Are there not enough supports?

UnworldlyAsgard·9/4/2016, 7:36:56 PM·3 votes·994 views

Most of the time I get matched up with high gold - low plat since I'm a plat 5 support main. But sometimes I get matched up in or against a total silver - low gold game is this normal or are there just not enough supports in the Q sometimes so they take one from a devision higher?

I have a positive win/lose ratio (~55%) and my mmr is about right for my devision so I don't know why this happens. I don't really like playing with silvers, not that they are all bad it's just that the games drag on and on and on because they don't know how to finish through objectives only through kills.

The only time I find this really annoying is when it happens in my promo's, they exist to prove you have become a better player in League and should match you up against higher tiers or the same as yourself but that doesn't happen and I don't really learn anything out of playing with silvers well maybe some new ways to verbally abuse my teammates or enemies.

I think it's also pretty unfair to the enemy team because most of the time I just 1v2 the enemy botlane as Braum and get flamed by the enemy team as a result because I'm "tryharding".

tldr: Not enough supports? Matched against or with silvers, hate my life.

13 Comments

Punkkee9/4/2016, 7:41:02 PM3 votes

mhm. the biggest problem is that riot makes the other roles more "fun" than support. if you go to the champ page and look under "supports" it has the smallest amount of champions.

I hate my ADC9/4/2016, 7:46:49 PM2 votes

As a support main in plat 1-2, I've only met plat 5 and above in ranked. At least I don't recall seeing anyone at gold or below and I haven't seen a master or challenjour in my games. I know that I've faced multiple supports that don't play support a lot, if at all, because of auto-fill though.

S0kaX9/4/2016, 7:38:38 PM2 votes

there* didn't even read post and commented

Athenes Lulu9/5/2016, 6:41:26 AM1 votes

I think it's more of a MMR goofing up and not just supports being unpopular.

Teh Song9/4/2016, 8:22:50 PM1 votes

Ooh, I know a fix!

Eliminate this concept of a "Meta"

Step one of many: in the queue, make it so the support queue option isn't attached to a lane.

CasterGilgamesh9/4/2016, 11:20:03 PM1 votes

playing support isnt interesting to most people

Teslyn9/5/2016, 4:34:33 AM1 votes

http://euw.op.gg/summoner/userName=UnworldlyAsgard

i love OP.gg do the what is my MMR click button. it always cracks me up when i see this.