because the meta works so well.

Some people just want to see the world burn. I'm one of them I want to prove that nothing is perfect, and breaking the meta in lol is one way to do it.

I would say that the meta is pretty optimized.
4 of the 5 champs get a lot of farm and in turn they all play a big role in team fights, and the fifth has ways of getting gold to also contribute in team fights. If you have a few of your friends that can come up with a new strategy that blows away the current meta then go ahead.

If anything changes about the meta, I think it will be the champ selections.

Nono, everyone here doesn't quite get it perfectly, but that has to do with OP being bad at describing what he means. I agree that 'The Meta' shouldn't be some immovable object that everyone must worship. I mean, I used to main solo mid Ashe back in the day.

But what OP is really intending to say is that in a game of 5 random people who have never seen each other before the 1 minute of picking champions, you rarely have time to devise a non-standard plan. Everyone knows that bruiser top/mage mid/AD+Support bot/Jungler works. It is solid and stable. The enemy might mix things up, but that set up can deal with almost everything.

And in turn, that it is often a better idea to follow that standard pattern than to try to spend that minute figuring out who is going where and playing what to take advantage of a double mage jungle with no smite that intends to only farm the enemy jungle. Or a no jungle tri-lane mid intent on pushing to inhib by 10 minutes.

The non-standard teams can work great, and you see them sometimes in tournaments as specialized strategies, and they work awesome. They are also very hard to pull off in a solo queue type situation. If you have a 5 man premade (Or random yourself an awesome solo queue group), breaking the meta can get you huge benefits. If you are in a game with 4 randoms, don't expect your double jungle to make the Kog that instalocked happy that he has to play without support against a Blitzcrank.

^post above me is right. have you seen jarvan leona? its really not that bad, as long as both players know what theyre doing. have you seen olaf soraka bot lane? how weird, hes not an ADC. soraka will just cover the early game harass and he can just get farmed, perhaps kills with the help of a jungler with good coordination. by late game, you might have a fed olaf and jax ripping on your ADC before you can react - as long as teamwork is present, you can do anything.

Break the meta for funzies. Beating a team with Draven Blitz double jungle is hilarious.

Well, has anyone tried Rengar Udyr bot lane. They have so much level one burst it takes Volibear with full defensive masteries and runes just to get back to the tower and recall after getting hit. And that usually doesn't work either.