ROX what have you done.......

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No thats exactly it. The problem is the average league player does not care about that the game doesn't teach people to look at roles subjectively and versatile unlike say Dota for example. I remember i was flamed to HELL and back when i wanted to play Amumu support and i did well with it. People STILL didn't care because it wasn't leona or nautilus and their argument is always "Why not just pick [standard support]?"

Ive played games with an Ekko as my support and thought "Wow holy shit ekko support is great, why dont people play it more?"

League of legends tells the average player to let the meta play the game for them rather than the other way around. Ive always said this since i started playing 4 years ago and its still as evident today. People that will suddenly start playing MF support from this ember will only prove that.

Yeah, as someone who has had more success on off-meta supports (ekko, maokai, and more recently leblanc) I actually find the whole argument of "what is a support" to be rather hilarious. For me, supports are a lot like food: there is plenty of different kinds of it and people will be constantly disagreeing on what is and isn't it. The fact some people have the audacity to bitch and moan when I choose to eat a bowl of curry-flavored cheerios when they themselves have probably eaten/done way worse makes me enjoy playing off-meta stuff even more, as I'm essentially experiencing a joy that they never will.

In a broader sense though, supports "have" to do one of these things to be viable: -have a way to cc an enemy to make it easier for teammates to kill (pose defensive "kill threat") -have a way to sustain allies whether it be through the use of heals/shields (pose defensive "anti-kill threat" ) -have a way to chunk out enemy laners putting them within "kill range" of your adc or forcing them to burn sustain/back more often (pose offensive "kill threat" ) -have a way to neutralize enemy heals/shields/defensive stats (pose offensive "anti-kill threat" )

If a support cannot do any of those 4 things, only then are they "unviable".

I love playing off meta supports. Well, I used to. I've played a few games of and even support. All have their niches. All have some form of CC. And no, I don't start dorans ring and build damage straight away. It's just that when someone faces a support who isn't a full on support champion, they have no idea how to lane against that. Especially the . I make them fear the crows.

I once laned with a Xin Zhao support. We had someone screw up in the picks, and this guy said he would take support instead of jungle.

Now, I wouldn't consider myself a meta slave, but as long as your champ fits the standard requirements of the role you chose, then I won't argue it (even things like Lulu top, Malz jungle, or Vel'koz support). That said, Xin Zhao doesn't exactly have what it takes to be a common support.........unless you know what you're doing.

Not only did we win the game with this Xin support, we also dominated the lane. This Xin had full control over the bushes, and was very familiar with the limits of his champ. Since I'm an ADC that tries to capitalize on anything my support can do in lane, the Xin knockup did wonders.

And so, to this day, whenever someone goes "off meta", I just roll with it, and even kind of defend anyone going off meta because of this one player. Yeah, I might still get salty, and say "This is why you don't go (champ/role)". But, I don't shoot them down in champ select.

I got an MF support last game and i will tell you it was SHIT IT WAS HELL.

1. She took my cs. 2.She ulted into thin air
2. She fed the enemy team.

People probably bitch because 9/10 times someone plays something like Jihn support it's because they wanted ADC but didn't get it. So they are just going to take their champion "support" and not support at all anyway lol.

I main support and playing Teemo support gave me most fun on bot lane. Surprisingly I was not flamed much, lol. Such games are needed as I am not going to become pro player or smth. I main Thresh, but going too hard on maining him makes no sense for me as it becomes less fun if you grind only couple of champs. Once my ADC banned Annie after I showed that I am choosing her as support. Pretty stupid how people are scared of off-meta supports (in both teams, lol).

Played amumu top in ranked once. People were whining like crazy until I went 5/0 before 10 minutes. Against a ranged top.

I don't have the balls to do it again because it would break my heart to mess that up.

you answered your own question :) [slayer-jinx-catface]

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This is only true to an extent. No matter what, if you're support and you see the enemy team pick rengar zed and akali, please pick a support with peel. No matter how much we win lane with your support Teemo, I'll be useless late without lots of help.

Actually Teemo is great counter to Rengar

earlier this season

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