Talk:Bloodthirster/@comment-5319740-20140627203617/@comment-14081808-20140912004158

-2 years ago, matches were not meant to be won with laneswaps.

Because no one considered that a tank would be able to survive against ADC + support pressure, meaning both tanks would be useless endgame. But then someone tried it and realized "Well... ADCs be weak early. TANK UP AND ROLL OUT."

-2 years ago, matches were not meant to be won by AD assasins mid.

Just shy of 2 years ago, Zed was released... enough said, but Yi and Talon were also available.

-1 year ago, matches were not meant to be won by AP burst supports.

One year ago, at Worlds, top three supports were Leona, Thresh, AND Annie (Morgana came in later as some clutch-save goddess). Annie = the burst is real. (And while Leona doesn't bring the damage burst, her CC burst is REAL).

Your point was that in the past these things didn't happen and that since then the game has evolved. The potential for these things has almost always been there, but we get stuck in modes of thinking (Annie Support?! Lissandra Tank?! Thresh ADC?! Riven Mid?! ASHE JUNGLE?!?! WTF?) that prevent most of us from doing things that could seriously break the meta or even the game by being so crazy that no one knows how to deal with it.