Share your off-meta picks, why it suits your playstyle, and whether or not you think it can be meta.

Hey Everyone,

I like to theory-craft and I would like to do my part to introduce diversity into League's greatest monolith: the meta. We see all kinds of picks that just work; through practice and epiphany new ways to edge out and change the meta pop up all the time. At one point in time, no one would have ever considered Urgot to be a viable pick. What about AD Kennen top lane? Or Karthus jungle? All it takes is one person to stand out with the champion for the gears to start turning on ways to profit from it. So today I give you this thread to share your off-meta picks, let others know how to use it properly, and whether or not you think it has potential to shake things up a little in the professional setting.

My off-meta pick is support. Most striking about this match-up is the ability to resist lane poke through use of relic shield and your passive. Cho'Gath has incredible CC and decent damage, even when built full tank. The trick to use him as a support is to run aftershock and sorcery, most notably to get all the health and armor minor runes like overgrowth, conditioning, and following up with a sorcery rune like mana-flow band and transcendence for the extra cooldown reduction. You could also run domination for ultimate hunter as his ultimate is a key part to the pick. The trick is to wait for your opponent to blow an important cooldown and capitalize on it with a rupture. If your ADC is responsive enough, you should be able to do enough damage to force a flash with your Vorpal Spikes or bait them, and silence them before they can flash out. Once you reach level 6, you basically win the lane if you haven't been losing too badly. His ultimate is the only controversial part to this off-meta pick. Modern support strategy is to funnel literally every ounce of gold you can into your ADC's pocket. The catch here is that Cho'Gath's ultimate only gives a stack of feast if you devour(kill) the champion with it, meaning you basically steal every kill. There is always the choice to ult early, in which case you use his ultimate as a giant true-damage nuke, but I have found that you have a much greater impact on the game if you literally get fed. Each stack of feast gives a massive amount of health to his pool and provides even greater damage for the ultimate. Games where I get a massive amount of feast stacks usually ends in me becoming unkillable and providing enough of a brick wall for the rest of my team to do what they need to do, but it does offset my ADC's kill scaling which is a problem. If Cho'Gath could gain feast stacks by ulting an enemy and they die within a very short time window even if he doesn't kill them himself, it would make support Cho'Gath a very real thing that could possibly even see higher level play.

EDIT: I want to stress this folks: this is not a thread for you to downvote simply because you dislike someone's opinion. People are putting real thought into it and giving good responses. Be respectful.