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I don't miss bot lane coin flip but...

NoDiscussion·12/31/2018, 9:16:55 AM·3 votes·3,434 views

I do miss seeing supports actually try during laning phase.

I've really noticed recently that a lot of supports are hyper aggressive, it's an all or nothing during laning for them. It's not calculated aggression either, it's just brainless all ins that may or may not have a good chance of success.

If they win said all ins, it might snowball from there, and if they lose, the enemy bot lane is potentially fed. That isn't the supports problem though. It's unfortunate for the poor soul that was bot lane with them, but there's 3 out of 5 other players on the team for the support to gravitate towards. The support picks whoever is the strongest out of everyone on the team, throws their shields, heals and other buffs at them while also trying to secure kills for them with cc, and goes from there.

Due to supports operating off low gold in-come, and their kits already being valuable to begin with, there is no penalty in this situation for them unless of course that there's no one on their team for them to piggie back off of or the enemy team is simply too strong. Overall, the odds for having someone decent on your team to throw your buffs at and secure kills for are pretty good, so there's not a whole lot of risk to being all or nothing in lane.

5 Comments

disregardable12/31/2018, 9:35:55 AM2 votes

that's always been the case.

the problem is that ADCs have zero chance of coming back in mid or late game, unless jungle/top are playing supportive champions.

NoDiscussion12/31/2018, 10:02:01 AM1 votes

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that's always been the case.

the problem is that ADCs have zero chance of coming back in mid or late game, unless jungle/top are playing supportive champions.

Not really. During the bot lane coin flip meta laning phase was important enough to make supports care.

It has always been the case that supports will gravitate towards whoever is doing best obviously. That was always supposed to be your backup plan though, it was what you did if things didn't work out in laning(but not when you intentionally let your lane fail) and it was a means for supports to have a way of coming back into the game.

I know part of the current situation is due to the damage meta but I also feel like it's also partly due to bot lanes slightly irrelevancy right now.

Boatwhistle12/31/2018, 2:57:58 PM1 votes

I usually have a hard time with adcs being too eager for no reason.

FireDrizzle1/1/2019, 8:43:38 PM1 votes

To be honest my experience lately has been that adcs won't zone at all and won't go for free kills. Like Thresh can be throwing his hook with a minion hugging him over a screen away from his adc and my adc cant do a single autoattack. If the enemy adc has no business farming from low hp I dont expect him too touch a minion without a long range ability, not my marksman autoing minions as far back as he can. A toplaner doesn't have too be Plat or higher too know how too zone, I dont get it honestly.

You may see supports play more aggressive than usual because the threshold for a kill with ignite is very low.