User blog comment:Nidhogg101/A Treatise on an Extinct Facet of League/@comment-9937664-20140128123341

The meta doesn't say us normal players have to play something, it tells us what is strong.

Sure, the occasional Poppies can be really strong, or the occasional Urgots. Most of the time they are terribad though, since they don't know their champion well enough to pull it off

Simply put, the meta names the champs that finding success with is the easiest