This gets downvoted: Meta is a lie

Hello,

This is important issue which has to be deal with. I talk about essence of META. The side of META most people believing in it does not get. I know this side, as I do have seen META change so totally during all seasons of League of Legends. And I have seen META get way more strict it should get.

Most players does not get META is not just build. It is not just champion you choose. It is important who defines the META. And it is important why and how META is defined.

• Meta does include the way of playing. Due this there has never been only one meta on professional players.

• If you cannot play the aggressive gaming defining the META, the fact is you should not. META is not for your way of playing this game.

• Due play aspect, META should be different for low skilled players and high skilled players.

And then I open each of these three clauses.

First is really important. Those who define META does not follow it. If they would, the META would still be ADC mid, no jungle, and duo top and bottom lane. That was the META of season 1. The changes of rules Riot makes every season should affect meta and should affect it fast.

Not everyone are like the professionals defining the meta. This is fact nobody can challenge, but due worship of heroes nobody want to state it. It hurts feelings of people who think they are as good as professionals while in reality they would never get past platinum. I have long time ago I am one of these. I am good player. I can play this game well, but I do not have the traits needed to get into highest tiers of competitiveness where you have to play your champ perfectly without single mistake.

The meta of new players should vary a lot so people could find what they are best in, but it would mean the role of ADC is taken down from the pedestal adc players and Riot have created. It is due the fact people understand wrong the fact ADC carrying is important for the team. That adc getting gold is important. This is understood wrong. It is understood only adc should get kills, as for minmax players it is best for the team. The sad fact it is not. It is better for team all team players have quite even amount of gold. Why it is so? Because getting the only fed player down would destroy the team. And ADCs are easy to get down.

I do not worship the meta but try to figure out how the game works. Just like the highest level layers do. But due worship of heroes, I am violating sacred order and trying to do something I should not do as I am not on highest tiers. I can prove I start playing Zyra support before LCS did. Thus this proves I do know the game quite well. I saw quite fast ZYra is not mage but harass support. He can go mid, but he is way weaker in mid. And that has not changed. Why it is so? Because Zyra is not best in burst nor sustained harassing. He is good if you do both of those, but most players only take either burst or poking. Most players cannot alter this according to situation. And majority goes for burst as it gives them best damage. I can tell some platinum players are told me they cannot play Zyra like I do. And only thing which makes the difference is the fact I do not play for kills. I do not focus on kills. They are really nice to get, but they are not sought. It is tactically better to force enemy back. To force them retreat. As it gives me and my adc and team mates more farm. And farm is THE gold source in higher tier play, not kills. This is why LCS has so few kills.

As the way of play defines meta, not only your way of playing defines it, as this is team game first and foremost. As low tier players are really bad in team work, they cannot see this aspect of META. And META is defined by players for whom team is the most important thing. For professional players, team is more important than your personal score.

Thus in low tier without much warding and team work, the champions best players use, does not work. This is due the fact those champions need synergy from other champions in the team. This is why META should be different in low skill low team work high individual K/D play. And that play is unskilled play. Skilled players focus on team work and effects your play does for team, not for your personal score.