An Open Letter to Marksmen: Why You Should Be Kind to Your Support

Supporting ain't easy. It takes extreme map awareness, timing, positioning, and teamwork. Too often do Marksmen think they are entitled to verbally abuse their supports if they get killed due to being out of position. So here goes. If you're a marksman and you're going to downvote this, don't think I'm bagging on you. I just want you to take something away from this post and realize that supports are people too.

Scenario: I was playing last game as Leona and I had just backed after Vayne and I had frozen the lane. I buy the upgraded Amulet Coin and I'm headed back to lane. I'm watching bot lane. Vayne tumbles into a Morgana snare, Cait puts a trap under her, and Vayne gives up first blood. Who does she rage at? Yup. You guessed it. She goes off on me, starts calling me a troll, a faggot, a noob, and the whole nine yards, saying I'm "too fkin slow." You can't buy mobis on supports at five-six minutes.

So Vayne goes full out, starts flaming at me in all-chat, etc. Why? She got caught out and Morgana capitalized on her mistake. So, here's a secret, Marksmen: Supports don't play to please you. They play support because as a Marksman, you're squishy and need to be protected until late game. I've played support long enough to know that Marksmen like that aren't going to cool down. So instead of taking this verbal abuse from Vayne I head top to help Trundle out. Almost instantly he gets a kill from their top laner. In the end, we lost it because Vayne was never with the team because she thought she was too good for us.

TL;DR: Stop calling supports noobs and faggots because you made a mistake. If you're flaming at them in all-chat because you got out of position and their support was good enough to capitalize, maybe you deserve your bronze 5. You're not better than everyone else. Stop acting like you're God's gift to League of Legends.