What About Making The Support Role Lose Less LP For Losses?

Best Ekko NA··2 votes·809 views

Basically, few players want to Support, why not give some more incentive?

Supports tend to have less impact in terms of carry potential (Mind you-- this is a generic statement, it doesn't cover the fringe cases like Lux or Brand Support who deal a lot of damage). The role is less exciting as you don't get to farm, or acquire a lot of gold.

I think it makes a lot of sense to reward Support players by cutting their LP losses by maybe 1/3rd in ranked. If you lose as Support and normally you'd have lost 21 LP, make it 14 instead. This takes away some of the risk involved for people who might suck at Support (like those who got auto filled) and also will make more players want to Support at the same time.

Obviously, there would need to be a serious consequence for players who do not play their role after queuing up as the Support.. But anyone who does this is really just harming themselves as they are more likely to lose anyways.

4 Comments

Beerstein3 votes

There are challenger solo supports are there not? Doesn't this indicate that they're fine, even if harder to climb with? I'm sure people wouldn't want to be stuck with less skilled supports just because they wanted a booster seat. Of course, maybe I'm wrong and there are no challenger solo supports.

Best Ekko NA1 votes

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There are challenger solo supports are there not? Doesn't this indicate that they're fine, even if harder to climb with? I'm sure people wouldn't want to be stuck with less skilled supports just because they wanted a booster seat. Of course, maybe I'm wrong and there are no challenger solo supports.

We are looking at two different things I believe. My idea is proposed not because Supports are more difficult to win with, but because no one wants to play them. Yes, there are Support mains in every tier. As a whole, most players do not like to play Support however. Players get auto filled into Support constantly, and most of the time they are not good at playing Support.

It's a matter of supply and demand, and not the quality of the product.

DODGEORLOSE3 votes

If one role had lost less all the other roles would begin complaining due to favoritism. I am a support main and I have no trouble getting to gold every season for my free skin.

Malak1 votes

im okay with losing less LP IF you are autofilled in any role

and if you win vs a team with autofills you gain less lp to balance it out

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