Tryhard/Full Mage Supports
I honestly don't understand the appeal of full, tryhard mage supports these days. It feels like a major cheese pick that you play just because it's low risk/high reward in a lane where everything is circumstantial. Veigar: Large AOE stun, zone control with W, autodelete ult. Lux: Ranged stun with 2 opportunities to land, aoe slow. Brand: High DOT, zone control, cc and team focused ult. Fiddle: Spam the E, ult from bush. All of these champs are just another ap carry in a lane where it's easier to completely remove the other team from the equation of laning phase and mid game. Sure, you could argue that THAT'S THE ENTIRE POINT of these cheese champs: Easy game, easy win/Deny any chance of the enemy bot lane to have cs, kills or impact on the game at all. But I feel like that defeats the purpose of climbing the ladder with versatile, useful champions to the team rather than exclusively to the laning phase. Master Yi is an example, in terms of jungle. In lower tiers he's an easy champ to carry with. Farm, don't die, gank easy lanes, carry. As you progress into higher ranks though, you don't see him because players focus on champs that compliment the team or counter the enemy team. It just doesn't seem fair, logical or balanced for this to happen as much as it does for supports. It just feels bad when I'm playing a team oriented or utility focused support against a tryhard enemy bot lane and my adc can barely farm or stay alive, and I can't do shit about it because I choose Thresh/Braum/Alistar over Lux/Brand/Fiddle. Even in Gold, I still encounter this when I thought I'd be focusing more on team comps than worrying about my adc struggling against an incredibly difficult lane. Maybe I'm just whining because I don't play easy to win champs and can't counter them with who I play, whatever. Every time I see it though, the difficulty in winning lane, and by extension the game, becomes twice or three times as hard with very little room to come back.
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