User blog comment:BIA-Kaboose/The Sheep are Everywhere/@comment-4442345-20130917223119/@comment-8267817-20130918031739

League of  Nerf EVERYTHING........ I see your point but also think, the meta only changes when someone finds a more efficient way to do something than what is already being done, if everyone followed the meta then the game would never change, AP Yi became a veritable epidemic and why? because one pro player did it on a stream and it destroyed people, and then all the people watching that stream wanted to go try it for themselves, playing something that does not fit the meta can cause 3 major things to happen; 1. Change in meta, congrats you found something better and after seeing you do it, other people started doing it too to test it for themselves, suddenly your way of playing a character is now very popular. 2. It works out decently well but not really anny better than a "normal" way to play a champion. or 3. You find out quickly that your idea was a terrible plan, you never admit that you did it, and you pretend like it never happened.

So the difference between the three is fairly obvious, either it works well, it is OK, or it sucks. After 10-15 games you should be able to have a decent grasp on how effective it can be in situations, as well as how woefully incompetent it can be in others. Pros do the same thing, but for some reason when they do it, they don't get reported for trolling, probably because, I dunno, they are kind of famous in the community.