Supports get over yourselves

Mathlete864·5/17/2015, 8:30:31 PM·2 votes·349 views

Anyone else feel like people are trashing ADCs because they supposedly trash them in games? I play support frequently and the worst my ADC has done is politely ask that I back off his cs. I can take first blood and say "sorry my bad" and they'll gladly forgive me. Seriously supports stop victimizing yourself. It's like a black man saying all white people are racist idiots, because then they themselves are racist and a hypocrite. (I'm not saying black people do this it's just an example). Please stop filling the boards with crap like "omg i feel u bro adcs are the worst I save their butts every game give me your upvotes." ADCs aren't bad and they DO ward (crazy right?).

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T RexHasTinyArms5/17/2015, 9:17:16 PM2 votes

I think it also is a generalization which is more about a systemic problem rather than a specific player issue.

To use your example, a minority in the United States who rages that all white people are racist is probably wrong, but someone who says that society as a whole in the United States is racist and disenfranchises minorities is pretty accurate. The data for SES and legal treatment and a few other markers is pretty clear that minorities get the shit end of the stick in the United States, and while a lot of it isn't intentional (for instance a lot of schooling inequalities come from the fact that real estate taxes often fund schools in the area and after WW II GI bills could be applied for to buy new homes, but only by whites and not blacks, so the average value of a random white person's home is higher than the average value of a random black person's home from the houses passed down that were obtained w/ that discrimination, and thus the average public education offered to the average minority is funded less), it's still a true statement.

Similarly, good supports are less noticeable and bad ones are easily noticeable. I've heard a lot of games rave about a good adc who carried them, but only been in a few where the adc raved about the support being awesome and how easy it was to carry when they are so ahead bc the support absolutely crushed in lane. On the other hand, when there is no vision, it is always the support who gets blamed for it, even w/ the advent of upgraded yellow trinkets which let a team drop a bunch of wards even if the support isn't doing a good job (so part of the fault lies w/ the team if there aren't at least 4-6 other wards down and you're complaining the support doesn't have 1 down). It's really noticeable when a support doesn't ward or engages bad, but if an adc could have lived w/ better positioning and didn't it's easy to blame peel or say the enemy had good dive bc positioning is more subtle. Not every adc is a jerk, and if you're a good support they're probably nice bc they are happy to have you. However, if you fill support and aren't that great, it's easy to blame the support rather than other players for the team struggling, bc the game just is set up to make it more obvious when your support is doing bad.

disregardable5/17/2015, 8:40:57 PM1 votes

See, what I'm imagining is that you're the type of person that actually respects what your ADC asks. When your ADC asks you to not attack the CS, you actually do. 90% of the time my support will ignore that request and/or mock me. Obviously I get frustrated at constantly having my CS intentionally fucked up. I really don't give a shit if I look like an asshole.