User blog comment:Nidhogg101/A Treatise on an Extinct Facet of League/@comment-1601181-20140126055626

I believe that has long you are in a premade team that is aware of the startegy you are trying to employ, you can take anything. If On-hit jungle Tank leblanc is something that gives you fun/and or you find strategic value on it go ahead and do it.

But if you are doing a solo queue i think that you should't. I folow the meta(on solo/duo-queue) not because its the most eficient way of playing the game, but because it gives me a base structure to work on.

Let me put it this way: You get in champion selection and you have 1 minute to create a fully functioning team. I would need atleat 10 minutes to explain and my team which champions should my team pick/ban, wich role should each player take and why, and above it all why should they folow my idea instead of one that is already proven to work with a high chance of working again.

Regarding items: there are items that you are always gonna buy on certain champions (the so called core items) and those are expected of you to be bought because they are really good, like buying Randuins Omen on just about any fighter, over its more situational partner Frozen Heart (wich is a really good item on ceratin situations).

Then there are items that are superior to others, and you should buy those. But you should find out wich items are superior by yourself, not trought a website or a guide, make calculations, statistics, figure out how, why and when to build that item by yourself, but don't just buy unusal items for the sake of them being unusual.

In short: do what you want to do has long has you don't put your team mates in a situatiation they are not expecting.