PSA to players from a support main

Since support is one of those roles that most players would rather not play, and thus might be somewhat unfamiliar to some players I just wanted to take time to give people some quick tips when playing as and with a support.

DISCLAIMER: I am not an amazing diamond 1 support, but I have played the role for a long time, so I know the many basics that revolve around it.

1. Try not to be harsh on them. Unless you are like people like me who put support as the primary role, most people playing support probably got it as a secondary role. It's not their main role and as we all know, players are more comfortable with their main roles. misses a hook? Don't tell him how bad he is.

2. Relic shield exists. If you see orbs circling your support and they are trying to hit minions, let them, especially the catapult creeps. They aren't trying to steal your farm, they are trying to proc the shield, (for those who don't know, relic shield lets you execute a minion at a certain level with melee that procs a tiny heal and shares the gold of that minion, ranged supports actually have to last hit it).

3. Your support is warding. Just because you see them with a full leaving the base 20 minutes in doesn't mean they haven't been using it.

4. Just because you die to gank all the way out in bot lane by yourself does not mean you did not have vision. Pay attention to that minimap. It gives SOOO much more information then people realize.

5. You have wards as well. Most people like to simply dump warding all on the support. Don't do that. Early game, everyone's gonna be starting with yellow trinket, use it. Playing top and river is dark? Put a ward there at the safest convenience you can. Playing mid with both sides of the river dark? Put a ward over the wall on either side and hug that side you warded. Don't try to get the support to come from their lane to yours to ward. And please don't use the "It's going to waste my money and put me back items" excuse. is 75 gold. is free and lets you place a free ward from a huge range. A small price to pay for having vision of an area that can prevent a death.

6. Click thresh's lantern. No really, click it. This is both a joke and a serious statement. This dude has been around for 3 YEARS and people still don't know what his lantern does. If you are unfamiliar with the support you have, ask them about it. More likely then not, that player is gonna tell you what they do and this will lead to better communication in lane and team fights. Ex. When you see the little fishy symbol turn red on the enemy, i can eat and stun them.

7. Your support is playing a support. Unless they play someone like or , your support is unlikely to have a lot of kills, if any. They WILL however, have a lot of assists, and if they are initiators, a lot of deaths. So, if you end up losing a game, don't automatically point to the support's kda as a symbol of them being bad or why you lost. On average supports are going to have the highest deaths per team. The only role that on average has higher deaths is, guess who, your ad carry. http://www.elophant.com/league-of-legends/charts/role

8. Tell them thank you. Support is probably one of the hardest roles, not just in lol, but in mobas. A lot of people really do not understand the complexity of the role and often will think its easy (and end up doing poorly) or simply bash it. The last thing you wanna do is make your support feel like nothing and leave the game, especially in the lower elos.

Thank you to those who read the entire thing. I'm sorry if some people might see it as a rant or disagree with what I stated, but it had to be said. It getting harder and harder to play support champs in solo que, especially in ranked(there is a reason why no one wants to put support as a role, you are going to get it almost 99% of the time). I love champs like and , but i'm not sure if its worth getting yelled at for 20+ minutes because i've got teammates who don't understand the role.