I'm kind of "getting back" into LoR now that the expansion is about to arrive. "getting back" in the sense that I've been playing regularly but only Labs haha. I barely play normal vs player right now. So I'm kind of not up to date about the meta and the like.
I have been watching the more recent videos from swim (about the new cards); any other resource anyone would recommend?
Do you want videos on the new cards or the current meta?
We are going through the Season tournament playoffs this coming weekend which is like the cap off to the Targon expansion. You can watch bits of that to get a feel of the meta.
Generally speaking though tournament meta is a bit different from Ladder meta so you probably want to have some specificity. For Ladder meta, just go on Mobalytics.gg for the stats on Ladder with Swim's tier list if he remembers to update. For tournament tier lists, Tournament Tactician is a good one to follow as it's more tailored for tournament line ups.
For upcoming cards, yeah just watch the Swim stuff since his is up regularly. Others include Grapplr, Silverfuse, Alanzq, BBG and Mogwai.
My take on the meta:
Twisted Fate plus Aphelios is the best deck in the game with Twisted Fate + Fizz being about as good. After that it's a few aggro decks and Lee Sin + Zoe.
However since you can't repeat champions, most people are not bringing TF + Aph to tournaments because it looks the two best champions. So they are going TF + Fizz, Aphelios + Diana or Tammy Kench and Lee Sin + Zoe as the top 3 line up. The counter meta decks are using triple aggro line up which include Pirate Burn, Noxus Freljord Overwhelm, Discard Aggro and Endure Fearsome Aggro (some combination of these 4). Decks like Fiora Shen, Anivia (or random Shadow Isles + Freljord), Scouts (with Stony Suppressor tech) and Twisted Fate Go Hard are in the mix too usually if someone doesn't want to run one of the 3 main decks mentioned.