User blog comment:Fistful of Force/Why ELO and Meta is god at low to mid elo/@comment-66.177.144.177-20120602205151

The meta is important at 2k elo too, and you can easily lose the game by breaking the meta at that elo. The thing is, you can also do very well breaking the meta in CERTAIN CIRCUMSTANCES - the meta is the best possible team composition OVERALL, however, in specific situations it's not the best, and that's where breaking the meta comes into play. This being said, you should never break the meta at low elo as chances are you/your team can't properly identify the situations in which it would be better than the meta, and also, your team may be unable to adapt even if it is one of those situations. Non-meta strategies are best utilised by one of the professional teams, even at 2k+ elo it's not the greatest idea to do it in solo queue.