User blog comment:Nidhogg101/A Treatise on an Extinct Facet of League/@comment-11603965-20140126154716/@comment-16597728-20140126163408

Alright, fair points all. However, the thought I was trying to convey wasn't that there is NO way to play this game well, but that there are MANY ways to play this game well, and no BEST way. I feel like a lot of really cool tactics lie unused because professionals lack faith in them, and the rest of the community follows their lead. I'm all for the eSports thing, as long as it doesn't kill creativity and/or fun by enforcing a dogmatic "correct" way of doing things.

AP Riven is mentioned a lot whenever I show up. I don't play AP riven, because riven gains no benefit from AP. When you play AP Riven, your goal is to frustrate your teammates, not win the game (trolling, by definition). Something I might do is purchase spell vamp on Zyra, as it could help me out. It's probably not the safest, surest way to win the game, but I feel it's worth it.

People will lose their minds over that spell vamp purchase though, screaming and crying in /all chat about my "troll build" and begging opponents to report me. This is, I feel, the negative effect of a popular professional scene.