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Does Playing Support Make Me Bad?

SilverAthiest·8/23/2016, 5:59:40 PM·1 votes·453 views

Recently, I've gotten back into playing ranked solo-q. I've been Bronze since day 1, and only recently, over the past year, have started to improve my quality-of-gameplay experience. You know, the basic essentials on the rift, like how to properly CS, how to attack move, how to roam, how to itemize against team comps, all that good stuff; my goal is to reach silver! I played top for a while, winning some games and losing some, tried playing mid, win some and lost some, I tried jungle and AD and got the same results. Even when I won lane, or was ahead, I could never impact the game enough to know 'for sure' that we had the game in the bag.

Then recently, I picked up a little champion known as Janna. Now, I'm just mastery 3 with her, but I have like a 100% winrate on her in ranked. This goes with most of my support champions that I've played, I feel like I win a majority of the ranked games that I play support. Now don't get me wrong, I like to think of myself as a PRETTY good support player for my elo, I mean it feels like I am constantly setting up my AD for kills or saving their ass. I am learning to ward and deny vision like crazy, I can shot call for my team most of the time and I feel like I impact the game 1000x more in this role, but with that, i'm brought to question myself.

Am I just that bad in every other role that the only way I can win games is to be carried through support? I mean, if I was really as good as I think I am, I should be able to carry no matter what role I'm playing, but I don't. I feel like I feed in every other role, I feel like I'm consistently getting outplayed and can't keep up to my lane opponent in CS. Am I really just that bad at the game that I'm only useful for heals and shields and CC? Meh, idk. I know this post may sound a little emo or something, but do any of you other support mains feel this way, or am I just being WAY too hard on myself as a casual player? Or, maybe support is really just the role that I'm best at. I mean, I genuinely do feel like I am good at the role.

Would love to hear any feedback or thoughts of other people that might feel this way. And again, I hope this doesn't come off too "attention-whorish", it's just been something that's on my mind lately and the boards always helps me understand things. Hope everyone is having a great day!

2 Comments

Fuh Queue8/23/2016, 6:34:02 PM1 votes

Your assists at the end of a game are your kills. If you're winning games, your adc is getting fed and you're providing the proper support your team needs, you're doing good! Some people are just better at different things. For example I prefer to jungle more than lane. I like being free to roam around everywhere and be able to make objective plays. If support is where you shine, stick with it! Jungle and support players never get enough credit, but we are important to winning, especially support.

dunkeroni8/23/2016, 6:35:32 PM1 votes

Some of us are just better at playing support roles in games. I've been playing healers in MMOs and any fighting game I have since forever, and while I may suck at a lot of things in these games, at least I am an attentive healer and I enjoy it. Some players only derive satisfaction by destroying other players, and some only like negating/blocking damage for their team. It's up to you to figure out where you fall on that spectrum.

In season 4 I was ranked low silver the entire time. Last season I climbed from bronze 5 to Gold 5 using only soraka and sona. Don't worry too much about being pro at all aspects of the game. Numbers don't lie, and if you win with something (even support) then that means you're good at it.

Now I mostly just play support in ranked and try out mid and top in normals when I play with friends. Good luck with Janna in ranked. If it works out for you, you might like Lulu or Karma as other shield/peel supports.