Why do people look down on supports?

breakordoom444··3 votes·1,036 views

I don't get it, a support sometimes is the most important part of the team, just because he doesn't take cs or kills doesn't mean he is completely useless, the behavior I've seen in ranked when people get auto filled support is like "JESUS FUCKING CHRIST SUPPORT????"(i hope I don't offend anyone, this is from my ranked experience) yes sometimes when you don't know how to play support it's frustrating I get it. I asked my friends and people who play league why they look down on support, half of the answers were "doesn't do anything other than stand there and steal EXP"

https://imgur.com/a/Kr8iE#TlVmSr1 this is not my image and is something I came across online. it shows an example of how people treat support as a role. (for riot: yes that pictures has names on it, but unfortunately my toaster can't render a ******* image right so I give you that) in general, supports are useful, just because you want to show off with your "good" xayah skills in ranked or blind doesn't mean you dodge if you get support, suck it up, there's got to be 1 champ that's a support each week.

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Mecha MaIphite2 votes

because it's harder to feel impactful as a support; you don't get kills, you don't do much damage, etc

breakordoom4441 votes

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because it's harder to feel impactful as a support; you don't get kills, you don't do much damage, etc

but a good support is more impactful then a adc.

Mecha MaIphite1 votes

but they're not good supports

Ben Sharpio2 votes

OP saying people look down on supports is misleading and suggests that "we hate u" mentality, which is not the case.. The guy in the picture just doesn't want to play support.

breakordoom4441 votes

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OP saying people look down on supports is misleading and suggests that "we hate u" mentality, which is not the case.. The guy in the picture just doesn't want to play support.

the picture is not the point, its the topic of people looking down on supports

Colred1 votes

I don't think it difficult to feel impactful as a support. I main support, and when I'm having a good game, I'm often the most influential player on the team. It's not unusual for me to have 70%-90% kill participation before 15 minutes. I think the reason most ppl don't like to play support is because most ppl just really want to kill stuff, and that's not what supports do. That, or they misunderstand how important it is to have a good support on your team.

BlackFlux1 votes

"stand there and take XP" I think your compensation is somebody who can do a little damage but also carry tons of utility. good example would be idk....item 2049 item 3190 item 3107 [slayer-jinx-wink] My goal is this:if something goes wrong and I get flamed get ready cause I'm 1-upping you when the game ends as a like 3/6/42 Zilean Just buy a simple support or two and be done with it...Soraka Zilean Morgana Alistar With either A:stupid healing B:STUPID revives/speed/slow moves (the speed/slow gets to 99% and the revive cooldown gets to 33 seconds) C:stupid 3 second CC and CC immunity or D:just a lot of CC and very tanky. as by level 6 you can ult and give yourself some late game armor not like its hard/time consuming to get a support apart from Thresh Bard Braum Lulu ect?

breakordoom4441 votes

i know alot of reason why people look down on supports, i want the communities opinions, ive mained support in china since s3 i moved to NA becuase of reasons, to this day i still play support (sometimes jungle) when i talk about my support main with my friends they just laugh and call me a loser and "main A REAL ROLE"

option paralysis1 votes

judging by the way he writes, that dude in the picture is a low iq moron.. Sooo, I wouldn't take anything he writes seriously.

Mataka Tek1 votes

I don't look down on supports, I REVERE them.

But the JOB itself is BORING... so yea, I look down on the support role when I have to auto-fill it.

Its worse than playing Nasus.

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