User blog comment:Alterrea/Adapting the meta/@comment-5686533-20130723101520/@comment-13352843-20130725132058

Not to beat a dead horse or go off-topic, but I thought that there is no such thing as one meta being better then the other...

That came out wrong. An example:

It doesn't matter if the champion wants more exp if he's gonna get shut down hard in lane. This is kinda one of the points of 2vs1 top in pro matches.

Another example: I've heard that the first meta was 5 adc since they have the best scaling of damage. But imaging such a team compilation in a serious match? They'd be annihilated. So noone plays that way anymore.

The point is that meta is a naturally evolving and shifting thing. If something is not working then it is simply not used.

Case in point: there are a lot of players in LoL that came from DotA and some of those players were pros there and you can bet your buttocks that first thing they tried were tricks that worked in the environment they knew well and was similar to this new environment.

So if that meta was better? Everyone would have been using it.