Why Support has the lowest pick rate and why everyone hates that role.

WatchDogs Legion·1/10/2020, 4:33:26 AM·4 votes·993 views

First reason is people just don't like the role, because they truly believe they can carry harder if they play on another role. Alot of players just have the "I must carry" mentality and Support don't always usually offer that.

When people think of what is "Carrying" they think of high kills number, which in part yes getting high kills number does mean you're carrying. And most time it is carrying even tho some people can be "Delusional" when they're performing bad, they will say you're just KSing, even tho I don't how someone with almost 20kill can be KSing when the rest of the team is like 0-10. Like get over your low egotistic when you're getting carry.

Some people just have a hard time accepting getting carry when they're especially doing very poorly in-game. And what hits these type of egotistic players more is when their Carries are hella fed but the game is still in a loss situation. They'll start pouring out:

"If I have gotten those kill, I would have ended the game myself" "How are you not getting anything after KSing 20kill"

Like yes sometime there are some Players, who have no idea what to do with all the kills they get, and sometime they just mange to get alot of the last hit and somehow got big. That usually happen to alot of players who have high kills along with high death numbers.

There's more to the "Carry Topic" but not everyone is going to have the logic to think why or know so I will end the first reason here.

Second reason is, some player just don't enjoy playing a lane together with another player. Why? Because when you have an aggressive player laning with a super passive player.... It just don't work.

Sometime you get some support who plays Leona Alistar Blitzcrank you would assume they might be a more aggressive player but they ain't. And sometime you get adc who plays Lucian Caitlyn Tristana you also assume they might be an aggressive player. But sometime you just don't know what you're going to get.

Playing duo lane with a random, is like a "LOOT BOX" you just don't know what kinda player you're going to match with.

And so this lead to a situation where you are force to match your passive and aggression with that person, and sometime they'll do some dumb play or whatever and then blame you if it fails. Like you know, usually in a random duo lane you're more likely going to hear 2 idiot flaming each other if they don't blame the jungler first.

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8 Comments

Malix Farwin1/10/2020, 4:34:55 AM5 votes

Jungler has definitely taken that crown. i can set supp as main or secondary and still get autofilled jg. If i set supp as secondary i still get mid over 90% of the time but if i set JG secondary i get jg every time

ModIts Yuu and Mi1/10/2020, 5:51:32 AM3 votes

You mean Jungle. No one wants to Jungle right now.

ElnyrJhodo1/10/2020, 5:45:20 AM2 votes

Support is insanely busted right now.

A velkoz can go 0/3, not kill a single minion, and still half health someone with one ability hit. AP is out of control right now.

Do I even need to mention Brand? Literally out damage your entire team without even farming.

Support IS a carry. Its in the craziest state its been in since... since ever. These crying support threads are nonsense.

afmghost1/10/2020, 4:39:15 AM2 votes

Point two struck home to me before I quit. I was always pretty conservative when I played league, having the mindset that "I can't feed if I don't die." I would typically get flamed when I had overly aggressive carries or even supports. I also hate it when they don't seem to grasp the concept that supports depend on their abilities to support, as opposed to their autoattacks. If I don't have the mana for a skill, or it's on cooldown, that skill ain't happening. You'll have to find a way to live without it, and no amount of bitching and moaning will change that.

RyzeRework1/10/2020, 5:45:27 AM1 votes

I hate as a support I push up to get level 2 and fight and my adc is sitting like a map behind me. We hit level 2 and i use my cc and my adc is still fucking farming

afmghost1/10/2020, 5:49:38 AM1 votes

Another problem is that every other player thinks that warding is entirely on the support's hands. I can't say I blame them, though. I mean moving your index finger all the way over to the 4 key is way too much work.

Noodle Wacker1/10/2020, 5:09:20 AM1 votes

I mained support for most of season 8 and 9 rank, even got to gold 4 playing between top and support (not great compared to many others but its a milestone to when I started back in season 7) and I'm honestly disgusted with the recent changes. I have played support for so long and am used to being able to help push a lane when needed or even having enough gold to buy items and still earn some by helping to push that now it's not worth playing support, never mind jungle with the horrible exp nerfs. Now I can push a wave with the team, hopping to gain maybe 40 to 80 gold but end up with 20 or less due to the items restricting gold income later in the game. Now with the most recent patch, tanks gain more hp at the cost of ad or ap, which in my opinion is making tanks less viable for fighting. They're supposed to be the ones taking damage, but if they can't even help in a fight by fighting back, then they're next to useless in a fight since they do less damage. Everyone on the enemy team will be able to target the damage dealers and leave the tanks for last since they know they'll live longer.