Making Support more Desirable

Memeguel420·Aug 21, 2016·3 votes·551 views

Since support is one of the lesser played roles which leads to a couple of problems like longer queue times. Maybe Rito could make so the least wanted role gets a slight ip bonus like around 10 extra ip so more people play that role and queue times could go down by a bit if people are encouraged to play support. What do you guys think?

16 Comments

Michael702Aug 21, 20162 votes

Are you sure it's one of the lesser played roles? Because I'm pretty sure there has been a support in every one of my ranked games.

But yeah. Maybe they can just make it 4v4 so nobody has to play support. Cue the "I enjoy playing support." comments.

Memeguel420Aug 21, 20161 votes

Of course it's the least played role. That's why queue times for supports are faster because they need someone to play support. That's also why when you choose fill you automatically get support.

Michael702Aug 21, 20161 votes

So you admit that there's a support in every game. That sounds pretty equally played to me. 1 jungle. 1 support. 1 top. 1 mid. 1 bot.

Ahri the ArdenAug 21, 20161 votes

its a good idea, maybe even a bit more like 20 or 30 IP.

inplaneAug 21, 20161 votes

10 IP is quite negligible. Same with 20 or 30.

This idea goes in the wrong direction. People who would play Support isn't going to play it because it's enjoyable. They'd just play it for the IP. There has to be a way to make Support more enjoyable overall, but that's just my opinion.

Memeguel420Aug 21, 20161 votes

Yeah I see your point. The more people play support the better they get, and the better you are at a role, the more have you fun in it. In my opinion

inplaneAug 21, 20161 votes

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Yeah I see your point. The more people play support the better they get, and the better you are at a role, the more have you fun in it. In my opinion

Eeehhh. I guess...

It depends. Some people wont enjoy what they do best no matter how much they're for it paid or how good they're at it. It's a possibility though.

Memeguel420Aug 21, 20161 votes

Yeah I see what you mean.

oSEXYPLATYPUSoAug 21, 20161 votes

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Eeehhh. I guess...

It depends. Some people wont enjoy what they do best no matter how much they're for it paid or how good they're at it. It's a possibility though.

the issue of why people dont wanna support they feel they cant "carry " as a support its not fun, ect. they wanna 1 vs 1 everything and think its ok they have double digit deaths becuze they have 11 kills to go with their 14 deaths. and think that is a carry. support and jungler to some point is a game more of map awareness , objective control, picking to balance out team comps or to counter team comps. but i know as a person who plays majority of support i have control a game completely as a support before. from healing, to peel, damage, zoning, diving, objective control and controlling creep waves. but my kda said i had 2 kills all game. not as fun as picking Katarina and able to clean up after team fights and get free resets and hear double kill, triple kill, Quadra kill, PENTA KILL!!! when me as sona made sure to ult them to stop their cc and enage, poked pre fight, gave buffs and heals and used my exhaust to shut down the dps from their carry.

good kat , way to get that penta kill and clean up man you are carrying so hard

Lost RAug 21, 20161 votes

I've considered such a thing in the past, but meta game rewards are the absolute worst thing Riot could do to incentivize players. It attracts all the XxCallofCODFan92xXs out there, people who would rather eviscerate themselves and drink a gallon of bleach than play Support for even a second, who think the support is just a playable minion who is only allowed to buy wards (the same people who insist that the support does nothing to contribute to anything and is only there to intentionally feed the enemy and be reported), and that's the absolute last thing we want to happen, because it will only hurt the role in the end.

There's honestly nothing I can think of to incentivize more players to be support other than changing this ass-backwards climate where the only thing that is highlighted and emphasized are pentakills. That's what people are obsessed over. That's why most games have nothing but assassin exclusives. That's why you have infinity plus one Yasuo mid only or feed guys. That's why Team Builder crashed into the ground. That's why the queue times for non supports are equal to eternity even in the bronze and silver divisions. We have to unfuck the culture, because it has long since been led down a dark path.

Memeguel420Aug 21, 20161 votes

I agree with the point of having really bad supports, but if the bonus is only 10 ip its not that big of an incentive for someone who hates the support role and doesn't buy sightstones.