User blog comment:TNickxx/Marksmen, or if you didn't have to follow the meta/@comment-5035765-20160925203741/@comment-8506165-20161010195716

" I take Sivir top to counter the bloody Gnar, and oneshot the bloody Jhin. I take Jinx and Caitlyn mid to counter the pesky Yasuo and Ekko. It's not perfect, but it works. It works better than being a meta slave..."

The problem here is that you're implying there's some kind of dichotomy between "following the meta" and "countering the enemy laners". Which just... isn't true. There are meta picks that counter Gnar top or Yasuo/Ekko mid - it's part of why they're meta. Want to counter Yas mid? No need to go super off-meta and play Jinx, just play Annie. Sure, she's not a "super meta" champ who you'll see in every game, but she still fits into the category of meta mid laners. Whereas if you go with Cait or Jinx, you create problems for your team.

This leads on to the next point; if your top and jungle already picked AD champions, for example, then the enemy team can just stack armour indefinitely and you'll have real trouble winning fights lategame due to your lack of meaningful magic damage. You also have two champions that require a great deal more peel than most others, so you can also be punished for a lack of frontliners because you picked a much less self-sufficient champion. Especially if you've picked Sivir top, and occupied one of the prime positions for "tanky frontliners". It's harder to make an effective team when you've picked an ADC for a solo lane - this even applies to the more accepted ones like Vayne or Quinn top. But they have things that make them more effective in non-botlane roles, whereas ones like Jinx, Caitlyn or Sivir don't really have any huge advantages to being played in another lane.

It's not that you can't play off-meta - I've played Orianna support a few times with friends when we're doing full premade 5s, and it sort of worked, but I have no delusions about it being better than a meta support, or that it's where Orianna should really be played instead of midlane. You do, however, have to be aware that you're likely picking suboptimal picks, and that you have to play them better to make up for that. If you're okay with that, then fine - you can play the game however you like so long as you're not outright trolling - but don't blame people for getting a little annoyed with you for doing it, seeing as in their eyes it reduces their chances of winning. You even kind of admit that it's not optimal by saying that you max your traps first on Jinx - it's not a good ability to max first, but you feel that you're forced to because of her immobility making her a prime gank target. If you're dedicated enough to it, then I'm sure you can make it work, in which case you can prove the doubters wrong with results at the end of the game. There are Sion support OTPs out there who boast decent winrates. But you still have to acknowledge that people aren't going to be thrilled to see it in their champ select.