You cannot carry as a support.

Eurotoxin··5 votes·548 views

Sorry to say. I have been maining the support role since S5. Needless to say it's garbage. In my match history I have 90%-95-% kill participation. I setup the kills, get my team fed, put down 30-40+ wards a game. I also shot call in my game because I'm confident in my ability to do so. Now with that being said my team 80% of the time loses. Despite being fed and having tower advantage and dragon control we lose. Why? Because people get too cocky and think that they can mess around the whole game. No one wants to listen to the support because of my role, thinking their carrying the game. The only games I actually win are the ones that I go full ap blitz because then I can have some kill pressure. I like building supports the way they were meant to be built. Everytime I step out of the support role I win 76% of my games. I'm tired of people saying, "support can carry." No your not challenger, your team will not listen to you, your opinion does not matter. Got your team fed? Great! Now watch as they chase kills and die giving the enemy team hope, then you lose because your team decided to throw 50 times. People do not stop and think, "maybe he is a good support, maybe his calls are right? Hmm maybe I should listen once in a while!" The only 2 supports I know that can hard carry is Braum and Alistar. Thanks for letting me rant.

11 Comments

Jeddite2 votes

I have been maining the support role since S5.

Why do cretins like yourself make statements like this and think it shows any credibility?

I've been maining support since S1.

( WOW SUPPORT MAIN SINCE LAST SEASON HOLY WOW DUDE HOW U SO SUPPORT!? )

Roit Gums1 votes

the only support that can actually carry and feed team mates is blitz he turns a team fight from a 5v5 to a 5v4 immediately

Ok sure but why1 votes

Blitzcrank is a top-lane assassin when you build him right

Marshbouy1 votes

I cannot agree with this more. yasuo dives in 1v5 and out of zilean ult range "fucking zilean didnt ult me please report"

aaronautumn1 votes

I can! Been plat 3 seasons in a row playing only support. This season it feels tougher, I'm stuck in gold right now but I don't think it's a problem with the role itself but my inability to play like I used to.

Deep Terror Nami1 votes

It's not that it's hard to "carry", it's that the contributions a support brings are often less distinct than that of others, who often just looks at KDA and damage dealt and exclaims "I carried!". Fortunately dealing damage and getting a good KDA isn't the same as killing the Nexus.

BeeCuz1 votes

Similar statements have been made by the streaming community, that in order to move from a group of players who enact performance substantially different from the decisions a given player would make it is necessary to select from a limited sub-set of the champions and playstyles.

Or to rephrase it, movement between league divisions differs between champions/roles.

Maximum Zilean1 votes

Actually...

I carried a few games as supportKarma Lux simply by getting a bit more AP then usual in my build. Usually do this when the AD carry isn't doing so well and it works surprisingly well.

Even though I was playing support with them technically. Remember they still have alot of damage with a bit of AP.

The Whamboozler1 votes

Correction. You can't carry as a defensive support.

You CAN carry as what I like to call "murder-supports". Annie, Brand, Lux, Velkoz, Zyra and Volibear. These champions can all do pretty fierce damage and aren're based entirely around protecting teammates or setting up plays for other people.

The problem is, to carry as these champs you have to play in a very greedy "un-support-like" manner. Taking kills, buying damage over support items... (STILL GET A SIGHTSTONE YOU DIRTY ANIMAL!) and the like. Support Brand in particular was my go-to guy for games where I wanted to make certain I could carry the game if I had to, but I was stuck as support. Try it.

Scary Door1 votes

You can lead your carries to a kill, but you can't make them take it.

Symbiotic relationship at play here: An ADC can only be as effective as their support and a support can only be as effective as an ADC. Or, of course, the old cliche that best describes the situation is that you are only as strong as your weakest link.

Setting up kills, objectives, vision, etc. is an invaluable part of the game, but the rest of your team has to execute. If you play a consistently good support you will climb sooner or later.

FourVsFive1 votes

Zyra support can carry, I seen many do highest dmg in team even with lowest amount of gold.

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