From: Lopen | #054
He didn't say it was impossible for the lanes to do anything to each other he said the meta supports them not attempting to do anything to each other because it's just easier to try and farm your best and wait for a gank to make a move given the current meta.
You're talking about low-skill meta. That's pretty much how I play the game. Just sit there and get last hits and denies. If I can harass, I'll try, but I'll usually just try to get last hits. This is a good thing because I am bad at the game, so keeping it simple works great for me as a tutorial.
Then when you get better and get bored of just last hits, you can expand into all these tricky advanced strategies, all of which are balanced and have counters in the metagame.
Seems like a pretty good difficulty curve to me.
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