A good arguement for being a support main

Recently, I've been watching a bit more of streamers playing in diamond/masters to try and pick up some tips on how to further improve. I noticed something about their games that I don't really experience. I'm a support main so that role is never autofilled and because of that players on my team are often assigned to the roles they want. Watching streamers playing I noticed that almost every single game had 1-3 players in autofilled roles and would pick really bad champions into the role. Ezreal supports, Nasus jungles, Jax mids and other equally bad matches were a near constant. This was made doubly bad by those players being unfamiliar with the role and playing poorly often heavily feeding pre-10 minutes. Supports were never buying Sightstone and top laners were without TP. A Lux taking TP in mid against a Zed instead of exhaust or barrier. I could name the issues I saw watching streamers all day.

As a support main....this rarely rarely happens. I mean, people still get autofilled but often only 1 person is on my team. As a support main if I get a bad ADC I can play an extra protective support and make up for their mistakes and can get them fed. Most of my games has a top laner with TP and as the support main I always have my eye on vision so our team can make plays and know we will always have a Sightstone. I pick champions like Janna, Lulu, Zyra, and Taric instead of having champions like Warwick, J4, and Leblanc in the support role.

People don't hold positions hostage as I am already filling the role people "hate" even though its not that bad anymore. People that "hate" it normally pick things like Renekton, Pantheon, Ezreal and other non-support champions then try to carry after buying a Long Sword instead of a relic shield or some other gp10 item (wonder why they hate it). In general, as a support main everyone is pretty happy and in a better mood as they got roles the want. Carrying a game can be done from the support role, just learn wave management, how to roam, and communicate with your team and you can carry from support. Support is also a highly flexible role in that you can pick whatever your team needs to round out the team comp for later. It's also highly satisfying to make the big plays from support and although I might not get the kills or the credit we support mains can take pride in our own abilities and don't require approval from others to know if we did good or not.

In short, Be a support main to:

• have less autofills
• having happier teammates
• improved odds of getting ADC fed
• no holding position hostage
• better champions in intended roles
• Players being knowledgeable in roles
• far far far less troll picks
• better team comps
• better self-confidence