No S - Riot and Supports

Xasomur··3 votes·810 views
League of Legends Match History

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.

5 Comments

Alex h87212 votes

It was as toplane not support but I feel your pain bro. 12-0-2 w/ ryze and A- :(

http://matchhistory.na.leagueoflegends.com/en/#match-details/NA1/2364730503/235163637?tab=overview

PureSilvrr2 votes

You need more Cs, as support riot expects oyu to have at leash 90 cs in the support role. I went 4/2/30 on zilean with like 30 cs and no S, but I get an S going 4/3/15 or something like that with 100 cs Edit- it was 2/1/15 60 cs no s and then 4/2/30 100+ cs (same K/d/a ratio)

MetalGearTeemu2 votes

to get your S ranks in supports, play them mid or top. Riots silly ranking system holds them to the same standards as it does an ADC, so by playing them in these slots you are able to get better CS and KDR numbers ( all that matters to rito finest ranking system ) and get easy S's that way.

Xasomur1 votes

welp, I got the S now. I played support again, but I stole my ADC the kills (I was 9/1 at some point) and seeing how bad he was at farming, I even stole his farm. I went full dmg and kept on going like I was the mid laner. I got kills and cs. We lost in the end, but hey, I got the S. So I got the S when I played bad support and lost, but I didnt get the S when I played good support and stomped... That's what I mean... :(

Xasomur

thanks for the kind replies :) @ PureSilvrr - they forfeit at 20 mins. If they wanted me to get more farm, I would have been reported by my adc for stealing his farm ^^ @ Alex H8721 - wow, that's incredible! especially because the player in my game who got also an S- was a Ryze too... and didnt carry that game like you xP

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