User blog comment:StrategicMagic/Breaking the Meta - Objectives Teamcomp/@comment-209.161.162.126-20120722004628/@comment-5194571-20120722012739

For some reason, my browser refreshed for no reason while replying to this the first time, so it won't be as good as it would have been, but here goes:

1) "The reason the meta exists is to maximise the damage of your team." Having high damage output is nice and all, but isn't it more important to secure objectives like Baron and Dragon? You might to a ton of damage, but if you are so far behind of the enemy team because they got all the global gold, it won't do much.

2) "AD carries go bot because they are farm-dependent." Top and bot lanes are exactly the same in layout. Which of the two you go to makes absolutely no difference to your gold income. In fact, going top 2v1 is better for you. You have higher kill potential if you freeze the lane somewhere reasonable. Your support can be pumping out CC to aid in that kill too. As we know, kills = gold. The WL can help with this as you can keep the river constantly warded making it safer to do risky things like push. I'll move onto dragon when I get to AP bot.

3) "AP can't go bot because they rely on farm." No problem. An experienced last-hitter can farm at their turret without losing much CS. They are also less likely to be killed. because it will require a turret dive to do so. Your tower going down constitutes to losing your lane, right? To lose your lane, your lane must be pushed to the turret, correct? Good. This sets up easy ganks for your jungler. And on top of that, it's the perfect lane to shut down with ganks. This is why Trundle is great for this teamcomp. His AD carry roflstomping kit makes this a lot easier. It's also fine if the lane needs to have the jungler babysit often. Free exp and gold for them, why not? Really helpful if you've fallen behind. Also, in the current meta, if you see that both champs at bot are missing, where you you check? Dragon. If bot is not missing, the enemy team are unlikely to check dragon and you can take it uncontested. "In that case, who do you send, might I ask?" Mid lane and the jungler. Mid lane is what it is, the middle. Everything is equal distance. If mid is missing, they could be anywhere, ganking top, getting blue/red, anything. In the current meta, bot missing is more obvious. If mid is using WL (Yi, Trynd, Sion, Gangplank for example), that's 2 WL making it much easier. The way I see it is like this: "You lose one lane (bot), and win the other two". A small price to pay for a large advantage, methinks.

4) Junglers are no different. They control the map, 2 lanes get solo experience. The only difference is position shifting. That shifting will totally offset less experienced players in my skill bracket, or may even tempt higher-level players into being greedy because it looks like an easy lane.

5) You did however alert me to a slight weakness in the psychological side of this comp. "Even if mid and top are lost, the AD carry won their lane, so let's not surrender."

Thanks for your comment. I appreciate the feedback.