User blog comment:BIA-Kaboose/The Sheep are Everywhere/@comment-1120494-20130918161325/@comment-1120494-20130919160004

"And that's what the meta is: what's good."

Thats wrong. Meta is the current mindset of players. If it changes, the "good things" arent good anymore. You can see good examples of it in the current World Tournament. Koreans are very successful with towerdives, because in Korea, nobody is expecting it. But vs NA or EU teams, this didnt worked out that good, because players in EU and NA towerdive more often and therefor expect it way better.

So "towerdive-meta" maybe is good in Korea, but as not good in EU and NA.

"The meta doesn't change untill some actual changes are made, like buffing or nerfing a champ"

Thats not entirely true. Buffs and Nerfs also change the mindset of the players and therefor meta changed too. Just think about all the buffs and nerfs which only changed numbers by 0,01%. I know champions, which dealt 950 damage after a nerf down from 960 damage, but everyone suddenly stopped playing because of the huge big "nerfhammer". The mindset of the players changed way more than the change to the champion.

"just because some pro can play an odd pick doesn't mean we all can. After all, we're not professionals."

You dont need to earn money to be good with something different. You saw many good examples over the last year. One is Amumu. If I picked or banned Amumu 7 months ago, I got flamed hard. Then some "professionals" came also up with the idea, did some good matches in the LCS and everyone started to play Amumu. Next few months, he was picked and banned in every match and his win and pick rate in Bronze even raised higher. Even Bronze players were able to play him good and abuse his abilities. You dont need to be Diamond. All you need is the will to try something different and sometimes you do really good with that.

tl:dr

Stop being a sheep. Stop following laws which arent true at all. Just because "most people say so" doesnt make it true.