Playing off-meta is not allow and can be banned?

DemonCrow·Mar 1, 2017·3 votes·1,857 views

When a player is good at a role, shouldn't that he or she is allow to do what they do best instead of being force or chained to a role that they are not really good at? If a person who is a very good at jungling since the early days of League but was force down to play a role that he/she not familiar with which might ended promoting negative experience to the team. In the end that player might ended up being reported. Even professional players also play off-meta roles in order to push the boundaries and creating new experiences to the game, rather than being forced to play current/old meta. Just like back then when Miss Fortune can suddenly become a support hence playing off-meta as she is an ADC role, but why that is not an issue in the 1st time?

11 Comments

midnight oil24Mar 1, 20174 votes

It is not bannable. What is bannable is saying how you're going ot play and then forcing your team to adapt. We don't care that you gave paragraphs of info, we aren't able to play the way you expect us to, and you're clearly going ot troll if we don't let you have your way.

So no. It's not bannable. Just don't troll.

Ap Mid BurstMar 2, 20172 votes

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It is not bannable. What is bannable is saying how you're going ot play and then forcing your team to adapt. We don't care that you gave paragraphs of info, we aren't able to play the way you expect us to, and you're clearly going ot troll if we don't let you have your way.

So no. It's not bannable. Just don't troll.

So, Tryndamere players who splitpush all game can be banned because they force your team to either adapt and waveclear, or lose?

midnight oil24Mar 2, 20171 votes

It's more like this: trynd splitpush is an expected way to play, and it doesn't force a weird strategy off on your teammates. Hell, Ekko as a support, if he actually supports, is okay. It's when the person forces themselves into a counter-jungle role when they picked support then doesn't actually support, and tells the team to deal with it (or any other outlandish strategy) tha you have a problem.

Ap Mid BurstMar 2, 20171 votes

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It's more like this: trynd splitpush is an expected way to play, and it doesn't force a weird strategy off on your teammates. Hell, Ekko as a support, if he actually supports, is okay. It's when the person forces themselves into a counter-jungle role when they picked support then doesn't actually support, and tells the team to deal with it (or any other outlandish strategy) tha you have a problem.

You shouldn't be banned for not playing the expected way to play. If a wukong split pushes all game he shouldn't be banned even though wukong is expected to team fight.

KVbqbFsC8eMar 1, 20171 votes

If you play it often enough and your teammates do not like it, then yes it is bannable.

WretchXFeb 26, 20181 votes

I don't like yasuo mains can I get them banned as well?

EvilDustManMar 2, 20171 votes

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DrCyanideMar 2, 20171 votes

I like what someone else pointed out in another thread: going off meta is fine, just don't force a teammate to go off meta to accommodate you going off meta.

Most of the time this happens without us thinking about it. If your Mid picks AP Ezreal you don't have to change how you play Top/Jungle/Bot/Support because of it. A different champion may work better for the team to make up for the lack of CC, but you still go to your lane and play it out like normal.

In the recent cases, the counter jungling support has basically forced their ADC to play the lane Solo, which isn't meta for them. Some players were fine with that, and able to adapt their picks and play style accordingly. Others were not OK with having to change their pick and play style to accommodate, which is where problems occurred.

WretchXFeb 26, 20181 votes

As far as I know there is no "meta guide" from riot. Playing support adc in botlane is something that players came out with. When I first started playing the game I would go duo mid with my premade, (both new to the game) should I get banned for that? I know it sucks playing with someone like that but if you want to be fair than be fair. You can't get banned for not letting your ADC farm a single creep the entire landing phase, it is not "meta" to have the support farm tho. Go ban those players as well then.

BigBellBruteMar 2, 20171 votes

Let's say it one more time with feeling. He didn't get punished for going off meta. He got punished for refusing to cooperate with team mates.