Supports and ELO hell
So Im thinking supports need a better way to rank up. If I main support, and consistently get crap teams my performance is irrelevant. I can't rank up in solo.... Thoughts?
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Git Gud, Play Carry-focused Supports.
-High CC, High-Damage, ez lane ez life. Rush Zhonya's and Roa, enjoy your cheese.
-One good hook carries the game. Miss 99 hooks, but hit one late? You're a god.
-poke, poke, poke, POKE An enemy has been Slain
-What, you weren't here Seasons 2/3? Enjoy keeping them under tower, having more warding from traps, and generally chunking your opponents with one lucky spear
-TIBBERS!
-Relic-into-sightstone-into-newrelicsightstone, then start going bruiser. IBG, Frozen Mallet, Deadman's Plate, Spirit Visage. You're a Tanky monster who's splitpushing safely enough, and in teamfights, you wreck their ADC/Mage for getting out of position and compromise their entire team before you engage with a mega-wombo-tentacle-smash
-Dur
Your performance is still relevant. It can be frustrating at times, but a particularly good support will be able to basically spoon feed kills to the adcs and/or save them from their mistakes enough times that even the most challenged players get fed, and then you can climb up.
You won't be able to hard carry every game, but you can definitely edge your win rate above 50%, and so climb.
supports are perhaps the most important champion in a team, you do most of the things, but some people tend to think bad of supporting because most of what they do isn't flash and fireworks, you can activate 3 items and a skill in a battle and no one will notice it, at most they'll notice "good stuff happened but not quite sure what".
in low elo, most of the time you shouldn't bother getting a sightstone because people won't look at the map anyways, go apc bot as people won't know how to use the utility you bring to the game anyways there.
as a support main i have to disagree with you mystic. even if you feed your adc and top and mid feed their asses off there is nothing you can do when adc gets 1 shot by LB because she has more kills than your whole team (and this stuff happens alot). and even if you save your adc and feed them doesnt mean they know what to do with it. what i would say to do is do what i did. take another lane, something that you can carry on. once you get a little higher then you have a chance of getting a team that isnt full of trolls/horrible players. even toward the top of silver sees horrible players!
Yeah if your team feeds, then it's GG. Supports are not a carry role. The carry always has the most income and the highest level. Supports struggle to get to level 18 and usually have the least amount of gold. Even if you build like an APC, forsaking Sightstone and abusing Frost Queens Claim, late game is gonna hit and that ADC is going to delete you. Yours will be powerless.
Aiming for a high win rate is not realistic as support. Don't judge a support too much based on their win rate, we lose a lot of games because we don't have that control that other roles have.
Instead it's better to take it slow. Don't do 10 games a day, especially in Bronze. Make sure you remember that it's March, and you have plenty of time to climb. Realize packing so many games into one day is not going to help you move up faster, in fact it may make you fall back further than where you belong. The more games you play the more likely you are to make mistakes. So many people I know think that they are just going to shoot up to Gold in a matter of weeks, in reality it takes time.
Accept where you are right now, and make tiny strides each day, especially if you're a support main.
I went a whole week playing nothing but support and climbed a whole division, this was pure solo by the way. I only stopped for I got bored of the role.
So excuse me if I don't quite understand what you mean when you say it is harder to climb as a support.