User blog comment:Freedfg/What happened to variety./@comment-5557556-20140428211701

Once I heard one Volibear talking to my teammate: Play this game like you are suposed to.

People usually think that META game means the "right" way to play this game, if you deviate from it you are doing it wrong.

Since that META gaming is pretty standard and almost robotic you can work around it pretty good.

For instance Yasuo mid is very common thing, work around it by picking Karthus which will give you an edge in most cases.

For every pick there is counterpick and for every champion there is a chink in their armor.

Zed is the worst case of them all since you can pick quicksilver sash and ruin him completely or pick Zhonya.

I for instance pick champions that are interesting for me to play. For adc I play Kog Maw 90% of time and I found that he is the best for this situation. He can outrange everyone, can shred tanks and has firepower equal to 3 champions.

Don't pay attention to this META thing. People will always follow something because some pro did it. What you want to do is adapt to counter it.

The only problem is that game tends to get boring this way, people will blindly pick their viable champions even though you counterpicked them.