User blog comment:Bgscurtis/Unorthodox playstyle - countering the current meta game/@comment-5194571-20120720204019

Hm. Interesting. As a fellow new player (started in febuary, elo is 1184 at this current time), I know where this temptation to counter the meta comes from. I rather like your proposal, you reasoned yourself and even provided suggested champs which I like to see. There are a couple problems I noticed, however.

1) With your 3 at mid lane, though the carry won't be behind in gold (theoretically), they and their 2 supports will be behind in exp as it is shared between them, meaning the carry will be a level or two behind. Ever noticed how people in a duo lane are a lower level than in a solo lane, provided they both did equally well? That's what I'm getting at.

2) What about the jungle? The enemy jungler could easily steal your buffs, and with them, exp and gold. That could potentially hurt you more than help you. If the supports both dish out on more wards than usual, they'll be behind in gold, despite the gold/10 items they are likely to buy.

3) What about late-game? Though I've seen 2 supports work before (I did Janna + Sona with a friend, carried our team), but as they will be both in the same lane, their falling behind as mentioned earlier could make them at least half-useless. With 2 high durability champions at top and bot lane, the bulk of your damage will come from your carry, unless you take a particularly high damage champ for top. Either that, or someone with some form of utility would be nice. Examples I can think of for top in this scenario would be Blitz, Heimerdinger (though not tanky, his late-game could make up for it and he can zone his enemy pretty well), Trundle and possibly even AP Amumu. Tank Amumu should work too.

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