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I'm a Support, I Am Done With This Toxicity

TheKind·3/10/2016, 2:38:44 AM·20 votes·1,647 views

Okay, so I have finally had it as support. My most recent game, I was playing as Bard. Now, I will admit, I just bought Bard, but I have done pretty well with him. He's definitely not the easiest support in the world, but his kit makes sense to me. Anyways, I digress.

I was playing with a friend who went top, and so I got stuck with an ADC I didn't know. She was a level 5 mastery Caitlyn. Cool. this is going to be fun. We're going to do great. As we start jungle, she tells me ping when you're going to get chimes so I know when to back off. Awesome, a ADC who knows how Bard works. Okay, so about 5 minutes in, we almost get a kill. Their support has to back, so I ping my ADC that I'm going to go get chimes. I start going through my jungle collecting chimes when I see that she's died. She then gets mad at me and says I abandoned her. Whatever, I play support a lot, so I'm used to getting blamed for things like these. I tell her to be careful and that she needs to watch for my pings. She gets upset that I mention this, but it's fine. About two minutes later, there's a fight in our jungle, so I ping and I try to get there as fast as I can to help out our jungler. My ADC dies while this happens, flames me, then DCs.

I find this amusing. It's normals, she died twice, and she's toxic enough where she will leave an entire team for her own mistakes. We lose bot turret, which is totally expected. My friend posts in all chat, "Report Cait, toxic and AFK." The other team apologizes, but then a very interesting message comes on screen. It's our jungler who tells the other team to report me cause I was the reason Cait AFK'd. He then goes on to flame me for not having the right items (since my ADC was gone, I wasn't building typical Bard) and telling me that since he's a support main, he can tell me how bad I am. After he tells the other team how toxic I am and to report me, I tell him that he shouldn't be so mean, cause there are people who actually enjoy this game for the sake of the game, and people who threaten to report others for no reason make this game a burden instead of fun. He then told me, if I didn't want to deal with toxic people like himself, I should uninstall the game.

Yep, he told me to uninstall. And I've been told this countless times before, and it has never bothered me. It's a game, I can deal with it. But when he first blamed me for our ADC's AFK, then told the other team I was toxic and they should report me, then told me to uninstall, that really got to me. Support is a hard position. Just like all the positions, a good one can make or break the team. But unlike other positions, you are accountable for your ADC. It's your responsibility to make sure they are safe. And we get a lot of shit from ADC's. I'm sure all supports know and hate this. So when people like this give you shit for playing the position that is thankless, and often the one that's hated on the most, it really sucks. Never have I been so discouraged after a game. I know I got reported by a couple of people, and that makes me sad. I treat people in this LoL community well because I honestly see this community as a family. This guy took advantage of that and caused people to report me. Of course I reported him, but most likely nothing will get done. I know many of you share my pain. I love this game, I really do. But when you have someone like this on your team, it really makes you reconsider playing.

I'm reposting this cause I didn't censor out the names in the picture. Sorry, I'm new to boards.

20 Comments

Deep Terror Nami3/10/2016, 2:46:49 AM6 votes

If you did nothing wrong, their reports won't hurt you; they are only taking their frustration out on the easiest target, and you can easily stop it by muting them during the match. If they want to cause problems post-game, you can add them to your block list or just not stick around in the lobby.

Giving them your attention will only give them what they want. As a Support main myself, my advice is to mute them as soon as they criticize you, and if they keep getting themselves killed you can focus on supporting another carry and leave them to their own devices once laning phase is ending.

Kei1433/10/2016, 2:56:20 AM4 votes

ADC DCed and you are playing bard?

Buy a rapid Cannon and AD Items and start wrecking mid game (after you got 25 chimes). Heck with what the jungler says.

Sunaneko3/10/2016, 2:07:44 PM2 votes

Don´t worry about it. Being a support in any game sucks but most of all in League. Especially when you play normals which should be for fun and for practice --- people get upset easily or blame you. Unless they are seriously trying to help you by giving you good advice - dont let it get to you. Most people freak out when you don´t play their "playstyle". Whether it´s a lack of knowledge, experience or narcism (possibly a combination of all of the above) is a whole different story and doesn´t matter. It wont change the facts. You can´t change others. Only yourself. I salute you as a fellow supporter that you´ve taken up the least grateful role in the game. I´ve also had games like this. Games that made me want to quit. But there´s also games that are rewarding. I play mostly on EUW but if you feel like having some fun games together - feel free to add me :-)

Dominick Destine3/12/2016, 8:04:39 PM2 votes

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As we start jungle, she tells me ping when you're going to get chimes so I know when to back off. Awesome, a ADC who knows how Bard works.

What bracket are you playing where you are regularly getting people that do not even understand the basic mechanics of the game?

It's normals

Ah okay, so worse than bronze.... that explains it. If you want to get better matches, you will have to earn it through merit (Reaching at least platinum level). If you play at the absolute lowest level of the game you should expect to get the absolute lowest quality players the game has to offer.

That is the problem.

Jamaree3/10/2016, 3:49:24 AM2 votes

Dude, please stop supporting until you hit at least high Silver, people in bronze have no idea what they are doing and need to be carried, support can't carry because people down there don't understand the mechanics enough to play around a good support who gives them a lead.

Camilla Zolith3/11/2016, 9:50:07 AM1 votes

i agree 100% with you SHE told you to ping when you were gonna leave lane and YOU did. SHE made the mistakes its on her and im sure the tribunal will see that she was just looking to blame someone and support is so thankless and a good one can really affect the game so i know how you feel as a support main myself

Jesus is Savior3/11/2016, 9:59:36 AM1 votes

Solution: disable all-chat.

80% of toxic chat is gone, and you won't be tempted to tell the enemy team to report your teammates (which is, itself, a reportable and punishable offense).

Sythriel Draken3/11/2016, 10:26:31 AM1 votes

This is one of the reasons that i'm starting to hate riot and their instant feedback failure of a system.

I admit, I'm not a perfect person. I've raged, done my 14 day ban and have been clean ever since, but lately I'm feeling like regressing into the habits that got me that ban because of the following things: 1) the lack of riot's responses to any of the reports or knowledge to my posts on twitter or other social media when presented evidence of a scripter. 2) the Increase in people purchasing accounts and riots inability to do anything to this. Lastly 3) Intentional feeders in ranked.

On topic 1) I have had several people not only spew more hate speech than anything i've ever uttered in my lifetime in one game, be very unsportsmanlike by taunting in all chat, saying we should all uninstall, etc and it's like my reports are ignored by the system because these people are still playing to this day without ANY punishment what so ever.

On top 2) I had a person IN GAME admit to buying a smurf account and had his buddy playing for him to get it to plat.. I'm high silver/low gold.. About 80% of my games include someone that is doing this. Of course, I report, but that isn't getting me back any of the lost points from these ranked games or my sanity.

and 3) when a top and bot lane get a combined total of 14 deaths before 5 minutes.. there's an issue in the intentional feeding system's detection.Again, it won't get me back the points from these feeders.

It's almost making me want to stop my quest to get to gold, where I know my skill level is at because I can't get a decent game when it counts because of the toxicity.

let's not even start on the exploiting of the dynamic que system...

Dataless3/12/2016, 7:02:02 PM1 votes

If you play this game, and you can't handle people flaming you for things that are obviously not your fault, don't play this game. Or just mute every single player and use pings. As much as I empathize with the plight of fellow support mains I am really f-cking tired of all the complaining on the boards. I climbed from Bronze 5 to Plat 3 over the course of several years as a Support main, I did this by not caring about what others said, did, or thought. If someone gives me shit I mute them, if the enemy team starts taunting or BM'ing in all chat I mute them too. Stop caring about other people, stop requiring validation from other people. You're the f-cking healer, nobody respects you. Nobody gives a shit about you. Nobody is going to give you a pat on the back and validate your existence.

But guess what? You don't NEED that validation, channel your inner strong-independent black woman and be the support God you always knew you could be. That or get the f-ck out of the kitchen because you obviously can't handle the heat.

/steps off of soapbox

Worst Kench NA3/12/2016, 7:36:50 PM1 votes

While I understand wanting to deal with toxic people, I don't get why so many people think supports need coddling. They don't. Supporting is a thankless job. As a support main myself, I don't care if I don't get any glory from it, I know myself that I'm helping them set up kills by providing CC/poke/heals/whatever in the first place, and that's good enough for me. I don't expect to be thanked, or told how much I mean to the team. I know how much I mean, and I don't need my teammates babying me over it.

If anything, jungle mains deserve the thanks. I've only seen people give me shit about five times or so in the hundreds of games I've played. Nearly every other game though, people give the jungler shit over not ganking, failing ganks etc. Now that's a role that deserves thanks.

If your ADC is giving you shit or being toxic, mute and report them.

Kotex3/10/2016, 3:57:46 AM1 votes

I feel for you, i do. hugs <3