What if we called Support -> Strategist?

ChaddyFantome·Apr 8, 2017·1 votes·295 views

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Big LincolnApr 8, 20173 votes

What if we called it support, because that's what it is, a supportive role

chipndip1Apr 8, 20172 votes

Because:

It limits what people believe should be in the role. Support is a ROLE, not a CLASS, in this game, but because of the name, some champs (primarily Brand/Zyra) aren't seen as actually intended for the role, even though they blatantly are (at this point anyway). Calling it something different may broaden people's expectations of what's provided by the role.
People are put off by the thought of being support. They just use it as the role to put their little brothers or girlfriends on while they play what they think is the more important roles. Calling it something different may help to remove negative stigma about what you'll be doing.

Big LincolnApr 8, 20171 votes

maybe the problem is with the champions who occupy the role, or the restrictions of the bot lane meta, rather than the name of it

chipndip1Apr 8, 20171 votes

Like, you KNOW I make a ton of threads on that very subject, given you're on this subsection quite often, so I know you know how people react whenever I bring up the EVER SO AMAZING AND INTERACTIVE GAME PLAY of champs like Janna and Soraka. It's like people just concede that support is going to be the least popular role to a fault for the rest of eternity.

I'm constantly bringing up the issue about stale itemization and boring game play patterns. If I do, people just start spouting crap like "Sona has a ton of skill expression! :^)" or "Locket and Redemption are totally fine and balanced items!" It's a bit ridiculous.