The META That Ruined League Could FINALLY Be Over

foreign Lucian or something there's no way that'll be the draft for the 900th time oh the plot twist they took Divine instead of the maokai no way does that mean they get the maokai oh my god well that's crazy and now they get the Lulu right no way no way how did that happen Jesus man dude I'm so sick of seeing Lucian Nami though I'm so sick of seeing Lucian Nami and Yumi every game bro I'm done with it hundreds of pro players around the world screaming hundreds of games a week and they've all come to the same conclusion of this is how the game should be played and with all of them coming to that conclusion I feel like the game is just so figured out that there's no room for innovation I don't think that I would normally put extra stock into content creators saying that Pros keep defaulting to the same Champions because that's just normal League stuff isn't it I can already kind of see you typing your comment right now Pros playing the same Champions every game well water's wet hope is Catholic League sucks aren't these just Facts of Life at this point and fair enough but this situation might be a little bit more of an issue than normal these two guys kadral and Dom are two of the most passionate and knowledgeable voices for competitive League of Legends both are former pro players cadral is a caster and domco streams a lot of pro matches even for n a which not only impresses me for his commitment but also proves that he's a masochist and when they both highlighted the exact same problem within the first week of pro play coming back which should normally be a very exciting time as there's new teams and new story lines I felt that it was worth discussing I believe the biggest reason is that even though it's a brand new season hardly anything changed and it almost feels like we're in the exact same meta as we were during the world championship and it's not just Pro play but also solo queue especially in two roles bot and jungle these two roles have been completely squeezed with very low variety on what actually works and this has caused the player base to react in a way that's honestly warranted a majority of the time gaming communities can be extremely hypocritical and full of baseless overreactions but in this case I feel we really do have the right to call out Riot for their incompetence here questioning what in the world they've been doing considering the pre-season change very little and the season cinematic is arguably the biggest fail in the history of the game in the bot Lane only a few Champions and strategies are viable there's essentially two categories you can pick the broken Duos of Lucian Nami who are nearly always picked together or some combination of ADC zarian sivir plus Lulu and Yumi for support and prozel just mix and match these based on whatever they get if you're not seeing this most of the time you're going to play against a bot Lane that has unbeatable pushing priority which would be like ash Caitlyn or varus ADC paired with Heimerdinger Karma or Ash support and in quite a few cases now we're getting double 80 carries in the bot Lane Caitlyn's support kalista support gin support varus support carya is on a war path determined to play any ADC in the support role I swear if caria and his ADC gumiyushi could pick two Caitlyn's or two ashes right now they probably would [Music] for these pushing compositions how come they're able to play a bot Lane that was never able to succeed in the past where is the blitzcrank all in how come they don't just Place Samira Rel into this the thing is is that pushing priority in Lane control has never been more important than it is now largely due to Turret plating and neutral objectives being so powerful you can get away with what should be an inferior composition just because of the early game map control it can be tough to give away dragons when ride buff Drakes my initial thought was that bot Lane priority is going to be even more important than it already was when a team goes up something like two Drakes to zero while it's not necessarily true that they're guaranteed to win and get Soul it's such a fantastic lead that teams aren't willing to give it pro junglers this season have shown such a high priority that they're out here soloing it as a level 3 poppy a big part of this equation that I've seen some pros talking about is the support items themselves when the support can generate more than enough gold simply by hitting the enemy with spells and autoing the turret from range with either the spelltheast or the sickle it can trivialize the laning phase the melee supports have to walk up and get hit with spells and trade Health just to generate any gold the disadvantage of being melee is constantly punished while the range support is reaping all of the benefits every time you walk up and because the jungle meta has been squeezed into s-tier only which we'll get to in a moment a common thing you're seeing now is junglers who do leashless at the highest levels of play bot Lane is no longer leashing they are always contesting the push from level 1. two marksmen both with Halo blades walking up to you level 1 taking all of your health and blowing your sums as interactive and fun as that might seem you can take my word for it it isn't as for the support 80 carry they don't really lack resources because the game tends to end before that even matters anyway your team is going to dominate to the point of no return in theory Caitlyn's support should have problems taking resources away from the 80 carry but they're not a thousand gold is generated rather quickly from the support item they can take all the play late Spot Lane they can take all the plates mid lane secure Drake secure Herald and win the game even with just one item typically being umbral glaive which is a cheap and cost effective supportive item double range bot is very strong and one of the only ways you can deal with it is by picking a broken Duo for these op combos it's true that they don't have the same priority early game but on two to three items their complete Juggernaut hyper carries stronger than we've ever seen some of the hyper carries that come to mind in game history are like Jinx or twitch or kog'maw and it's true they are monsters on six items but it doesn't really compare to a sivir or zerri who have a Yumi attached the only reason that we see this scaling bot Lane in a meta that is so reliant on early game is because nothing beats this late game it is genuinely going to take nerfing both of the Champions into the ground and reworking them to make Pros stop picking Zary and Yumi and that's exactly what Riot is trying to do they are doing their best to effectively remove Yumi from the game because we've never seen an unbeatable combo quite like this we need dragon and Herald and baron because it forces action and in theory they're great for the game but it's not always interesting at the moment especially for some of the early Dragon takes it's kind of lame how either you pick a pushing bot and you can contest for strike or you just give it this meta is so what's the word we can use boring maybe that's not quite right brainless is that a bit harsh maybe how about predetermined sure let's go with predetermined first 20 minutes of the game versus Lucian Nami okay we can never trade after 20 minutes against zero Yumi okay we can't fight anymore laning phase versus Caitlyn Ash okay we can't play the game just uninstall and go play Ellen ring this is what bot Lane looks like every game now no leash for the jungler fight at level 1 and seize control Caitlyn Ash bot Lane steps on you level one Caitlyn gets a double kill and the game feels doomed the point is that this just feels so bad to play regardless of balance maybe you could even come up with some numbers and ride can provide data to say that this is reasonable x-champion does actually beat y champion on average the amount of the time while logic should state that we'll trust the numbers here ultimately what I'm trying to articulate is a feeling if you want to play a lower tier bot Lane good luck picking something like Jinx Janna which is a classic Lane I'm sure many of us have played it countless times should now be reportable for griefing because this Lane is unplayable the jungle roster also feels like it's impossible to play anything that's not meta the gatekeeping factor for junglers last season was all based around clear speed and the ability to kite camps and while it is true that that's no longer as big of a deal that does not mean the problem is solved it's just different now the first clear beats you up so bad that if you try to play an off meta jungler it's not going to go very well even though a core thing they wanted to outline and accomplish with this new Season's jungle was to make more off meta junglers viable they have not done that maokai Vai or sejuani will gank five times before level six Wukong will dive your Bot Lane Kindred or Udyr will invade you you get the idea you are hard capped into playing the best junglers in the game who can go leashless and gank bot Lane if you can't do that your life is going to be way harder than it should be the other jungler is playing an Exodia champion who can do it all and you're just trying to complete one clear this is even more of an issue in competitive play because again the neutral objectives are a total Game Changer and missing out on the Smite upgrades makes it no longer a 50 50. the team whose jungler has the Smite Advantage has all the priority on the objective which from my understanding and what I had thought wasn't that the entire reason Riot changed it in the first place remember when Smite used to be based on your Champion's level we're sort of back to someone of a similar problem that's the issue outlined so what do we have in the future could we finally get a new meta maybe the best news to come out of League of Legends over the past couple of weeks is that many of the things that were talked about in this video have been at least addressed acknowledged or talked about by Riot and most of the things as well have been nerfed or going to get nerfed Yumi is no longer a problem on this current patch but it's not for a good reason it's because they had to Nerf the champion so much that she is now effectively unplayable and is going to get reworked she's been put into a dead State very similar to how zerry was about six months ago and we all saw how that turned out humble glaive got nerfed radiant virtue got nerfed Riot could be looking to double down on the radiant virtue Nerfs and hitting it again Riot has buffed melee supports across the board Alistar Nautilus Brahm Pantheon Pike Recon and thresh these types of Champions should have been the counter to range supports and they simply were not in order to make more Champions have a viable clear they need to do individual targeted Buffs the issue is that their history of doing this is often not very good they've done these kinds of changes in the past one time they did it with Morgana where she was hard forced into being the best jungler in the game she dominated for a while was pick and Bannon Pro got nerfed and now isn't a jungler anymore uh sick balancing I guess and just recently we got the early notes for patch 13.4 this is one of the more promising and optimistic patches for me in quite a while because I'm honestly on board with about 80 to 90 percent of these changes which I do not often feel about League of Legends patches and it also seems that some prominent members of the community are also pretty happy about it we're addressing the spell thiefs and spectral sickle which is great Relic Shield and steel shoulder guards Buffs which is awesome for melee supports at the time of recording this video I have no idea exactly what they mean by jungle sustain and clear speed but I can only hope it frees up the jungle meta and means that we can finally see some new pics I truly believe the biggest reason that League of Legends has been able to sustain a long term player base is because the game always changes the game is different year to year and as it stands right now the game is not different enough from the previous year or honestly even the previous two years so thank you Riot for addressing the problem keep doing it make more changes mix up the meta and let's play a new game let me know what you guys think of the current patch and the upcoming changes for league are you excited for them are you a little bit optimistic or maybe even pessimistic do you trust that Riot will change the game or are you perfectly happy with the way it is now whatever you think feel free to let me know in the comments down below and I'll see you guys next time

Channel: Exil

Views: 402,077

Keywords: league, of, legends

Id: r8BvC0jedVo

Length: 12min 7sec (727 seconds)

Published: Thu Feb 16 2023