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vyoda·9/9/2019, 6:40:40 PM·15 votes·13,302 views

Hi, I'm an enchanter Support main.

Started out League playing assassins/mages, then realized I really enjoyed ADC's like Ashe Jhin and Jinx .
How did I become a Support main? Since my ADC mechanics aren't high-elo tier, I always struggle with winning lane unless I have a somewhat 'good' support (supports who somewhat help with vision control, poke, CC/engage, or simply lane presence). Basically, SR games (ranked or unranked) were a 50/50 for me - or even 40/60, unless I played duo. With my bot duo, our win-rate was at least 70%. We stomped most matchups. But ......... my duo became a mid main, and now exclusively plays Zed/Yasuo [sg-janna]

So: now I playing Supp because it's the lane where I'm most impactful. Still ADC on occasion, but I've kinda found a liking for the new role. Helping teammates with a clutch redemption/solari feels so fulfilling :D (but also DJ Sona and SKT Nami too cute)

101 Comments

Icy Hot Shoto9/9/2019, 10:24:45 PM5 votes

Killing people with Redemption brings me enjoyment.

Being serious- I used to be a jungle, mid, and adc main. But I lost my jungler seasons ago, and whenever I would mid my adc would be mad at the support and if I was adc my support would either leave me alone the entire lane phase, be passive as hell even on aggressive supports, prefer to watch as I die, or would have no map awareness.

So I decided to take up the role myself. It actually made my map awareness better, and I've found I tend to be more impactful in fights as a support than as a mid laner or adc.

And being able to clutch save people with a Raka w/ult or Janna shield/ult is quite a nice feeling.

Of course, shielding a turret as Janna that the enemy is trying to use to execute also gives a nice feeling.

2Charmnot2Charm9/9/2019, 7:07:41 PM5 votes

Cause I'm sick of my bot lane losing lane hard before mid laners even reached level 6 :^)

Besides that support is fun for multiple reasons.

Hotarµ9/9/2019, 6:46:48 PM4 votes

I've always liked playing utility-based roles in games and it just feels good to help people.

Even now when I main a super-aggressive champion like Pyke, it still feels great to benefit my team in such an impactful way. I also like hopping back onto champions like Nami, Zilean, and Bard to get those clutch plays and save my teammates. Feels so good :^)))

Pool Party Pix9/9/2019, 7:47:40 PM4 votes

So i can eat while "playing".Yuumi

Oleandervine9/9/2019, 6:43:52 PM4 votes

I enjoying controlling things, such as vision, as well as dictating how opponents can move or should move. I love doing that through either zoning, my mere presence, or hard CC.

l MrD l9/9/2019, 9:59:14 PM3 votes

I play the role because the feeling you get when you save an ally or when you deny the enemy something and just generally being that support where if im playing janna i can just focus on being the champion and doing my thing rather than going for CS etc i can go around shielding and peeling

Moonš9/10/2019, 4:21:35 PM3 votes

Despite what people say, supports are so very important.

Koiyaki9/9/2019, 7:07:21 PM3 votes

i started maining support way back when cuz as an adc main, every support i got was garbage (started playing ranked in season three)

just the whole, if u want something done right, do it urself, lol

5or6stores9/10/2019, 4:44:00 AM3 votes

It's less intensive... I play it when I'm not feeling in the zone. I'm not saying it's easy, but there's less pressure on you to perform, and you're not useless even if you do fall behind. In the other lanes, I only enjoy and will play champs like Akali Irelia Fiora that require a lot of concentration, so support is nice when I don't have to focus as much.

You also don't have to deal with a lot of champs' bs, like if tryndamere is brainlessly splitpushing top, it's not my problem to stop. Adcs are generally not very annoying at all... only drawback is having to lane against mage supports or puke.

RebeccaUCuber9/10/2019, 2:13:42 PM2 votes

I main supp for many reasons:

  1. it's the role i feel myself comfortable and most impactful.
  2. Yeah, champs are really cool
  3. I always take my role and prevent autofills
  4. I hate assassins and deny them a kill is really fun
Tyrannus09/10/2019, 6:06:22 AM2 votes

Because I hate ADCs and I enjoy watching them suffer, at all points of the game, and the longer the better.

LetsGetHIvern9/9/2019, 11:08:13 PM2 votes

Because I love being able to mitigate all the insane damage in the game. Tilts the enemy so hard when I shield for 10k a game or more lol

Samuel Murphy9/10/2019, 1:06:12 PM2 votes

Biggest thing is laning phase. It is just so dang fun as a CC engage support.

I enjoy the team work and the outplay of the 2v2 and part of it is finding ways to zone them off to win CS.

Landing that sweet max range hook (naut main for the last 3 years) and then roaming mid to do the same.

Also in my Elo there is like a 45% chance if I dont play support no one will go for deep wards, or if they do its at a terrible time and they die for it.

WAZZZUP5009/10/2019, 12:46:10 PM2 votes

I like crushing peoples hopes of ever laying a finger on my adc. Plus it's way easier to roam as support than it is as top lane. Top has to worry about cs and being in a solo lane; as a support i can let my adc farm while i go clap cheeks in mid.

I don't play weaksauce enchanters tho. Nautilus Leona Xerath

Also why ward when you can just kill everyone?

Ritrozark9/9/2019, 8:53:27 PM2 votes

I truly started playing when Rakan and Xayah came out and I just put fill the intention that I will be able to play both (didn't work out that way.) however I found out I enjoyed Rakan and I have been stuck there ever since. And besides I tend to have better map awareness as support then in the other lane roles as the focus I spend farming can instead be put towards looking at the minimap.

BigfootNamedYeti9/10/2019, 11:35:21 AM2 votes

I did it because the praise my friends used to give me, I became a one trick because I like bodying the enemy support. Leona

Rose Muffins9/10/2019, 10:27:44 PM2 votes

I love to be a helpful, driving force. It's always great getting a pat on the back for doing something to help the team.

It pains me to see supports who think that going 1/11/10 is okay because "I'm the support" You should be the safest when you're the support! I love feeling that safe.

Elipo9/9/2019, 10:25:53 PM2 votes

I hate farming so I play a role that doesnt need farming while denying farm to the enemy adc [sg-jinx]

Also I love aery and making ward wars [sg-syndra]

Bad Footwear9/11/2019, 12:39:20 AM1 votes

To begin with, I play mostly DotA, but I tend to support in both games. I find last hitting to be extremely boring in lane, especially League where there's really no form of wave manipulation, so you're just statically last hitting constantly.

It's the support who makes the plays in lane, it's the supports who set up objectives by laying down vision, and at least in DotA, I find it's the supports who have the most impactful ultimate abilities to turn fights.

Mostly though, I find it a challenge to make the biggest impact with the least amount of farm, and that really appeals to me. Also happens to keep expectations lower :)

CØulrophobia9/9/2019, 10:31:35 PM1 votes

I am enjoying playing support solely because Swain support is immensly fun to play. You can be aggresive against even the most powerful adcs from level 2. You stack passive a lot faster on bot, your AOE is more impactful when there are 2 champions to get hit, your W is godsend for brush checking when wards are low. It is basically Swain mid/top but without boring parts like CSing or wave management.

HungryAngry2SPP9/9/2019, 10:37:46 PM1 votes

Whenever I play supp I pick:

Blitzcrank For Q Rakan Because he is "stunning and beautiful"

Zabulus9/10/2019, 1:51:04 AM1 votes

Honestly I'm gonna be quite honest. I am an open player to all roles I wanted to experience each and every lane in it's own unique way. I found that because of this there is no champion I can't have fun to learn to play. Now to get to the point of this. I play support Tanks and by god is it so satisfying knowing my cc and my communication with adc's can actually just be so beautiful if we play it right (only real tank I play is thresh excluding S7 Sion supp). And with my experience in all the other roles it helps me because I'm always against different match ups and know how to counter act some of them In the end while I call myself an all around person in my heart I am a huge support main and can say it is the highest impacting role in the game.

Lost R9/10/2019, 2:36:41 AM1 votes

When I started playing back in 2013, supports were treated like absolute fucking garbage, far worse than they are right now, and right now they are treated worse than child molesters in prison. In the instances where someone who hated supports would not speak up fast enough and get delegated to the support (because we had to call our roles back then), they would flip their unholy shit go berserk, and ruin the match out of sheer spite. I had dozens, HUNDREDS of games in my first year sabotaged because of that culture and mentality. You still see those kinds of people floating around, but it's much more rare these days.

I started going support in the vague half-promise of having a normal game, and I got to see first hand the kind of shit supports had to deal with, and why, by extension, the role was so grossly unpopular while being extremely vital. The reason why systems like Teambuilder and Clash failed so miserably and continue to do so is because of the unpopularity of the role, and the way the rest of the community, high on pentakills, treat supports like second class citizens or inherently inferior players, alienating any possible support players. A few years ago, if you went anything but support, you expected to wait for at least five minutes in a queue compared to less than one second for supports. I've even encountered people who were still waiting in the lobby for a match to start after I was able to play a game and re-enter the lobby after it was over. It was BAD.

Vestiges of this mentality continues today. It doesn't matter how much you know about the game, people will disregard anything you have to say if you have played support even once, assuming that any ranking or skill you have has been mooched off of better players. Even so much as uttering a single syllable as a support is enough to set off some players in a fit of face-ripping rage. And god forbid you have kills; may as well be a black person walking around with money in pre-Jim Crow America.

I play support because the support role ends up being the most versatile and needed role in the game, and I have long-since learned how to read team compositions and what our and the enemy's strengths and weaknesses are. Anybody can get kills, but supports more often than not are the ONLY people obligated to help their team; otherwise it's a 1v9 culture where every player goes miles out of their way to screw over their own teammates so they can pick up all the pentakills so the womenfolk will want to touch their penis.

Crescent Dusk9/10/2019, 3:48:01 AM1 votes

To tilt the living hell out of the other lanes. Nothing better than a blitzcrank/alistair/bard roaming to mid all game long and making the opponent midlaner and jungler break their keyboards when they feel as if they're playing against 2 junglers.

Support Position9/10/2019, 10:51:51 AM1 votes

Other:

Lulu Leona Morgana Nami Neeko Rakan Sona Soraka Thresh Galio Taliyah

I tend to switch around all the time in the support role as there's no place for me currently. We literally have 145 champions and absolutely none of them... Are something I wanna play :/ it's quite sad really.

I've noticed through the "League of Legends" house matchups that were done this year (Loved that, way too much.) I've noticed a lot that I've been a part of "The Council."

As warding, vision control is my favourite thing to actually do in the game. My main problem is I don't have a champion that's fun for me to play :/ and since I've been supporting basically only for 3 years straight (with the occasional role swap with friends) I've noticed I just always have to go back to playing support.

(Lissandra Unless I'm playing Lissandra top/mid. Then good lord I can go all day but I hate both those lanes ^^') I just generally hate CSing. Lane management... Control of the damn wave... I hate all of it. It actually infuriates me beyond belief xD so if we got rid of that as a game mechanic. I'd probably play other lanes. But for now. I'll stick with my non-csing role.

item 3302 AND THEN I TAKE THIS. MY LANE NOW MUAHAHAHA.

mmoran55549/10/2019, 11:51:56 AM1 votes

I play support for a variety of reasons.

  1. I hate killing minions for gold. I think it's way more fun to play a mage and poke enemy laners for gold, or use relic shield to kill minions because it's easier and helps my teammates.

  2. You can play so many different champions as a support. I also believe trying new strategies or off-meta champs is easier in the support role, which makes the game more fun.

  3. You always get the fastest game matches as support role, no need to wait long for a game to start.

  4. Most players think that support players suck. This gives me a big advantage because I am awesome, which surprises other players. As a result, I get honored a lot and have many good friends online.

  5. Last reason is that I love helping others and support role is the best for it. For example, an enemy Karthus was using his ULT and my mid laner was going to die. I ran to my mid laner and healed him just in time. Enemy Karthus was so mad and I was so happy, felt good.

tempname12321349/10/2019, 4:18:36 PM1 votes

Because whatever lane I go in my team feeds and solo loses the game so i rather sit in a role I don't have to do much in for 15 minutes and then try to ff15 other then that my 5 of my fav champs are only supports braum bard ali thresh Ornn

0cean Mann9/10/2019, 11:02:12 PM1 votes

I play blind and usually the adc is garbage and I moved from top lane into support so I looked for a support that can kill without your teammates complaining, carry and escape so I found Pyke. I started playing him the patch his waveclear got removed to see how bad it is, I earned my mastery 7 at 35k and I am starting to stop playing him for awhile since everybody keeps complaining about him which makes me feel like a dick