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Why Playing Support and Jungle are the Hardest in terms of Teammates

DitaoFu·1/29/2015, 8:18:57 AM·2 votes·642 views

Jungle and Support are the hardest roles, in my humble opinion, to play, at least, it's the most taxing on your mind. While everyone in the game has the potential to carry, the Top laner, Mid laner, and ADC see it as their role to carry the hardest in the game. That leads to a lot of people demanding that the Supports and the Jungles help feed them to carry. Step one step out of line, and the ADC/other laner will start yelling at you. Let's make a few examples.

The other day, I was playing a game as Support Brand. Being new to Brand, I used my EQW combo off to quickly get a stun, and then do some extra damage, so my ADC could finish off the enemy Blitzcrank. However, it turns out that while the ADC was chunking down the Blitzcrank, s/he got it down to the point where the W actually finished him off. Promptly thereafter, s/he stopped moving, started typing, and was killed by Jinx. After this, s/he started blaming me for Kill Stealing and for not defending he/r whilst typing.

Junglers face the same issue as well when they "Kill Steal" (though Jungle is one of if not the most powerful in terms of carry potential).

What do you think is the hardest role to play in terms of how teammates treat you? Do you have any horror stories of people blaming you for everything you've done, without taking a look at themselves? Post your thoughts down below.

And remember, Support Brand is Vi albe!

4 Comments

lxlLilybellelxl1/29/2015, 8:23:18 AM1 votes

SUPPORT hands down is the worst role to play. While i get it that junglers get shit a lot of the time, no one has to deal with the self-entitled spoiled brat of the match more then the support.

BardLivesMatter1/29/2015, 9:44:19 AM1 votes

Jungling, because obvious reasons.

Support is the funnest role to play, not the hardest.

Deep Terror Nami1/29/2015, 9:48:31 AM1 votes

[Support main here] I find Support probably the least blameable and most relaxed. Land a few Aqua Prisons and your team is calling you a god.

Of course you still get the ADC who blames his failure to follow up your engage on you, but relax and savor the knowledge that he's just bad. Go feed the mid laner while he cries.

Then you've got the Madlife supports who "Oops, sry, took the kill". Can't tell you how many single AA's I launched and accidentally got the kill, but I always tell them "I'd rather you whine that I KS than you whine I let him escape". They usually shut up, and can be ignored otherwise. Btw, Ebb and Flow is notorious for KS'ing. That's why I don't play high dps supports like Brand and Vel'koz; harder to feed the carry everything.

I personally blame Jungle and Top (though I don't voice it. It doesn't help) most of the time. If you take TP as Top, that is meant for strategic teamfighting, not just getting your ass to the Turret for CS. That takes me to the final, definitive answer to your question;

I think the Jungler is most stressful. Get killed in lane? "Where's my Jungler?" Take a few CS? "GTFO my lane jungler" Turret goes down? "Report jungler afk farming" High carry potential, but the enemy has one too, and they can only be in 1 place at a time.