User blog comment:N1ghtSt0rm 22/Just Some Questions An Experienced Noob Has.../@comment-3466579-20140813123330

1) As others said, it's a matter of how a certain champion's stats, skills and playstyle performs against another one. Galio will naturally build Magic Resistance because of his passive, this means he will generally have an easier time against mages than AD based champions. An ADC with a long range like Caitlyn may have and advantage over Vayne. Do consider that a champion may counter another one in a specific game phase (early, mid, late) or under other circumstances. Moreover, individual player's skill is more often than not enough to nullify counters and bad matchups on paper.

2) Metagame is the most efficient state of the game in a certain period. It is composed by the strongest champions, the most efficient runes, masteries and item builds. It changes periodically following patches (nerfs and buffs) or smart and new ideas that put a champion in a new role or give him/her a new build. Following the meta will affect how well you can perform the higher your skill level is. A good player can just pick jungle Poppy and wreck his opponents in a Bronze or Silver game; this will be much more difficult to achieve in a Platinum or Diamond level of play. If you're not at these levels, you can somehow forget about the metagame and focus on getting better with the champion you like the most or you play the best.

3) Flaming may be excessive or without a real motivation. However, consider the fact that League of Legends is a team based game. Wasting 20 or 30 minutes of my free time, after i come back from work, because someone plays really, really bad or trolls on purpose, thus making my team and myself lose without much i can do about it's frustrating. I do flame a lot when this happens because i think that playing at the best of one's skill is a matter of respect, even in normal games. If you don't want to get flamed, just play to win each and every game you start, respecting your team mates' will to win. As for the opponents, there's no need to flame, just ignore them.

4) League of Legends is a team based game as i already stated. You can be a Bronze level player and have 2 Gold level player in your team and voilà, you won a game. Or you can simply have luck, just one of my friends. He won 8 out of 10 qualifying games and got placed Gold 3. He than played some other games and got demoted to Gold 4. I can assure you he's not even a Gold 5 player, however he got luck and managed to rank "high". I dont' play ranked games much because i don't have a lot of free time and because i almost only play support, however my friends know how good am i and they ask me to play with Platinum level players. Unknown players will often just look at ranks to judge people, which is wrong. I suggest you to make some friends and play with them!

5) It's not really a matter of innovation, new mechanics are always welcome if they are interesting and attractive. It's a bit more problematic when they're broken, or "borderline op". People don't rage at innovations, they rage at too strong innovations. There's a difference ;]