Overall meta and mid meta?

Returning player here playing mid and trying to verify some things. Last time I seriously played Universal was all the rage and I loved to spam Techies, Marci, and WR in any position now I'm playing Brood and Tiny. So far as I understand it's a brawl centric meta where the primary struggle is between burst and blatant survivability powercreep? Noticed best results Mid playing what would've been an "offlane hero pool" in the past.