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off meta

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Gamer term used in Brazilian Portuguese (also "fora do meta"): a pick, build or strategy outside the currently dominant approach (the "meta"), typically a less popular option used to surprise opponents. It is not a judgement on strength: off-meta choices can be inventive or simply weak.

REAL-WORLD EXAMPLE

""Ele subiu de rank com um build off meta que ninguém esperava.""

LORE & ORIGIN

From the English "off-meta", the opposite of "meta" (short for metagame, the currently dominant strategy). Wikipedia's Metagame article describes playing a relatively unknown strategy to catch opponents off guard as often called off-meta, and flags that sentence as needing a better source. No date is documented by that page.

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2010s-2020s (competitive and ranked games)
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Related To:Metametagame

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