There is literally no role in League that I hate playing more than Support

Salt Miner 49 Er·12/24/2015, 5:29:07 PM·3 votes·1,586 views

You either get yelled at by the person you're babysitting on bottom lane because they make rash decisions and die, or you get praised because they got fed since you know what you're doing. Then you're the most gold starved person on the team next to the jungler unless they're snowballing and are expected to do literally EVERYTHING for them in a team fight.

Support players, more power to you. But I refuse to learn your role.

34 Comments

PIMPSMOOTH12/24/2015, 5:36:54 PM13 votes

or you get praised because they got fed since you know what you're doing

Support main here, I think you got this wrong. It should read:

"or the ADC gets praised because you helped secure kills and saved them countless times from their own poor positioning, resulting in getting them fed and nobody cares what you did".

[slayer-jinx-wink]

Aeolian Melodies12/24/2015, 6:10:34 PM2 votes

To be clear, I'm perfectly fine with other people loathing support, it means I get it more often [slayer-jinx-catface]

But I don't get yelled at much. Actually can't remember when it last happened. Must be you.

disregardable12/24/2015, 6:08:59 PM2 votes

I think the jungler has it worse, because you are simultaneously responsible for the success of all 3 lanes. Went 4/0 and got your top laner rift herald? Trash jungle, no cs and didn't gank bot. Got sated at 15 minutes and countered their jungler 15 cs behind? Trash jungle, never ganked or helped the team. Literally have a perfect game but their lee sin gets 2 kills off the mid laner? Trash jungler.

I think support is unfun to play mechanically, but I think jungle is unfun to play because it's strategically complex.

LF Annie12/24/2015, 5:58:47 PM1 votes

my games usually have no praise for me, just "this adc is a god" even though i basically solo kill enemy bot lanes.

KnightOfEloHell12/24/2015, 6:00:48 PM1 votes

I'll just go Mord supp, start boots, pots, wards , and e. Poke and jeep up shield. Run ghost and flash/heal for escapes and stickyness when you know you can kill them.

Why Mord supp?

The other laner gets the cs and kills early... Till I snowball and decimate everything. So you have ranged adc AND melee adc. The passive on w and the fact I'm item reliant as Mord means I just dit back, get the gold, poke, and heal the other laner with w. Once I have my core and/ or hit 6, shit begibs to go down and I snowball fucking hard.

I like plauing Mord supp,but I can play him any role. Plus, as supp I acually ward anyways when lots dont like to xD at least at this level and low elo.

Ralanr12/24/2015, 6:09:36 PM1 votes

Whenever I'm stuck in support, I am blown away by how much my presence helps the game along. A well aimed hook, well timed slow, and you can turn a game where you lagged out from the first half into a victory.

I'm not kidding, I played Nautilus support (I like tanks in general) and I dced for a decent amount of time. The enemy had a Volibear bot, who proceeded to kill me during massive lag spikes (high speed hotel internet my ass). Yet I was able to set up fights that would have been impossible without my hook, and even saved my ADC from a charging (hooking him as he charges was my proudest play since the ADC was pretty low).

The support role is really underrated (and not fun because I can't even CS. No items, no power, just babysitting someone). But they are stupidly important and should be respected. All roles are important to a certain degree, but if you don't have a support (or anyone with good utility) then you are most likely going to lose horribly.

Meep Man12/24/2015, 6:13:33 PM1 votes

Just play Bard and never get yelled at because they have no idea what the heck is happening!

Vesarixx12/24/2015, 7:04:45 PM1 votes

You could just play Zyra , start item 3303 then get item 2049 , after that just build a bunch of AP, summoner 4 summoner 14 for summoners, if you catch someone with E then hit them with a W>Q>W and ult/ignite if it's up, you'll likely be the one who gets the kill, which is the point, from there push down bot tower and secure any dragons that you can, push down mid and top towers, back and buy yourself a ludens. Just because you're support doesn't mean you can't out damage your entire team.

snibedi snab12/24/2015, 7:22:24 PM1 votes

People hate playing support in League because supports (actual supports, midlaners that have been relegated into support because they're outclassed in mid do not count) in League, with the exception of Thresh and maybe one or two others, are boring wardbots. Thresh has shit going on all over the place, he's awesome to play as and he's impactful as FUCK. SMITE's supports are powerful and rewarding to play as (bar one or two) and their abilities are impactful. Shit man even Strife had cool supports. DotA2, as loathe as it is to mention it around these parts, has beautiful supports. Supports that are incredible early game but their power curve peters out towards the mid-lategame to make way for the carries. Shit, some supports can even carry because of how excellent their kits are, but the power is balanced because holy shit are mana costs in DotA freakishly high. You cast one Q as Earthshaker and boop you're out of mana for the next three days.

Sneakyy XD12/24/2015, 7:52:28 PM1 votes

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You either get yelled at by the person you're babysitting on bottom lane because they make rash decisions and die, or you get praised because they got fed since you know what you're doing. Then you're the most gold starved person on the team next to the jungler unless they're snowballing and are expected to do literally EVERYTHING for them in a team fight.

Support players, more power to you. But I refuse to learn your role.

I couldn't care less about any of that. I just wish supports had an impact after level 2.

FioraWillCarry12/24/2015, 8:03:09 PM1 votes

lol the reason no one wants to play support is because everyone wants to get 7 pentas, carry hard, bathe in praise, and get a bunch of "add me" requests from people after the game who want to share in your awesomeness......can't do that with Janna.

crazydanddgnat12/24/2015, 8:09:59 PM1 votes

Play Morgana, you will permanently be useful because you have a spammable long root and black shield regardless of how far behind you are.
Start Spellthief + Potions, harass if you can ever safely auto them as often as you can (safe as in you don't get chunked or CC'd, a lot of standing in minions will be done). Q -> E -> W then max Q. Once you have W, if you can't safely auto just use that whenever you hit a Q or hit max spellthief stacks to keep up your income.
Tell your ADC to poke them when you land a Q; free damage. Get a gank if you can, but try to get the first kill in the lane on either you or your ADC (so if you're in silver and there's a lee on your team never allow ganks; they take all the kills and ruin this strategy.
If you get ahead in lane immediately tell your adc to freeze the lane as far back as they can; if you can get a good freeze going you should be able to zone the enemy entirely off both cs and exp if you can land your q consistently.
Best build imo is max cunning with windspeaker's, SS -> Lucidity boots -> FQC (seriously this thing pays for itself by ~25 minutes if you can get the second form by 10) -> Zhonya's -> Frozen heart -> Rylai's. Permanently useful no matter how far behind you are, with max CDR, as well as being slightly bruiserish. Mobi's are an option, but that's a full second more of cooldown on your Q unless you take CDR runes, which I prefer to save for resistances on a support (means you can harass harder early).

I literally refuse to play any other support than morgana, simply because there's nearly no other support that can actually hard carry games in Silver, where people need a full second to realize you've landed a CC.

Athenes Lulu12/24/2015, 8:12:15 PM1 votes

Because you lost ONE game as a support? Oh come on.

You're probably just not used to the fact that people will, in fact, whine no matter how hard you try. Just like how junglers always have to deal with shitty and whiny laners though it is the laners' faults.

No one says you HAVE to learn to be a good support; just know how to not feed in that role and you're good to go (trust me, that's not hard). And that's not all, this is why Rito is actually implementing dynamic draft so you don't have to support anymore!

Quepha12/24/2015, 8:42:51 PM1 votes

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I refuse to learn your role.

Everyone has to take their turn on the roles that aren't their favorite. Even if someone's favorite role is Support and the can't stand playing Mid, there will be a game every once in a while where they're forced to go mid lane because they're last pick and no one else wanted it.

Fowus12/25/2015, 4:00:12 AM1 votes

they are gold starved because they buy cost efficient items

Raka Flaka MD12/24/2015, 5:36:41 PM1 votes

Play Nami. i usually am in the top 3 for gold and out damage people from time to time. Supports don't have to be gold starved if you know what to do. Also when laning is over don't be afraid to CS a bit as support.

SpecterVonBaren12/25/2015, 4:33:04 AM1 votes

There is no role I hate more than ADC, either you get ridiculously fed or after follow your whole team like a stray puppy and pray they make good calls and peel for you because unless you're Vayne, if you go anywhere without them or try to make a play you'll get instantly deleted.

You want my name12/24/2015, 5:39:56 PM1 votes

i play blitz, thresh, and zilean a lot for supp and yeah i know what you mean. when you supp the adc shouldnt be the one to go in. so of course when they do out of nowhere they scream at the support for not saving their ass. like id prefer supp over top lane sometimes.

Mister Mackey12/24/2015, 5:48:36 PM1 votes

Bard main and hear all the time "fuck, anyone but bard" "130k mastery points youll love me"