Challenging the Meta

[quote=KoreanSP]No idea if these have been stated, I'll list the viable and tested ones (although some of them were only viable in DotA and other MobAs, but I assume their viability still stays true) Double ADC, 1 Mid, 1 Bot. AP Top, Bruiser Jungle. Tri-Lane mid (Azingy-lane), take out tower fast Korean Meta - ADC/Support bot and Top laner at bot - aim for towers fast. Dual Jungle (much less viable in LoL than any other game to be honest), 1 focuses on counter jungling hard, the other on a semi-regular jungle trip. Antimage-mid (Pantheon, Wukong, Talon, Jarvan, etc at mid to counter mid's AP). The much less viable/only viable in other MobA games AP carry/support bot, ADC mid. Dual smite W/ No Jungler (Complex one, done a few times, I've seen a variant of it done twice in a high level DotA game), essentially duo bot and duo top, 1 person each either getting smite/heavy focus on jungle clear and clear their halves of the jungle every 2~ + waves. It creates an equilibrium of ~1.5X exp for both champs, more than jungle but less than the a single lane. Duo Lanes/Smite Mid (Azingy Lane) I've seen Azingy go this route with his Karthus-smite at mid and other lanes push towers hard and deny farm/experience (ideally want pushers and lane winners). It was to counter their jungler (Twitch and Fiddle, both really squishy and do much less in a 2v2 situation, rather a 2v1 situation). Duo Mid solo bot, solo top, jungle. Focus on tower, similar to Korean Meta, although much less done because any competent enemy will wreck bot lane. ADC Top, Bruiser/support bot, AP mid, jungle. Essentially farm top and beat their bruiser (situation based) while bot is a kill lane/tower push. There are more, but these are all that I can recall. A large portion of these aren't viable in LoL/once were. Some are just rarely used, others were popular in other games. I personally love anti-mage mid and the Korean Meta. A lot of these also came from EU/Korean gamers, and I can vouch for the ones I picked in Viable's effectiveness to a large extent - when I play with my team, we try to go against the standard, dull current 'meta game'. In my opinion, the current meta isn't broken, but it can be countered based off situational champions and that is how it should be - more than one viable option for lane set ups.[/quote]

[quote=Pølsemanden][quote=Temzilla] [quote=MrCuddowls] Ive been thinking about the game and decided to add something of my own to all of this meta talk Here is the comp I thought of: AP Carry Top (with armor seals) Explanation: The mentality behind this is that most of the time Bruisers will not have Runes or masteries setup to counter AP damage. This means that the AP Carry will have a much easier time doing damage to the bruiser. Now this does force the AP Carries to take armor Seals which will force them to be very conservative with mana or they could just rush Athene's. AD Mid (With Flat magic resist seals and glyphs) Explanation: Most of the time mid will not be anticipating Physical damage Sending someone like Kayle mid will completely surprise the mid lane as Kayle has A LOT of sustained damage that the AP doesn't have any defense against because they didn't go with any armor. Tank + Support Bot (both taking armor seals and defensive masteries) I think this makes a lot of sense. Usually it is very very hard removing health from a tank but very very very easy to regenerate health. Having a Tank bot will not only counter the physical damage but it will be made even more effective because it is really easy to regenerate the tank's health. The off tank or bruiser will Jungle [/quote] I take flat armor seals mid as a mage, how mad are you? You want a good lane set up? AP carries beat AD carries, AD carries beat bruisers, and Bruisers beat AP carries. Send a bruiser mid, send an AP bottom with support, and send a AD carry top. ^^^ GG new meta op ^^^ [/quote] This actually works REALLY well against most setups. We tried it. I went cassio bot with a soraka, their Bot lane had NO chance and i got double kills repeatedly since cassiopeia is just so strong from level 3 and on. LvL 6 you can completely zone their AD. My cs sucked though since i'm used to having AD-quints on the bot-lane. Our irelia mid simply stomped their galio sooooo hard. Our vayne top was shitting on the enemy olaf top.[/quote]