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Its hard to be a support.

Twlnkle··20 votes·2,133 views

Dear Riot,

Many people do not like being a support, and even when they do. Its an unthankful job. If an average player wish's to be a support, they will realize it is more than just warding. Its endurance in both the game and in the mind. A support players has to deal with babysitting another stranger. Who may or may not be good on their own job. Who then can and will blame it all on the support player if a death fall upon them. Then when it comes to warding there is a chance the support will die to an unwarded bush which they where planning to ward, but end up getting Roflstomped then blamed for feeding.

Not to mention the enless name calling, feeder, usless, Worst NA, so on and so forth. Last and not least. If you both overcome all these and you have feed the Adc enough to be a big threat later on in teamfights... The support gets no recognition, no acknowledgement. Not even a "good job support." Because low Elo or rather All elo take the said support for granted.

Support is a harsh, unforgiving, even lonley role. And if you want players to play support more. You need to reward the supports more. To show them "hey, we know you do your best for the team and despite what anyone says. You are awesome."

Point in all this, the community needs to lighten up on their supports. Even if they get Autofilled or whatever. The support needs to feel wanted just like an ADC is wanted during teamfights, just how a Top laner is wanted for split pushing then Tp's in team fights, how the Mid laner is wanted to burst down their targets, and lock down kills.

How is the support wanted? To ward? To babysit? To die for their adc?

Love, your,supports riot. Love them. Dont hurt them.

Sincerely, Remnz. Support main.

63 Comments

Leo102411 votes

tanks turret, lands all my cc, exhausts, protect adc all in one tower dive

"gj ezreal"

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Twlnkle9 votes

End up dying from enemy jungler finally ganking late

"Noob support."

Krigjer12 votes

tanks turret, lands all my cc, exhausts, protect adc all in one tower dive

"gj ezreal"

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Lands 5-man wave, 3-man bubble, spooky ghost top notch and blessing slowing like crazy ADC gets a pentakill off all your cc...

'Wow this Vayne is a god'

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SolarisCorvus3 votes

I love playing support. Thats why whenever i go adc i make sure to thank my supp.

ChaddyFantome5 votes

{quoted}

tanks turret, lands all my cc, exhausts, protect adc all in one tower dive

"gj ezreal"

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W to run across the map then Flash to E-Shield and Ulti ally Nasus who got caught out by himself while splitpushing and that was close to dying

Nasus gets a quadra kill

"This Nasus is too fucking good"

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AngelNipata4 votes

I know the feeling

Flash Qs fed enemy carry and roots them, then proceeds to tank 3 enemy champions and Ults for a 3 man knock up.

Yasuo Ults and gets a triple kill

"Damn son, best Yas NA"

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Snowplosion2 votes

I know that feel...

Tik1152 votes

Chain ult into stun, heal carry who got caught and give them a means to get to the back line

"gj adc"

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Denimist3 votes

Shields , heals and makes all team invulnerable while timing redemption and locket to mitigate all the damage, lands a 5 man stun setup , Yasuo gets a penta

'' wp Yasuo honored''

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xWaters7 votes

yep i go 2/3/32 on braum still lose cause dumb af team focuses rammus

Twlnkle2 votes

Ok

Lol but yeah hard to stop your team from chasing unless you are Tahm.

xWaters1 votes

That is why I'm switching to tanky fighters like Trundle and Udyr etc. Still Tanky but dish out the damage.

Mrglrglmrglmrrgl5 votes

The only recognition I get as supp is when im playing soraka and the enemy team will throw a "fuckin raka" or raka heals OP"

Twlnkle7 votes

Or when they start focusing you more than the Adc 😎

AgeOfTheMage1 votes

^

hunterspec4 votes

I rarely ever get blamed and don't have a problem playing it but I just won't play it in ranked... well at least in solo q(could care less if I win or lose in flex) because you cannot carry with it.

Twlnkle1 votes

Thats why some try to play Teemo support and for some reason Yasuo?

But people tend to find Zyra, brand, annie or rarely Velkoz supports good for wanting to carru.

hunterspec1 votes

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Thats why some try to play Teemo support and for some reason Yasuo?

But people tend to find Zyra, brand, annie or rarely Velkoz supports good for wanting to carru.

yes I know the carry supports like that however I only like to play soraka and if she gets banned maybe sona or janna.

Marshbouy4 votes

Boohoo, supporting is soooo difficult because people say mean things to me. Supporting is so hard because my team won't do what i say... Supporting is so hard because people blame me for their issues, this is totally 100% exclusive to the support role.

Try picking a low winrate jungler and having people insult you the instant you click on pick intent. Not to mention the inevitable "We lost because nidalee is a retard and picked a low winrate jungler".

The support's wanted to support the team. That's why it's called the goddamn support. If you can't handle supporting the team, don't play support.

Then when it comes to warding there is a chance the support will die to an unwarded bush

Have better map awareness. If you see that 5 people are missing on the map, you'll want to check that bush with a spell first.

Not to mention the enless name calling, feeder, usless, Worst NA, so on and so forth

Have you even played this game? Being flamed is not exclusive to supporting, it's not exclusive to jungling, it's not exclusive to mid lane, hell it's not even exclusive to doing poorly in the game. Fuck i've been called a feeder while going 0/2/1 by someone going 0/5/0.

This whole post is just whiny cringe. It sounds more like you don't understand how to play support at a proficient level, rather than support being too toxic to play as. Hell it sounds like you can't handle playing a team game.

Twlnkle3 votes

^.^ was not talking on behalf of myself. Just the experiances . But appreciate your opinion. Thank you for your kind gesture.

Marshbouy2 votes

Sorry for being so angry but i am sick and tired of this support circlejerk on the forums. It's ridiculous. People list off stuff like "they focused the tank so we lost" and say that being the support is hard.

Twlnkle4 votes

You have to realize, a game is just a game man, we all experiance things differently and have different outcomes. You may see it one way, but as you can see many of us, not counting myself have experianced what the Original post has stated.

It may upset you this is how it happens, but we can both at least agree that these post shouldnt happen. So i thank you for supporting this post even if it was slightly aggressive.

Marshbouy2 votes

There wouldn't be an issue with experiencing things differently if we could all talk like civilized people and try and put biases behind us. Too bad that saying anything that's beyond the current ideologies floating around the boards gets you burned.

Twlnkle4 votes

Okay..now you are going completely off to a different can of worms. So i leave ya with this. Supporting is fun, and challanging. People just need to be less harsh on them.

This post never mentioned a single champion, or Meta. Its the general discomfort from being a support. Not game wise. But player wise. How you take that, is on you. Have a good day.

Marshbouy3 votes

Have a good day too, hope you have some luck with black friday shopping if you do any. I also hope you had a nice thanksgiving, i know i did.

Krigjer4 votes

If you can't handle supporting the team, don't play support.

Point of the thread going completely over your head.

Your comment doesn't come off as being upset at the support circlejerk, it comes off as 'omg your job isn't even hard, meanwhile look at MY job as insert whatever role ! Pity for yourself instead of seeing what the OP is trying to say.

Marshbouy2 votes

How exactly? By telling a whiny person that a role shouldn't be bent to their will just because they think that assisting the team is too hard?

Krigjer5 votes

Your comment doesn't come off as being upset at the support circlejerk, it comes off as 'omg your job isn't even hard, meanwhile look at MY job as -insert whatever role-! Pity for yourself instead of seeing what the OP is trying to say.

Personally, I don't think support is hard or difficult... but it's very thankless. That said, ANY ROLE can fall into this trap. ANYONE can be a scapegoat for someone else's failure... it's just normally the support or jungler.

Marshbouy2 votes

'omg your job isn't even hard, meanwhile look at MY job as -insert whatever role-!

please site the point in time in which i stated that. The only time i can think of in my post is when i said

Try picking a low winrate jungler and having people insult you the instant you click on pick intent. Not to mention the inevitable "We lost because nidalee is a retard and picked a low winrate jungler".

but i said that to bring up an example from my own past few games, not to complain about jungling.

Personally, I don't think support is hard or difficult... but it's very thankless. That said, ANY ROLE can fall into this trap. ANYONE can be a scapegoat for someone else's failure... it's just normally the support or jungler.

there. This i agree with, at least i agree with this more than OP's post.

ZT Xperimentor3 votes

Doesn't help that because of riot's added snowballing mechanics, the support is frequently thousands of gold and several levels behind the rest of the team, regardless if they died or not. But yes you're sadly spot on.

Twlnkle4 votes

All i gotta say is, if riot needs a team of supports to keep this game up, what do they expect from one person supporting a groups of people.

Handy Sandy 3 votes

pic of dying blitzcranks and jannas on the screen

"Love your supports, don't take them for granted. Adopt one today!"

SUPPORTLIVESMATTER

Twlnkle2 votes

"In the armmmmms of an angel..."

AngelNipata2 votes

"You can help a save a support today, with a small donation of 75 gold or a item 2055."

#VISIONSAVESLIVES

Erockandroll3 votes

Something that gets me is that people simply don't man up to their mistakes, and decide to use the support as a scapegoat. But that's part of the reason why I actually enjoy playing support. Cause instead of taking their harassment as a insult, I secretly laugh at them for doing worse that the one with half the XP and no gold.

Though I wouldn't say that deference is unique to the support role, as I'm sure Junglers get their share of flack. One time, (long ago) a support ziggs kept badgering me as Ez ADC, for his down falls. Starting in champ select when he was trying to convince the team that his off pick was actually good. (To his credit, he did a good job of zoning the opponent away.) Of coarse, he never built that all so necessary sight stone. Now I didn't actually chastise him for it, but as a support main, I noted the lack of vision. Yet he continued to blame me for his deaths, all because his smart ass got caught out.

One last thought though,

I've noticed at least one other role, that seems to have similar problem to the support. And that the role of a tank.

Everyone complains that it's a necessary role, yet no one really volunteers to actually fill that role. And the thing that annoys me about this is, the fact that I often hear it from the Top laner, or Jungler. The two positions most qualified to fill the role of a tank. As it becomes difficult for a mid laner to pick it up, without sacrificing the AP or Burst damage. Obviously your not going to make the bot laner be the tank, And it's hilarious to think that a support, with no gold can possibly fill the role of the primary tank. (Though a tank support is pretty good at supplementing other tanks and Bruisers)

Just one game where I ended up filling mid lane, picked Vlad, and then realized I was the tankiest member on the team. The game started out okay, but once the enemy started grouping up, we fell apart. I couldn't engage the enemy well as vlad, despite his sustain, he doesn't have the lock down to prevent the opponent from damaging him, And I get nailed 1v4. But if I waited for the enemy to engage, I can't peel cause again, no CC, and I still get nailed 1v4 cause by that time, the rest of the team is dead.

Twlnkle1 votes

That is true, when supporting. I've also found being a tank is what the Team mostly expect from the support.

Gotta love leona aye?

Big Lincoln3 votes

do you really need to be pampered and told how good you are

support is easymode, pls stop with this

Twlnkle5 votes

No, pls stop saying support is easy, if it was. Then why dont people play it enough?

If your argument is, "because its boring." Then please. Go support more <3.

Big Lincoln3 votes

plat 2 bard main being told to support more by a silver 5, lol.

it is boring. if Bard didn't exist i would've stopped supporting because my first main support Taric got fucking ruined with his rework. Support champions are a fucking snooze to play because most of them encourage passivity and poke spam.

supporting is easy, too. if you aren't playing bard, lulu or thresh then your champion has a skill ceiling on par with Annie's.

Twlnkle6 votes

Hope you continue to strive in your games. :)

CasterGilgamesh1 votes

how did taric get ruined is it because he got made harder to play? is that why you say its ruined? Lol :3

Big Lincoln1 votes

oh no, he went from point and click to one easy skillshot, what an intense change in his difficulty

ignore his heal gutted, his cancer ult making the rest of his kit feel shit, and his W being a dumb gimmick that nobody asked for

generalist support with a high focus on armor and auras -> peel-only defensive support that now competes directly with Braum for viability.

I Dont Like Fun3 votes

People will always blame support or jung.

Mighty Mortein3 votes

1)Goes in to face tank the abilities for your low ADC 2) You die 3) ADC turns around and dies regardless 4) (All Chat) "WTF, report this terrible support, can't even peel for me"

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Frankisnou72 votes

i totaly agree with you bro support is a hard job today and it ofte come to blame and all. So i'll support you in your fight to make this post wanted of everyone ^^

Yliciel2 votes

Love, your,supports

But what if your support stole your wife? Lucian

Twlnkle1 votes

At least when he supports you, you know she is with you!

Dracocrash1 votes

it is way harder to play adc than support.

If your team has a bad support, its ok you can still try to win.

If your team has a bad adc, you are SCREWED late game.

Nakoruru1 votes

I won 2 games as Sona support when our adc was away the whole game :)

DemoGuide1 votes

Yes, God, Yes! Thing i hate the most is that supports are recognized for warding, not for what they actually supposed to do.

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