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The life of a support main

Jefftiffy·Mar 19, 2018·6 votes·1,406 views

You look at vision score and your top/mid laner hasn't put down a single ward including trinket.

You cry when someone supporting as builds APC because they got a couple kills early.

You lose lane and automatically its your fault especially if you die once when the entire team is watching your lane and it's a 3v4 or a 4v4.

You win lane and your adc is 10/0. Guess what that enemy team wants you now instead of the fed ADC for some reason and it feels like you need better positioning than the ADC because for some reason you are the carry because wants to buffer his KDA.

You look at your support when you don't play it and wonder how they barely struggle to keep ahead of the jungle in vision score with a free sight stone built into their items.

You get the one ADC in the game who actually seems to be good or average at what they do so at the very least they are pulling their own weight. Only to realize that the top lane or mid lane is 10/0.

Your ADC first backs and buys or as their only item. Guess you didn't feel like winning the game [zombie-brand-facepalm].

You watch someone who doesn't know how to play support, go "Hmmm... I don't know how to support... so... I think I am going to go... support. He's got CC it could work". And you are top lane . Me "Um, buddy I can support if you want." "No it's fine, it will work out I promise trust me." 10 minutes later: Defeat. Team: "Shitty ADC" Me: [slayer-jinx-unamused]

Idk maybe it's being down here in silver after spending so much time in gold, but at least the people in there knew how to play the game and just were a 50/50 on who was the better player and there were still some truly bad people, just not over 50% of them.

14 Comments

OleandervineMar 19, 20182 votes

Morgana Sona and Lux rolling APC isn't bad at all, and actually tends to flow with their kits a little better. The 3 of these champions actually fare better as being poke supports with some other utility built in than building full utility and not utilizing the poke their kit has to offer. Hell, 2 of them are designed as mid lane mages, so I don't understand why you'd think Lux and Morgana running APC is somehow contrary to how they should be played. ADCs DO have to know how to play with poke supports, as support playstyles are not one-size-fits-all, so it's most likely a fault of an ADC thinking all supports play the same if they don't understand how to synergize and place themselves to be most effective with poke supports to utilize the kill lane potential.

SwiftKitten88Mar 19, 20181 votes

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and rolling APC isn't bad at all, and actually tends to flow with their kits a little better. The 3 of these champions actually fare better as being poke supports with some other utility built in than building full utility and not utilizing the poke their kit has to offer. Hell, 2 of them are designed as mid lane mages, so I don't understand why you'd think Lux and Morgana running APC is somehow contrary to how they should be played. ADCs DO have to know how to play with poke supports, as support playstyles are not one-size-fits-all, so it's most likely a fault of an ADC thinking all supports play the same if they don't understand how to synergize and place themselves to be most effective with poke supports to utilize the kill lane potential.

yeah these champs ( i can speak as much for sona) but Morgana and really only need to grab item 3098 before going item 3157 into full ap and Lux really only needs to get item 3504 after before also going full ap

JefftiffyMar 19, 20181 votes

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and rolling APC isn't bad at all, and actually tends to flow with their kits a little better. The 3 of these champions actually fare better as being poke supports with some other utility built in than building full utility and not utilizing the poke their kit has to offer. Hell, 2 of them are designed as mid lane mages, so I don't understand why you'd think Lux and Morgana running APC is somehow contrary to how they should be played. ADCs DO have to know how to play with poke supports, as support playstyles are not one-size-fits-all, so it's most likely a fault of an ADC thinking all supports play the same if they don't understand how to synergize and place themselves to be most effective with poke supports to utilize the kill lane potential.

My point is mostly the supports who just damn I got some kills who needs support items and skip out on item 3098 . And you see at 20 minutes that the jungle somehow has a higher vision score than them even though they could have invested 500g in a really good item that would have probably solidified the win.

OleandervineMar 19, 20181 votes

Under the new support items, I have never seen a support not get the Sightstone now. It's completely impractical now to not buy the one item that you are 100% reliant on for gold. Sure, you can sell it later if you must, but when it really counts, people generally have it.

Baron BarianMar 19, 20181 votes

I've been playing mostly top lane this past month or so, but I still have the heart of a support main that I got in 2017.

This....this aches that old heart.

AzadetheMar 19, 20181 votes

Heh. I recently started an account for this season.... got 4 int feeders in my first placements on the account so I got placed Silver. After failing a promo to Gold where I was the only person on any of the 3 teams who was Silver I and positive KDA (most of them were between 0/12 -0/18 .... one literally ran it down the middle), and a game where I force left because my mother showed up unannounced, I was put into a "low priority queue" (In other words, people who have marks against their accounts get stuck with other players with marks, which results in far worse games).

I've won like maybe 15 of the last 50 games... because the teams just tank so fast and so hard they are irredeemable.

I pretty much have to spam support just to ensure I can carry the teams (My Nami on a team is equiv to turning a Silver game into a 6v5). If I try to top, I get hyper feeding bots, even though I'm dominating top. If I go mid it's a mixed bag. If I go jung, it's a mixed bag because teams at this elo seem to always go in and fight when you're on the opposite side of the map. If I get stuck with ADC, I can manage to get to about 10/2, but then I find out my team has no front line, so once the other team groups, my role is over.

I just love getting 13 LP a win and 22 a loss. It'll get back up to ~ 23, but omfg..... the games i have to play just to get there..... the rage I have to shut up to not get banned raging at the absolute yolo-fest Silver is.

FOR JUSTICEMar 19, 20182 votes

Been trying to spam nami myself

Loco Mot1vesMar 19, 20182 votes

You might feel like bouncing around from one role to another is fine, but try to stick to one lane with a backup and narrow your champ pool down to 2-3 and spam pick them. I had some terrible games because I found my new main in playing Kai'sa with my backup pick being MF who was my main last season. Now that I've had some time to play her, I am getting S' ranks and able to carry games. It helps that I can finally play a champ in any lane other than support, so if I don't get my lane, I can still play my champion. Just have to salvage my crappy start to this season now, lol.

In regards to getting bad team mates, eventually it turns around and you wind up getting placed against those same people you're complaining about. Use those games to improve enough to make a difference when it's 1v9. Anything can happen if a match goes on long enough. It takes balls of steel to climb the ladder.

AzadetheMar 19, 20181 votes

...... I didn't ask for advice. I know how to climb..... I've been a fixture since Season 4, and have accounts grounded at Diamond IV, Plat I, Plat II, Gold I.

I can carry every role in the context of hypercarrying a team..... other than perhaps adc, (sometimes can do that too).

I'm not biased in the way I'm describing these teams either. A Nami support doesn't stand much of a chance at turning around a game where the top/mid/jung fed a Khazix 9/0 by level 7, and gave him an early Duskblade, map control.

And no.... at low elos.... it really doesn't turn around. You have to expect a 35-50 minute game EVERY game, and hypercarry, or you will easily fall to a 40% win rate.

In Season 4, I was able to 36/0 1v5 a team with Udyr . Now..... it's VERY hard to 1v5 carry. Only about 10 champs can do it, and I don't often play them. Ziggs Gangplank Yasuo Akali Pantheon Riven Veigar Ekko Tryndamere

VICKLIUSMar 19, 20181 votes

morg does need buff though, Q kill reset, modify shield for also physical dmg (cant be crit, either shield goes both go) an also regen from what shielded, R dot till reactivate, to give better sync with her passive.

DysnomiaMar 19, 20181 votes

Supporting people in bronze be like https://media.giphy.com/media/tuIHNxzdcwLAI/giphy.gif

Bootleg GayMar 19, 20181 votes

I feel this on a spiritual level honestly.

swaningtonMar 19, 20181 votes

Nasus support is so much fun. The slow is massive and you can tank really well. Don't get nearly as fed as solo lane but that's true whenever you take a non-support (i.e. mage) bot.

BütthoundMar 19, 20181 votes

item 1043 isn't that bad of a first buy one certain Champs like kog varus or kalista

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