PSA: Your Solo-lane champion is not a support

Penta Penguin·May 31, 2015·3 votes·384 views

Did you get "stuck" with support? Then please just play support. No, Ekko is not support. Neither is Zed, Yasuo, Nasus, etc.

You can carry a game probably even better and easier than your mid-lane champ if only you pick a real support that can scale without high gold/cs. All it takes is one thresh hook or leona combo to get the snowball rolling for your team.

Unless you ASKED your ADC if they want to do a "kill-lane", don't just assume it and force them into that.

And finally, if you're such a brat that you won't listen and have to play your stupid "carry" as a support, then for fuck sake, DON'T BE A BITCH. Use your early power and don't just SIT there at full HP watching your ADC farm. You're going to fall off whether you like it or not, so you need to DO SOMETHING and not just sit there pouting.

8 Comments

XLCMay 31, 20151 votes

A: The salt is real.

B: I kinda agree with you, but there are times where it's not really the supports fault they lost lane but the ADCs. A lot of unconventional 'solo lane' sups get flamed at, which causes them to go on tilt (sometimes) and often results in an ADC on tilt... Some people don't do it because they didn't get their role but b/c their actually good at that champion playing sup. (Shaco plz.)

Penta PenguinMay 31, 20151 votes

I am specifically talking to the people who obviously missed their mid call, or spam "new champion" and don't bother to call, and refuse to play anything but their champion. Not the people who are actually trying to support with an unconventional champion.

LuggMay 31, 20151 votes

Solo lane champs can't be supports?

I guess we can no longer play annie, blitz, nautilus, morgana, brand, zyra, vel, karma, etc on bot.

As an ADC, I would much rather someone played a champion that are good on than a support that they are so-so on.

Only Play DariusMay 31, 20151 votes

There are certain champs that scale exclusively with gold, and cannot be support no matter how much you want them to. They tend to be hard carries that childish brats spam and refuse to play any other champions.

Tryndamere Riven Fiora XinZhao Rengar

3tysonMay 31, 20151 votes

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There are certain champs that scale exclusively with gold, and cannot be support no matter how much you want them to. They tend to be hard carries that childish brats spam and refuse to play any other champions.

Rengar can sup if the enemy team is pretty stupid as a jungler ur already used to having less gold how ever this requires the enemy team to be ridiclusely stupid so he cant relly sup

riven tryndamere fiora xin are all indeed vverry terrible suports overal i think its like picking an non range adc.. sure you can pick a melee suport but but let it be taric or blitz :P

3tysonMay 31, 20151 votes

im not saying anny of these will always work but neither wil a real suport

Shaco zones out enemy team lets ur adc farm and might get kils Annie > shes bascily a real suport now so w/e Nidalee great poke ... great bush controll works awsome with a champ like cait Velkoz > never played it but its prety powerful Karthus with an ashe adc it can simply rape Sejuani wont really fal of cause the stun is op no matter what lol

sure there might be situations when all of these suports are totaly worthless lets say you pick nid suport and the enemy team has a blitz wich insta kills you every pull... than you get your lame as adc raging never play nid suport again this is why i prefer a real suport ( wich than the propper response is F****ck u im suporting top now )

but at the same moment Blitzcrank suport vs Tristana is completely worthles... so people should just calm down if you are seriousely trying to suport with a non offiial suport its stil verry much possible

ErockandrollMay 31, 20151 votes

Poke support is a form of support. Though the trick is that it should have high base damages with less need to scale with items.

Either way, I'm going to be stuck playing Karma Morgana Lux Lulu all because no one on my team ever ever manages the minion waves. Losing the farm all while they destroy our towers.

LucentileMay 31, 20151 votes

Yeah. Nothing sucks more than sitting by bottom tower as Taric or Braun or Sona trying to keep the minion wave from eating the tower while the rest of your team dances around mid deciding not to engage or peel off to stop the minion wave from eating top.