and norms. Never got banned, or even a warning. But still I get people that report me all the time, sometimes even rage quit. The hardest part is getting through champ select. So anyway Riot doesn't care neither should the community... but they do.. because some people are whinebabies..

So if you wanna waste your time get youself reported and ruin a game. make a big deal about an offmeta pick.

mvargus3/4/2015, 6:37:12 PM1 votes

It can be fun, but sometimes it can be total troll. I was in a pre-made 5 and several of our players were raw recruits. (1 level 6, 2 level 13). We ran into a team that was also pre-made and decided to turn the game into a series of 5v1 gank fests. They roamed in a group and would gank anyone they came across.

It was not a fun experience for anyone on my team, although we held out longer than I might have expected so it was a learning experience. I do know a couple of the troll team members got reported for their comments/language in post-game chat where they bragged about how they had planned to break the meta from the start.

However, most of the time my only issue with breaking the meta is if you won't communicate and the team ends up having to work around one player being off-meta. Usually if you speak up about it, the team can adjust and make it work.

Daen3/4/2015, 7:30:11 PM1 votes

This is kind of a tricky pickle, but if everyone on the team is fine with it I see zero problems whatsoever. If someone wants to go off meta just to go off meta and is basically dicking around when everyone else wants to have a different type of experience, however, I'm not OK with that.

I don't think the queue type matters. Ranked or not, bots or not, if someone is picking something weird because it's weird despite their entire team not being OK with it I would consider that to be trolling. This does not apply to odd picks/roles that someone has spent time working with and perfecting; if someone on my team really wants to play a double AD botlane with the intent of winning their lane, I'm OK with it.

Spystrike3/4/2015, 7:08:25 AM1 votes

I think non-ranked drafts benefit exactly from that. Especially with four friends having fun, obviously not just running down mid all game, but playing a champion they want to play in a position their team is okay with. I think the person who was on your team might need to chill a bit, it's a videogame, which is meant to be fun. Riot didn't add those characters for people to not play, so there is nothing wrong with what they did. To be more technical, I don't know any clause in the ToU, or Privacy Policy, or Summoners' Code, or ANY rules established and outlined by Riot that dictates the aforementioned "meta;" the "meta" is not a physical or tangible thing, it's a common accepted belief of appropriate laning phase positions and team compositions that has changed dramatically just since this pre season, not to mention the previous YEARS of gameplay and changes that have occurred in total.

tl;dr take a chill pill homie (@teammate)

Sharinnengan3/5/2015, 2:30:52 AM1 votes

you bronze 5 people need to realize that there is no troll pick, ect. This is not a vaiable reason to report because the trollpick is those bastards that say so. You report cause of feed, flame, afk ect.Can you dominate with donger? Do so, can you with evelin? urgot do so. Fed opponent with riven, yasuo vi? Reported.... Bronze 5 cancer kids....

CaptainTatertits3/4/2015, 7:16:00 AM1 votes

I agree, but the one thing that does possibly bring merit is oen point of reason he had (forgot to mention this before, sorry lol). He said ok, it worked out this time. Kat was cool with it. But he said, what if it were someone else? He said, if he were the rando, he would have most certainly NOT been OK with it. So, to discourage them from doing such things in the future, he reported.

Even then, there is no way to guarantee that they would have still, done it if the 5th person had not agreed. Though the 4-man team did say they were all high, so it seems likely that they would have still done it.

Only Play Darius3/4/2015, 7:21:09 AM1 votes

Someone took Malzahar jg, I told him I would report him. Once I saw him building straight AD, I said I would tell both teams to report him in post game.

Then he carried us to victory 14/3. I ended up honoring him instead.

Gentleman Gems3/4/2015, 4:20:20 PM1 votes

I think it Doesn’t Matter if someone "Breaks the Meta", Especially if they have it well fleshed out. I once did a game of mid lane Soraka (inspired by a Co-Op vs AI game bot) and the team thought it would not work, I ended up winning lane by Lane Bullying the Karma out of lane due to my range advantage. In the end at post game room, my team was impressed and gave me kudos for the plays. So in the end, the Meta Break was better than the usual, even when she was said not to be built for it. I do hope Riot would help people who like to experiment, just by allowing them to have little less flame. Not a reward system, but maybe promote the idea while not letting it go too far into real trolling (AP GAREN!?)