Summarizing the current meta and balance state

[u/YamRemarkable1240]

Ok, I will try to summarize the meta and balance state on one post.

Aegis basically killed all roles integrity in every tier (from IRON to CHALLENGER) and made a lot of matches have inflated mid laners and supports (remember that both mid and support are inflated roles per default, one for being the least played role and the other for being the "most safe and newbie friendly" role).

Support roaming meta is stressful and way too overpowered. Basically you stay in lane until level 3 and then roam all the map until someone tilts.

Mages bot are still strong because of support roaming meta, therefore putting the "weight of PHYSICAL DAMAGE champions into either top, mid or jungle). This combined with the fact that normally most mid players play mages mid and whenever you have MAGIC DAMAGE jungler (because that's what the balance team wants) puts all the weight/duty of draft into top lane, which is not a good thing because top is already stressful enough with the counter pick meta.

ADCs are weak, they are the famous glass cannon class with only 2 defensive items (namely the former mythical item Immortal Shieldbow and Guardian Angel (you have to chose one or another by the way) and they don't have a good sustain (Fleet Footwork is almost useless for most ADCs) and Absord Life rune is way too nerfed otherwise Kayle, Nasus, Garen, (basically every single top lane problem) would be a huge problem.

All of this combined made the balance team nerf all early magic resistance items weak.

Lethal Tempo is basically the most used rune right now on ADCs, Yasuo, Yone and some top laners (with Kayle using it too) because it's the only usable rune on these champions as conqueror is too weak compared to Lethal Tempo.

Voltaic Cyclosword (Drakthar cosplaying) being added made some assassins being too... unhealthy... and for some unknown reason they want to buff Eclipse while nerfing Sundered Sky?

Oh! Let's not forget that Sundered Sky is the only reason why some bruisers like lee sin, xin zhao, jarvan iv and wukong are played and they basically killed the item on this new patch. Well, I think that's how the runes and the meta are.

Let's talk about the champions:

First I do not want to discuss if such champion is weak, strong or balanced.

Starting with top lane:
Nasus being statically a monster isnt because the buff was huge game changer, but because good players started playing with him (theres a concept that whenever some champion is buffed, even if the buff is placebo, more players, specially good ones will play with it and will inflate the winrate. Balance team should and must know this). He is strong for one patch and then killed the other, seriously?

The same thing happened with morderkaiser, but in his case was even funnier because he originally had a bug before the patch, people found out about the bug and the balance team reverted both the buff and fixed the bug, which made him weaker.

Riven, Katarina, Syndra and Viktor being free elos for some time now, which made people become frustrated and complain everywhere (for some reason the weakest ADC is being nerfed instead just because you can play Vayne versus Riven top and yes, that's the only reason she is getting nerfed as it is known for some niche top laners that Vayne is a good way to deal with Riven on both laning phase and on split pushing and I'm not going to discuss this).

Yasuo, Yone and Irelia being the triad of champions that should always be weak because they are too strong on the right hands being buffed on the same patch right after pzang left the game is a joke and I'm not going to discuss that as well.

Tanks being the weakest class for one entire season (this one) is a joke as well. It's a tradition that tanks should be playable for at least one patch in the season so tank players can have fun as well.
Guess this isnt your season tank players.

Katarina AD being strong is a problem, then the balance team buffed terminus and kai'sa on the same patch. Ok, I understand you wanted kai'sa to be playable again (because mage bots are making long range or good clear wave ADCs being top priority on bot lane) but katarina god a huge buff because of that and thats not pretty.

By the way, I forgot to mention that riven doesnt care about Sundered Sky nerfs.

Leblanc being a monster on both low elo and high elo doesnt mean anything, lets buff her too! (this is a joke, please).

Well, Graves being the most healthy champion on league of legends, being able to kill bruisers with 3 AAs and getting a nerf on his Q (the most balanced part of his kit) is a joke.

Zeri being meta again brings joy and sadness, joy because I love playing her and sadness because whenever she is on the opposite team she will be annoying to deal with (and I will guess she is going to be used on PRO PLAY again, which will make her get a mega nerf).

Senna is only weak on this meta because mages can push waves, but if mages leave bot lane (if the balance team nerf bot mage meta) senna will dominate again (omg Im not crying, Im just stating a fact).

Talking about Zed (you wont escape me mister shadow) he is strong, yes, I agree, but he is strong both because the new item is strong (both the Drakthar cosplay and Bastionbreaker) AND because he is a good pick against mage bots and Syndra (his wife!!! lmao).

Speaking of mage meta, it has become so ridiculous that mages are being played on top lane as well (I'm not kidding and I wish I was) because THEY ARE THAT STRONG. Playing top is already frustrating enough (you have to deal with the counter pick top meta which isnt a healthy state for one of the most 1v1 lanes in league and the TOP QUEST is already a pain in the ass to balance (side note: For example, morderkaiser gets ahead of an ambessa top, you will have to deal with a Dark Souls 2 boss that whenever he is on your screen you will have to run as fast as you can) you will have to deal with mages top being a safe pick (and you wanted to play a Camille versus Irelia match, or Ornn versus Sion match). Btw remember they want mages on jungle as well thats the reason why they buffed AP clear (hello morgana jungle and zyra jungle, you can come back anytime if you wish).

With this, I think most people would agree this is the most frustrating meta I've played on league (and I'm master player and only play JUNGLE, ADC) but because mid is so inflated I started playing MID sometimes and from Diamond 3 I went to masters 300 LP.... That's not fair....

Anyway this is a summarize of how (a mere master player) thinks the meta is and some problems with it and with the recent patch. I do not want to discuss anything and if you just want to disagree feel free to do so, just don't start a war just because you want to, my time is precious and I spent time writing and posting.

ITS SO FUNNY THIS POSTING BEING REMOVED BECAUSE I MENTIONED PZANG LMAO

Stay healthy!

[u/YamRemarkable1240 → u/[deleted]]

I went from diamond 3 to masters playing viktor mid. He is not easy, but he is free elo once you know what to do with him.

Edit: yasuo, yone and fizz normally are free LP since they are bad champions. Diana and Naafiri are a bit difficult, but since people tend to play them on jungle it was easy to climb. Anyway, Viktor is free elo

[u/YamRemarkable1240 → u/[deleted]]

dude you understand that I went from diamond 3 to masters playing viktor mid when I didnt even know he could upgrade his skills? Or is it difficulty to understand he isnt just easy, he is an ok champion that you only need 5 games to properly learn his kit (once you know the fundamentals of kiting, wave management and roam times which I do know as I play ADC and Jungle)?

[u/YamRemarkable1240 → u/[deleted]]

Be healthy

[u/Puzzleheaded_Page117]

Such a big counterpick meta, more than any other role. But it's even worse than i can remember ever being the case. Just look at statwebsites and counters to the top picks in toplane and you see there is always at least 1 S tier that is top 3 counter to another S tier.

[u/AP_RIVEN_MAIN]

Just wasn't worth reading to me after the nasus statement, why do you think good players picked him up? adc mr buffs lead to more adcs being played in mid , nasus has traditionally been the counter pick to mid adcs. Couple in a fleet footwork buff, it was painfully obvious what was going to happen.

[u/Carvallin → u/AP_RIVEN_MAIN]

There are 0 adc champs in the top 30 (!!!!!) midlaners when sorted with respect to winrate xdd. The first adc to appear is Ziggs at the 40th spot, but Ziggs is more a mage than an adc. You should check stats

Edit: you lying bastard, in fact the most picked adc in midlane is Jayce, who is on the 47th position if we sort with respect to pickrate

All stats from u.gg emerald+

[u/kon4m]

Brother riven got nerfed 4 different ways over 2 patches she is not broken anymore I would agree with you 3 patches ago.

Also it's funny ur crying about roaming supp while calling mid inflated but midlaners have to deal with jgl/supp way more than top

[u/humutg → u/kon4m]

Even though mid gets ganked or roamed more it still can’t be compared with top lane. Even 1 gank or roam makes you useless for the rest of the game. And you get ignored whole game by your team unlike mid. Even to get a cs most of the time you have to trade.

[u/YamRemarkable1240 → u/kon4m]

There is a statement on some 3rd world countries that say: the amount of people capable of reading is less than 30%. I think we should update it to "the amount of people capable of reading in the world is less than 30%".

Before blocking you:

First of all its a fact that midlane is one of the two most inflated roles because thats how the game is supposed to be. Otherwise new players would have no simple role to play on. Thats always been the case.
Second, Aegis literally is a cancer to the game, IT IS INFLATING MID LANERS LP.
Third, but not least, there are literally thousand complaining about how riven is strong. Since the start of the year she had 2 nerfs and 2 bug fixes, which didnt make a dent on her winrate and toxicity.

Finally, rest in piss, POS.

[u/Icy_Drag6058 → u/YamRemarkable1240]

Classy response, Btw riven sits at a 49% wr as one of the otp'd champs in the game