New players need more info about support

Ba Vhalk·7/20/2017, 2:30:28 PM·2 votes·421 views

I've always wondered why support isn't a role that gets picked often. Well the adc could be toxic and most people just like to do damage and get kills, but why exactly? Then, when I started this smurf, I came to realize that pre-6 there's not even a real support champ available. You only have damagers. Which could be played in top/mid and adc role and possible jungle. In the first few bot games they won't encounter supports so they think that going 2 damagers is just perfectly okay (Lux+MF bot for example). Then finally come blind pick where it's a mess and people just go randomly (if they're really new) which is fine, but still everyone just goes for their damagers. As seeing in the last 2 days, you barely see Braum being played by new players (forget the fact that some might be smurfs).

They will finally face the role support in draft when they see people play it or when they get autofilled (if that is still a thing) for it but then they have no clue what they must do/build and end up just going as a 2nd midlaner in botlane or whatever lane they want since they might go just mid or whatever lane they want to go.

By the time they finally know what a support does they're almost high level and then they pobably won't even bother trying support cause they're used to go damagers and go for kills and forget that there's still a role which you need to be able to form a team.

For myself speaking as a support main on my main account, I decided to go support because a friend told me to try that role and I enjoyed it after getting some help from him and other supports I know. If he didn't tell me about support I would've been an ADC main or a mid main (I played that a lot before I went support) instead of support.

So why not make some sort of team introduction and convince people to try support, to get to know that role which is still important in higher levels and even in ranked. Instead of actually making people believe that 'more damage' makes you win games.

6 Comments

HeilHiem7/20/2017, 3:07:03 PM1 votes

You know what this is the first post in the gameplay section i have seen that actually makes any sense.

I completely agree with you.

I myself have been thinking why Riot never made a set of videos for new players as an introduction to League of Legends as well as a set of videos as an introduction to the different type of roles that are played so new players can get a handle of how to play the basics better/ learn the basics in the correct way.

i myself do not have time to help out new players in the middle of a real pvp game because instead of trying to type and help them out while standing afk for 60% of the game i just have to do it myself, and im a support main as well.

im just thinking that it would make more players understand how the roles work in a basic stand point to learn from as well as allow them to find alternative ways of playing the role.

and this is coming from a season 2 player.

Devilreaper XIII7/20/2017, 4:25:12 PM1 votes

support role was never a real role to begin with O.o

all supports now were once either mages tanks or fighters,

support is a gray area, and any champion can support.

riot once stated they want any champion to be played on any role, and remove roles completey, removing that limit so to speak.

Devilreaper XIII7/22/2017, 9:09:23 AM1 votes

true i agree riot needs to bring back tutorials O.O and ditch the requirement to fight bots till lvl 3 its pointless O.o