I don't know about the rest of you, but I want to climb the ladder playing what I enjoy; and so I refuse to sit there spamming malzahar mid in ranked like a brain dead chimpanzee.
No, I refuse to be apart of the meta slaves cult. Therefore for this reason, I will hereby only play out of meta in ranked. Riven support, duo jungle graves, etc.
Mecha MaIphite5 votesso instead of actually playing whatever you feel like playing, you purposefully avoid everything you think is meta, and consequently allowing for the meta to influence your picks, just so you can sit on your high horse
kek
BeatzBoyFTW3 votesTranslated as: I don't care if I handicapped myself with stupid picks, but if I did bad intentionally, it's my teammates' fault.
WzqdQsZwQA2 votesenjoy your ban i think
tieger051 votesyou cant get banned for playing out of meta. Riot said it themselves, the "meta" is a player-based construct that was formed by the league communnity. I wont get banned for playing riven support.
DrCyanide1 votesCertain Singed and Nunu Support players caution otherwise. Yes, their bans were lifted, but they were banned and have to do more to communicate their intentions with teammates.
Funkin Dunkin1 votesI've maintained 50% or better win rate as 
top. Meta means nothing.
Nahui2 votesIt's one thing not to be a meta slave and purposely pick the FotM champions, which works bronze-low challenger (excluding OTP). It's another to purposefully pick out of meta, borderline troll picks.
If you're going to do something, at least be considerate of your team when picking certain roles. Go mid Udyr for all anyone cares, that's your lane and your business. But duo jungle just ruins the jungle for another person and a lane for someone else (bot) as well as picking riven supp often does for bot.
It's cool not to be a meta slave, but spitefully going against it will just cost more than it pays off and just asks for a negative player experience. Remember that league is a team game and as much as we love to be selfish and care for ourselves, you are working as a unit and should be taking into consideration everyone else's opinion when doing things.
This is more geared towards duo jungle. If you can pull off a wicked riven support consistently (which doesn't mean winning lane, as kill lanes are built to win early but fall late), then power to you. Do it if you are good and think it's good for the team. If it's to "stick it to the meta man" then it's just sad and you'll hurt yourself more than help.
tieger051 votesby "duo jg" I meant taking smite as supp, and counterjungling. Didnt say I was gonna do it, but i'd like to see someone make it work.
DrCyanide1 votesSearch "Singed Support" in YouTube. He's there closest example.
Nahui1 votesby "duo jg" I meant taking smite as supp, and counterjungling. Didnt say I was gonna do it, but i'd like to see someone make it work.
I had a friend who tried league and wanted to be like you are now. He hated the idea of their being a meta, also known as the way to play that produces the highest results. Tried to make his own, reinventing the support role into something he called "river."
You could take smite as supp. It has ups and downs. You get higher large objective control and maybe can counter jungle a bit, but you give up lane entirely. Also, to counter jungle, it's assumed you'll leave lane even further disadvantaging your lane.
To make it work, what you do with smite has to provide more value than what you do with exhaust, and as a support, that is about never the case.
It's a cute idea, and everyone wants to be known as the guy that breaks the meta and succeeds, but it's like charging into modern war with a sword. Sure, you might do something. Maybe you'll get a couple kills, but in the end, you won't do as well as someone who has the "meta" gun.
BeatzBoyFTW1 votesAbout two known people did it
. They ended up suspended on the first few weeks.
Funkin Dunkin1 votesYou can make that work on 
since he roams a lot already. 
sup smite works too since he gets an instant clear. Makes it hard for enemy jungle to maintain his farm/blue.
Lapis1 votesHave fun?
Jeddite1 votesThanks for the FaceJournalr update, bro-dawg-guy-dude-bro.
53436278DEL11 votesi always said this llol
AirKingNeo1 votesThat's not off meta. That's off role.
Huge difference.
Funkin Dunkin1 votesThe meta trolls have you downvoted sir
Arkale1 votesPretty sure I'm not a meta slave.