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Playing Support for Ranked Blows ...

CarameI Frappe··8 votes·1,178 views

I just can't ... it's starting to tear my soul apart. I can't continue to play ranked as a Support Main. Gold II here ... well, III now since I dropped so hard after quite a lot of recent losses. Unless you have a premade of 5 people, and all communicating via Skype / Curse / Discord, ect ... good luck with your games. No matter how skilled you are, if someone on your team feeds- there's no way you can make up for that.

I'm having too many games where one lane suffers so then said rivals come bot continuously and tower dive us. I can set up wards, pink wards, do everything I can and both me and my ADC will die because I cannot rely on my team. It's not like I can carry the game by myself, I won't ever deal enough damage or tank hard enough to ensure we make it. Hell ever since Season 6 started, I feel squishy despite going full tank Leona .

It's not fun anymore. It doesn't feel rewarding to be a Support Main in ranked unless you have friends to back you up. I guess you can call this a rant thread, but the moment my team starts losing, I know i'm going to lose LP because nothing I can can really save the game unless they pick themselves up and work with my plays / setups. Just .... it's not the same like it was in Season 5. Supports like Sona and Zyra aren't even building like a Support would and are still doing great because they're mages now. Such is the way League is making me not want to bother playing Ranked anymore.

19 Comments

Free Royalty 7 votes

ranking up as support is dumb honestly you are relying on other people you can't do that in league people are stupid trust yourself and only yourself

easy game easy life

FourVsFive5 votes

I main support, went from silver to plat. Best skill I felt I had as a support was boosting teams morale. Makeing sure people do not tilt and make sure people who are having a bad game not get down. As I study psychology, and know the power of boosting teams moral increasing chances by a lot, and making people play better. I see it as a hidden skill not much know about other then people who study and understand psychology, almost feel like cheating.

Wolfbanez122 votes

did you do it 100% solo

FourVsFive2 votes

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did you do it 100% solo

yup, you can look at my ranked match history to show that you will not see many names that are the same.

Wolfbanez121 votes

good for you i main support and have to work from a new account best i every did is support season 4 silver 2 all by myself but league is starting to make me wanna just give in and find other to climb with

Verdade1 votes

I did the same. From S3 to P3 in less than 70 games, playing only support and only solo Played VK/Bard/Tahm mostly

CarameI Frappe1 votes

I tried this a few times, but all I get is "St*u I don't need a Gold II telling me anything" or "Stop chatting and play already". It's probably because i'm a Support and people tend to not really have any respect for them ... hence why when people treat me well, I get surprised in all honesty.

1wolfpack4 votes

I feel your pain, I tried to main support this season 9/10 in qualifying, ended up in s2 couldnt even pull myself back into gold as support. as you said, cant help other lanes that are feeding. plus if you have a trash adc, their is only so much you can do.

went back to my main MID, and im at my gold promo's within a week.

cinomenapplebae2 votes

cough cough vayne "mains" cough cough

Vellich0r1 votes

But support has some of the greatest impact on lanes that arent winning if the support has properly played their own lane. Especially a leona or thresh or blitz. One roam and you can feed your mid or jungle a free and easy kill

Chamuel852 votes

Yeah I have no idea why they nerfed Leona (they changed her but... it was a nerf), and if she's not ahead, she's kind of useless as you pop instantly... you almost need solo lane gold.

Oleandervine2 votes

The only support who can prevent idiot moves is Kench. He can eat the idiot and run far far away.

Blanchimont1 votes

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The only support who can prevent idiot moves is Kench. He can eat the idiot and run far far away.

You can also use someone with heals so that they are not as heavily punished for their stupidity.

The Last Ballad1 votes

And even then they still can eject straight towards the enemy team if they wish.

inplane1 votes

I've mained Support ever since Season 4 and I can still see it's pretty frustrating at times seeing the team fall apart because they couldn't do their part. It's how it goes I guess. One role is going to be harder to play than the others. And no, warding will not stop stupid plays and baby rage that plague even the highest of elo.

PulsarPollo1 votes

The playstyle has evolved and it really sucks to see that the supports being played in s4-s5 aren't seeing much play anymore due to this tank and mage meta. It's really annoying, but hey, embrace the adrenaline or learn to play against the flow.

DarkRitual1 votes

I'm in silver (still climbing though), and have no issues as a support main, even queuing up solo. It's all in the champ and how you play them. If you're losing bot hard, let them take outer turret, and have adc freeze farm the lane. You roam, make plays elsewhere while they farm back up to usefulness. If the enemy pushes the long lane like that, you drop down there with 2 or 3 people and show them why pushing a long lane like that is a bad idea.

Pings. They do things. Even in my ELO people listen when I ping. One person feeding is not too hard to win through, it's just very difficult if more than one person has been feeding early.

The Deckowner1 votes

I used to be a jg main back in early s5, then in late s5 I became a support main and now I quitted support and gone back to the jg. Supports feels like shit in the current state of the game, being 3 levels down the mid laner when everyone is lv18 feels very shit.Also with dynamic queue being a solo support is very disadvantagous, it is very likely you.will face a duo bot and vert often mid/jg bot trio thwt camp ur ass off.

GULAG 4 U1 votes

honestly in lol you gotta carry and most of the time support isn't a great role in order to do this. :/.

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