What is the boundary between "off meta" and "trolling"?

Eedat··2 votes·1,527 views

Let me give you some examples

Full AP Nunu. Has a bunch of AP ratios on his abilties. His ult can one shot entire teams. W amps up AP even further. Off meta

Rageblade/on hit TF. Gets passive attack speed and on hit damage on E. E on hit every other auto with rageblade stacked up. Off meta

AP Kogmaw. Weak early but scales up late. AP also scales up his W and gets attack speed from Q. Crazy amounts of poke. Off meta

AP Renekton. Literally the only AP ratio he has is a tiny amount of damage on his ult. Thats it. No increased synergy with AP itemization. Trolling

Full AD Gragas. Come on. Trolling

Thats what I think anyway. There absolutely is a limit between off meta and trolling even if you "are trying to win wink wink". Just had an AP Renekton on my team on my other account. Enough is enough. You cannot build whatever you want on any champion under the guise of "off meta hehe" no matter what excuse you come up with.

Are there any rules about this? The guy is clearly a troll that is trying to push the rules to the edge.

17 Comments

Imperial Pandaa8 votes

The only difference is intent.

Off meta had the intent to win. As long as there is one ability that scales with with AP, while I may not agree with the strategy, you can build ap.

AD can literally be built on anyone, we see it often for one for all.

EL HAMSTERO5 votes

100% right. everyone can play whatever they want. if someone's favorite champion is AD janna and they just love to play it then it is not trolling.

but if their intention is to lose and upset their team then it is trolling. the question is how do you judge their intent?

Imperial Pandaa2 votes

And that, Hamstero, is the question we all wish to know the answer of.

Ph03n1xdust3 votes

Ye, AD Janna is totally legitimate, sure bro.....

dunder kill3 votes

This is too fucking much. Look at all these people defending trolls XD "I intended to do well as ap renekton" ahahahahaha

Eedat3 votes

Sorry but this is just bullshit. Building AP renekton is straight up trolling period

Imperial Pandaa2 votes

That is your opinion, but if they have a scaling and intent to win; I'll deal with them trying it.

Aerial Queen Liz1 votes

On hit Janna is better than full AD, period.

Eedat2 votes

This is complete horshit. The only AP ratio Renek has is a .1 ratio on his ult. Straight up beyond any shadow of a doubt trolling

Umbral Regent1 votes

One could argue all day long about a full AP build on Renekton being trolling, and that'd go nowhere fast.

How_ever_, you can't argue that there's zero room to build absolutely any AP on Renekton ever. Experimentation is fun and can lead to some unexpectedly good builds.

Ultimately, you can't claim that certain builds that may have any potential whatsoever is undeniably trolling. AP on a Champion with no AP scaling would very likely be trolling. AP on a Champion with some (albeit small) AP scalings may not be.

Eedat2 votes

0.1 is literally his only ap ratio

ABSOLUTELY 100% trolling

Imperial Pandaa3 votes

.1 per half second.

Ult is 15 seconds.

If he stays on the enemy that means its scaling is actually 3.0 or 300%

dunder kill2 votes

Playing AP renekton is intentionally trying to troll XD

Zed genius1 votes

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=89K4Ch-FMD4

nothing out of the ordinary here

Eedat1 votes

Literally an april fools joke where he spends the entire video eluding to how trash the build is

???????

Aerial Queen Liz1 votes

why not pick Nasus at that point, if you wanna go off meta and full ap...at least he'll tilt the enemy top laner LOL

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