The middle line in League is overwhelming?
If you follow professional League of Legends tournaments, the audience can easily recognize the overwhelming of the gunner generals in the middle. After the generals like Corki, Tristana were Nerf, it was Lucian's turn or sometimes Zeri and Draven appeared in single road positions. This accidentally overshadows the role of traditional magician generals.
The fact that the two gunners confront each other in the mid lane is no longer strange for professional League of Legends tournaments
The above Meta made the mid -lane players forced to have the necessary adaptation to help the home team win. However, in the case of Showmaker, this player is not happy at all with the current meta of League of Legends. Even in his recent stream, Showmaker criticized Riot extremely heavy and comparison of the current meta of League of Legends is like “landfill”.
Showmaker proved extremely dissatisfied with the current mid -lane meta of League of Legends.
“The nature of League of Legends is the magician, you should go in the mid lane. Many strong generals have helped the shining position, such as Syndra and Orianna. They represent the typical and foundation of League of Legends. It is different from Meta with too many gunners in the middle of the current way. This version is like a” landfill “and I don't want to play at all”
Showmaker recently had a straight “Trashtalk” face of Riot Games: “The nature of League of Legends is a magician, you should go in the mid lane. Many strong generals have helped the shining position, such as Syndra and Orianna. They represent the characteristics and foundations of League of Legends. It is different from Meta with too many ADCs in the middle of the current version. clown wants to play at all “
One of the main reasons for the strong rise of the gunner in the single line is that Riot has buff too much for this character layer. Especially in version 14.10 when a series of gunners are enhanced to enormous. This has pushed the strength of this general class too high and creates conditions for teams to use the gunner to overwhelm the mid -lane magicians. Perhaps for this reason, Showmaker will compare Meta League of Legends as the “landfill” as above.
The fact that Riot buffs with the gunner in the 14th version pushed the power of this character class too high
With other players like ChoVy, Faker … they quickly found a way to adapt to this meta. However, Showmaker went against the trend of the tournament when it was still loyal to traditional magicians. Right at the summer of 2024, the 3 general chosen by Showmaker are Taliyah, Leblanc and Azir. Although Tristana is very strong, this guy has just used 3 times in this tournament.
Showmaker at LCK Summer 2024 still prioritize the magician generals instead of using many Meta gunners
The somewhat contrary choice for this meta has made DK face a lot of difficulties in confrontation with strong teams. Typically, DK has lost in all 3 great wars before T1, HLE and GEN.G. This is clearly reflected from the ban/choice when the opponent of DK does not need to remove strong gunner in the middle line and can freely target another position.
When Gen.G confronted DK, they ignored the ban of the gunner because they knew that Showmaker did not prioritize this character class
To be fair, giving the gunner too strong in the current meta is a part of the error from Riot. What they need to do is edit the gunner equipment to reduce the power of this character class. However, it takes time and showmaker should find ways to adapt to Meta while waiting for the change from Riot. If not, DK will still have to pay expensive in the upcoming battles.