Tired of Apologizing: Securing a Kill(and saving your life) is Not KS
I have moved into Supporting almost full time recently, and realize that I apologize every time I secure a kill. Before I knew what I was doing(P.S. I'm still terrible), I had no idea Supports were only supposed to passively siphon off money to allow the carries to carry. And I'm sure there are lots of Supports who don't understand this still. But that leaves us three camps:
- Supports who are really new and like the role of healing, protecting, and controlling, but don't get exactly how to Support
- Supports who really get it, and know when grabbing a kill is saving your ass.
- Supports who are really awful, and purposefully KS
In my experience, there are very few of #3, and you can always identify them. They are toxic and abusive, and do not play properly as a support from square 1.
You can also tell #1 because their items are bad and they don't play properly either. Sometimes they are toxic, but whatevs.
But if I spend the first 20 mins of the game doing nothing but help my ADC CS, feed them kills, feed the team kills, and then grab a kill? Yah, it's because I just watched you blow all your CD, or I know you're out of range/position for your next ability, I just blew all of my CD trying to save you from a series of very bad decisions on your part, and want to secure a kill and an assist for you rather than giving their team a kill and shutdown/killstreak gold. Or sometimes people lag and accidentally drop an auto on a redlined enemy. So don't tilt and rage and quit because you 'lost' ONE kill that you were never going to get. I can promise you we aren't going to lose the game because of it.
A good support knows when to take the kill. If you can't see that, there's no Support on Earth that can help you.
once trying to slow the last enemy for her but she jumped on the enemy before they ran into my wall for the slow so by the time they got to my wall they were low health and my ult killed them.
