why role of "Support" is hated so much
I've red multiple posts about how Support secondaries are always forced into it, because Support primaries aren't as much as any other. We all know Support is the most hated role in the game and it has been so from the beginning. But why?
Here's what I think of it:
Top, Mid and ADC Tho Mid and Top are solo lanes while ADCs have Supports beside them, these 3 share a lot of mechanics, such as farming the minions, trading with the opposing laners, making sure they aren't vulnerable to ganks and so on. Fun part is: you get to kill stuff and brag about you're KDA and that's what everyone expects from Multiplayer Online Battle Arena, right? Solo laners have a chance to outplay enemies, make some cool looking plays with all the CC and mobility in their kits, while ADCs usually are stronger than anyone else Late-game and have the power to deal crap ton of damage to enemies that have annoyed them early on #payback.
Jungle Junglers vary between running around between camps, farming and recalling non-stop and ganking the lanes over and over again, not even touching jungle camps aside from buffs, making it, role with the most action involved. It's much harder to master this role (let's be real here, these guys have so much to think of ingame) but once you've done it, there's so much fun stuff you can do with it, from coutnerjungling and ruining enemy junglers' days to ganking the lanes weird and unpredictable ways, while also having the choice to farm safely and after reaching champions power spike, coming out of the jungle and killing everyone you see #justRengarthings #justMasterYithings.
And at last... Support These guys are typical babysitters. They have to do whatever 3-years-old-crying-baby-ADCs ask them to, from placing wards and buying items what power them up, to applying pressure on enemy lanes so that they can farm more easily. Top laners (father) don't care what you and ADC (child) are going through, Mid laners (mother) sometimes feel obligated to check to see what's going on with you and those Junglers (Uncle, Aunt) sometimes comes around to see the ADC and make his future brighter by giving him some kills (and making them cry by tickling (stealing some CS) too much) and you know, you're there too, so you usually get involved in all that. For real tho, these guys don't get to kill stuff and even if they do someone's gonna get mad, they just get to annoy people, but if you do it too much, you might become killed since you don't have enough money or freedom to buy items you want.
Video games (in most cases at least) are made to let you do something you've dreamed of but aren't able to do in real life, like blowing everything up, stealing money and stuff from others, killing people you don't like, seeing some big bo... (you know what) and Support role is something that offers least of these stuff (you've got plenty of time to check out those hotties tho #percsofbeingSupport), so naturally this role has smallest player base of them all.
Riot sure has done great job making Supports' lives a bit more exciting by adding some cool items and abilities to their kit, but it will never be enough, I guess. My intentions writing this were to show you guys why Support role is hated by people and why other roles are more enjoyable to most of the players. I have no idea how to solve all the issues I've mentioned, but I hope you guys now have better understanding of what Riot is being asked for when players are whining about Supporting not being popular.
P.S. I used to hate this role too, but after playing the game for couple of years I realized, that Support role actually bgins a lot of joy, just because you have less job to do (resulting in less "stressful" gameplay) : you don't have to kite people around, dive enemy back-line, deal damage to high priority targets, do damage to towers at sieges and clear waves at defenses. But still, I'm that whiny-kiddo-ADC main after all having Support as my secondary role :P
because I enjoy being able to set things up and potentially killing things (it's also why I like to play
support and one of the big reasons I like playing
top now). But I can't play
support or
support since it's not really helpful.