User blog comment:Nidhogg101/Musings on the Typical Mindset of League Players/@comment-1836772-20131022004247

The question is, who enforces the Meta, and why?

I encounter this problem just about every time I choose a champion who was in a major tournament in recent memory. A lot of players treat the tournament results as the gospel and blindly follow it. The latest issue was when I went jungle Jarvan. I built everything to make the Black Cleaver when the carry started yelling at me about building an attack item when I should be building tank (which I was planning to) on a "pure tank" class (when Jarvan is a tanky bruiser hybrid). They then said verbatim, "That's not what they do in lcs!" and "You're not supposed to build BC on J4!". The rest of the team did come to my defense, but it didn't shut him up or sway his position.