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Riot, the support role feels really stale.

Reaper Soraka··10 votes·307 views

Hi Riot. I love your game, but lately it feels realllllly stale and unoriginal. As a support primary, I don't really feel like anything changes from game to game. Maybe it's because of the thousands of games as support, but only recently have I felt like just ffing or afking after 25mins into the game. It's not the winning or losing part, it's the lack of....fun? There doesn't feel like a reason for me to be in the game mid-game. Something is missing at that point.

I feel like I'm starting to just ruin all games I play. At that point it feels like the game has already ended, and the teams are just dragging it out. Of course the winning team can still lose, and losing still has a chance to win, but it feels the chances of the outcome changing are abysmal whether I'm there or not.

I'm playing different roles now and having more fun, but I find it strange that only recently the support role has felt a little underwhelming.

p.s. I love the new support items, but they didn't feel like they really changed much overall.

Thanks for reading.

6 Comments

khorney1 votes

no on elieks to do it, its boring unfufilling and are always the reason for losing.

Reaper Soraka1 votes

It was fun, but they changed something to make it simply not appealing. A combination of champions ability changes, ratios and items have made it feel really...meh.

Gibberwatt1 votes

From your username, I'm assuming that you like soraka/janna and other babysitter supports. While this is cool, and all, I find that the Babysitter supps are the most boring - land your cc, heal/sheild your adc, and that is about all you can do. whoozzzzzzzzzzzz

You should consider trying a more utility based support, like nautilous, tahm kench, Zilean, or Blitzcrank (huehuehue). Personally, though, Thresh is my favorite. While these supports don't Carry the adc as much, with a lack of sheilds/peel, but they do allow the support to play alongside the adc - you can be in the fray, eating damage, hooking, stunning, and assisting, and you will begin to feel like a toplaner that has sacrificed damage for utility. Also, you can try the cheese builds, like AP blitz, or AD thresh, that make everyone so happy :)

Also, you could try some AP supps, like Annie, Anivia, or Morgana. These are definetly not so much babysitting, and a lot more kill potential.

Basically, you should try to get away from the more boring supports, and get towards the mechanically difficulter supps.

khorney1 votes

baby sitting supps are what i feel like doing if i feel lazy tbh. a lot of adcs despise them becuase they think they should enage nonstop like braum or leo or naut

CasterGilgamesh1 votes

one thing i want is either riot makes ward stones better or if vision is so broken just remove it all together.I want riot to finally make an interesting kit for soraka that doesnt force her to get nothing but nerfs every fuckin patch after

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