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What the hell are you playing Support this time?

x R U K A x··1 votes·528 views

Lately I've been seeing more and more in game and on boards about people playing Tryndamre and Darius and other tanks as Supports. It's not even tanks though, I see people playing Elise, Zed, and even Riven Support all because they have a stun or a slow. And it makes me think, "If they wanted to slow and stun why didn't they just play Taric or Janna?" So what I'm asking is why are you playing Tanks and Assassins as Supports when you could just play a real Support?

Is it because most other champions deal more damage or is it because most real Support champions are squishy? Is it because you just like playing as those champions or is it because you think real Support champions just aren't viable anymore? I mean it's gotten to the point where I've seen YASUO of all champions played as Support which is just idiotic. I see it over and over again and almost every time it fails.

Don't even get me started on Cho'Gath or Annie "support."

Please leave your opinion on why people don't play real Support champions anymore and if you think Support champions need buffs or not.

7 Comments

rtbf2216514121 votes

Supports feel really useless if you can use damage to zone a lot of the times. If someone picks a AP champion bot and the enemy has a support with both teams having an ADC, who is going to win lane?

Desypher1 votes

Annie Support is a thing though. Cho'gath on the other hand, i don't know who does that. Also I see people playing Wukong Support or other people with knockups with a Yasuo ADC

BluePolarizer1 votes

Why would you play Wukong support for the knockup at level 6, when you have Alistar support for the better, higher base damage (which is all that matters to supports anyhow) knockup at level 2? There's no reason to play Wukong as support, zero.

Narvuntien1 votes

The important question is.. did they buy item 2049 ? if they didn't they aren't playing support.

Chogath seems fine as support, He has a ton of CC. Annie is actively good as support.

It is when people play Katarina as support they are trolling, offers nothing other than damage. They probably can't play support, or are sick of it you should offer to switch with them if they really don't want it.

Support items are very tanky actually offering a lot of defensive stats cheaply so supports don't stay squishy for long. I have had teams chase me across half the map and still not die.

bottledpoop1 votes

I wish it was as cut and dry as "support champions are played in support and non-support champions do not play support" however this is the way the game is. The meta is ever changing and people have the right to play any champion any lane. I believe the support issue though is people don't feel they have enough impact as support. The thing is when you play a champion that can be a kind of secondary carry instead of a support, it allows you more carry potential if your teammates are trash. No matter how good you are as support, if your adc feeds you cant do anything. Also I figure people who go fill and get support but dident want support troll by picking who they were gonna play anyway despite the support role.

x R U K A x1 votes

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I wish it was as cut and dry as "support champions are played in support and non-support champions do not play support" however this is the way the game is. The meta is ever changing and people have the right to play any champion any lane. I believe the support issue though is people don't feel they have enough impact as support. The thing is when you play a champion that can be a kind of secondary carry instead of a support, it allows you more carry potential if your teammates are trash. No matter how good you are as support, if your adc feeds you cant do anything. Also I figure people who go fill and get support but dident want support troll by picking who they were gonna play anyway despite the support role.

Although it does kinda depend on which Support you are playing, I mean if you're playing as Karma, Zyra, or Lux or a Support who can solo then you can carry in place of the ADC.

bottledpoop1 votes

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Although it does kinda depend on which Support you are playing, I mean if you're playing as Karma, Zyra, or Lux or a Support who can solo then you can carry in place of the ADC. fer sure

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