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Support needs to be taken out of the game.

Nhifu·2/28/2019, 4:22:11 AM·2 votes·1,019 views

Intention More utility for the team Protecting the team Helps the ADC "Scale" Improved vision

Current usage OUTSIDE of pro-play Inting "Kill" lanes. Auto-filled and trolled Never help with vision Weird builds, when going straight AP would have won the game (Lux as an example going Athenes over Luden's) 0 Interaction with team whatsoever (ie; Janna shield bot, doesn't auto attack, doesn't slow players or do aggressive ultimates) (Morgana blindly pooling minion wave despite ADC's attempt to freeze) They are off-roling and goofing around, or they literally don't care (Almost every Blitzcrank player I've seen INTS randomly) Lazily auto-attacking the wave

Pro-play Always gets caught Little to no interaction in the game whatsoever, except for an occasional roam Bot lane too scared to do anything so both supports sit behind tower Pro's are too used to one champ even when meta changes - resulting in super one-sided stomps (Even the korean teams have been using weird sup picks)

I like the idea of support as being a secondary mid laner.. except you're just barely a level or two behind. Every Brand/Zyra/Velkoz I've seen has done so much damage, even newbies can play them. Even if they INT the brand will still get his ult and possibly a stun + peel down.

Every time I see a Taric or Utility support (requires 10x more skill to play) we have a higher chance of losing :( Meanwhile the enemy team is rocking a Luden's Deathcap support and blows up our whole team, or the Zyra does so much poke damage our "utility" supports never get any action.

It's just a bad situation for the player and his team.

9 Comments

Boltonator2/28/2019, 4:32:36 AM5 votes

How about we leave Supports in the game and start appreciating the sacrifices they’re making to help their team out?

[sg-lulu] [sg-soraka]

Syrile2/28/2019, 4:38:10 AM3 votes

Or we leave supports alone, stop nerfing them because of the "balance" team's bad decisions and start banning people who troll games. And remove auto-fill. -_-

Silly Neeko2/28/2019, 5:56:20 AM3 votes

To be honest, from a support player's perspective.... though there is games that people do not do well and some that they are just outplayed....

What you are thinking of is the people who are like "yeah, my adc might be useless so ill do a carry support cause i dont trust them".

In all honesty, conventional supports do just fine when they have a competent ADC. Blitz, Thresh, Nami, Janna, Soraka..... etc. I used them primarily in ranked. Often times I have people praising because of the saves. Lux even with a more supporting type build like Athenes works quite well as well. Morgana for sure is a amazing support..... list goes on.

The problem is, people like the OP see Zyra and think "just damage damage damage". I see plants that block skill shots, root, knock up, slows from Rylais, while also having some damage from stuff like Liandries etc. Janna players that do nothing but shield are either new Janna players or they have a reason why they are playing passive.... (perhaps Blitzcrank enemy team? Thresh?) There are times to back up and times to poke. Sometimes the support and the ADC have various ideas of what they want to do.

This is why Pro play is different than normal play..... pro play the ADC and support have more communication with eachother. They have played with eachother for months at least. Generally the Support in pro play will be the sacraficial pawn of sorts if it means keeping the ADC alive or other team members alive. Often times people blow 2 or 3 major teamfight ultimates for 1 person, and if it is the support they waste it on..... usually there is a way the support can live, but often times if the team works with it, it doesnt matter if the support lives because they did what they needed to. Kept the team alive so they can slaughter everyone.

I make it to gold with playing support almost exclusively in ranked. Very well could go higher, but in general i prefer normals because people are not trying to be elitist meta obsessed jerks normally.

Its like the whole Viktor top thing, just because someone utilizes it, doesnt mean thats what everyone should do. I use Kaisa top to a fairly decent chance of winning lane.... do i think everyone should? Not if they dont want to.

Bad Games Happen2/28/2019, 5:35:42 AM1 votes

What the hell is this guy on lol