Why support still stinks

bunsenhoneydew77··1 votes·823 views

I have had way too many team builders in the last few months where we had to wait 10 seconds for every lane to fill and then an additional 5 minutes for a support to be found. It is always the last choice in my ranked games and in blind pick. Support is simply a role that the majority of people don't like as much as other positions.

There was a brief time at the beginning of the season where support starting items were strong and everybody seemed happy to play the role but things got slowly nerfed and many people lost interest (see feral flare and farming junglers.) The support items need to have a gold income buff so that you can actually build something on your champion other than the completed gold income item, shoes and sightstone in the first 30 minutes of the game. Plus a lot of people are apprehensive about laning with a partner that may be horrible or super angry so they tend to avoid it altogether.

People are going to say "well that's too overpowered." I say that's fine to have it be overpowered. Sometimes you have to make things overpowered in order to make people interested in doing that again.

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Lumus Avatar3 votes

Support is my favorite role :(

bunsenhoneydew772 votes

I knew people that liked support would reply by saying that, lol. I understand many people love it but I would guarantee you that it is the most unpopular position right now in league.

Lumus Avatar1 votes

I don't disagree with that statement. I there should be more of us Support-mains out there.

redniwediS2 votes

I don't mind support, but I would much rather farm up in the top lane and then play protect the ADC, instead of starting the game that way.

bunsenhoneydew771 votes

Exactly. It is usually somebody's last choice. You can have fun playing it, but you would rather be somewhere else.

redniwediS1 votes

If I could play Garen as a legitimate support I'd honestly stop being a top main and support all the time.

Imperial Red2 votes

Really? Because I'm always waiting for a jungler. Support is fine where it is, but it's people's mentality that would need changing. Everyone wants to be the one with kill power, or carry the game rather than be in the back and secure kills for other people.

Lumus Avatar1 votes

Support is also a challenging, dynamic role. You have to have good timing and champ control so as not to steal cs or kills from your ADC. When I play normals with my friend and he picks a support, I'll go ADC to lane with him. He has no control and is usually a carrying-type person, so even as a support he will have 3 or 4 kills while I, as the carry, have none because he keeps stealing the last hit.

You're also not usually in the back. Good supports are often in the front, creating windows to set up their ADC for a kill or to body-block skill shots and zone-out the enemy ADC so yours can farm. In some ways there is more thinking as a support than other roles because it isn't about you - You need to work with your ADC.

To that end, communication is key and a carry who doesn't communicate or doesn't listen to communication can really bring down a game, even if you're a decent support. I laned with a Miss Fortune who would engage the enemy instead of farming while I was zoning the enemy out. Then they would stay engaged until they were killed instead of strategically falling back when signaled. Pretty sure they weren't a bot because I was chatting with them before and after the game and we'd played other games together that day.

bunsenhoneydew771 votes

I am waiting for a jungler a lot of the time as well but mainly it is a support we are waiting for. Most people are not going to change their mentality to be a supportive player over a carry. The only solution is to either leave it alone and have a large majority of people play it as their last choice or make it overpowered (which is still fair because both teams will have a strong support.)

MorikTheMad2 votes

My experience is a little different.

When I am in the top 3 picks in ranked, I usually lay out my prefs: jung/mid/top, and take one of those. (I say 'usually' because I am flexible depending on the team discussion--I am usually willing to go ADC, but in that position generally unwilling to support, as it is my least practiced role, and I figure I'd probably do just as bad as someone complaining about it.)

When I'm in the bottom 2 picks in ranked, I usually state that I'll fill, but that supp is my worst role. I think I've had 0 games as a support this season (I could be misremembering; may have had 1 or 2). I've been between Bronze 2 & silver 2 this season (currently silver 2). Even when I'm last pick, someone else (often one of the first to select) picks a supp.

CLG Factor1 votes

I don't mind supporting but I HATE the current 0 kills 0 cs support meta

Bharhash1 votes

I'd say the bigger problem is that most Team Builder matches I've seen have been prolonged because a support would come in with no ADC there, wait five minutes and then quit.

And then an ADC would show up ten seconds later and repeat the process.

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