User blog comment:BIA-Kaboose/The Sheep are Everywhere/@comment-3358335-20130917163315

Playing a champion outside of it's expected role is not breaking the meta by any means. In fact everything you said is actually a promotion of the meta. You are taking a champion out of it's "comfort role" and then fitting it inside the meta in a less comfortable role. But the Top is still a bruiser, the bot is still a carry and someone helping them. The mid is still burst. And the jungle still fills its initiate/engagement role.

At lower elo's (gold and below) it comes down more to individual skill than picks and counter picks. And most of the time it is individual skill with a particular champ. I know I have been beaten in lane by people that are by no means better than me, but they have certainly outplayed me when I am playing a champ I am weaker with. It's not even that the counter picked me. If I was a "pro" my champions kit could be more than a match up it's just that because of my familiarity with the champ/match up I lose. I burn mana too quick, build things in a bad order, etc. It's frustrating as hell because I know if I had picked someone else I'd be rolling over that guy, but I chalk it up as a learning experience.

Sometimes throwing characters in odd roles is enough to win a lane by itself. Putting a champ that is typically support in a top or mid role can completely ruin a guy that is used to poking his opponent to death and winning the trades over a slow duel. The sustain on a support, or the added cc that they aren't used to facing is enough to throw their game into loops.

Now, if you were going to ACTUALLY break the meta you'd throw a support mid a hard carry in the jungle a couple of bruisers bottom and when you hit into the 5 v 5 stage of the game everyone would revert to their regular roles. That is not what you wrote.