Supports

Best Foxx NA·6/15/2016, 8:27:18 PM·1 votes·353 views

Ok, so I doubt I'm the first to say this but I'm probably not gonna be the last. I am a player that knows all roles and how most matchups should be played, etc. Whenever I played Support, I've done fairly well in getting our ADC through laning phase and into the mid/late game. Whenever I play ADC, however, it's a whole different ball game. I get zoned off all the cs I want, and my support never initiates a fight and only plays reactively. It grinds my gears as an ADC when I see something I want, I ping, type, whatever, to my support and they just flat out refuse to do anything. Then I get jumped and die and the team flames me, but whenever I tell them the support was in the wrong, they jump to his/her defense and say some pretty mean stuff to me. It has literally given me so many headaches that I have taken to AFKing after two deaths when I know I won't be able to play with the team decently since the game is generally just not going to end well. I just wish some supports would learn to trust their ADCs and go in more often. I for one as an ADC won't mind if my support dies trying to do something... it's when they let me die and then blame me for it when they mislead me.

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DeathBurst6/16/2016, 2:54:00 PM2 votes

Sometimes simply farming is good, and if your support don't want to fight, why should you decide for the both of you and get to fight?

Ok, if I'm Leona against Sona and I refuse to engage, it's a bit silly. But if I'm Soraka against Brand, I'm sorry but even if you ping me to fight I'll just ignore you... And that even if the enemy Caitlyn is zoning you out of CS. Sorry for your income, but no, I don't want to engage a Brand that will just ult both of us and get a double kill...

Erockandroll6/15/2016, 8:33:32 PM1 votes

I generally have the opposite problem. As support, I take the aggression, but the ADC just passively farms.

This is why I can't play tank supports, As they are completely reliant of ADC follow up. And if I'm playing a poke support. Well, if your always 3 paces behind me while I'm harassing the enemy and zoning them of the farm, don't go btching about KSing, cause you never were in range.

Amelie6/15/2016, 8:39:36 PM1 votes

It may help to keep in mind that many support players are inexperienced (especially those queuing just to get into a game fast). You're not always playing with a support main. They won't even understand what they're doing wrong because they don't understand the role well enough. Remember that inexperienced people think support is just sitting in a bush and throwing out a heal or shield or whatever randomly.

As an ADC player, it will never help you to afk after dying a couple times. Some people play support better in lane, others in teamfights. You do yourself no favor by not giving them a chance, and not challenging yourself to keep playing the game under pressure. Not to mention it's a bad attitude, and against the rules.

Athenes Lulu6/16/2016, 6:38:23 AM1 votes

An ADC player says this he gets downvoted to hell despite that support is being the flat out asshole. A support player says the same exact thing he collects free upvotes.

Calling it now.

Back on topic, just remember that a lot of support players aren't support mains, and that they exist to fill. Imagine someone with intensive midlane knowledge playing as support, which requires a completely different mindset and mentality to do it decently... it's not great.

Glîtchy6/16/2016, 2:59:51 PM1 votes

I'll speak from a support's perspective, as I play Nautilus and Sona quite a bit,

If I'm against Vayne, don't expect me to engage unless I can CC her with Sona or Naut ult or if our jg is on the way,

And sorry that we don't like getting our asses burned off by Brand or getting our nuts ripped off by blitzcrank,

The point is, sometimes the support sees a detail you overlooked, such as a quick glimpse of that damned Rengar or Maokai about to go into your lane.

EDIT: Also I'd like to request that you grow a pair and not leave after 1-2 deaths, seriously, that's not cool.