Severe imbalance for support players in Ranked

In Virtues··1 votes·387 views

Hi,

So i've been playing league for around a year now and as soon as i hit 30 i was obviously eager to play in the ranked section of this game. After fulfilling my promo games (losing most of them and being placed in Bronze 1) i noticed the sheer unfairness that ranked play has on support players. I've always enjoyed support as my main role and have a wide selection of support players i can use. But this does not help the fact that when i get matched with complete idiots who don't know how to play their roles, or how to communicate and work as a team... It makes the entire game unfair and not worth playing. I've noticed a hell of a lot of other support players say the same thing. The frustration of playing this role is almost too much to bear and i've wanted to quit a number of times.

I know that obviously everyone has their fair share of bad games. But judging my the plays i make, the stats i get in game it seems very unfair to be dragged down by the rest of the team. Now i'm not talking about just a couple of defeats here.. I'm talking about almost an entire match history of losses, as a support character. There's 3 matches in which i've won in my current match history and they've all been standard match ups.

I'll probably get labelled as some little kid whining about losing, but honestly i'm just a player who's genuinely frustrated and had enough of the complete reliability that supports have on the rest of the team.. It's down to me to make good plays, but how can a good play be made if the rest of the team aren't following up on your actions?

I've got absolutely no clue on how this issue can be resolved, just wanted to get thoughts and views on what other peoples experience were in ranked support play?

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7 Comments

Bhagswag1 votes

Diversify your roles. Play other lanes.

In Virtues1 votes

I don't really enjoy any other roles. That's the thing.. I shouldn't have to change my play style just to get to where i want to be. I think it's more the morals behind it.

I want to play Support, because that's what i enjoy playing

Siyther1 votes

i used to play support but in ranked evry game was a loss so i quit playing it. I am not going to carry every game, regardless of which role i play, but i can still not auto lose a game, just by not playing support.

Horneybearman1 votes

Play a carry AP support

In Virtues1 votes

I've tried this, but I don't really enjoy many offensive champions.

Erockandroll1 votes

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I've tried this, but I don't really enjoy many offensive champions.

I'm confused at what your getting at.

Your team being idiots is pretty much going to be true regardless of role. Unless your complaining that the support has little chance of actually salvaging such a case. (Which is kinda true compared to a carry.) Idiots Qing up for a hard carry role with the intent of carrying themselves, yet don't take responsibility for their own failures.

But if you wanted to carry as the support, an Offensive Support would be the best way to go. Also, your more likely to get away with it in low ELO, simply because the gold disparity is a little less, since your teammate won't have as good CS.

Michael7021 votes

Yes, it's unfair for several reasons.

  1. You can't carry your team.
  2. You usually have high MMR. Matchmaker will "balance" teams by MMR. That's all fine and dandy except your team's high MMR player is support (you) and their team's high MMR player might be a carry. Which means they will probably win lane and go on to carry their team to victory.

The best advice I can give you is to abuse dynamic queue. At the very least, find some solid ADCs to queue with. That will eliminate 2/5 possible feeders.

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