The endless priviledges of non-supports

Lost R··6 votes·621 views

You don't know it, but you are mired so deeply in privileges, you are DROWNING in them.

All you have to worry about is damage and getting kills. You and four other people who wouldn't think for even a microsecond to be anything that isn't an AD melee assassin.

I have to worry about vision, crowd control, range, durability, building items to sustain myself, you and three other people, mana, cooldown reduction, when the dragon, rift herald and baron will be up, leading the charge into the frontlines because I end up being the most durable, engaging in every teamfight (even if I'm a squishy utility mage), defending lanes, pushing lanes, making sure you don't suicide charge into some idiotic situation, trying to stop you from burning my mana trying to keep you alive because you can't dodge a single attack, predicting where the enemy will show up, even when I can't see them, landing absolutely every single last spell because I end up having all of the crowd control, utility, range AND durability (and in some cases, the damage as well!), and trying to not die. All on a microscopic budget.

You can die a thousand times in a single game and no one will blame you for it. I die once and it's suddenly trolling and intentionally feeding, and then you spend the next forty minutes screaming at me for literally everything. I barely get the chance to recall to recuperate or buy items because I have to make sure the rest of the team doesn't get themselves killed while trying to tower dive five enemy champions.

I barely get to utilize the actual utility as a support because you squander them, and then you scream at me for not doing anything.

I almost refuse outright to be a tank support anymore since no one knows what the fuck they even do anymore, or try to engage without the tank by their side, or hang back while demanding the tank engage WHILE the tank is already engaged, and then scream at them for intentionally feeding.

More often than not, I have the least amount of deaths and the highest kill participation by a fucking mile while having the least amount of deaths WHILE being focused harder than anyone else, not that anyone acknowledges it.

If it's not an attack damage or attack speed item, no one knows what they do anymore (and even then, people STILL don't know what half of the damage items are). No one knows how to read or consider the viability and purpose of any item anymore; they just build whatever website tells them to, and then scream at everyone else for not doing the same.

You have so many privileges, it's absolutely revolting. If I could, I would forcefully rip away every privilege you have until each and every last gold coin you will ever get is a grueling trial of the ages to obtain.

10 Comments

Spizzle90002 votes

Wait is this satire or not? I get supports deal with some shit, but you're sounding like a feminist talking about straight white men right now, except you have a point to a certain degree.

Mysticman892 votes

We supports get the privilege of not needing to worry about csing at the same time as watching our positioning, and despite your claim to the contrary I'm inclined to think that we as supports are focused the least unless we've done something horribly wrong.

My janna main adventures on another account are bundles of fun, and I have been hailed as a god on multiple occasions for all of my glorious janna-y peel, so it even gets appreciated in the sub-30 world. Basically if you're finding people aren't appreciating you, do it better until they're forced to appreciate you.

Lost R1 votes

I tend to get ult focused the most because if I have the slightest bit of range, I spend a huge amount of time poking down the enemy during the laning phase, forcing them to burn healing items and summoner spells and (if I'm lucky), force them out of the lane. Killing them is just a nice bonus. It pisses the enemy the hell off, and makes them overfocus me for the rest of the game out of anger. I still end up dying less than anyone else.

Simply Southern1 votes

[slayer-pantheon-popcorn] mmmmm salty.

MenoOG1 votes

LOL this post is funny, you forgot to mention how when your adc/you are behind you have to play passive, and your forced to have the most boring job watch and ward Yay! your adc gets to farm everyone gets to do something but you just get to watch. Yes you can roam but as I said if your adc is behind you are too making it so much harder and more dangerous, you end up feeding and they blame you for not doing anything??????????????

LordGeovanni1 votes

i play tank supports for the masteries but if everyone else on the team is picking some one ranged im picking nami janna or sona because i already dont get any cash im not engageing every fight with no kill gold or cs gold when they wont even let me exicute the large minion to share the gold im behind in gold and exp at every step of the game and with less items than them while my allies may be able to poke and never follow up my engages even when its 3v1 or 3v2 in our teams favor

Vesarixx1 votes

That much sodium is bad for you ya know. Couple of things to bring up, first, every role has to worry about vision, it's not just the support, no one is expecting the support to have rift herald warded early to prevent the enemy from taking it, usually it's the jungler or top laner that does that. There are very few roles that need to worry about getting kills, that's only really important on snowball reliant champions, the rest need to worry about CS and opjectives, you can have 40+ kills but you don't win until that nexus explodes. Dying a lot in game is something everyone has to worry about, with the exception of maybe proxy Singed or Karthus, but even they have to worry about when they die. If you're making plays as a support that can fail miserably if your team doesn't follow up properly then you're making the wrong plays, maybe try communicating your intention to engage beforehand, people don't recognize opportunities in low Elo so you need to point it out for them so they're at the ready.

There are also plenty of utility items that are bought on roles other than support, item 3060 item 3222 item 3092 are all pretty common for me to buy in the mid lane, item 3512 item 3056 in the top lane, If I can get away with it in my build I'll even throw in a item 2045 on non support roles, since the vision is just so valuable.

Support has it's own advantages that other roles don't, some of the most flexible build paths in the game, very low gold reliance even though they fixed the gold disparity for supports a few seasons ago, the option of not even needing to do damage at all, and if your lane is failing because you got a bad ADC, you can roam and gank other lanes to get them ahead and have a huge impact on the map. The other roles rely on the support extremely heavily, I've seen games lost solely because the support wasn't good, I've also seen some games hard carried by the support. I've personally carried games as a support and made the difference that turned what would have been a complete stomp entirely around into a victory for my own team, I've secured objectives, caused enemies to rage quit and had team mates thank me endlessly for a clutch save or a kill I got for them. Good supports win games, the only reason people don't understand that is because it's usually macro play that makes the difference and it goes over some players heads.

Elo hell doesn't exist period, it's no different for supports.

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BluePolarizer1 votes

lol try playing jungle.

Anytime anything bad happens on the map "wtf scrub jungle ebay?" even if you are a plat 1 banner and they are all gold or plat 5 banners.

Anytime anything good happens on the map "gj (insert ADC here)"

Lost R1 votes

I have. I rarely get to these days, though. It's like a vacation.

CerealBoxOfDoom1 votes

dear support,

shut the fuck up and do your job. You can complain when I don't have to help you do everything anymore. Ungreatful little bastard, you think its easy being one of the least mobile classes in a lane with 9+ ways to enter? And then I can't even get you to keep that fucking dragon warded half the time. Why don't you send your girlfriend with the autoattacks up to help me sometimes if you don't appreciate them.

Ungreatful asshole AT LEAST YOU HAVE THE LUXURY OF BUILDING VISION some of us just have to react to live threats as they arrive and fight off blinky, trollpolling shit you'll never even have to deal with. Stop your crying and do your fucking job already!

AND STOP PRESSURING THE JUNGLER TO WIPE YOUR ASS FOR YOU EVERYTIME YOU GET POKED

~Midlane

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