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Ever Wonder why it takes so long to get a Support????

imonly4noobcakes·10/12/2014, 2:44:41 PM·35 votes·5,516 views

First off...Not many people want to support to begin with. I mean what glory is there in supporting a team? You rarely get kills, but get a lot of assists if you are good. In this game everyone prides themselves on how many kills they can get, and the more you have the better the LOL player you are. So because of this no one wants to be that guy with a zero in kill score. And even if you pull off great assists no one thanx the support for their help.

Another reason why it's hard to find supports...adcs tend to be jerks. Most are cocky, and think if it were not for them your team would not be winning. These guys are the A holes of the team. Let's admit that as a support it gets old listening to the adc pat himself on the back and then complain if the support accidentily gets some cs or the adc misses the cs and then yells at the support anyway like it was their fault. So next time you are waiting a really long time for support and all you get are adc's entering under support remember be nice to the next real support you get. They are a person too, and they are the key to victory along with the rest of your team. And if you see your adc being toxic to a support report them. Then maybe more people will play that role.

69 Comments

IGotScuttleCrabs10/12/2014, 3:24:57 PM23 votes

We've all felt the pain of being the unappreciated support. I was playing Leona the other day and had a very passive, you could almost day scared, cait. i made so many Leona plays and got my team so fed it was unreal. Cait ended up 20-0 and all game it was "wow omg this Cait" "Cait carry me" blah blah. Not once did anyone say wow gj Leona you just Ult'd Twitch, Q'd Xin, E'd over to Zed, dropped ignite on WW, and used your Targons on Cait at the same time allowing us to ace without anyone dieing or even dropping to 1/2 health. Even flash followed > E'd to a stealthed Twitch and got Cait a kill while she just max ranged AA.

Alpharite10/12/2014, 4:30:54 PM11 votes

That generalization about ADCs makes me sick. While there is the odd toxic player, many ADCs I've met and/or played with have been quite amicable and had nothing but appreciation for the support they played with.

Frostbutt10/13/2014, 1:46:05 AM6 votes

One day, I was playing support sona (and what I'm about to type has happened with Leona twice now).

I saw that our jungler was being harassed (aka murdered) by their mid and jungler in the river. So I went up, spammed my spells (the heals and speed are nice. Had a lich too), got their jungler/mid both low (though the jungler was pretty low to begin with). One more Q, and they would both be dead. My ADC strolled in, attacked the mid laner once. Got the kill.

Jungler: ty draven Me: WELL EXCUSE ME.

UPfreely10/12/2014, 8:54:24 PM3 votes

support is the least wanted role jungle is the 2nd least wanted role(very close to support) adcs are the 3rd least wanted role(yet the most important) and guess why support - least gold, all spent on items that don't help you, they help others jungle - 2nd least gold, most pressured role adc - 2 people, 1 lane. gee wonder why no1 likes this lane.

Baal Haded10/12/2014, 10:00:45 PM3 votes

Been maining support since I've been playing this game. Season 4 is much better than season 3. Supports still aren't recognized, but at least we are not blamed for everything, and at least I don't hear people saying "lol supports are useless," anymore. Yeah, there are still people with the mentality that the only thing that matters is doing damage and whoever has the highest amount of kills, but those people are bronze players who will never get out of bronze. Their opinion shouldn't even be taken with a grain of salt.

Once you start playing with people who are in higher divisions, you start to notice that people rely on the support doing their job and ADCs will be more thankful of you. You can ignore the guy who is 9-9-3 saying that he is carrying the game and that you suck as a support being 2-3-14 just because they don't think assists ever matter. I mean it's not like utility and crowd control win team fights or anything, amirite?

Nolafus10/13/2014, 9:57:56 PM3 votes

Maybe it's just me, but I don't encounter toxic ADCs all that often. Granted, if the ADC makes a mistake, then people generally don't notice it, but forget to ward one bush, and the entire team just calls you out for being the worst support they've ever seen. The reason being a support is so hard is because of the lack respect, and you have to be nearly flawless to get your team to like you.

Although, I was playing a game as Thresh, and the fed, enemy Fizz comes down for a gank. My ADC gets taken out before I can even react, but the Fizz dives the turret for me. I Flay, ult, and hook him back into the turret for the shut down, and my entire team was just like, "Thresh, you are amazing!", "Way to go Thresh!", etc. Maybe it used to be different a while ago, as I'm still relatively new, but I just don't see the toxic levels you guys are describing. It happens once in a while, but not every game.

Drukyul10/13/2014, 12:41:25 AM3 votes

Support/ADC double-main checking in for the circlejerk thread!

King Ramoose10/13/2014, 12:05:26 AM2 votes

I don't call them ADC's anymore. I call them ADBATS.

Attack Damage B***** About The Support.

King Ramoose10/13/2014, 12:22:41 AM2 votes

I've got another comment, you'll love this. It was a level 6 fight.

Yesterday I was playing with a Lucian, and I was Janna. Lucian sprinted forward just past our turret, and got caught out by the thresh and jinx, and the enemy jungler Rammus. Shield Lucian, slow on Jinx, so she turns on me. Tornado started up, not released just yet.

Jinx goes down to Lucian, but he's almost dead. I flash between Thresh/Rammus, ult Rammus away and Thresh into our turret. Lucian and Thresh trade one hit and Lucian runs for the hills, Thresh goes down to turret.

Rammus is healthy, so he goes for me, but I lead him in line with my previously-started tornado, popped up. Between my shield and slow and surrounding minion damage, he gets down to half before he even damages me. Nearly dead, I start another tornado, and get back to turret... Rammus flashes on me, looking to taunt for the kill, but I release my tornado which was cleverly aiming up toward my own turret, so he gets one auto before being popped again. Shield/slow, and Rammus is down for the count by turret.

The next words in chat?

Lucian: Did you guys see that? Lucian: Did you see what I just did? Lucian: lol it was amazing Me: Um... that was all me, bro. Lucian: lol sure it was

.> no respect.

Ryvaku10/13/2014, 12:33:21 AM2 votes

I like main support for most of my games. I don't really care for acknowledgement though I do rebel if adc starts to hassle me one bit. Also I still find the community very toxic in game. More cocky the player the less I like them in game. If they start going off immediately and bark orders there is no way I want to support a team. I always report after game.

VmixD10/13/2014, 12:39:27 AM2 votes

I love to support as Leona , but I'm beginning to learn this lesson: ...hard to find supports...adcs tend to be jerks....

GaleWinUnleashed10/12/2014, 3:08:45 PM2 votes

I for one find playing my support Janna to be extremely satisfying. There's no feeling quite like that of saving your ADC from certain death by instead giving them a double kill.

Raptamei10/12/2014, 4:54:47 PM2 votes

Meh, I like big numbers. I'd rather have 30 assists than 10 kills.

Daishø10/12/2014, 9:25:31 PM2 votes

I don't understand why teams underestimate their importance. They ARE the carrys for the ADC's until they get to mid game. Supports heal, sustain, and protect the ADC. And then what does the ADC do? They rage that you stole a cannon minion, (when they would've missed it) and complain. I have more then enough times, gave my life to protect my ADC, who then promptly thinks that because i gave my life to protect him, can 1v3 them, dies and rages at me for not being there to save him. Supports are the most important in league in my opinion. Thats all i have to say. and there are rarely any ADC's that give you props for a perfect initiation or for a clutch save with a heal or shielding them from something that would've killed them.

HyperZEROXL10/12/2014, 9:59:23 PM2 votes

I agree very much! I USED to support Thresh really well before I decided to go to mid lane. But EVERY time I helped my team, the ADC got ALL the credit and I didn't get crap! Plus ADCs can be A holes, some can be nice and give credit to the support. We ALL have experienced that.

BardLivesMatter10/12/2014, 11:23:15 PM2 votes

Ehh, I actually PREFER to play support if given the chance.

Supports are the real carries & player makers.

ADC would generally be at the bottom of the barrel without you.

Dryditch10/12/2014, 11:30:07 PM2 votes

I love playing support. The problem arrives when the rest of your team decides to put their heads up each others' asses and ignore plays you make.

Plus there's the issue of the support sacrificing himself to save the rest of the team and being called a feeder (I played a malphite game earlier where I ulted in, saved my team, then got yelled at for feeding a kill).

So, it takes you a long time to get a support because we're getting sick and tired of hearing that everything is our fault.

Aerothal10/12/2014, 11:31:30 PM2 votes

i mained support for a long time and then switched to adc. There are not many good supports out there, at least in my low elo. most try to "help" you cs, hitting minions, causing you to miss. often they don't care about poke or positioning, dont understand about zoning the other adc from farm, how to assert dominance in lane. I dont even want to talk about cs'ing under tower. or the sudden recalls without saying a word leaving you 1v2 in lane with a pushing minion wave. or pushing the lane when the adc had to back, not freezing and only lasthitting. And lasthitting anyways...YES, a support has to know how when he is alone in lane!!! There is so much to supporting the right way and the support determines if the lane is won or lost. There are a lot of players in my elo who think the champion makes the support. Many also think they can skip sightstone to power up faster. I have even seen some skipping the money item, wondering later why they dont have items.

Meep Man10/13/2014, 8:25:27 PM2 votes

It takes a very mature (at least among the League community) to play as Support. You have to deal with many things and know in your mind that _____ would not have gotten a kill without you. Supports know they hugely impact the game without being told. Supports have to deal with the fact they probably won't be the proclaimed MVP of the game. Supports have to deal with any smack that comes their way when their ADC engages on the enemy when they move to ward the river bush (most ADCs shouldn't even initiate to begin with in the current meta where 80% of Supports are literally death traps for any one of their enemies nearby as long as they have an ally with them). Supports have to be the smartest since half of the them won't be building TOO much tankiness and the other half won't be building TOO much damage. Supports are by far most of the time the leader of a time, if not the Jungler (since Junglers need good coordination skills and are somewhat the carries of the early game currently). Supports are 85% of the time the most mature person on the team in low play (I say low play since in high play people recognize the Supports as a vital need and there are more of them).

Grashnim10/13/2014, 8:44:01 PM2 votes

I like playing support, I find it takes the most skill as you must coordinate, sometimes you're the main point of engagement or you attempt to lock down their fed toons. Sadly, as a support, you can't carry a game and often I win lane but lose game. I might have to switch over from smart support builds to attempted carry builds via toons like Karma, Annie, Morgana. Support Woes.

Zerana10/13/2014, 11:13:49 PM2 votes

I don't get the toxic adcs as much but I do get the, never wards significantly enough team.

manliestdino10/14/2014, 5:34:12 AM2 votes

There is literally no other role that relies on someone else to help them but the adc. So adc's, be nice to your support. Don't be a jerk to them. They always try to help you.

I am Madlife10/13/2014, 4:16:54 AM2 votes

Im a support main, and personally, I don't mind it that much. It's just when they start taking it to all chat, thinking they are some hotshot is when it really starts to annoy me. But when they aren't, and are being decent or just not talking at all (which is rare to find nowadays) then I am OK. I think many people agree with me here, when I say that Support is one of the least common roles, if not, THE least common, and yes, your right for the reasons that you mentioned, but also because of the fact that some people aren't that good at it, or some don't even give it a chance. In ranked or normals, people will be like "Oh, sorry, I can't play support." or "Oh, I only have mid champions" or something of the sort, but really, I don't get why they do it. It's not bad to support, and if you get to be a good support, it's quite fun and exiting to make cool plays and saves and have your team think your a god. But alas, I am not sure when those days will ever come.

Thresh is love. Thresh is life.

Tough Guy10/13/2014, 6:11:58 AM2 votes

I main Support and will go top/jung a second practice. I carry sometimes in games trying to make sure the ADC is fed and the fights are set up. last game I went Alistar (first time) and went 3/8/32. While I was disappointed of my death's during team fights I still made a impact. I didn't get praise from jung, mid, and top. I didn't even get a honor, but I did get a thank you from my ADC and that's all I needed to do better in the game. That's all we ever want... Recognition.

PokladnicaZla10/13/2014, 12:25:06 PM2 votes

The worst thing about ADCs is when they are too greedy and unracional in some situations.You ping 10 times to fall back/danger they still go,die--->Blame supprot...

High Lord Blaze10/13/2014, 12:36:48 PM2 votes

Personally, I don't experience ADC rage so much, as I can generally win the lane (being honest, really), if the ADC knows what he's doing (if he doesn't, he probably will A: Not engage with me and keep CSing or B: Jump into the middle of the other team when he's low). But yeah, there are quite a few ADCs that tend to feel "I'm ADC, I am the carry, the rest of you are only here as my meatshields".

LordPopple10/13/2014, 4:16:19 PM2 votes

Actually the real reason is all the old-hand supports moved to dota because it's way more rewarding for us. Do you even know how great force staff is? Got dam, don't even get me started on blink dagger.

Lv72WhiteMageNix10/13/2014, 4:48:04 PM2 votes

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X8N5yTdGhIU

Supporting ain't easy!

Blade of Justic10/12/2014, 9:32:22 PM1 votes

I actually really love supporting, but here's the problem:

The only support I can stand playing as is Zilean and, as you can guess, it gets annoying playing this game as only 1 champ out of 120+ every game.

Isthia10/14/2014, 9:48:48 AM1 votes

I enjoy supporting - just not many people q for support in teambuilder since people leave within 2 seconds anyways. zzzz

Monogue10/14/2014, 9:14:44 PM1 votes

Its fun....

Somewhat...

Try Blitz Support.. I guarantee you'll have fun.

Gunpoint10/12/2014, 5:45:01 PM1 votes

Let's be honest here, Thresh takes the credit from the adc. On top of this Blitzcrank players always say they carry the games. It's a 2 way street. Aside from those two, yeah it's mostly the adc's getting the credit.