User blog comment:Aphostropils/Questions from a beginner/@comment-9711282-20160404225109

2. The meta a weird beast and thus there are no 'things' to look out for. A example was Ahri 5.2 change. She got her charm damage boost removed and the minor base damage buffs were tiny compare to the loss. Everyone thought she was gutted and would leave the meta very soon. Her win rate spiked so much so she was heavily nefed next patch. The reason was her Quaily of life changes(Q gave a small speed boost while traveling, W retargeted instead of vanished if first target died, etc), at first disreguarded because she lost so much damage, gave her so much more surival that she could put out more spell rotorations. So the message is, the meta is weird, don't hurt yourself overthinking.

3. Because then we get Twitch, the adc/assassin. DPS and burst damage is not a fun combo to try and work with. Nor for riot to balance(60 seconds of Q, people, who okay that?). Also we had a adc/tank, he was called Raid Boss Darius

4. Door number two. But the advice of 'complete items are better then grab bag of incompletes' so if you are almost done with that infinal blade and the enemy mage has started being a little too friendly with you, the blade will help more then a basic cloak.