Strong champions will make up the meta game, so what is the meta and how big is its impact on the game.
Meta – Most Efficient Tactics Available is understood by MOBA gamers as the best strategy currently available. Easier to understand, the meta is the gameplay that brings an extremely high win rate (over 52%) of a version of League of Legends.
I. What Shapes a Meta
1. Changes from Riot Games
In order for an average champion to become a hot meta pick, it usually has to go through one or a series of tweaks in favor of the champion. It’s a lot of light buffs that accumulate gradually, these champions will usually have a pretty stable win rate and gradually increase to a level that becomes too OP (Overpowered). Another case is reworks – changing all champion skills, if Riot does not calculate too carefully, it will be easy to create monsters, typically the Irelia-Aatrox-Akali trio that is constantly being reduced. power, change the mechanism.
In the opposite direction, nerfed champions will gradually lose their place in the meta game, creating conditions for other forces to take their place.
2. Player creativity
Riot is the party that decides the strength of the champion, but the players are the ones who decide their own playstyle. League of Legends is a game of combinations, there are billions of formations that can be chosen, countless ways to equip. So Riot itself will not be able to capture everything that happens in the game. The creativity is limitless, when a player stumbles upon a new way of playing, there will be thousands of people experimenting and improving that play, if it is powerful enough to suppress the traditional gameplay. will create a new meta. Take for example the gameplay of Zilean Blade of the Thief in season 9, Huni was the first to bring it out in the pro league, but it was the Koreans who were really the cause of the uncontrollable hegemony of the gameplay. This is with 2-3 support items in the squad.
LCK teams once had 4 items… Support
3. The game’s self-balancing mechanism
League of Legends can be seen as an expanded version of the game of scissors and hammers, the generals will counter and restrain each other. Once strong play becomes meta, ways of playing against it also emerge as a way of dealing with these forces. When the tanker takes the throne, choose god-slayers like Fiora, Vayne, Kog’maw, etc., and when the assassin is too strong, choosing a squad of many gladiators or tankers will easily remove the power of the commons. Champions that may not be buffed can still become meta if “timed” – when counter champions themselves are nerfed and not really a counterweight…
Triangle to counter League of Legends’ tactics
II. Should I play in the meta?
1. Advantages
Because it is usually the gameplay that is buffed by Riot Games, meta champions always have outstanding strength, especially at the beginning of each version when people have not yet found a way to counter it. Meta champions also often have high carrying potential because they always ensure many factors: laning power and influence in combat. Game mechanics (big target, jungle camp, minions, etc.) also often favor a certain playstyle, like when teleport is nerfed, allowing Burn to take the place of top lane, champions have How to play win lane win game will become stronger because it is difficult for opponents to influence other lanes like before. Besides, when you’ve played a lot of meta champions, you yourself know how to fight them effectively, you will know what they will do to find a countermeasure.
2. Disadvantages
Playing according to the meta means accepting to change dynamically with it, champions that are king today, can become useless tomorrow after just one version. So you need to adapt to the meta, play a lot of champions, which will require you to spend a large amount of time playing and experimenting. If in the past, you did not have a large pool of champions, it would be difficult for you to adapt to the new way of playing, you may have to receive defeats because you do not really understand the meta fighting styles.
III. Where to find out meta?
Knowledge is power, you have the advantage of knowledge, you will also increase your level, to learn about the League of Legends meta, there will be 2 ways for you to follow: You can go to specialized statistics pages about League of Legends. League of Legends to learn hot gameplay with high win rate. However, this is just a parameter, to really understand how to fight specifically in each match, look for replays of Gosu to learn how to go, buy items, set up soldiers.
Sites like op.gg will help with meta game research
Conclude:
The League of Legends meta is always in rotation, there is no way to be invincible forever, learning about the meta will help you gain more knowledge in your journey to climb the Challenger rank.
See also: League of Legends: The Machine skin line returns with the entry of Thresh, Rell, Twisted Fate
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