I remember when I took TP mid before worlds.
I was yelled at by my entire team in champ select.
And this wasn't your "Surrender at 20" flaming but the "Go die in a river" type. I remain quiet, I was last pick and mid was the only thing open, Mind you i'm a support main, but Mid Karma is something I loved doing when her rework was released. So the Karma Portrait comes up and the yelling commenced.
Now I had a pretty good plan going into the game for my reasons on taking TP Karma Mid. It was an early Chalice rush that just lets me spam Q all day and I won my lane surprisingly. We lost that game though, the worst of my teammates was the jungler, he fed their ADC in a couple of failed ganks so we lost by the 23 min mark, it was a bad game....for them but I never said a word. I was 3/2/2 by the end of the game and thought I did pretty well but the blame was all pushed on me for taking the TP and being "Useless".
I am a silver player, mostly because I only play normals and yes....this was a normal game, I don't even want to know what would have happened in a Ranked but I will never be able to find out now that the group stages of worlds has ended.
The fact that the pro's dictate whats good and bad to take into a NORMAL game is absolutely disgusting to me. The amount of sheep this game has acquired just makes me sad in a way. I can never play a NORMAL game the way I want to play it and it can suck sometimes but that's just how it evolved over the years. 