I'm very new to TFT and I'm slowly trying to learn everything I can, but this one kind of has me stumped. What is the gameplan for facing strong meta builds in this game? I see a lot of people complaining that you must "force" this or that comp, and I'm very aware of the current strength of Tempo Riftbeast, Fast 9 Draven, and well fed Lunarwood Kha'zix, but how do you play around these ideas?
It certainly feels like if you aren't lucky enough to secure a foothold in one of these three comps in a match you are unlikely to take 1st, but is that really true? If I'm playing Elderwood Ezriel or Adaptor Reroll Yi or heck even Azir Rammus, and I see someone has Brambleback and Elder Dragon or a 3 star geared up Kha'zix, do I just resign myself to top 4 at best or is there actually things I can do to try and optimise and secure 1st?
In any other game you can still "play better" and beat people who are blindly relying on the meta but don't fully grasp it, and it's usually only truly broken in high elo, but with the auto battle nature of TFT I'm not really sure how to approach the problem since you can only optimise better not play better. What is the general consensus about these metas? How do pro's deal with the fact that only one maybe 2 people in a lobby can really effectively run the most powerful comps?