An ADC's guide to high bronze - low silver support archetypes

1., The support This player understands the role and plays it well: he builds support items, wards the right places, knows when it is appropriate to recall or roam, pokes and zones the enemy duo whithout taking too much risk and engages them when an opportunity presents itself. After laning he sticks to the team and keeps being helpful. Occurance: 3% How to deal with this player: Play along him, enjoy and be sure to honor him at the end of the game.

2., The psycho This player longs for fighting and is adamant in his efforts to make 2v2 all ins happen. He isn't bothered by petty trivial things like the realtive positioning of the champions in lane, where the minions are, what's warded or who has more health or strength. The moment he arrives in lane, he charges the enemy duo face first and is generally surprised to realize that he is outmatched. Occurance: 2% How to deal with this player: Initially try to follow up if the engage isn't too insane. With any luck it will work out and you can snowball. If it doesn't work out just treat the lane as if you were 1v2-ing, stay under the turret, hope for a miracle, report for intentional feeding at the end.

3., The non-support, category A This player didn't want to support. He picks a champion that isn't remotely viable as a support is completely nonchalant about stealing cs, builds nonsense and abandons lane way before laning is over. He spends the rest of the game split pushing and joining fights at the end to poach kills. At the end he blames his underfed, underfarmed teammates for the loss. Occurance: 5% How to deal with this player: There is nothing that can be done. If you can get to a wave he's about to steal before him do so, but other than that you have to rely on the rest of your team. In the end report for unsportmanlike conduct.

4., The non-support, category B This player thinks he is supporting but everything he does is off. He picks a champion that's sort of remotely supportish. He starts building support but deviates into something else. He might keep autoattacking minions in a distracting manner but not with the intention of stealing cs. Occurance: 10% How to deal with this player: Just play and let him know what he did wrong in the post game lobby.

5., The wanderer This player has no interest in laning. He believes his job is to support everyone's laning phase and enjoys random trips to the enemy jungle for no reason. Meanwhile the enemy duo chips away at your tower wave by wave. Bard players are especially prone to this, thinking that every charm on the map is a license to leave, but players can do the wanderer on any champion. Occurance: 10% How to deal with this player: Just nicely ask them to come back to lane. If they lash out defensively and go too fat that's a verbal abuse report, if they don't come back that's unsportsmanlike conduct.

6., The AFK He never shows up. Occurance: 2% How to deal with this player: /remake

7., The two gear support The two gear support has two modes of play: in passive mode they hide behind your back doing nothing or sits in a brush hoping to ambush the enemies who know full well he's there, and refuses to poke or zone the enemy duo, giving them impunity in harrassing you and zoning you off minions. The second gear is the all in mode: after a trade or sometimes just randomly he facecharges the enemy duo with the same tactical insight the psycho does. Occurance: 68% How to deal with this player: Do the same that you do with the psycho, just don't report at the end. Two gear supports usually have the best intentions.