Can We Just Give Supports Double IP in Teambuilder
That'll cut the 10-15 queue times guaranteed, either that or make a new support champ each week, I figured the IP was an easier solution.
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Having people play support just for ip is like having people in ranked play free week champions, or champions that were just released. It's a disaster, and what'll likely happen is you'd have a shortage of adc's because they are the ones who have to lane with the random supports and probably wouldn't want to put up with the troll supports.
That would be abused.
In my last teambuilder game (which happened a long time ago), our Jungle Rengar locked in the role of "tank". I got confused as most Rengar players will build full AD assassin. When I asked him about it, he told me that he picked tank to get the Icon.
In game he did, as I expected him to, build full AD assassin.
Giving supports double IP would just result in people picking Support role, but going to lanes with their champions as usual instead of actually going support.
This is a neat idea. Bonus IP for playing roles that are in demand.
Medic force incoming: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fIOgfmfka5I
I don't get why people don't like playing support it is quite fun actually. (Also, why don't you support then to make the wait time faster?) 
Hook city, bitch, hook-hook city, bitch.
A better solution would be to give bonus IP based on which role was needed most when you queued up. So you could be a bonus of like 25 if you chose a role that was kinda needed, or get a bonus of like 100 for picking the most needed role.
Please dont. I like not having to wait for my support role in team builder. Instant team everitim.
No! Thats a bad idea! The problem is not with the supports its with the ADC's! I quit playing supports the beginning of this year, coz according to some ADC summoners ; no mater what the Support must be more than PRO! He needs to be the adc's shadow and have infinite number of buffs and shields and needs to be able to place 12 wards at once all over the map and be the fastest of all the champions,
AND DONT EVEN THINK ABOUT KILLING A MINION!! "Soraka: sry, area spell" "D FAK!!! LEAVE MY FARM!!"
YET ALONE A CHAMP!!! "Lulu: sry, he was gonna escape... i just tried to slow him down" "KS! NOOB!! RETARD U ARE SUPP!!! LEAVE MY LANE"
Here whats need to be done; "ADC goes SUPP weekend" - Every summoner that has lost more than 60% of his games with an ADC pick is eligible to go and play as a support for a weekend in team builder and after 5 won games as a support he gets a Code for free skin for previously selected by riot support champ.
Then there might be less flame to actual support summoners and might make the things better. Supp is not gonna make penta every 10th game, supp summoners know this and they play for the Gj's and the TNX's from the team, and who knows maybe some ADC's gonna convert to supp.
I would love this...
manbearswine.
think before u make these type of posts okay?
think about 5 man premades who are all putting in BOTTOM LANE SUPPORT from all lanes.
it is easy to still abuse it.
use ur small brain of urs before u try to give an idea to a billionare company.
I think OP meant giving bonus's to those who select an appropriately "tagged" champion, so as an example if player 1 queues as Thresh with his role locked as support & his lane being botlane he would receive a "bonus", while player two seeking to abuse this locks in Zed mid as support as his role and his lane as mid, Zed wouldn't receive a bonus due to his champion not having the right tag or lane since Zed is tagged as an assassin.
This could be would just lead to abuse from ip farmers in Teambuilder so that no one will want to use Teambuilder. If that doesn't happen, this could be abused if everyone queued up for "support" but actually played other roles. For example, Zed as mid lane "support."
As a support main in LoL and Dota 2, I can personally attest that support may be fun every once in a while, but more often than not
My carry can't last hit My carry will jump into danger I'll get harassed by my team I'll KS by saving a life
And especially in league, support is a tedious role (except Blitz, Threshold, and Leona). You have to harass, protect, spend money on wards, and if you die, no respect. It's not a bad role, it's just unfufilling and very sacrificial.
I get why people don't like it.
I played dota warcraft, and play lol in grn server not pro, but i'll tell you my experience
supports in dota aren't my thing, most of them are squishy, most of them are early game monster, you have to play aggressive, and... they are poor, IIRC support in dota is a hero that need not much gold, has strong early game to keep away their enemy from carries or rape them before they do it to us
I love supports in lol we have sightstone, we have supports item, they can scale into lategame too, supports aren't wards carrier because everyone has to buy wards, ofc, you have to protect adc and face stupid things adc will do, I played many other games and went through this too
I know why people don't like support most of the players are killer, and dota make support fit the most player, while LoL care enough about non-most of the players
I play 
and love playing them more than lich, lina, venge, ogre magi, etc
That idea is spectacular, but easily abused. There should be a bonus for picking one of the 4"in ddemand" roles
I support all the time. It just makes me mad that I can't play mid or top every so often, because those are always filled or called in any other gamemode
I like to support with odd picks, such as J4 support, and rengar support and Panth support, etc. I tend to do well with them(gold ranked). I;m too lazy to go above gold because i just do it for the skins so not sure how viable these are in higher levels of play. Haven't lost yet though!(at least with j4 support)
Support Ashe Incoming....
Too easy to abuse...
And then you get everyone playing the support role for every thing they play. Oh, you're playing adc/top/mid/jungle, why does it say support? It's the same as what happened with the TeamBuilder icons; people abused the system and played top lane darius as a mage for 5 games just to get their last icon (I, myself, did that :P)
I actually think its a great idea.
still would get abused.
ill go mid support with zed and a team will accept me knowing i want the double ip.
soon enough everyone will realize this and accept all support roles because they know its for double ip.
boom problem again!
stop it.
this isnt the way to solve it. its too general.
i want to solve this problem too but it will get abused easily.
edit: okay even if it was only for bottom lane. ur still giving marksmen the freedom to abuse it. whats the point of it if it will still get abused.
lucian bottom lane support.
you really support?
no im just getting double ip.
ah okay lets go!
Just do what I do and pick the support position but pick whatever champ you actually feel like playing. Then your team gets to decide if they want you or not when you get into their game, so its all fair. They can wait longer, or take you playing whatever you want, their choice. They can't come back and call you a troll later for it because it was their choice not to kick you.
Why don't you queue up for support yourself?
What Riot needs to do is put in some kind of "fill" feature where you can view team comps and pick accordingly.