Enzee
Trakanon Raider
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There is no 'meta' before lvl 30.. There isn't really a 'meta' at lvl 30 in most games. People confuse the term 'meta' with 'status quo'. Meta means the game before the game, i.e. guessing what strategy your opponent will implement, and picking one that counters that. Pros will start playing champs because they are good against the champs most other pro teams generally play.. and then a month later, the average person realizes that champ is actually good IF you are good with them and they become a new OP flavor of the month champ in solo queues, despite no buffs to that champ in that time period from when people thought they sucked. The most recent example, that hasn't actually completely caught on in solo queue, is maybe the Jarvan/taric combo, more specifically Jarvan jungle. Last few weeks, if you pick a jarvan for jungle, people would sometimes bitch and moan that he isn't that good. Then, the last week or two, pro teams are playing him left and right and he's just starting to become a popular pick again. The lower your ELO, the bigger delay from pros playing him to it becoming 'acceptable' to play.
I remember two weeks ago, playing kat top lane, rushing a warmogs ala Voyboy and having someone bitch at me for being a noob when they saw me buy giants belt as first big item.. before I preceded to go 2-0 in my lane and then carry half of our teamfights afterwards and having them apologize by the end of the game. But, once you think about it, the longer kat lives in a team fight, the more damage she does due to resets. Her base damages are good, but her AP scaling isn't great, so MR pen and survival stats end up being her best DPS build overall for team fights. Especially if you have anyone else on the team that can burst someone low enough to get you rolling on resets.
Pros tend to think about the game more then we do, so copying them isn't a bad place to start.. but applying your own logic and thought process never hurts. Like, I often copy most of a pros runes/masteries for a champ if I'm learning them, but if it was a champ I knew well (such as ryze) I made little changes myself based on what I normally face or what are my tougher matchups. Running flat health AND flat MR runes to combat my counter picks (like cass), and going 3/3 in the spellvamp/lifesteal mastery when I normally just put 1 point in.. basically, things to just let me get out of laning with decent farm against champs I'd normally have problems with.
I remember two weeks ago, playing kat top lane, rushing a warmogs ala Voyboy and having someone bitch at me for being a noob when they saw me buy giants belt as first big item.. before I preceded to go 2-0 in my lane and then carry half of our teamfights afterwards and having them apologize by the end of the game. But, once you think about it, the longer kat lives in a team fight, the more damage she does due to resets. Her base damages are good, but her AP scaling isn't great, so MR pen and survival stats end up being her best DPS build overall for team fights. Especially if you have anyone else on the team that can burst someone low enough to get you rolling on resets.
Pros tend to think about the game more then we do, so copying them isn't a bad place to start.. but applying your own logic and thought process never hurts. Like, I often copy most of a pros runes/masteries for a champ if I'm learning them, but if it was a champ I knew well (such as ryze) I made little changes myself based on what I normally face or what are my tougher matchups. Running flat health AND flat MR runes to combat my counter picks (like cass), and going 3/3 in the spellvamp/lifesteal mastery when I normally just put 1 point in.. basically, things to just let me get out of laning with decent farm against champs I'd normally have problems with.
