Riot: Let Tahm Kench support - Not his allies
After trying to support yet another solo Q game (not ranked) with Tahm I'm convinced he's impossible to play with random users. No matter how many times I explain my abilities (and why do I need to do that anyway) my allies refuse to help me help them. Everyone cancels Devour preemptively. No tank let's me get them to the middle of the team. Low health allies never run toward me. And worst of all is that I will die more than half the time because someone decided to cancel Devour.
Yes, I will die because I tried helping another player because Riot decided to give them control over when they get to leave. I've had allies leave my belly and get themselves killed immediately. As someone who plays a lot of
with much success in solo Q I find
completely the opposite because allies can screw everyone over.
This is the same reason why everyone hates
. Hell, I supported one as Bard and she decided to ult to initiate completely ruining my own mechanics for initiation.
Now I know, some players suck with
and
having no clue when to devour and such. However, and I think support mains will agree, ADC (and everyone else really) are stupid. They can't orb walk, position, engage, disengage, soft-engage/disengage, etc. When I win the majority of solo Q games with Bard I am the one who decides when to engage and when to leave. My team has no control over when I decide these moments and they clearly see these moments and 90% of the time react appropriately. I get to support.
Meanwhile doesn't get to decide when to support. He relegates at least half of the responsibility to his teammates which as we established have no business having a say in my role or my actions. They are not qualified for the job.
"But the trolls! The trolls are coming!"
I can troll just as much with
but I don't and I haven't seen any other Bards do so ever (despite maybe seeing just two tops besides me). I've seen bad Bards yes but Bard is mechanically complex compared to
. I'd rather the possibility for
to troll than letting anyone but me support.
Changes I want to see in
kit:
W - Do not let allies decide when they get to leave. They didn't pick support so they don't get to decide how to support themselves. By taking away control from the support you relegate supports to the whim of those not qualified to support. Players will leave at the worst times both aggressively and defensively leaving themselves and me to die. A support is there to prevent allies from dying last I checked. Why are you taking that power away from me besides the excuse of "trolling" which again
can do too but allies have no say over anything he does and he's far less frustrating to play because of it.
Allies can't decide where
ults so why can they decide when they get to leave mah belly?
is like an ADC trying to support using R and that's the reason reason I refuse to support that champion and why so many hate her (besides the hops). Hell, players can't decide to accept or decline the pact with an ADC but players can decide to screw over
?
Riot, let supports support, and let the rest of the team do their own job. Don't let them have a say in how a support supports.
There's a reason I have much more success with
in solo Q vs
and this is why.
is actually another perfect example of my problem with