Talk:Elo rating system/@comment-4742522-20120207175126/@comment-98.224.136.196-20120211055703

Of course innovation happens and causes changes over time. It's the natural course for these things. However that doesn't really happen at a low level of unrefined play.

I'm not saying blindly follow meta, I'm saying learn it and understand it more thoroughly and then learn to play at least a variety of the roles within it with some degree of competency. That's not blind at all. Quite the contrary, it's at that very level of understanding that innovation and meta shifts occur.

Blindly ignoring it on principle of not wanting to be a "metasheep" is a pure scrub mentality though. That's not playing to win. They may want to win and probably enjoy winning, but they're not really trying to win at the deepest levels.

It's fine if they want to play that way, whatever, just don't get all whiney about it.