The second part of your response is why people should be accepting of those off meta picks when the game starts . How do you know whether or not that person is good at Hanzo or Mei or whatever it is you don ' t consider meta ? You don ' t . If things aren ' t going well for you the first thing you should be thinking about isn ' t if their pick is causing the team to lose , but if it ' s your pickskillteam coordination . Sometimes the other team is just straight up better and meta picks won ' t stop you losing in that case . This game is all about being able to pick whatever hero you want with respect to what your team has picked so not having 5 big dick deeps and then moulding your comp as the game progresses . I got completely chewed out for playing Bastion at the start of a comp game season 1 only to end up carrying the team ' s damage and kills while staying relatively close to the payload . Come the end of the game what do they do ? They fucking tell me that we would have won faster if I wasn ' t Bastion . This sort of metadefined mindset needs to change because it ' s flat out wrong to base your comp off it all the time .