User blog comment:Lukeatlook/Never Go Full Meta/@comment-5557556-20140714094449/@comment-15244341-20140714162011

I'd say the same. Do note that some picks (like Urgot) are 100% of the time amazing counterpicks and then have some issues that you are pretty much forcing your team to work around.

For example, going with Urgot, you can't really go ADC on him since his range means he dies like a fly and going bruiser means you don't have a realiable tanky champion to initiate, so suddenly supp or jungle need to pick to accomodate to your lane counterpick.

And maybe the enemy team has Leona bot and Nautilus jungle, and bot wanted to pick Janna/Morganna to survive the kill lane and jungle wanted to play and aggresive jungler such as Lee, but they now need a tanky initiatior that can't take advantage of Nautilus' weak early game.

So pick, but don't just pick for the sake of it. Potentially doing well in lane is not the same as making a good pick. You shouldn't just pick the popular stuff for the sake of doing it either (top Kennen player here), but you should talk to your team about what you are picking and asking if someone minds playing X champ to help your teamcomp (such as asking for a Jarvan jungle into your Urgot pick, so that you have a tanky initiatior). Also, in my experience, calmly explaining why you picked what you picked is normally enough to get people to accept the pick and move on.