That’s because what’s “meta” is more about popularity in games that are actually well balanced. Everyone may be using X because it’s easy to do well with; but if X is weak to Y and everyone is playing as X, you would likely do better with Y since X is weak to it.
I want to know what a majority of people are using not so I can use it myself; but so I can find the best way to defeat it. To me, that’s what “playing the meta” is supposed to mean; thinking about what the other player is gonna do, so I can avoid it/anticipate it and work around it.
Some metas feel like they are caused by content creators hyping something up because they had some good games with that setup.
That’s because what’s “meta” is more about popularity in games that are actually well balanced. Everyone may be using X because it’s easy to do well with; but if X is weak to Y and everyone is playing as X, you would likely do better with Y since X is weak to it.
I want to know what a majority of people are using not so I can use it myself; but so I can find the best way to defeat it. To me, that’s what “playing the meta” is supposed to mean; thinking about what the other player is gonna do, so I can avoid it/anticipate it and work around it.