How can some people hate supporting so much that they would rather lose

Supporting is fun :) People just want to play the role of the badass, super strong carry. It's a pride thing - you get to brag at how good you are when you rack up the most kills. BUT an intelligent person knows that the support is the key to a carry's success.

FTW

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Because they think this game is all about having tons of damage and a big kd ratio.

It's because they don't actually understand what supports do.

They do not know the art of being a carry support.

is my support of choice, because even if our mid disconnects I can usually cover for them. I tend to follow the "heal to death" mentality for item purchases. If the game is going our way, I can typically take one of the enemy team's carries down 1/2 health just on my own.

I'm not advocating skipping sightstone, trying to steal kills, or taking CS while the carry is there, but it's entirely possible to help deal damage while being a support.

Speaking as someone who played pretty much nothing but Taric or Leona for a year straight in Season 2 or 3, I feel pretty justified in bailing queue if the tyranny of the majority tries to make me play support.

I'm aware that makes me kind of an asshole, but in a YEAR of straight supporting, you learn a lot about why people tend to GET volunteered for it instead of volunteering for it.

1 : You're perpetually broke. The support salary sucks, and the gold gain items don't help matters enough. Even if all three of them stacked, you're still not making as much money each minute than someone with good CS. This problem is compounded by-

2 : The support dues you have to PAY with that salary are freakishly high. When you're living off passive gold gain, Sightstone is damned expensive, and the stats (ie that thing I need to not just be a ward dispenser) it gives are crap. And holy crap, if you don't rush that thing, you catch so much damned flak. Then, after getting it, you need to start actually getting the items you need to be relevant, which is fiendishly difficult, because, again, you're perpetually broke, AND you just spent a good several minutes of your income on a piddly HP increase, free wards, and not getting yelled at. Speaking of yelling-

3 : The roles makes you utterly codependent, and codependent on someone who's likely to be the biggest douchecanoe on the team. It makes a fair deal of sense that whatever role has the most focus on being 'the carry' tends to attract players who are just completely insufferable. Considering that the traditional bot lane is a Support and an AD Carry, there's no way I'm volunteering myself for the abuse of a random stranger if the whims of fate don't shine on him.

4 : Supports damn near never get any recognition for a job well done, but get far too much scorn for a mistake. Ever notice how people tend to stop printing out a person's score at KD? Notice how the end game lobby doesn't track things like CC inflicted or damage mitigated, or how giving buffs only inflates the buff-ee's damage dealt numbers? Basically the only things the majority of people notice about a support's actions are how often they -croak-. And that's a recipe for fun, ain't it?

Yeah....I play this game for fun? And uh....being the team's bitch isn't fun.

Doing what is best to win isn't always the funnest path.

A common example is turtling. Turtling is pretty boring, you sit in your base and essentially just wait. However, there are times when then team needs to turtle in order to have a chance of achieving victory. More often than not, a team will not turtle when they should, especially if they had been winning. This will often occur in plat/diamond games.

I thought about WHY this occurs, why won't people just sit in base for a bit and wait? Because it is boring, and even though it is the "best" path to victory, it is more fun to roam around outside the base on the off chance you catch 1 of them out of position, rather than waiting for them to make a mistake trying to dive.

Playing support, for a lot of people, is the same way, boring. You sit around basically baby sitting one person. You relay a lot on that person. And if that person can't CS, it is even more boring/frustrating.

Personally, I didn't mind playing support season 3. But then all the supports got reworked/changed and now I find it dreadfully boring. Adcs will complain often, or won't back you up, or can't CS, or people won't let you pop your stacks, or they won't heal you, or they complain about wards....the list goes on.

Now, if I am made to support people I don't know, I generally just pretend I am in a solo lane and CS and mute/ignore everyone. I personally find it more enjoyable, and despite what all the people say, it isn't reportable nor is it trolling. There is no law I MUST support and MUST not cs. People need to show more respect to other peoples play styles and stop the whole not meta must report/rage (side note: Riot really should remove blind pick and just have team builder)

On the other hand, some people love support like my friend. He basically only plays it. He loves the whole baiting/saving people thing and enjoys the strategic placement of wards.

P.S. I wrote this entire post while "supporting". Team is currently winning :)

Soraka is my support of choice, but I also play Janna and Nami and sometimes at the request of a teammate play a completely random support like Fiddlesticks or Veigar (that E!) to throw the enemy off. Honestly I kinda got thrown into the support role because no one EVER wants to support and we don't want to risk a random so I started doing it and I rather like it. Although mid-lane champs are my favorite for this reason I don't get much pvp practice with them outside of ARAM. So sometimes I'm happy when my Twitch ADC asks me to play Veigar. And anyone can feel free to add me <3

the support can easily be a second jungler if you play it right. The People that say LoL is about damage and K'ds are probably bronze or heavy COD players.

Support requires a decent knowledge of the game, the willingness to promote the rest of your team, and a general necessity for selflessness (if you're playing the role classically). In case you haven't noticed, that defines like <10% of the players who play this game. Until a particular ranking, the game is a tug of war of who can spam abilities and be in the right place at the right time - something supports can't really be a part of for the first half of the game (in fact, carries usually yell at you if you mess with their laning particulars).

On top of that they are usually blamed, picked out during engagements, and generally have to itemize in particular, team-pleasing, ways.

Sauce: Support Main <3

well, I would suck it up in a ranked games

if some auto locking bastard fks up everything in a normal game and we end up with 1 bot, I really dont mind duo mid or duo top with em I rather not give in to their bullshit and we will sit on this pain train together Dont care if we win or lose, thats what im thinking if ur wondering

Because supports can't carry. Everything they do requires at least one other non-braindead person to be successful. I don't know about most people, but I prefer to put as little of my fate in other people's hands as possible. I'll support if I have to, but I'll avoid it as much as possible.

Picking support will not guarantee you victory.

Picking a role which is capable of becoming a carry in the lategame has the possibility of winning you the game, as opposed to you playing support and having all your allies fail to play correctly (And lose miserably to the enemy team's superior positioning).

People are not morons, they know what their chances of victory are. If you are a support character in a team that prioritizes personal achievement over team objectives (Usually that ally that keeps threatening to report you if you don't pick support to polish his shoes), you have no way to change the outcome of the game.

Supporting should have never become a mandatory role in this game, the role should remain an option, but not a slot which demands one of the 5 players become everyone else's maid / servant that gets none of the fun (Gold / Plays).

Some players also win to actually play a role they like, this is a game, not homework. People come here to enjoy themselves.

If someone does not pick support, he should not be shot down for it.

I personally just don't like the way support plays. It isn't a fun style to me, I want to fight people, not protect people. I'd rather have fun losing, than be bored winning or losing.

If I don't feel like playing one of the Riot Ordained Support Champions then I'll play who I want to that would be the best fit for the position and lane combo and fuck your opinions. Blame Riot for not letting anyone but their predetermined list of supports be viable in that role.

Support has been and always will be the thankless role where if they lose lane its cause the support isnt peeling, warding or just gettign the adc fed. but if they win its cause the adc, jungler, and apc did their jobs in gettign the kills... I can see why people dont want to support cause they might have been gettign flamed in their last few games from trolls.. Personally ill state in champion selection. Mid pref but will support... 9/10 times ill support cause they will ban out my mains for mid.. so i go with good old Morg or Leona in the support role.. i dunno.. but it has got alot better with the new changes riot has made for support items and stuff... the addition of the ward trinkets is nice.. so the warding wars we used to have in season 1-3 is now longer a huge issue. although id like to see the pink wards stealth a little bit.. maybe be visable within say a 200 range. its too easy for pinks to be killed off... i wouldnt care if they put a time limit o them like normal wards.. i dunno.. but im off topic.. so ill end it here.. like alot of poeple have stated.. its alot of things.. whether its ego, not good at it period, or just dont want to get raged on... being a support now if BY FAR better then being a support in any of the previous seasons....

Well, who are you to tell someone how they should feel about something? Look, being a tool is never ok, but let's just say someone really DOES hate a specific role. They say that they'll happily fill any other role but X role, but still get jammed into it for whatever reason.

Do you like doing something you hate? How would you feel about the people who forced you to do it?

Maybe, next time, instead of forcing someone into a role they loathe do it yourself, instead?

Also, realize that this is me playing devil's advocate more than anything - but no one enjoys being told they have to do something they dislike... especially in a game they're playing for fun. See the problem? Doing something for fun, end up being made to do something you don't like?

I personally loathe supporting. Like seriously hate and despise it - ADCs lots of times go back and forth between hyper aggressive and uber passive. Generally without any hints about when they're going to do it. Mostly in situations or against opponents where it's just an awful idea. If I'm on some kind of voice chat with them, it might be ok - Riot really needs to add this to LoL, btw - but for the most part that's not a thing.

I still support, because sometimes that's just how it goes. But when that happens, that's generally my last game of the day because having to play support sucks any fun or enjoyment I could possibly have playing the game away. I certainly don't endorse throwing, feeding, or AFKing, but I'm probably not going to be able to play my best simply because I totally hate doing it... it's not a conscious thing, but it is VERY hard to concentrate when I've been forced to do something I dislike that much. I always try my hardest, of course, but i again - I play LoL for fun. 4 random strangers just forced me to do something I dislike. Expecting me to be as good at it as someone who practices the role and enjoys it is silly.