Among gamers in the world of competitive gaming, it's a common tendency to follow meta—or the most effective tactics in use. They're usually first on the leaderboards and come naturally to the winners, as the techniques they use are commonly considered the best to follow. However, there is the occasional bold player or team that brings something new and breaks the limits hence, surprising everyone with the unconventional methods they adopt. The present article is going to delve into the fact that one of the strangest and yet most effective strategies for an online game is to deviate from this meta. 
Knowing What Meta Is All About
The metagame (also known as "meta") is described by the term metagame as the techniques or the items that are on the top list of the game. It constantly changes as new ways that are better than the old ones crop up. This is influenced by the patch updates, balance changes, and professional play. There is a paradox where if you completely obey the metagame, you will become predictable, but if you stick to it you can create an entirely new way of playing the game that could make your opponents unable to easily figure out your tactics. 
Unusual Techniques That Have Made a Difference
1. Pacifist Runs in Battle Royales
Battle Royales are all about conflicts and fighting; hence, games like Fortnite and PUBG mainly focus on aggression and combat. Nevertheless, apart from the rewarding physical clashes, there are players who have discovered a different and inferior strategy that is ironically the most successful one. Some of them overtake the others not because of their offensive acts but thanks to discreetness. By using stealth, healing, and adopting a defensive style, the pacifist players have been able to be in the right place at the right time. This style of play has obviously been reluctant to be adopted but, it has been shown to be extremely effective, especially in late-game circles.
2. Off-Meta Champions in MOBAs
In MOBA games such as League of Legends and Dota 2, players with every patch that comes in clear champions and heroes usually with every patch that comes in clear champions and heroes__usually in specific roles are looked down upon as they are counted to be mediocre. However, gamers have brought forth ideas that go against this belief. For example, the Eye of Horus tactic appeared in League of Legends, where the champions with the ability to get vision have dominated and controled the map, which means that they have become unexpected for the own team and also the opposite side. The creativity of players like relly eyeing on the off-meta picks such as "AP Miss Fortune Support" and "Tank Fiddlesticks" has taken over the ranked matches, proving that the creativity can provide more players' points and make decisions that apply differently than expected from the players.
3. BitskyMovement and positioning are the key to success in the competitive FPS scene. The Bitsky Maneuver, a technique first popular in Counter-Strike: Global Offensive and Valorant, became well-known. The objective of this strategy is to cause chaos to opponents by making low and high jumps, which are hard to imitate and executing unexpected off-angles. However, the Bitsky tactics don't conform to the norm of proper placing of a crosshair on the target, consequently bursting the shoot-a-rocket impression and leaving rivals astonished by the artist.                                                                                                                             4. Economic Manipulation in Strategy GamesThe economy control is the basis of real-time strategy (RTS) games like StarCraft II and Age of Empires. The classical ways of going about it are to strive for an ever-perfect build order and continuous unit production. However, lawbreakers are those who not only break the tradition but do it for the sheer delight of deception such as the conduct of resource hoarding and/or the apparent weakness not to provoke an attack until the opposing player makes a critical mistake. Such a psychological approach can turn over the entire match at will since it is a power relative to other players testifying does not make any image gamblers.                                                                                                       5. No Weapon Wins in Fighting GamesWithout projectiles, most of the Super Smash Bros. characters have to face a lot of trouble in the zone of the fighting style. Nevertheless, the art of mouvement, perfect shielding, and mind games has been raised to the level of being able to knock even the best projectile users out without attacking first. In as much as the "stand and wait" tactics are levering on other gamers, the plaintiff side is the inadvertent rise of the final victor in a tournament.                                                                                          The Future of Unconventional PlaystylesEven though the game'units meta're always a work in progress and experimentation is the key point for the top-tier, the one that basically outplays the rest the different ways of vision control like the Eye of Horus in MOBAs, and also applying new mechanical skills like bitsky among the FPS games will keep the tournament scene fun and enjoyable. Think of the times you played and decide to take new directions in atemeta, trying something new will assist you in creating more successful strategies for play.