User blog comment:Bashfrog/Apc Supports- Cause You Can/@comment-5556439-20130807205705/@comment-13536822-20130807213037

I'm not saying you're less experienced than me, as you probably aren't, but you have to expand your horizons sometimes. I'm a terrible support. I'm not going to bend my playstyle to the suggestion of the meta just because it's "more viable there". You probably have a good counter to this, but there are more than a few champions that can be played in more than just two roles. Nunu support, Lulu mid, Urgot top/tank (though I've heard he originally was supposed to be designated as a tank)   Korea constantly finds out new, better ways to play before America and Europe, and I'll just straight up chalk it down to being willing to try new things.

This isn't anti-meta. It's evolution and learning. Trial and error. By expanding your mind past the meta (and if you play the Pokemon metagame, same goes to you) you might be the one who'll discover a way to play one of their favorite champs in a new role, or find a new, better way to play. Those who stick to the meta may suceed, but clinging to closely to conventional thinking will get you outsmarted eventually. It's why no country that never changes it's ideals eventually lasts, and why it makes no sense to cling to the meta all the time.

I'll go ahead and play anything I want mid in standard, and if I see a champ in ranked someday, and I know just who to counter them with, but they happen to be thought of as a support? I'll pick them, and I'll win, because I took the time to learn more uses for a champ then just one.