Corruption of Purpose
One of the maladies of the first-person perspective that is the life experienced by individuals is witness to a world without seeing one's own place in it. That problem manifests in the summoner who focuses on their team-mates to the detriment of the performance of their own champion.
What is the role of a player within a game universe?
I'd like to suggest that it is the same as a genetic simulation across the space of business practices, a quest for best practices through the development and counter-development that evolve through experimentation and discovery.