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But no seriously, anyone who uses the, "It's meta for a reason" argument out of diamond level matches deserves to dedicate every second of their life thanking Riot for not adding any divisions below bronze.
His work is still a hack job.
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"Lol this dumbass chose 
into 
, watch him feed"
5 minutes later, I'm 4/0/1 with 40 farm while Riven is 0/4/0 with 22 farm.
"Please pick meta"
ok.
**first time 
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I used to get flamed for picking poppy (before her W buff) and people used to say "pick a real tank, poppy cant take any damage omfg" i would purposely build full AD and still do better them just to hear them cry "cant even build right, such trash" gotta love them mid/bot laners sometimes, especially if you do better than them with whats considered a wrong build / bad champ ;)
anything works in oce
125,793 Mastery 7 Quinn ADC here. Experience always wins
meta or not, please don't play 
"sup" in my ranked games... thank you.
A dedicated comfort pick is way better than a flavor of the month pick most of the time in my opinion. Unless you KNOW how to play the fotm champ well, it won't really win you any more games from what I've seen.
I will always be a supported of the "Unranked should not exist. The placement submission should be decided by battling in "The Wood Division"
My comfort pick is Ultimate Bravery.[slayer-pantheon-popcorn]
There is a division below bronze. Everyone below level 30.
I mean, meta picks are meta picks. I would've been called crazy if I played Miss Fortune support just some months ago.
People are sheeps, even at pro level, and there is only few people innovating and finding new strong picks, which transforms into meta picks
I'd agree, recently picked Aatrox up. Got level 4 last night.
I mean, you could've picked, like anything, other then Aatrox to main though. I am including prerework Poppy and Yorick. Don't get me wrong, I like my splitpushers top lane, but I haven't even seen Aatrox's winrate hit 50.
The thing is: stuff are more effective when played as "meta".
Example: ADC Ahri works just fine, but she is more effective. So, her "meta" build is APC Example: Ahri is a fine mid laner, she has some wave clear, roaming potential and pick potential, all good. But she isn't as strong as current meta champions that are more suited to fight the champions the enemy picks (or are overpowered). That's why some people favor picking meta over comfort.
HOWEVER, learning a champion takes time. Picking "meta" just because is "meta" while you didn't put in the time to learn it (like most players don't actually put in the time at the start), you will harm your chances by picking meta over comfort.
Personally, I prefer mechanically easy champions. So, even when Azir was meta, my mid lane picks were (pre rework Malzahar, Morgana, Ahri, Diana). Also, since it takes time to learn a champion. You might want to use that time to master your comfort champions that suits your playstyle.
Even in a fight between a Sword user, Spear user, Scythe user, Knuckle user, Mace user, Axe user. Even if right now most people are using swords -> which means spear wins (coz its longer) and it makes spear meta. If you got good enough with your preferred choice, you are going to kick the "ass of the meta weapon user". Even if they know to use all from above, if you are better on your own, you can win :)
Then there are "Gun user", "Riffle user", "Nuke user". Those are OP or cheats ;)
PS: this worlds we had a demonstration that meta doesn't really matter even in the highest tiers. You can play off meta (brand support, mf support, zac jungle, etc) and win even in a game between the best 50 or so players in the world.
If you play against Faker, he would ban you out everytime - so I think it is a meta pick^^
I have the same problem with certain champs or even builds for that matter.
