Lately I've seen a lot (more) of "supports" who only steal farm and kills from their adc. I don't have a problem with off-meta supports like Ekko or even LB, but this is very different. These players do everything within their power to steal the adc's farm, in fact often prioritizing stealing farm from the adc above their survival.
So my question is, is this reportable? If so, what should it be reported under? Is it a bannable offense?
alasarcher3 votesNo, its not against rules. Everyone is allowed to farm, and everyone SHOULD try to get kills. It only benefits team more sometimes if ADC farms. But if you see that ADC is bad, just start farming, he wont carry shit. Also please, get "steal kills" term out of your head completely. Thats literally worst possible mindset. Its for bronze V and lower skilled players. There is no "kill steal".
PTCmaf1 votesMaybe I wasn't clear enough. Yes, you're right, "killstealing" isn't a thing for players who understand how the game works. To me, it is obvious that a kill can (and should) be secured by anyone in your team. I don't mind the support or anyone else securing any kills from anyone. A kill claimed by anyone is gold for our team and facilitates map pressure etc. What I do have a problem with, like I said, are these supports that actively make it impossible for you to play you role by focusing on nothing else but stealing your farm.
But yes, I feared that it's not reportable, although it very obviously should be (see section 4 of summoner's code). So how should adc's deal with these kinds of players?
Railios1 votesMaybe I wasn't clear enough. Yes, you're right, "killstealing" isn't a thing for players who understand how the game works. To me, it is obvious that a kill can (and should) be secured by anyone in your team. I don't mind the support or anyone else securing any kills from anyone. A kill claimed by anyone is gold for our team and facilitates map pressure etc. What I do have a problem with, like I said, are these supports that actively make it impossible for you to play you role by focusing on nothing else but stealing your farm.
But yes, I feared that it's not reportable, although it very obviously should be (see section 4 of summoner's code). So how should adc's deal with these kinds of players?
If you are a good adc, you should be able to last hit better than a support. You hit harder you have an earlier chance to kill each minion. If you want to report one player for taking farm, shouldn't the team report the adc that misses the farm. Neither makes sense to me.
PTCmaf1 votesIf you are a good adc, you should be able to last hit better than a support.
This is not always true. In many of my games I've seen Zed "support", who is arguably better at last hitting than many adc's.
If you want to report one player for taking farm, shouldn't the team report the adc that misses the farm.
Sounds like victime blaming to me, i.e. a player who's done nothing wrong should in your mind get reported for being paired with a trolling support.
Maceypants1 votesWhile your red herring/tu qouqou attempt is adorable, you are still incorrect. There is a reason that it is called "bot" and not "attack damage CARRY"
Darkslayer851 votesMe: QWERERERWWWEREEflashsmiteQWEEWEE EZ: R
Ez: Shut down gold yey
In this extent, yes, there is such a thing as KS
alasarcher1 votesMe: QWERERERWWWEREEflashsmiteQWEEWEE EZ: R
Ez: Shut down gold yey
In this extent, yes, there is such a thing as KS
What is your goal in game, to get kills or to get objectives and win game?
Troll for Trump1 votesYes. There is kill steal.
Otherwise, no.
DeadMansWill1 votesYes it should be reportable
La Barbotte1 votes
''support'' never ward, build only AP, flame the adc when hes 2/6 but they stole all the kill or bursteed too fast to actually be support
MalaceX1 votesI say you should report them, but unfortunately Riot Game isn't going to do anything about it. Poor play is not a punishable offense at the moment. This is what allows players to feed without punishment. The only solution is to start a petition to get Riot Games to actually make quality of life improvements to the game.
DeadMansWill1 votesYour simply creating a myriad of conditions that the adc has to compete under.
He has to avoid damage while farming.
He has to time his last hit to secure gold.
He has to watch the map for M.I.A and be wary of a potential ganks.
And as if all that isn't enough to worry about now hes supposed to compete with the very person that is supposed to harass the enemy bot lane and protect him from damage so that he can farm.
Yes there are situations in which the person clearly has no idea what they are doing.
Currently trending is a parade of supports that will blast every CD and Sum Spell to ks their adc, for instance the raka's in my games lately can heal the adc and still "secure the kill". They like to sit there and bust their Q/E while their adc is nuked, never send out a single heal, ks watch adc die then bust their ult so they themselves can get away.
There is absolutely no reason for this type of behavior, if you don't want to play support then no one is making you. You will get one of two chosen roles. Don't pick fill and move on.
DeadMansWill1 votesNo one likes to go out into the rift with an adc less team. The fact that your trying to use semantics on how Riot has labeled the position in our new queue to boost your argument is adorable.