Fill/Support RP Reward

The forums aren't going to like this, because they just want their queue reduced. God forbid they give a minor incentive.

But there needs to be something. If only because supports have a much harder time correcting openly bad players. Esp. when they reject surrenders. It's hell. HELL. And it's why queue times are long.

You'll have an easier time getting the forums to support Bot Supports in ranked than you will extra LP. Because apparently they're all Ayn Rand fans.

it would reduce it slightly but its a bad idea for various reasons.

This is such an odd suggestion. If we factor in the shorter queue times and assuming every game is a FF@20, a player could squeeze in maybe 5 games every 2 hours. I doubt anyone can consistently scrape together 6 hours of gaming on a work/school day, so we would be talking somewhere between 10 - 15 RP acquired with weekends doubling those amounts. This is assuming someone is trying to abuse the free RP offered by playing roughly 100 games a week.

Honestly a couple hours of actual work that translated to a $10 riot card would be more sensible. Even the Bing Rewards gift card thing takes less time for more RP. My conclusion is this reward would not be abused because it's too much effort. It would end up as an afterthought bonus for Support Mains. I'm sure there will be a spike in "supports" when it is first introduced, but things would go back after a couple weeks of negligible RP gains.

If you want more Support players, the role has to become more enjoyable to the playerbase. No easy way to go about doing that. I personally think this is more an issue with the playerbase than the role itself.

Or they could, you know, take a meaningful look at the Support role in this game and figure out just what they want us to be.

Season 6 has not be a great time to be a support, and I feel like everything has finally accumulated enough to where we now have a disaster zone in bot lane.

I can still climb effectively as support, but the chains feel heavier than they did season ago. If your ADC is preforming badly, you can't really leave them, especially if they're getting camped. In season 6 you may not get a gank in bot lane, and it doesn't matter if you're doing good or bad. That makes it a lot worse I believe. Counter pressure doesn't seem to be a thing anymore.

When you are allowed to roam, or you're forced to, the scaling issues you deal with are problematic, and don't give you the chance to really try to influence other lanes.

Another thing I'd really like them to tackle is map control in connection with the support role. It feels ineffective lately.

That would be a terrible idea. God no.

I mean, maybe not 1 RP...

For every 800 games, you can afford a recolor. Not quite worth it.

I'd say maybe for every X games in a row of Fill or Support, it gives you 100 RP instead.

Please don't insult us with your 1 RP handout.

Supports should not get special treatment just because they are unpopular.

Try finding the root of the problem instead of giving handouts, that way you might actually have a chance of solving the problem.

maybe 15 rp ?