User blog comment:Megames1/Against the Meta- Xerath, and More!!/@comment-5557556-20121021133510/@comment-5266525-20121022135603

I don't like it when people tell others that their way is distinctly or inherently 'better' than others despite the topic being of one of rather more subjective material.

I don't claim that the meta is some sort of codex that everyone must adhere to or fail and I don't approve when people claim the very concept of a meta is good because your chances of winning are highest with it. Likewise, I don't approve of it either when people criticize that same concept just because of how ubiquitous it is. A metagame itself isn't any more inherently bad or good than, say, a tier list - it's a construct made by the game itself. The fact that the meta in LoL at the moment happens to be one that isn't very pleasant to play in (still debatable, though not a point I disagree with) has nothing to do with it.

Ilicstefan, I'm not disregarding your own personal experiences. What is fallacious is extrapolating your experiences to LoL as a whole. So you've seen Ezreal and Annie jungle work a few times. Good for them. But it makes no sense to suddenly claim that the metagame is now null and void because you saw this work once. Professional teams who have likely been playing for longer than even you stick to the same-old same-old time and time again, so clearly there has to be some weight to it.