The Bronze Supporting Experience

ananke·5/24/2017, 9:46:46 PM·2 votes·206 views

(For context, I (Janna) was 0/3/5 (ended 0/3/9). Twitch was 2/13, frequently rushed to his death trying to 1v3, rarely warded, kept overextending. Udyr and the MF Mid were 7/11 and 4/14 (They ended 4/16, 7/11, and 7/14 respectively). They were all playing pretty bad, and reckless, always dying no matter what i did because they decided to rush right back in after I'd expended all my resources to try to keep them alive, and never listening to my pings, except the Ziggs top lane who wasn't feeding at 9/2.)

: rages about how the team sucks and we're feeding : idk what i'm supposed to do about this : it's your job to not let it get to this by supporting agreements from and internally: ????????????????????????????????? externally: it's your job to not be an idiot : muted immediately after so i didn't see their replies

4 Comments

420 grams5/24/2017, 9:51:42 PM1 votes

People in low elo don't know what Janna does. If you're not playing blitzcrank to literally hand them kills, they rage.

LostFr0st5/24/2017, 9:52:26 PM1 votes

Stop blaming them. Let it go and move on to the next game. Support in bronze is about letting the salt go and making the most of what you have. Bonus points if you can ping out the enemy jg on the map for your allies whenever you see the jg (trust me they won't see him even on a ward).

OtterlyLost5/24/2017, 9:57:18 PM1 votes

My experience as an adc in bronze. My support plays super behind me, never comes up even with me in the lane, and regularly allows the enemy ad and support to free trade on me. Wont buy a sightstone even though the 3/0 Warwick has decided that he's board of eat mid and our jungler and wants to camp us along with the enemy mid. Also unhelpfully decides to push the wave when we're being camped, not only zoning me off the farm for fear of repeat ganks but taking and or making me miss big chunks of it as well.

And then teamfights happen, I'm super weak because I'm starved of gold, I'm terrified to push bot solo even up to where our turret used to be and I get called a trash ad player because my support essentially has screwed me.

The point is that there are supports who are equally awful as adcs at that elo. Its just bronze things

Just Blame Jenny5/25/2017, 3:49:59 AM1 votes

Supporting as Janna in low elo is really just a matter of identifying that one good member of your team, latching onto them, and getting them fed like your own dear child. Protect them, nurture them, don't let them die. Help them carry you.

That player will not necessarily be your ADC. In fact, most of the time, it isn't.

Sometimes that player doesn't exist at all on your team. In which case, the best you can do is move onto the next one.