Ranked advice

byebyeman·Jan 8, 2017·1 votes·322 views

I have only been playing for a few months now. I finished last season as bronze 2 and started this one as bronze 5. I understand having to work your way up and I am good with that. However, I am looking for advice. I really enjoy playing support and like to think I am decent. I will admit I still have plenty to learn. The problem is you cannot carry a team as a support. I have been to promo to bronze 3 and demoted back down and lost LP all the way to 0 LP in bronze 5 several times do to the nature that support cannot carry and I get such horrible teammates quiet often (by horrible I mean attitude more so than ability). I do primarily play solo que and have not been able to find a consistent ADC to duo with.

Do I really have to give up support main to climb my way out? I am sure I already know the answer but I am open to any constructive advice.

4 Comments

Mysticman89Jan 8, 20172 votes

You can absolutely carry as a support, you just don't carry in the usual fashion of dealing damage, which why lots of people tend to think supports can't carry.

If you're a god tier support, you'll be either fixing your teams (inevitably countless) mistakes with your awesome peel skills (so your team usually ends up getting ahead since at that elo farm isn't a big source of gold and people rely on kills for gold, which you'd be denying), or you'll be spoonfeeding kills to your carries with the plays you can set up (...or you do the mage sup thing and try to carry with damage anyway despite the lack of gold, but at that point you probably should actually just be playing mid).

I cruised from low silver to mid plat playing almost exclusively janna last season as a solo player, and a few seasons ago I think a lot of my bronze->silver climb was leona (albeit with a mix of cait adc).

khorneyJan 8, 20171 votes

Just play as taric. Look at my build runes aND mastery . You can switch the quints for armor Mr or hp . I just take the gold to stack it better with relic shield

CrimsonDawn77Jan 8, 20171 votes

Ya you pretty much do I think; unless you become amazing to the point where you can carry, eg amazing Thresh hooks that a gold+level player would. And it sucks because we need more support players.

I am currently frustrated as an ADC cuz half my games are with terrible autofill supports that don't know their champs and don't understand the 2v2 dynamics in bot lane. Riot really needs to release the support rework, maybe things will be better then.

byebyemanJan 9, 20171 votes

Ty, I appreciate the responses. I think I am decent at this point but I still have my bad games. I main Janna then Morg and if a tank is needed either Naut or Tahm. It is encouraging to hear that others have done it. I will just focus on continuing to improve my game play and grind it out. However, just as much as ADC's hate to get a sub par support it is just as bad to get someone who doesn't truly understand ADC and lane positioning dynamics who then just flames the entire match.