PSA: Off-Meta Picks

The reason off-meta picks don't work isn't because you don't know how to play it, it's because your teammates don't know how to play with it.

Then someone in the pro-scene picks something off-meta as a counter, a few people see how it's played (note: they don't really care what it's being used for > counter pick) and decide to start using it. This brings it to light and people begin to understand how to play with it as it gains popularity in solo q and on streams.

How can this be solved? Well, it can't. It's best to play off-meta things when you're duo or playing in a group so that the majority of players on your team understand how it's to be played with.

Do we want innovation? Yes, but you're not reinventing bot lane with 2 mages when your mid, jungler and top are all AP squishies.

Having a wide champion pool to serve multiple scenarios is the best way to get a variety of picks played if you don't main a single champion or style. That and well, Riot introducing voice comms in lobby/game and/or adding a chat function in the loading screen so that people can discuss strategy before doing so in a brush level 1 and being pounced on by the enemy team who went for the straight invade.

Just something to think about.