Does ranking up maining support mean you got carried?

Dukues·Apr 4, 2016·2 votes·539 views

As of this past weekend I made it back into gold. Now I realize reaching gold is not a huge deal to some players but its an achievement for me. Especially since it is still fairly early into season 6. My buddy said "well all you do is play support so you must have got carried." I did inform him that I actually play fill I just so happen to get support 95% of the time. So this creates the question. Is it easy to rank up as a support? And what is the hardest role to rank up as?

I personally believe it does not matter what role you play when playing ranked. If you play a role or roles at a certain skill level then you will eventually rank up to that rank or elo level. What do you all think?

7 Comments

ChatillonApr 4, 20163 votes

I am out of practice as support, and im lower elo, but your friend isn't right. Sure sometimes you do get carried, but you enable your team as a support. Just play a game with a terrible blitz and its a 6v4. #supportlivesmatter

DukuesApr 4, 20161 votes

I love the supportlivesmatter haha.

Live2LetDieApr 4, 20163 votes

It's the opposite really. Supports carry their team.

Their primary role is to babysit an adc who would be useless without a player dedicated to protecting them.
They have to take shit from everyone. It's like an abusive relationship
Not only do they have predict the enemies movement and abilities but their apc and adc aswell to protect them.

Aka. Most important role to be honoest.

DukuesApr 4, 20161 votes

I do think the role supports play does go unnoticed more than other roles a majority of the time. I do like the list you created.

Idk man jungles are pretty important :). You have some good jungle stats wish I knew the role better. I do like to play all roles once in awhile so I am partially said "fill" gets me support most of the time.

Point #3. Omg predicting enemies movements has been a big pain in the ass for me lately. I have been having a hell of a time landing my Morgana snares, especially in lane. I think you can tell when you start reaching you correct elo by how easy or hard games are. Like in low silver I can land a vast majority of my snares because people just stand around. But now players move a lot more and I realize I need to get a lot better at reading player movements.

ArcWalrusApr 4, 20162 votes

As an adc main, with a good friend of mine supporting me when we duoQ, I would say that supports are a very important aspect of the game. They are generally in charge of initiating fights, saving their allies, and making plays that others must decide to act upon. However, the key is that last part. If you have a crappy team, and you land a god hook as Thresh, but your team doesn't follow up even though it would be favorable, it's on them. Supports are crucial play makers in the game. Although they may not always deal the most damage, they are usually very cc focused and in charge of getting their allies fed. It is still possible to be carried while you're supporting, but the same is true for any lane. If you have an 0/5 top laner and still win the game, he got carried.

TL;DR- Supports are crucial. Good supports are even better.

DukuesApr 4, 20162 votes

I just kind of laughed when he said it. I used to think adc was easy to climb as and was my main role in the past. Eventually I realized that I am really bad at adc and that I started to enjoy playing support more. Its hard to list any games where I felt I "carried the team super hard" but figure I have to be doing a few things right. Granted I did have a 3-1-28 game vs an almost full ap team as Morgana support. Black shield saved many lives that game haha.

sealustApr 4, 20162 votes

If you're bad yeah (just like... all the other roles). Every time I get mid in ranked I get carried if we win, hands down.

if the support role was as your friend said, a bad support wouldn't be able to fuck bot lane or have any impact on the game whatsoever. Then players would cycle them out and we wouldn't HAVE a support role.

There would probably not be any high ranking support mains then, either. There comes a point when you have to carry yourself, so to speak.