Every support main should play the other roles at least once in a while.

DunkinNoobs··2 votes·406 views

Why? Because helping your team is your job as a support but you can't do that effectively if you don't understand what your team needs. You also can't effectively shut down the enemy if you aren't familiar with what they're capable of. I main mid, jungle, and top, but I also play support fairly often to very good success, and I attribute that success to knowledge I've gained from my 3 main roles. I see so many supports that focus way too many of their resources on a single threat while allowing other threats to run rampant. I see way too many supports who babysit their adc who doesn't need the help while their frontline gets torn to pieces. And I see way too many supports who cannot accurately gauge threat levels of specific enemies because they have no idea how much gold and exp is actually worth since they're so divorced from either. It's not a coincidence that Aphro, a converted adc, is widely considered the best support in NA; he knows exactly what his team needs because he's been there.

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Silly Neeko6 votes

I do.

That said, all the other roles should learn how to play support as well.

Its a two way street.

Ralanr2 votes

Everyone should just learn every role adequately.

Lord Phazanor 3 votes

All these "X role should learn Y" are wrong and should be rewritten as follows: everybody should try to have a general game sense, and game sense is learned by playing everything everywhere on a regular basis (regular as in "often enough to have a basic understanding of it", which could be around once or twice a year if you don't have memory issues, or even less). And no, "everything everywhere" doesn't mean Soraka jungle and the likes, it means "play the champions where they're usually played". Even a simple bot game when that champion is free will let you gauge his cooldowns, expected damage, powerspikes, etc.

Death by Glamour1 votes

Then you would have autofilled supports...

DunkinNoobs1 votes

Of the 5 roles, I'd much rather have support be autofilled over any other role, with adc being the role I'd least want autofilled. Maybe it's just my elo, but most autofilled supports I see do just fine, or in my case, actively do better than the support mains they're up against. Most bad autofilled supports I see tend to have an attitude problem rather than an aptitude problem.

ChaddyFantome1 votes

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Of the 5 roles, I'd much rather have support be autofilled over any other role,

considering botlane pretty much decides the game, i kinda have to disagree.

Death by Glamour1 votes

Jungle has by far the greatest influence on the game

ChaddyFantome1 votes

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Jungle has by far the greatest influence on the game

the Jungler has the greatest influence, as an individual, but he does so primarily by influencing and deciding the outcome of botlane.

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