Board Thread:General discussion/@comment-5216796-20130117183225

Having watched the game for a long time, pretty much since beta, I have seen the meta change all the time. Honestly, I hate the meta right now and I wish we could go back to the times when we could ADC solo mid with 2 tanks top and 2 mages bot or w/e you want but no one wants to do that.

So this thread is about ideas on the upcoming meta changes. I'm hoping it wont be people mindlessly following tourny metas but it probably will be.

Currently, if you've played at all recently, you should know the meta is generally an AP solo mid, bruiser/tank jungler, bruiser/tank top (with some exceptions to both those last 2) and a ranged ADC bot with some form of support.

Though, of course, changes are occuring, but even without those changes there are major flaws in the current meta, which are easy to exploit and incredibly hilarious in their effectivity.

The most obvious one i've seen is sending a bruiser mid in place of the AP and having some half ap champ somewhere else, like Nautilus or Maokai. Vi, Darius, or Talon mid is really effective as they can out sustain mages, in both mana and HP, and get easy kills. This allows early game roaming for mid, meaning other lanes will also get ganked more from your mid, along with the jungle, and effectivly giving you push power in all lanes much more than theirs.

Now you might know why I hate the current meta.

At this point i'm hoping that bruisers take over mid and mages move somewhere else. I was hoping jungle with the news of the new AP jungle items, but those items are rather lackluster compared to how many options ADs have in the jungle.

Thoughts? 