Any tips for a new player on how to handle trolls and support tips

Discoking333·8/23/2016, 4:08:46 AM·1 votes·835 views

I'm a new player and I like the support role a lot but sometimes I make mistakes and people get really angry at me, like super angry. Sometimes my adc makes a mistake and they blame me. I usually play karma support (Main!!) and I will use R+E and to give them a good boost in speed and shield but they don't play right and I cant shield again and they tell me its my fault they died! How do I deal with this?? Also if any support mains have some tips I would really appreciate it.

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Fondling Gems8/23/2016, 4:44:40 AM2 votes

Yo! A fellow support main here. So one big thing is just Volibear with it. I Garen tee it will get better after you hit 30. Then you get to play with people who make dumb champion puns like me!

Anyways a bit more serious now because this is a topic I feel pretty strongly about and want to help you with. League is pretty bad pre lv 30 simply because of the mix of new players like you, Smurfs trying to level up their accounts and not wanting to deal with new players, and Bots fucking up games. Just suck it up and push on through to lv 30. I recommend that if you find someone who is nice and you enjoy playing with send them a friend invite at the end of game screen. Try to play with people like that whenever they are on.

Another thing is to remain positive. This is something I personally am exceptionally good at and don't have much trouble with so I am not the best at giving advice on it. Just don't let people get you down really. Think about it logically. If I call you a butt (You are a butt) you aren't going to get upset right? I am jsut some random dude making dumb posts on the internet. I don't (or at least shouldn't) matter to you. Keep that mentality. Also remember that the best way to deal with upset people is to just be positive towards them. They generally don't know how to handle it so they quiet down.

A good trick is that if they are yelling at you for being bad then ask them what you could do better next time. If they don't have a good reason then they will most likely make up some clearly stupid answer and you can just laugh it off (not in chat though)

In a situation where someone is really bad just press tab and hit the mute button by their name.


#On to le support shit!

Now supporting pre lv 30 is pretty tough. A big part of this is because warding is a lot of the power that a support brings to a team but pre lv 30 players don't know how to use vision well but will still blame you if they get ganked and didn't have wards. This means you have to be putting in the same amount of work and getting less in return. My recommendation is to ward a few crucial areas. Put a pink in your tribush/the bush behind your turret depending on which side of the bot lane you are on. Have a ward in river bush and a ward either in the dragon pit or in the bush between the mid lane bush and dragon pit. (the small clump just sitting in the river)

This means that your bot side looks all pretty and lit up while not having to go far to ward. The pink in the safer bush means that you don't have to replace it as much either. As you rank up and people start to actually use vision this does change but I don't think we need to cover that shit here.

Now I don't know what type of support you like to play and you can fully play whatever you want. However for newer players in pre 30 - lower elo Tank supports and a few specific ones like Morgana (shudder) are exceptionally good. Tell me what supports you currently like to play the msot and I will give you some recommendations.

Also, for the most part always build the support items that combines the sightstone and your starting item. It is more gold and combat efficient for new players who are still learning to use actives. Stay away from items like item 3050 and item 3222 The Unique passives on both of these are very tricky to use and I really wouldn't get them. Zekes takes knowledge on the part of both you and your teammate. Mikaels is basically a 0 stat item that requires a mixture of good reactions, good predictions, and good game knowledge. I would shy away from it until you are well used to League.

In general go for the less supporty items at the point where you are. A Janna with item 2301 and item 3165 is honestly going to do more than one with item 2302 and item 3504

So tell me some champs you like playing and any questions you might have. I don't have huge amounts of time tonight but I should be able to get in at least on more reply tonight.

NiamhNyx8/23/2016, 4:28:21 AM1 votes

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I'm a new player and I like the support role a lot but sometimes I make mistakes and people get really angry at me, like super angry. Sometimes my adc makes a mistake and they blame me. I usually play karma support (Main!!) and I will use R+E and to give them a good boost in speed and shield but they don't play right and I cant shield again and they tell me its my fault they died! How do I deal with this?? Also if any support mains have some tips I would really appreciate it.

Just let them be mad, we support mains, along with jungle mains, get the crappy end of the stick when it comes down to who people want to blame. Every good thing you do will be ignored, every mistake you make will be blown out of proportion. All you can do is keep your head up, ward, support and be the invisible babysitter that your team needs.

My average game as a support tends to have me placing around what would amount to 1 - 1.2 wards per minute of game time. Its a good thing to aim for at least 1 ward per minute, now I know that is hard until you get the sight stone but its good to get in the habit of placing a lot of wards. Second, die to save your adc if and ONLY if you are sure you can save your adc (usually we die a few times with out any kills so we are worth no gold), otherwise it will end in a double kill for the enemy. Our job as supports is actually more difficult than most people seem to think. we manage most of the vision on the map, we try to keep our team from dying and look for good initiations (if you are that type of support) and for good disengages if the fight has gone wrong. There are many, many decisions that supports make that can open up or slam shut a window for our team. We are invisible, we get 0% of the credit while we babysit most ADCs on the bottom lane till they can go out on their own and make the plays. Its just what we are, and a lot of us do not really mind it. All supports know that our team has a greater chance to fall with out our help.

Genuwhine368/23/2016, 4:43:52 AM1 votes

you dont you just wait tillyou get pissed enough thta you quit the shitty game and community. I legit have people crying that I did nothing in games I do the most. You will never get past trolls because there will always be retards in the world.

Unstoppable Monk8/23/2016, 4:56:45 AM1 votes

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I like the support role a lot but sometimes I make mistakes and people get really angry at me, like super angry.

ADC mains aren't people, son.

xevi8/23/2016, 5:07:53 AM1 votes

Ignore it. Mute them. Try to have as much fun as possible. Even if you're a losing and someone is trolling, just try to play the game and laugh at the other guy.

Resolution8/23/2016, 5:08:24 AM1 votes

There's little to no way to deal with trolls other then muting them half the time; as you can't make anyone happy in this game. I've been reported twice now for having too many kills - as an example.

Everyone feels like there opinion is law lately and if you even slightly go off that path - they'll turn on you and intentionally try to make things worse.

Fududles8/23/2016, 8:28:33 AM1 votes

Ex support main ... You'll never get anywhere if you dont queue up wuth an adc you kno

Discoking3338/28/2016, 1:34:58 AM1 votes

sorry for the delay of response had some stuff to deal. Thank so much for the amount of information I have read through it all even Volibear ed through the puns but it was all helpful. I have even done some of the things you guys recommended in some of my games and already see a huge improvement. Thanks again guys and have a great day!!!