User blog comment:Sifter66/Picking the Right Champion/@comment-24036535-20150415000852

Here is what I've heard, and kinda(?) follow.

Play each lane like rock/paper/scissors, with a backup for your main. For instance, you main rock, so you want a backup rock, plus a scissors and paper. Paper, so that if your opponent picks your main, or someone similar, you can beat them, and scissors, so that if someone picks paper, you can beat them. And your secondary rock in case your main rock gets banned or you get bored of them. This way, you'll always have SOMEONE to play in each role, and in the event you find an unfavorable matchup, you can pick someone against it.

But, at the end of the day, it's all about who you want to play, enemy picked Swain, but you really wanna play Talon? Play Talon, lose lane, have fun because you picked your favorite champion anyways.