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So im switching to support (Low elo complaints)

reaper4042·9/11/2018, 8:17:22 PM·2 votes·792 views

Hello! I'm a jg main, and my goal is to get to gold by the end of the season. AS for why i'm a jg main, I just find it fun to kill people, and I don't have to worry about farming as much. Unfortunately, after I got to s1, the quality of teams got much worse and then I got tilted and demoted to 23( that's on me for playing on tilt). But for the most part, if all 3 lanes feed not much I can do. I usually mid lane as my backup, but even if i win lane, if my bot lane feeds, thats 2 people who are useless and now the enemy carry is fed, and in this meta its very hard to win when their team outdamages you, especially in lower rank solo que where my bot lane wont play safe and just continue to feed. I got particularly tilted when I had 4-5 games in a row where my bot lane fed, like fed hard 2/11. and no one has any coordination. It's also why i prefer assassins, so I can actually kill the carries, but my main jg is kayne(red form) and i have decent damage and cc, but like i said, if my team sucks, nothing I can do. So lately i've been playing support, and it's easrier in the sense that if I win lane with my carry, thats 2 people my jg doesn't have to worry about, and because its bot lane, someone actually does damage. In teamfights i either engage or peel for my carry(i mainly play thresh) which sadly has had more luck for me winning games than jg. I like jg, but i've been told that assassins aren't good because they rely on you getting ahead and staying ahead, which i kind of agree it's impossible for me to get ahead when all lanes feed. And while I do like evelynn and kayne, my team will usually feed before i hit 6 which makes it extremely hard for me to carry. It's actually made me a worse player, because when everyone feeds I don't give a shit anymore and I carry that into my next games which makes me play bad as well. I'm not improving at all, my skills are actually getting worse and to top it off im now a fairly toxic player, haven't had a chat restriction yet, but i know i've been reported for being toxic. And dont say challenger or whoever can easily smurf in low elo, because I am not them, and I am not that good, I just wanna get to gold this year.

TLDR: Should i quit jg and stay as a support? I main thresh because then my adc ( no matter how braindead they are) can just stand and aa something while i keep it stunned, slowed, and away. Im thinking of trying out brand, because he can solo carry as a sup, but i prefer tanky supports, like thresh and leona. Or do you think I should stick with jg and if so, what jg to use because i can go 7/2 as yi but if there's a fed yasuo and their team actually knows how to land a skillshot/ cc, because mine rarely seem to do, I like nocturne, but he gets blown up so fast.

7 Comments

usul12029/11/2018, 8:54:06 PM1 votes

I'd recommend sticking with what you're good at. Especially last minute it can be difficult to learn the ins and outs of both a new champ and a new role. If you're a good enough jungle to get s1 you can do it again, just 1 little wins treak from gold. Bad streaks happen and you'll tilt down sometimes. Keep your head up, keep playing what you're good at, and you'll get to your elo.

(also, as a supp main, until I hit mid plat I was stuck thinking "holy shit, why isn't my adc working with me" a decent bit. If you're going to supp, I recommend starting with the mindset of "you're in a 1v2 lane. Your adc is playing pve minion farming simulator, make his life easy so late game he's a God", it'll save you a lot of tilt)

BurakkuRozu99/11/2018, 9:03:59 PM1 votes

Basically every game I've been playing. Mindset = you are the carry. Feed your adc, mid, top, jg, whoever you can. But call it quits if it isn't winnable. Move on to the next game for LP instead of wasting 5~15 minutes just to lose the same amount of LP. P.S. Dodge if needed. I refuse to have a first time Jayce as my adc.

Echostormxx9/11/2018, 9:10:48 PM1 votes

Support and Jungle are the worst roles you can play in low elo. Why? Because there is little to no carry potential in these roles. You need to play roles like, Mid, ADC, Top if you REALLY, TRULY, want to climb.

Doge20209/11/2018, 9:45:13 PM1 votes

If you are gonna do supp, or continue jungle, I would recommend finding a good ADC main to duo with. It is easier to coordinate in a duo lane if the players can use voice comms to communicate. In jungle I said find a good ADC to duo with because if they are good enough they can at least stay even with their laner if your bot lost lane, and it is faster to let your adc know if you are gonna gank and that stuff over a voice call rather than pings and chat. Pings can easily be interpreted wrong and typing in chat takes too long. If you choose to main supp, play a bunch of normal games to learn and get some actual hands on experience of the different matchups that are both common and uncommon in bot.

Atmosphere9/11/2018, 10:28:35 PM1 votes

Find a duo. As a support main, I'm forced to climb on JG, mid, and top, just because playing bot without a duo is going to lose you so much elo.

Pandemic Punch9/11/2018, 10:45:17 PM1 votes

Support is a great role to carry from if you don't play traditional supports. Like.... I made it to Platinum in Solo Queue with Brand support.

I made it to Gold in Flex Queue today (While playing solo) pretty effortlessly with Brand and Bard while building item 3094 and item 3087 on him. :D The key to low elo is to not trust your team and do most of the damage yourself.