User blog comment:Nidhogg101/Musings on the Typical Mindset of League Players/@comment-7996065-20131020212802

The biggest thing reducing variety in matches is the enforced meta. DotA has a community with at least the same level of competitiveness, and that game has much more variance than LoL. The reason the "innovator" players are frowned upon is because the metagame is so enforced VERY few people will actually acheive to "innovate", with the majority of cases only working for them, as others will try, realize they need practice/skill/a brain and go back to play what they did before due to their success rate in that playstyle.