No S - Riot and Supports
Dear fellow Summoners,
I wouldn't post another "rito pls y no s" post, if it wasn't in the light of Riot's ambitions to make the support role more attractive. One point that has been mentioned repeatedly was that playing support is not rewarding. Generally I wouldn't agree (as a Support main), but this game I had makes me understand the argument. And I had and have lots of those games: I feel like I play out of my mind, I carry my adc and the whole team and I still get no S. (Either for the chest or for the mastery or for the mere "rewarding" feeling.)
If you look on the Match history, you will see: I played Zyra support, I ended up 2/0/14, i brought my adc to 13/0/3, the enemies gave up at 20 mins. There were 22 kills in total, so I have 73% kill participation. I have the second highest damage dealt to champions, 1,2 k short of our adc, who has an S. (Don't get me wrong, that guy was playing great too - on Urgot!). I however, got an A-. I have the most wards placed in the game. Maybe 13 isnt much, but i always had all wards placed or 3 wards in use. The one control ward I purchased was never killed. I helped Urgot get the snowball. We got ganked early, but we both played clutch and went out 3 for nothing. Shortly after we had a clutch dragon fight - with only one death on our side we could secure drake and get even more kills. With clutch I mean: low health bars, well spent sums, key stuns and ults. Then we played smart: we punished the enemies hard (with more kills) everytime they stepped forward. We never overextended though. During all this, I managed to give my adc all the last hits on champions - except for two (which happens on Zyra, cuz plantz). I helped multiple lanes. After we got first tower, I roamed mid - got kill and tower, roamed top - got kill and tower. I seriously see no way I could have played any better! (Unless the game wants ME to take all the kills, wants ME to take all the farm.) Funny enough, my midlaner, who gave their team 2 of their 6 kills and has only gotten 7 by himself, he got an S-.
Often times I feel like as support I can only have an S, if my whole team plays mediocre to bad and the game is dragged longer and longer. I actually always hope for my enemies to NOT give up early, so I can have the chance at an S. If no-one in this game on our side would have gotten an S, I'd be fine - then we'd all share the same fate. But here, as a support player, I feel treated unfairly. Of course this was a stomp - and maybe no-one should get an S for a stomp. But if stomping a game gets you an S, then I am pretty sure I deserve an S here, because I was a big big part of making it a stomp.
So please Riot - fix this. I don't want you to make getting S on supports easier - it's already pretty easy in my humble opinion. But there are these types of games, where you play great and stomp so that the enemies give up: Your laners get an easy S, the support gets an A-.
PS: I would have added a screenshot of my post game screen, but this is my first post, I don't know how to do so.