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Why don't you support yourself then?

Mâiden·3/8/2017, 4:59:35 AM·17 votes·2,385 views

Getting tired of hearing "supports just get carried" & "supports don't do anything but get carried".

If it's so easy then why don't you play it? Since it's SOOOO EASY! Only support players know the struggle of trying to climb as support out of bronze/silver. Every laner i've come across has just said that they don't play support cause they "don't want to get carried", yet every laner has less jobs then the support does.

Supports Job laning:

  1. Keep vision in tri bush and river
  2. Keep vision in lane
  3. Deny enemy vision in lane
  4. Poke enemy team
  5. Keep adc alive
  6. die for you adc to survive
  7. peel for your adc
  8. don't get kills
  9. don't feed
  10. Keep vision on dragon
  11. Ping MIA
  12. position correctly/don't get caught out

After Laning Phase: 1-12 13. keep vision on baron 14. ward behind baron/dragon so the enemy team cant steal it 15. Buy only support items (or get flamed for k.s'ing because your slow janna missile last hit that 10 hp)

All of this while still recieving less exp and less gold then all other roles.

Top, Mid, ADC Roles all game

  1. Position correctly
  2. Don't feed
  3. Get kills
  4. Ping MIA

Yet support players get hassled repeatedly for being a "get carried" role and are more often then not treated as if they do not understand how the game works. I really hope players do realize that every player in the game should have at least 2-5 comfort picks for a minimum of 2 other roles... so ya... we aren't just a bunch of monkeys with keyboards. We play your roles too, we just don't care about getting the kills and the fame and glory that a carry gets when they get that pentakill even though the support made it all possible.

Stop treating supports like door mats. We do 10 times the stuff laners do get less credit and usually do about the same if not more damage then laners do. Just because most people get auto-filled into support and they don't want to play the role doesn't mean that the players who actually like supporting play like they do. So hopefully you take the time before you claim that "the support role does nothing" and ask yourself, if the support role was so easy wouldn't everyone play it and be challenger?

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67 Comments

BigBellBrute3/8/2017, 5:06:58 AM8 votes

Any player worth squat knows a good support is worth his weight in gold. So don't pay attention to the nonsense.

Totalwanabe3/8/2017, 10:33:18 PM6 votes

support role is far from easy you have to keep that man child of a marksman alive and not dying trying to cover for his mistake.

TerraFirmaa3/8/2017, 3:37:44 PM3 votes

Dear Support players Thank you for your selflessness and I appreciate your work and effort as an adc main myself I feel like I don't say that enough but here it is Also that thing about supports not getting kills Zyra says otherwise anyway this is my formal thank you to all support players out there

Stars Shaper3/8/2017, 3:22:42 PM2 votes

Getting ganked 3 times from the back of their lane, surviving the first 2, getting aniihilated at the third, Noc comes near to lane, uses ult and doesn't jump anywhere.

I tell him to save ult for when me and adc are alive, reply: "Don't blame me for your mistakes".

This assholic mantra is what I'm getting since a while now and it's so freaking tilting...

Kaioko3/8/2017, 3:27:17 PM2 votes

To me there's a large difference between a competent support and one that just got stuck in the role. This goes beyond just building the right items or picking the right champion.

If you're picking Janna and all you're doing is throwing your shield on me on occasion while hiding behind me and not using your tornado to intercept an enemy mid dash or using Soraka and you just throw a heal every now and then but you never silence or hit your starcall which actually deals decent damage and slows; you're not supporting -- you're getting carried.

Supports used to be some of the best players in my opinion before auto filled was implemented. Now for every 1 competent support there are 3 horrible; and so yes I would have to argue that 75% of the games played the support is getting carried because he simply doesn't know how to do his job.

Big Lincoln3/8/2017, 3:36:07 PM2 votes

support is the easiest role in the game

"keep vision on X" I have to keep vision of my lane, too. Warding isn't a hard thing to do, lmao. Stop repeating yourself just to make the list longer

top lane I have to know how to manage my wave (you don't even need to touch CS outside of helping ADC farm under turret), I have to know how to lane against a champion on a per-game basis, I have to be careful of ganks, I have to zone my opponent from CS whenever I can while also trying not to set myself up for ganks, I have to keep up in CS if it's a bad matchup so I can be useful to my team past lane phase, I have to keep track of my enemy's Teleport so I can know when they'll attempt to TP gank, I have to know when to TP gank myself, all the while not having a second player who has my back for the first 20 minutes of the game.

I've never abused my supports but you probably deserve it since 90% of you are the biggest professional victims I've ever seen

Moetaro3/8/2017, 9:56:19 PM2 votes

I mained adc for a while, I had to main back to support because there was not a single worthy support in the whole universe (this, plus the queue times) and my games were a living hell for me. Playing support is so easy that most adcs life is a living hell because their supports are useless, that's how easy it is.

Fucck3/9/2017, 12:32:51 AM2 votes

Support involves a lot of different aspects and the list provided accurately represents supports, I would agree supporting isn't the easiest thing to do, I mean your adc relies on you so much yet the adc just doesn't understand that. Not to mention supports providing wards help SO MUCH with objectives and these supports keep people alive as well as set up kills. So in all honesty it's not easy supporting and supports do have quite a big impact on games, so if anything i'd say appreciate the supports and don't take them for granted.

NickMP3/8/2017, 9:36:55 PM2 votes

I'd rather have a bad(Think a 3/10 rating for the elo) ADC and a decent(7/10) support then the other way around, even a good ADC(Assuming they aren't way better then their elo) has to be enabled by someone, and a good support can just focus on helping another carry late game if the ADC turns out to be dead weight.

Personally I don't play support since I hate forcing somebody to rely on me and having to rely on somebody else in lane like that, and I like Jungle/Top too much to give up one.

kwall863/8/2017, 7:41:04 AM2 votes

Fuck shitty adc whiners. just play have fun. and know ur the backbone of your team.

elduris3/8/2017, 3:20:39 PM2 votes

Honestly if it's so easy, why don't you just play support every game and get that sweet freelo?

Telephone Booth3/9/2017, 3:49:04 AM2 votes

You're just doing what they do to supports. They belittle your role, and you don't like it... yet here you are belittling all of their roles. You think everyone else is only responsible for 4 things? What about CSing? Controlling lanes through pushing creep waves and deciding when to roam, when to follow your roaming lane opponent or push tower instead? You are lowering yourself to the level of idiots who say supports just get carried. People will agree with your argument, without you losing your integrity to make it. Stay honest, stay real.

Laura ß3/12/2017, 11:49:36 PM1 votes

What if as a support player you:

1.Land a single skillshot 2.Steal CS or make me miss CS 3.Dont apply pressure and/or zone the enemy 4.Heal in time before I die 5.Force unwinnable fights 6.Afk at tower or at base for short periods 7.Be passive aggresive and dont take responsability for a bad play (blame the carries) 8.Want to take credit in a victory but no responsability on a loss (ive seen that alot) Since you are a support you cant carry a loosing game, but when ahead you want full credit for your ''help''

Don't act as you are victims.

Ruin Lance3/9/2017, 4:18:51 AM1 votes

Getting tired of hearing "supports just get carried" & "supports don't do anything but get carried".

hardly anyone on boards actually says this. Nice "support is underappreciated" circlejerk though.

Top, Mid, ADC Roles all game

  1. Position correctly
  2. Don't feed
  3. Get kills
  4. Ping MIA

This part of the post actually kind of irks me because of the way you list these off and how hypocritical this is. Basically it's as if I went:

Support role all game

  1. Position correctly
  2. Don't feed
  3. Make sure your ADC doesn't feed
  4. Ping MIA

See how stupid that sounds? Also, unlike support, people in solo lanes have to deal with csing and actual champion mechanics outside of shielding/healing your adc and poking the enemy.

every player in the game should have at least 2-5 comfort picks for a minimum of 2 other roles...

Tell this to all the people who one trick flex picks in top/mid, top/jg or top/mid. This is obviously not true lmao.

if the support role was so easy wouldn't everyone play it and be challenger?

This should be a really obvious one- it's because most people find it boring. Tons of people have played Janna / Soraka and reached D5 for free without having to deal with learning any kind of micro play whatsoever. Additionally, Challenger actually takes a lot of skill to achieve regardless of your role, which is why only <0.2% of players are in it.

It's one thing to say that support isn't just a "get carried" role, but it's another to say that every other role isn't hard and that support is the hardest role. Get off your passive-aggressive high horse please lmao.

Votable Jester3/9/2017, 12:51:42 AM1 votes

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