Meta The current single gunner in League of Legends
If you follow the League of Legends tournaments in recent years, the audience can easily recognize the single gunner Meta is very popular with teams. The evidence is that a series of characters like Corki, Tristana, Lucian or even Zeri also appeared in the upper and middle lines. This also affects the single -ranked environment when LoL players also often use the gunner in single lines.
At LCK in the summer of 2024, Corki is the mid lane with the highest ban/choice with 87.2% and the opponent of this general is often another gunner like Tristana or Lucian.
This is so popular that Riot Games is also extremely uncomfortable with this meta and they are actively making changes to eliminate it. Even in Twitter posts (now X), LoLP developers at Riot Games have launched “continuous designs” in the 14.16 version to accomplish this goal. Instead of simply a gunner Nerf as usual, they also have a series of noticeable strengths for the generals of the gladiator and the magician to help them have a foothold in the single road positions.
A few hours ago, Riot Games released the editing list of version 14.16 with the determination to eliminate the single gunner
How will League of Legends change this meta
With the mid lane position, Azir, Orianna, Syndra or even Katarina are strongly buffed on the output damage. Meanwhile, with physical gladiators in the top lane, Riot has a noticeable power increase for black ax. Specifically, this equipment will no longer have time to wait for accumulation of armor. This helps the gladiators on the black ax will significantly increase the output damage in the upcoming version 14.16.
Members of the League of Legends generals – Riot Phreak revealed that the buff of the black ax will help the physical gladiators stronger and can counter the gunner in the upper line.
For gunner equipment, Riot will reduce the amount of blood plus as well as the blood suction index of the Doran sword. In addition, the damage index and the attack speed of the anonymous sword are also not small in this version. The above change will make the gunner generals (especially in the single road position) with a period of weaker lines when it is difficult to stay more and it is easy to be defeated. Moreover, the Nerf's index of the anonymous sword makes the gunner difficult to surpass the opponent in terms of damage when pushing the road in the middle of the match.
The anonymous sword after this editing will be weakened when used by the gunner, but it is stronger for the melee generals when the intrinsic damage is increased (only with melee generals).
Not stopping there, the two strong gunners generals in the single road positions Corki and Lucian were also heavy in Nerf in the upcoming version 14.16 (especially in the ability to travel). According to the sharing from Riot, cooldown and consumption energy of Pho Phosphorus (Corki) and damage from piercing lighting skills (Lucian) are all NERF. Combined with the above -mentioned NERF stages, these generals will be greatly weakened in version 14.16.
Lucian and Corki both are quite heavy in the upcoming version 14.16
In short, with a series of editing in both the system and the power of the general, Riot Games is showing the determination to remove the single Meta Gunner from League of Legends. Hopefully, these edits will work and help the meta of League of Legends tournaments become more diverse instead of the situation of single -gun gauze overwhelming as the present time.