Worst Metas in League of Legends History...

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League of Legends' metas change constantly, and we've had some terrible metas throughout the game's lifespan. From spamming ardent censer on ADCs to unkillable tanks that one-shot enemy carries, League of Legends has seen its fair share of unfun and downright toxic metas that made the game unplayable. Not to mention the boring, stale Zeri/Lulu vs Lucian/Nami meta that plagued professional play for almost an entire season. Welcome to LoLAthlete, these are the WORST Metas in League of Legends History
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@JoeNathanWhite 6 ай бұрын

Laneswap meta was by far the worst meta of all time. There was 0 variation in pro play. 0. For an eternity.

@skojuzija 6 ай бұрын

I think it was kinda interesting bcs of strategy. Yes, it was 0-2 kills fot 25 minutes but it was interesting to see the strategies

@araragid3cimo77 6 ай бұрын

Lol nah blud ardent more cancer seeing lulu x9999999 games is boring asf

@Stereopp 6 ай бұрын

@@araragid3cimo77I dont understand if lulu is that op why not ban her

@ArcaneTricksterRS 5 ай бұрын

@@skojuzija There wasn't really any strategy though. It was mainly the same thing, top laner helps jungler clear early on, then they become weakside trying to soak up as much xp as possible. The game was super afk, nothing was happening and no real variation existed. Like, sometimes something tricky would happen, but that was very rare and you could basically skip the first 15 minutes of the game. The fact that you could have a talented bot lane or top lane and never ever contesting the 1v1 or 2v2 was just stupid.

@DEVILONBOTHSHOULDERS 5 ай бұрын

@@Stereoppthere were a ton of different enchanters that were viable janna, lulu, karma, etc.

@TheQuackleDKZ 6 ай бұрын

The Janna smite top was also made possible by the bounty system. Just worth mentioning.

@typerj.simpson6519 5 ай бұрын

Well it was taken down by the introduction of platings tbh

@shin9766 3 ай бұрын

@@typerj.simpson6519 wdym?

@TheGarouKami 5 ай бұрын

“Tanks are in a healthier state” *shows ksante* made me chuckle lmao

@tenderandmoist5011 3 ай бұрын

Ironically K'sante right now is miles healthier now than tanks in season 12, 8, 6 and 5 lol

@caylebeneteau4468 5 ай бұрын

I honestly think ekko should have been balanced as an ap bruser instead of assassin. Large area control and skill based stun on his w, a 3 hit passive that incentivizes slightly longer trades then most assassins, an ultimate that repositions, is aoe, and gives back hp, and a blunt force weapon rather than a more traditional assassination tool. He felt amazing to play as a tank, and while it was definitely unhealthy the way he was, I feel as if shifting him to an ap bruiser would have been more in line to the experience of playing him through most of his early life in the game.

@dominicguye8058 5 ай бұрын

Doesn't match his lore or power fantasy

@GenusMusic 5 ай бұрын

His 3 hit passive does the exact opposite of incentivizing a long fight. It gives huge movement speed boost so you can dip in then dip out and the cd on it means you will usually only get 1 cycle of passive on an enemy in any given fight, even and extended trade

@PedroHenrique-gr4zr 4 ай бұрын

you want another sylas? i think ekko its fun the way it is. They should make him viable on jungle again

@Sebastian-oz1lj 3 ай бұрын

his ult makes him perfect assasin you can dive and fck up everything then you press r and try again. makes no sense on tanks

@swooosh1051 6 ай бұрын

Great video. Things i also remebmber are: Stattik-Shiv-Meta (pretty recent) Banner of Command Meta Crazy to think how many metas were dominated by 1 overtuned Item

@whynachtsmann5796 5 ай бұрын

Stattik i think was actually pretty funny. But banner of command, holy moly that was the most boring thing to watch

@PedroHenrique-gr4zr 4 ай бұрын

@@whynachtsmann5796it wasnt funny at first. the ADC or midlaner would delete an entire wave with one auto attack. this would force both teams to only pick champions that built shiv, or else they'd just never get pressure.

@PoiColle 4 ай бұрын

Microwave tank meta.

@andrewmiles8812 6 ай бұрын

You forgot to mention about Conqueror meta, when in 10th season almost every assasin playing like a bruisers with Black Cleaver, Conqueror and Hydra. After several patches, Conqueror got nerfed, and some Fighters items

@saIazarsIytherin 6 ай бұрын

I always hated Talon Conqueror build otherwise Talon was a ward.

@zaster500 5 ай бұрын

that was more a low Elo problem , thats why u doesnt even need to mention it :D every season is a Meta where some assasins can go off tank

@linusworshiper 5 ай бұрын

@@saIazarsIytherin l still use it lol sundered sky is just way too strong

@andrewmiles8812 5 ай бұрын

@@zaster500 and what? It was a meta anyway. It was even on Challenger. And I don't call it like a problem or smth

@nichghost5727 5 ай бұрын

Like now, every jg with conquereror and tank build. Other builds are troll

@suntzu4607 6 ай бұрын

Juggernaut Meta where Darius can go 1v5 and stay healthy due to his Q that can fully heal him and Illaoi's unkillable. Obsolete ADC meta, where picking an adc means you're trolling. Feral Flare meta, where the faster your jungler gets stacks, the faster you win the game. On hit champs where kings back then such as Yi. Assassin meta where Fizz, Zed, Leblanc, and Katarina destroyed everyone back then.

@feedmepure1 5 ай бұрын

Juggernaut meta was the most fun lol has ever been because adc wasn't a requirement

@rukzo8226 11 күн бұрын

i think i know what you mean by obsolete adc meta. the only meta that made me quit playing league for a while. i main support off role adc and every game was swain heimer, anivia ziggs, xerath velkoz it was so incredibly boring

@309u20 6 ай бұрын

My honourable mentions would be banner of command + baron minion 6 shotting tower (the last hurrah before the item got removed) league of thunderlords decree stopwatch when it was first introduced funny af when 20 stop watch go off in a fight. Wrigglers lantern kleptomancy before they realised giving items on top every 20s is a bad idea lv 1 top bot lane swap into immediate first tower mid and top taking smite jungle cinderhulk

@DragozarYo 6 ай бұрын

Kassadin was a 99% ban rate in season 3

@BurGurr 6 ай бұрын

That's not meta

@a_lost_one 5 ай бұрын

Clearly, the S3 meta was banning Kass 😝@@BurGurr

@QuantumNetwork 5 ай бұрын

Zac had OVER a 100% ban rate too for quite some time

@snakeinabox7220 3 ай бұрын

@@QuantumNetwork leblanq had 120% ban rate in Korea last season. Ad lablanq top was a god dam menece

@nate9078 5 ай бұрын

i think yall are forgetting there was a brief time where akalis shroud used to work under tower...

@kevinprinz3204 5 ай бұрын

I think you are just experiencing a skill issue if you think that moment was that bad.

@nate9078 5 ай бұрын

@@kevinprinz3204 yea not like she was almost always first ban in pro play while it was active... and also completely dominated solo queue as well

@kevinprinz3204 5 ай бұрын

@@nate9078 You can ban a champ if you can't play against them. You can't ban a class of champions. I'd rather have one broken character that is still beatable than 17 champs that all buy the same items.

@PedroHenrique-gr4zr 4 ай бұрын

she also used to stun on her first R cast

@danielz-v4083 3 ай бұрын

@@kevinprinz3204mf really tried the “if u think that was op it’s a skill issue” when we had a literal top 5 champ in the game with ultra high mobility and damage+ heal doing instant tower shot cancellations and staying invisible . That’s just insane by u buddy

@KawaiiAzusa 6 ай бұрын

"no other role mattered than AD Carry". Why is this such a common misconception? Ardent meta was a SUPPORT meta. Supports were broken, not ADCs. In competetive pretty much 8-10 supports were banned every game, until people had to pick something like Taric with Ardent just to have it somehow. For some reason supports can be as broken as they want to be, and nobody blames them. Only because they don't kill you themselves?

@R3alSt3al 6 ай бұрын

For aupport it was get Ardent than spam shield on ADC. It wasn't impossible to reach that point quick, but ADC's still needed at least 2 or 3 items to deal real dmg next to it. So in the end it was a race who can get their whole bot lane ahead faster. Support can have is Ardent when the ADC only got 1 meanwhile the enemy Adc is close to finnishing his 2nd, it is pretty obivious who will win. The moment both got the Ardent it became a handshake beetween the 2 and ADC was the one who metter since they are only thereto buff them. ADC is and always was the strongest role when it comes to proplay and not soloq where the team just ignores them, meanwhile in pro if the team is able to protect them good they will deal tons of dmg what no oher role can compete with.

@ArcaneTricksterRS 5 ай бұрын

The meta was based around how powerful you can make your ADC to carry games and Ardent Censer with the appropriate enchanters were the way to go. The ADC was the one becoming broken from these items and being the problem, not the supports. If there were no marksmen on the team, nobody would ever care or this would never be a meta, therefore yes, no other role mattered other than ADC.

@inplane9970 5 ай бұрын

Because Supports are still reliant on the rest of the team to do anything. ADCs are the ones who are actually supposed to do the damage. A good ADC and bad Support still meant a 4.5v5, but a bad ADC and good Support felt like a 3v5. It's the reason why the Support role is encouraged to be diversified. No one wants their entire gameplay experience to be attached to an awful player.

@Mike-qo9hg 4 ай бұрын

The banner of command cannon minion meta was quite something too

@ContasYT 5 ай бұрын

everyone seems to forget about the thunderlords meta, my personal favourite

@andy-xz2uk 3 ай бұрын

zed thunderlord…

@Championalex7 5 ай бұрын

My least favorite meta is League's focus on skins and not having a permanent rotating RGM

@BoneWalker 5 ай бұрын

The correct answer.

@KRDsonic 4 ай бұрын

I'm surprised you didn't mention that in ardent censor meta, some adcs started building relic shield as their starting item to funnel more gold into the support so they could get ardent censor faster. Buying sight stone before ardent censor was also trolling.

@Himekocchi 3 ай бұрын

"Tank meta was at it's best around 2015-2017 with Grasp" Me who got two shot as a fed a Caitlyn by a "full tank" heartsteel Kench with one auto+Q yesterday:

@dolor2189 6 ай бұрын

Fasting Senna with Tahm Kench has gotta be up there

@AlQmist 6 ай бұрын

I loved the top laner jungle start meta and smite Ezreal with splash dmg on Q

@Bl00dnFl4mes 6 ай бұрын

Don't forget the Courage of the Colossus rune meta where tanks would get shields for CC'ing people so they were basically unkillable x_x

@flappletun 5 ай бұрын

I had an 80% win rate on Hecarim out of like 30 games this season because of courage. Season 7 I think?

@freshgarbage5594 5 ай бұрын

Devourer on yi was something else.

@Kligor2 5 ай бұрын

I still remember when tank Ekko top was a thing, being an AP mid ekko main I just said "This is blasphemous. Im staying AP" then they buffed AP ekko and nerfed tank. Feels DAMN good

@ibrahim5463 5 ай бұрын

Sunfire eve was so broken the entire stealth system got reworked and we got camouflag

@davidkrivanka 4 ай бұрын

Ksante in proplay is probably the biggest piece of crap I've ever seen. The champ is so broken it's ridiculous, oneshoting fed midlaners and adcs

@gerblore3771 5 ай бұрын

I still remember the bruiser botlane meta, adc's were so useless that they just pick randomchamps on bot

@flashfire1259 5 ай бұрын

Its so ironic even in season 14 you still see Lucian Nami. Azir Corki or Orriana. Like it's to boring because I feel there is just a lot more champions that are good but they don't get touched.

@gyrozeppeli00 5 ай бұрын

far as I'm concerned, lucian nami stopped being a problem long ago. It was the Zeri lulu bot lane that was the lane bully hyper scaling carry problem, and Lucian nami was the only answer to that due to their obnoxious level of early dominance that can help snowball the game well before Zeri goes online and insta win the game. Now Zeri got a few knee capped, lovely job knee capping her, Riot, maybe chop her arms off too so I won have to see that abomination ever again. Now you see Lucian nami rising back due to new items and once again, other adc being kind of shit, but they were never the problem, just a symptom. But isn't that the whole point of balancing, leaving many options open without ever being so oppressive that they are the only option?

@hcg69 5 ай бұрын

So devastated that people abused that gold funneling strat and ruined smite.... i miss taking challening smite/ignite shaco top and mid. That was very fun being able to steal camps and useful in duels and late game objectives. Cant even go smite on urf now without ruining your gold income

@M1stRtee 5 ай бұрын

the black cleaver thing worked because the %armor reduction could be stacked to up to 100% with enough black cleavers, turning any and all physical damage dealt into true damage

@jhonreymonddetablan6184 6 ай бұрын

Juggernaut meta?

@frvsted_ 5 ай бұрын

Runeglaive meta was hilarious as well, but everyones forgotten about that one

@unvisible4414 6 ай бұрын

i hate that riot just takes assasin meta than puts it into tank meta than into bruiser than into this into that its anoying

@xxlordtinchoxx9015 5 ай бұрын

Viktor top, when lethality was first introduced with the assassin rework in s7, courage of the colossus and the divine sunderer meta were awful aswell

@CerbearusBane 3 ай бұрын

Black cleaver meta existed because the armor shredding passive stacked (enemies have negative armor now LOL). Once the passive was made unique, it was instantly gone.

@aliwi3476 3 ай бұрын

How work Riot: 1.Create a problem 2.Wait 3.Fix the problem 4.Players happy now 5.Repeat

@N1rr7 5 ай бұрын

i dont understand why every adc meta is objectivly bad. Ardent meta was my most favourite worlds to watch and my second most favourite meta to play after 2016 adc season. Quinn top gKindred jngle, ezreal mid etc

@brjan5338 6 ай бұрын

The nostalgia hits hard

@bibabumsemannn951 5 ай бұрын

Thanks for the video, god I loved tank ekko toplane❤

@NecronPain 6 ай бұрын

Innervating Locket with Soraka or Udyr when game was launched. Just spamming abilities and healing endlessly

@Osteoporos1s 5 ай бұрын

I freaking loved tank Ekko man. Played it so much back in the day.

@WhoGuyThat 4 ай бұрын

I remember shyvana top with smite was a thing for a while and I hated it

@brayancatano136 6 ай бұрын

Can you do a video on Blakinola? that guy was huge back in the day with his patch note videos but then fell off the earth

@benpoke 6 ай бұрын

Not gonna lie roaming Janna/Karma top was some of the most fun I've had in LoL.

@johnenego2498 5 ай бұрын

i thought the infamous combo was zeri-yuumi not zeri-lulu 😅

@chungnguyen4341 5 ай бұрын

2:48 I miss Matt so much 😢😢

@DrJones0801 3 ай бұрын

Season 6 tank meta was insanity. I remember playing tank Yasuo against a Zed and it legitimately felt like cheating.

@KingOfTheRats 5 ай бұрын

I was in love with janna top

@GetOverHer3 5 ай бұрын

I remember when pro play top lane meta was literally two champions: Dr. Mundo and Shyvanna Two unkillable tanks that walked around doing massive consistent damage

@BoneWalker 5 ай бұрын

Funny, that looks a lot like two juggernauts.

@R3alSt3al 6 ай бұрын

Unsealed spellbook meta. When the buffed i5 a bit than it didn't matter which role you played you took it nd kept swapping summoners through out the whole game.

@KarumaQpang 5 ай бұрын

im missing 6 sunfire cape tanks and shaco here :(

@phihuynh5994 3 ай бұрын

Ngl, the Ekko tank builds is kinda fun back in the day😅

@pajama5364 3 ай бұрын

Goredrinker talon and goredrinker blue kayn still give me nightmares

@Andrew-cn7zy 4 ай бұрын

janna top should also be there with sona soraka top from s10 but i forgot why they were good it was before obj bounties so no one could abuse it

@sadface522 5 ай бұрын

Great vid, but black cleaver meta was s3 not s2

@bittahswami1462 6 ай бұрын

smite ezreal midlane and taric- mid/yi jungle pair were funny:)

@user-pz4ky5tg5l 6 ай бұрын

Did you really not talk about feral flare meta???

@UKnowWhoIAm. 5 ай бұрын

*I miss you twitch top with support item 😭😭😭😭*

@iSouleyx 5 ай бұрын

I was a top lane main around S6 and I loved just absolutely bullying people with tank top, going grasp and just perma building iceborn + sunfire/spirit visage. I think around this season the awful trio of ekko/maokai/poppy were heavily picked plus akali for awhile, it was hilarious being ekko/akali and having a billion mobility plus being completely unkillable.

@Bobby_Duncan 3 ай бұрын

I remember 5 thornmail rammus omg

@mirjana72mb 5 ай бұрын

The first tank meta was the worst because of cinderhulk with old Maokai kit cuz his ult had a % damage reduction that was a toggle and his passive proc'd on buildings and reduced its cd whenever anyone, enemy or ally, CASTS spells within range, which made him an unkillable monster lategame who could genuinely 1v5 under turret and get a pentakill AND kill the turret. WITHOUT RESETTING ITS TARGETING FOR LESS DAMAGE TAKEN.

@MrNightmarekill 2 ай бұрын

Where's the banner of command meta? 😆That was unreal

@realKautschuk 4 ай бұрын

2015 Juggernaut update was lit :D

@migaru7362 5 ай бұрын

Ezreal jungle spam gank strat was not included?

@Korasi 5 ай бұрын

ZZROT / Runeglaive Ezreal Meta was the best man damn.

@dirtymike3329 5 ай бұрын

Anyone remember guinsoos ragebade meta around s6? My voli top was super strong

@NINFANGG 6 ай бұрын

2015 cinderhulk + nidalee rework has to be one of the worst metas in league

@arturobelano6243 5 ай бұрын

Yeah cinder hulk reksai was the worst

@kxgr9522 5 ай бұрын

Tanks are in a healthier state? A champion 👤 with 4700 HP 💪 329 Armor 🤷‍♂ and 201 MR 💦 has Unstoppable🚫, a Shield🛡, and goes over walls 🧱, has Airborne 🌪, and cooldown is only 1 second too🕐 It costs 15 Mana🧙‍ The W CD is even refreshed when he transforms 💫 He has true damage 🗡 on his Passive. Then, when he stacks 📈 Armor and MR 🥋 he gets Ability Haste too ⏰ Ability Haste to his Q ⏰ and his spell casting speeds up 🚀 Then, he has an AD ratio 🗡 so he has W... W is like eee 😡 aaaaaaaaaaaa 😱😱 I don't think the tank meta has gone anywhere

@bondziotek5627 3 ай бұрын

tanks used to be walls that kill you slowly after tank meta started they became bears that you cant kill and they just maul you to death

@XxkitxX10 3 ай бұрын

Tank ekko was legit cancer. Can't get him low enough and in the event that you did. "Oh wow what's this button next to my e? Oh yeah!!!" *R* and then starts chaining ridiculous low cool down spells again.

@MM-sb1jn 5 ай бұрын

Runeglaive Ez should be in the list, it was corki mid but on crack and hit powerspike at 1 item that cost less than a standard laner item. He literally could 1shot any non-tank champ at 1 item

@SinfulSaint0102 2 ай бұрын

League of Thunderlord's wasn't mentioned? Back when games were decided based on which team had more TLD on it. (It was a *much more* disgusting version of Electrocute for those who weren't around.)

@Pololololo 5 ай бұрын

double supp bot (usually sona seraphine) is disgusting right now too

@assasin0848 5 ай бұрын

I don’t really see much variation on pro play at this time and we are at season 14 and what happens ? Aggressive items get nerfed and restricted to be bought with others for absolutely bullsh*t reasons making it that the season didn’t change at all. At the time of typing this tank items haven’t been nerfed enough while others have not been nerfed at all, defensive ap items have more ap than the offensive ones and plenty of ad items are restricted to be built with other ad items, which will lead to another toxic protect the (crying) adc type meta (opportunity for another tank meta with tanks everywhere) with borderline unwatchable games

@shin9766 3 ай бұрын

I clicked for the smite janna top but it wasn't even mentioned.

@LoLAthlete 3 ай бұрын

But it was? Whole section on roaming support top

@timon6096 5 ай бұрын

I loved offtank ekko 😂😭

@bastiangalaz4580 5 ай бұрын

Supps rarely have impact. Top supp smite is a work of art. Shitty metas: tank metas, assasin metas, juggernauts metas and double mages meta. They suck because get out of game roles like supp and adc and/or jg. They destroy how the game is supposed to be played

@BeastZzoBeast Ай бұрын

Do you guys remember the time when adc items were so nerfed playing traditional adc bot lane was considered troll pick?

@famip3679 6 ай бұрын

I miss the jugg meta

@apexpredator9021 5 ай бұрын

Remember Kassadin meta early seasons when he was perma banned literally every lobby

@N0TYALC 4 ай бұрын

Yeah and if your midlander picked anything other than Kassadin in normals (which were all blind pick back then), they’d get flames by the entire team lol

@xWiZ3 3 ай бұрын

Ardent Censor was for about 8~ months in 2017 -2018 so how tf was Zeri and Lucian a proponent of a meta that didn’t even exist anymore by 2023?

@momokillerfilda 4 ай бұрын

Tbf i love every cheesy strategies and tactics so i loved every of those metas

@gyrozeppeli00 5 ай бұрын

The arden cancer sent me to chemotherapy

@Aetherpeter 5 ай бұрын

You missed Juggernaut Meta

@herrmannnachnahme9456 3 ай бұрын

Bruh, League of Cleavers was long after attack speed was removed from bc

@liborsysel2234 5 ай бұрын

Feral Flare was disgusting in soloq Junglers farming 20 or more minutes and then it was over in 1 or 2 fights ...

@srenwetter4157 5 ай бұрын

"tanks are in a healthy spot" meanwhile we're in a top 3 worst tank meta were every game is Kaenic Rookern and Frozen Heart top laners. tanks are definitely not broken smile.

@jarvisdajose 5 ай бұрын

how bout 4 rod of ages 1 deathcap the ap was equal to a full normal build with the HP stats of roa was so OP. you can burst squishies without being a glass cannon

@laurakastrup 5 ай бұрын

I liked the ardents meta but I’m also a support player so I might be biased

@pwndatronic7212 5 ай бұрын

Man i miss ap Master Yi.

@KCKSkel 5 ай бұрын

Imho forgot zz'rot - banner meta as the most boring to play probably.

@luk4aaaa 5 ай бұрын

I absolutely hated mythic system and the gameplay it lead to

@viewtifulkiwi7108 5 ай бұрын

I miss the Mundo with like 2 Warmogs and 4 force of nature build. Thing was wacky, and the Black Cleaver meta was a fun time for me haha

@jonathanabgrall6075 5 ай бұрын

The tank meta from S5. Literally made me quit the game for years.

@sleepingblue2605 3 ай бұрын

What are you talking about look at all the wide range of builds you can do now, and the amount of headache that the team has to go through to Nerf and to bumps are in champions. It's obviously that mythic items existed for a very solid reason, but everybody hated them because it made everything cookie-cutter .. but you know, screw simplicity, and preventing really weird ass builds from showing up and then having to Nerf the items instead of the champion. Like crit la blanca...

@thaib2724 5 ай бұрын

tanks are op to this day with how much dmg they can put in teamfight (last game enemy tahm kench 45k enemy adc 30k)

@dexter4285 5 ай бұрын

Janna the queen of metas

@JustC303 4 ай бұрын

The dumbest meta to ever exist in League was the stupid af Zz'rot + Banner of Command meta where everyone just played this sh1t into ap comps and won solely from pushing minions who couldnt be killed by ap champs