User blog comment:Chase999/Anti-meta Champions/@comment-8919271-20140219181842

In YGO there are also DIRECT counters to certain cards, like Weather Report countering Swords of Revealing Light. And things like that never happen in League, because Riot's too afraid that direct counters would ruin the balance.

(for the entire thing below I'll be using (probably) flawed view of meta as a general playstyle in given time)

As such, there are also no anti-meta items/abilities/champions per se; though meta compositions might be inferior to something or might have trouble with something (like poke teams being inferior to dive teams, which caused meta change; or health-stacking meta having general trouble with % HP damage) however I wouldn't say that there are anti-meta champions. What is current meta? Strong initiation with huge tank line and less important (than in previous seasons) AD/AP carries (sometimes carries even serve as a support for certain strategy; like Sivir for MS dive teams). You just can't counter that with a certain champion; you can try to work around that with entire strategy/composition, but then, aren't you trying to forge a new meta? Because if B is better than A, A's just going to fall out of favor.

You can't 'completely dismantle' current meta or champions strong in the meta with something 'anti-meta' because 'meta' things are strong for a reason. And as long as assasin champions with refreshable 2000 range capclosers/a lot of capclosers are popular, you're just tightly limited in your champion pool, because no competent Kha'zix or Zed is going to let you do ANYTHING as Kog/Varus/Brand or just whoever without mobility and with unreliable CC.

/qq