User blog comment:Bgscurtis/Unorthodox playstyle - countering the current meta game/@comment-4834593-20120721083939

I must say I think this is not a good idea for several reasons.

First is, you don't have any chance of killing the AD carry or support from the enemy that is bot lane. This carry will have totally free farm, and your bot laner might get killed in a gank from the Tri bush if you are blue, or just from the river if you are purple (though that's harder than the Tri bush).

Second, you will not gain any gold and experience from the jungle, which will put you behind in level. This is the reason why people started jungling; why waste that gold and experience?

Third, your carry (you mentioned Brand possible, I'd say this is a bad idea anyways, because you'll need an AD carry to win the game, AP carries can't kill the full enemy team, or, at least, most can't) will be behind in level on all enemies. Except the mid laner if he's too stupid to just tower hug. This means that you'll have a hard time doing anything. A bit with AD, who rely mostly on farm, and really much if it's indeed an AP carry, because, for them, levels are also really important.

However, I do agree that it would be nice if you can shut down mid lane. There are several champions (mostly top laners like Malphite, Jax, a good Olaf, Yorick) that would be able to handle a 1v2 lane. If you want to shut down mid, it is maybe a good idea to put your mid laner top (a nice amount of tops are already countered by champions like Ryze, Vladimir, Kennen, Mordekaiser, etc), your top laner bot, and your bot laners (carry+support) mid. The support is then mainly meant to harras the enemy mid, so that he can't safely combo at the carry (or support, for that matter). The best supports would be, for example, Blitzcrank and Soraka, maybe also Sona. Blitzcrank is just a certain death if there is no minion between you and him, plus he got nice cc with that knockup, Soraka has nice harras with E and her basic attacks, a double heal, and, last but not least, a mana heal that gives carries like Varus, Ezreal or Urgot the mana to help zoning.