User blog comment:Fffrikkie/Riot Changing Meta?/@comment-6295009-20150928215500/@comment-4091261-20151015111834

Options are meta. Meta is an art form. Metagaming, the whole name of what we abbrieviate to meta, means the art of the game. The wisdom of the game that are spread for people to know. All forms of art are unique, but some are favored more than others--even time changes what styles are favored. The various styles that are dubbed, break-the-meta, are actually new metas being risen--different arts to playing. Essentially meta is what makes games unique, the unique ways to play the game.

Meta is misconstrued as some kind of regulation that people must play in order to do well. In art class, there are many different methods of how to draw that are taught to people. Does this mean that these people NEED to use every one of these methods? Of course not. People take what they've learned and use certain parts to create their own style. It is the same thing with League of Legends, people take what they've learned and make their own gameplay. Meta is something that grows, it isn't something that constricts. Destroying meta is destroying diversity. Rather, what needs to happen is for new meta to be accepted, Riot is trying to go down that route recently.

Riot is made champions like and, that are very strange to the traditional meta, but interesting in other perspectives. They've even done that supportive rework on, where his movement speed only works in tandem with another ally nearby. It's a calling to try and switch up the lanes, but people are still too afraid to do so. There really is only one way to encourage people to break out of the traditional meta and start a new one, and that is to obliterate the traditional meta. Did you know our traditional 1-1-2-1 laning system actually spawned from countering another meta? That said, it only makes sense that if another meta can destroy what is currently established, then a new meta will arise. In any case, if you want change, you can start by thinking of a way to destroy the laning system currently established. Then a new meta can arise from it.