User blog comment:Clizapy/Urgot Support/@comment-60.252.190.166-20121229083017/@comment-216.36.26.248-20121229233216

I hate the strict adherence to the meta game as much as the next guy, but you have to consider why it exists.

It has come into being because the people who play most, and debatably best, have done a considerable amount of testing and found these conditions to be optimal for one reason or another.

The reason people question the viability of anything that doesn't fit the current framework is that it has not passed the test of time. There is also a considerable lack of experience with anything that isn't currently standard meta game. When you're trying something new you tend to make mistakes. The problem here is that most people blame you not following the unprinted rules rather than you making a bad choice because you weren't certain whether you should do A or B.

That said, down with meta! I would really like to see Riot move away from balancing champions for certain roles and toward making every champion actually viable instead of releasing hundreds of champions and hoping a few stick. (Ezreal was awfully common in the last major tournament, was he not? How many times did you see Twitch?)