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1 from 400 players seems to comprehend what the word Meta means. So, the percentage is less than 1%, ca 0.25%. From youtubers it is also a pretty low percentage, ca 25%.
The community likes to decorate their incompetent Ego by using fancy words, trying to be scientific, or just popular. So the word Meta slips in quite often, but it is always clear people don't comprehend it's meaning so all they say becimes rubbish.
They may phrase: Meta is not always nice to you. By that they actually mean the battle is not victorious or other faulty things. In reality the whole messageis wring, because Meta has nothing to do with what they say. Spectacular is when a radar cruiser says that Meta is bad, while he escapes to the easycap and enemies don't have radars at all. In that case actualky the Meta appeared for that radar cruiser, the most efficent winning ship, just swim to the difficult cap and do a radarkilling and win.
The 4-letters Meta term means Most Efficent winning methods. A numbered list of most efficent ways to win. Top 1 in Meta listing has always been Radarkilling. That's why Rankeds and Can Battles contain mostly radar cruisers, those occure the most, Radarkilling is the most efficent method to kill a DD and hence to win. It is not cruiser torps that hit enemies so often than cruiser radars do killings. Metaor most efficent methods/tactics is to Radarkill, is to use radar cruisers. This is the main Meta, the Top 1 Meta. No matter if you succeed in a battle or fail, if you like a ship or not, if MM is so or not so, no matter if it rains or not, the Meta is Radarkilling/RadarCruisers. No matter if you sometimes kill alone all enemy radar cruisers and win, the Meta is still radarkilling and it succeeds always at the end of the day as the best way, as the most often way.
How to find out which is the Meta? By looking your recent few battles and concluding what gave the victory. You will see that in your previous 10 battles radarkilling a DD occured in 8 battles and was the main factor for winning, while non radared cruisers torpedos and guns did kill a DD only at 2 battles from 10. Just imagine a Zao and Stalin, one does 2 DD kills and the other 8, from 10 battles. It is just impossible for a Zao to kill a DD so easily, he won't even spot the DD, while a radar cruiser does it in almost all battles, just pressing the radar button when spotted or capping and then killing the spotted DD and proceding to win.
So, the Meta in short is radarkilling. And secondly, or by Top 2 efficency, there are other little bit less efficent winning methods, and Top efficent methods, etc. Beside radarkilling you win efficently a Rankedz/Clan battle by a DD that kills another DD. Mainly hydro DDs with short smoke do it, just any DD that is good for DD duels, for example Lushun, Hoffman, Z42, Smaland. All such DDs kill very easily most DDs in the game. And such DD killing hapoens often but less often than Radarkilling, hence it is the Top 2 Meta, Top 2 most efficent winning method. Imagine the MM have a z42 against a Gearing. If Gearing spots Z42 and uses guns then Z42 sets smoke and kills him, if Gearing doesn't use guns and starts to run away then Z continues to shoot him and kills or caps.
Top 3 most occuring most victorious method is debatable, but generally it is BB secondary guns made kills/damage. Like Libertads. If you look 10 general battles with Libertad and Vermont you see Libertad did more benefit and specially more cruicial early benefit like helping to kill 1st radared DD, like in 6 battles from 10 while Vermont did such benefit from 2 battles from 10, hence Libertad and secondary guns feature are more efficent. You could place to Top 3 also torpedo DDs made damage to enemy ships and specialky to BBs. Also somewhere Top 3-4 you can place efficent input caused by crawling smoke from italian ships, specially BB Colombos crawling smoke with efficent guns lead to efficent results.
So, the Meta means a clear numbered list of most efficent methods, you can shorten to 3 methods or even say that Meta=Radarkilling. Or, Meta is Radarkilling and DD hunting.
High or lucky Playerskills can lead to sucess even with most inefficent ships and methods, but that does not erase the most efficent winning methods listing, emphasize the word Most. In most times you see inefficent ship choices and inefficent tactics to fail. Hence Meta concept doesn't change. If you play well Zao it does not redefine the Meta Top 3 listing, the Zao ship will not start to be part of Meta, will not start to be popular and efficent in Clan Battles and Rankedz battles.
Let's look some phrases:
1. Stalin says: Meta doesn't favour me today. That sentence is totally delusional because Stalin is the Meta. No matter how Stalin succeded in a battle, it is the Meta, the most efficent tool.
You can talk about Meta as trends generally, but you must see the trends clearly not delusionally. If you see that caps give only 20% of times a victory in Rankedz then the Meta is actually not capoing but something else. The trend or most occuring picture in Rankedz is that the 1st DD who dies determines who wins. So, you can say that the Meta is to make 1st DD kill first, before enemies make it. It is not who gets a cap first, in Rankedz at least.
High playerskills are rare so you can't say that Unicum players are most occuring winning method/reason, no they are not, they just din't occure iften enough cimpared to radarkillings.
Having full of flags doesn't impact as much as just flagless radarkilling. Hence the flags are not Meta, not most top things to win.
Swimming in radar MMs straight blindly into the main cap is not Meta because it does not lead to victory most times, but instead to a loss most times.
Each map has typical few efficent locations and routes, you can call those as Meta in a way but not realky, if you swim with an inefficent ship like Zao to the best such locations you still lose if enemies use radarkilling method or other Top 3 Meta methods.
To imagine what is Meta just look non delusionalky last 10 battles in Clanz or Rankedz. You see mostly radar cruisers controlling main caps and doing DD kills. You don't see Zao almost ever, and when you see their torping feature doesn't even produce any benefits.
The Meta does not force anyone to use any specific things, but it is like a common sense, a general wisdom. It is like you don't go to a marathon running contest if you drank alcohol yesterday, or if you have slightly broken shoes. Of course a rare high skilled athlete would still go and perform quite well still, butmost wouldn't and even he would perform better in a proper setup with fine shoes.
When you talk about Meta you imagine a typical player, not yourself. Any typical radar cruiser player brings a victory more often against non radar cruiser players.
At a higher leagues or higher skilled MM there are all contestants at the same high skill level, and what the victory comes only to those who have more efficent ships. Imagine a higher league Clan Battle where ine team has a Zao cruiser and the opponent a Svea cruiser, just Zao team loses such battle instantly because Svea instakills enemy DD. Because Zao is not a Meta, and radarkilling is the main Meta, most efficent method. You don't see any Zao ships in Clan Battles at all, even that proves what is Meta and what not.
Many things can be more or less efficent, but Most efficent are only few Top 3 things and they are called the Meta, the Most Efficent Tactics Available .
I personally like soft torpedo DDs, like Shima, they are not the Meta, torpedo damage don't lead to victories as often as other methods. I am totalky aware of that inefficent ship preference. The reason i keep ignoring the Meta and hence not having concious victory goal is that i prefer rare enjoyable success events, like in 1 battle from 4 battles i make a victory by a spectacular devasting torps shooting. It is like your goal is not to complete the Gold league as quickly as possible, but to enjoy the gurmet torpings all evening long.
I don't use the Meta word but the community does and wrong way.
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