When was the support role invented?

Dasdi96·May 16, 2017·1 votes·354 views

I remember when riot created the game they did not intend for champions to be balanced around having 0 cs. When did people get the idea that having a 0 cs support alongside an adc was the most efficient usage of resources?

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Milla JovovichMay 16, 20172 votes

Supports are older than Riot and League LULZ

Miror BMay 16, 20172 votes

Around the late 1700s. Americans would send "supports" to their home country to work on plantations, often doing hard labor that they themselves didn't want to do. It wasn't until Abraham Lincoln came in office that the idea of "supports" were scrapped entirely for a more balanced option.

Milla JovovichMay 16, 20172 votes

George Bush did Season 6

alfavhunterMay 16, 20172 votes

supports started since DnD

DeathBurstMay 16, 20172 votes

When did people get the idea that having a 0 cs support alongside an adc was the most efficient usage of resources?

You seem to imply it's a wrong idea and that people didn't really think this through. But actually yes, it is the most efficient usage of resources.

Empirically, at the very top level of pro-play, teams that used this strategy started to dominate and were quickly imitated, until the strategy trickled down to every Elos.
Logically, it's better to have one fed champ (and another one providing some baseline support with the few scraps it can get) than two half-fed champs. If you have two half-fed champ, none of them can actually win a fight, it will be easy to kill one quickly and then the second one will die soon after, etc. On the other hand, if you have one fed champ, he is a big threat, and can easily 1v2 if the others aren't as fed as him, and you cannot just ignore him and focus the one that isn't fed at all, because by the time you do that, the fed one will kill you.

MajkiMay 16, 20171 votes

The better question is why.

Irelia BotMay 16, 20171 votes

Sometime back when Dota was a warcraft 3 mo...

Actually it was before that.

robotmasterMay 16, 20171 votes

The pros and lcs. People just copy them.

Milla JovovichMay 16, 20171 votes

Awesomedude8888May 16, 20171 votes

After season 1 Worlds, when the EU team won with an ADC/support bot lane against the NA's double bruiser bot lane. Then the AD/supp style caught on by the rest of the world.