User blog comment:Poisonshark/PS's "Mysteries of Laning Conventions"/@comment-6061249-20140809003333

To all meta breakers and similiar.

Without meta you'd be pretty much wondering what your team is up to and there definitely would be no chance to discuss tactics in soloQ. There already is a problem about picks in soloQ and the time given while banning and picking is just not enough, so now imagine you'd additionally have to discuss what your teammates want to do, how to help them, how can you fit into the team (or how they can). If you're going into team queue, then well why not, if you like to spend some time talking with your friends, you can try playing in any way. When you are playing with random people, there is no way to listen to them all and put it together to make any sense. And that's the purpose of meta. Telling you and your teammates what to do so you can cooperate. Of course it enforces several things and cripples freedom, but well, there is no perfect way to do anything.

And sure you can have those picks there and there as long as they are reasonable! All the way up from bronze to platinum i've been able to pick non-meta picks and barely anyone tried to enforce me to go 100% meta. Yeah, some people will blame the lose on you, but ask yourself - do you really care about some rager that can't deal with lost match?

I can see you aren't certainly trying to break meta, but as i said - you are completely free to pick anything if you are sure this is going to work.