Switched to a support main this week, matches have been going great, I focus the carry, I give us the vision we need, I never complain about toxic adcs or "this team", and all of a sudden my match history looks pretty green.
Mysticman891 votesI've cruised up a full tier now since my placements with no sign of slowing pretty much exlcusively as support (and almost exclusively Janna support at that).
People can climb/carry as any role if they're good at it, lots of people are just rather bad at support since they think it's 'easy' mindless warding or whatever, and then complain when that doesn't win them their game.
Beldair1 votesBut some Support loses are from the team not working well together.
Mysticman891 votesSo are some <insert any other role> losses. It is a team game, and even a diamond+ smurf is going to have a hard time carrying if the team won't work together.
You might say that a diamond+ smurf is going to have their best chance of carrying if they're on a champ that can potentially 1v5 (i.e. not most support champs), but really a particularly skilled support is going to be able to basically spoon feed kills to a carry and/or being able to intervene and prevent their suicidal teammates from feeding by well timed shields/heals/peel.
Paladin 0f Life1 votesDepends on the sup. If you are a tank in low elo you will not carry by yourself. If you are annie or brand then sure u do dmg with cc
PhantomGG1 votes[{quoted}](name=Paladin 0f Life,realm=NA,application-id=3ErqAdtq,discussion-id=4B62AoiV,comment-id=0001,timestamp=2016-02-24T05:18:24.911+0000)
Depends on the sup. If you are a tank in low elo you will not carry by yourself. If you are annie or brand then sure u do dmg with cc
I have been playing strictly Thresh/Janna/Morgana/Sorraka
Droogzy1 votesStarted at Bronze 3 this placement, Almost Gold 5 (Silver 1 Currently), playing around 1 game a day as exclusively support, I think my win rate so far is somewhere in the high 60/low 70 percent range as a support.
Its definitely possible to carry yourself as a support, and you don't need to use Brand or Lux to do it, I've been doing it almost exclusively with Nami.
Zenthon Prime1 votesDepends on playstyle and meta. My best support, Sona, is kinda meh right now IMO, so I don't really play the role much currently because I feel super useless. Last season though I had a 75% winrate or something absurd like that on her and just flattened people in lane and then dominated the game with ward control.
Now that wards are trash compared to last season my playstyle got nerfed, and I'm suffering in my other roles too because ward control in midlane especially was one of my biggest strengths as a player.
FioraWillCarry1 votesThe only time I've ever been able to crack a 70%+ win rate on a champ was with Support Sona in Season 5. Supports are underestimated.
z14GaKI7TO1 votesBeing a positive/supportive player does some crazy shit. My main got banned perm (I deserved it) so I had this as my original account and was using it as a smurf. In preseason, when my alt was banned, I climbed from B5-S5 before the reset and man that shit was hella annoying. But this season I've tried something new. I've been super positive in all my games and have been shotcalling a ton and roaming/ganking and just doing as much as I can to put my team ahead and I have a 60% winrate right now and have climbed from b5 - my placement, to almost b1 now in like 45 games :) The best part is, this time climbing out has been soo much less stressful than climbing out in preseason.
Being a gold player in bronze is obv helping with the wins but theres no way my winrate would be over 50% if I wasnt overly positive and shotcalling..