What is my best strategy, as a Support, when my randoms and I just aren't working together?

Strawberrycocoa·5/30/2019, 9:53:41 PM·1 votes·1,092 views

Had an incredibly frustrating few games over the last couple days trying to play Support, and seeing my ADCs just not even try to work with me. I Bitzcrank or Leona someone and they run away to avoid being attacked instead of helping kill them. Or just plain let them go because they tunnel on the minions and miss a kill. ot of just fear of enaging in general among my ADC randoms. Basically, at what point should I just consider working with that ADC a wash and give my help to other teammates instead?

8 Comments

Jimmy Rustles5/30/2019, 10:02:22 PM2 votes

As a support, you're not under any obligation to be stick to your ADC if they're not working with you, or being toxic

If another lane will take you, go with them instead, you'll probably make that lane snowball better and be more useful over all

Oooorrr, give up on playing real supports and just pick mages, go full AP, and ignore the fact they're there

Seoshi5/30/2019, 10:11:03 PM2 votes

Don't take this the wrong way, but what is your Rank? Players in lower ranked divisions sometimes have a hard time seeing kill potential (and as a result, end up playing extremely passive in a high abuse lane) I would recommend switching from Leo/Blitz into an enchanter support (I literally carried my way out of silver AND gold the first time playing Sona way back when) just because they aren't forcing plays, but poke down enemy champions to where the ADCs want to kill them... The bronze ADC doesn't want to initiate on a full health pulled/stunned support, but will 9/10 attempt to go in on the 20% HP support.

If you like the aggressiveness of Leo/Blitz, I would look into playing Nami. She can be an extremely aggressive poking champion with her W/E and still make the big plays with her ultimate like Leo.

Tahminatrix 5/30/2019, 10:03:26 PM1 votes

Your team will probably flame you for roaming and helping other lanes get kills/snowball, even if you are being honest about how you are not useful in botlane and have provided significant logic and reasoning.

But if you want to win, ignore them and do what you can to help your team, you should always be there for objectives since you are no longer attached to a single area / farming.