A word to ADCs in Draft pick

AeonShadow666·10/17/2016, 3:54:58 PM·60 votes·4,367 views

Hey, I'm a support main and when I play draft pick (be it DynamicQ or SoloQ upon return) there's something I think is pretty fucking inconsiderate:

If you're an ADC and I hover a support you either don't want to play with or you think is a bad pairing for your champ, just tell me! Please don't waste your ban on the champ I'm hovering. I, and most support mains, have more than 1 support champ we play so just ask if we can play someone else rather than wasting your ban on my hovered Karma. I can understand if I'm say, late in the draft for picking and you want to deny it, but tell me first. It's honestly one of the more tilting things in the game (aside from playing Zilean into Sivir/Morgana, fts) and you come across as an inconsiderate, self-absorbed prick who can't be bothered to see if their support is flexible.

Thanks!

85 Comments

Maximum Morde10/17/2016, 4:09:00 PM32 votes

If someone bans my support pick I just bust out khazix support.

IcyPepper10/17/2016, 4:18:09 PM8 votes

It's like we're players of the game as well, and not their bitch slave. :P

Then again, that's like 2% of ADC players. The rest are pretty fabulous.

midnight oil2410/17/2016, 8:12:24 PM8 votes

You make a good point, and you don't get angry. You have shown how to make a good argument. When I start playing Draft games I will follow your advice.

Narvuntien10/17/2016, 3:59:14 PM5 votes

I know that feeling, I play 80% of supports with level 5 mastery. Support mains are much more versitile than everyone else I swear.

I ask my adcs what support they would like, they don't reply, or don't even show thier intended picks so I can at least guess something that pairs with thier adc.

G00seEggs10/17/2016, 10:51:11 PM5 votes

I can't stand when the ADC has last pick and don't pre-select what they are thinking even after if the other team shows ADC. Synergy is big in bot lane and I have a wide variety of supports I play to cover good combos but it's always like, "damn" I would have picked so and so if I knew you were going that player.

Hauling Ashe10/17/2016, 8:58:38 PM4 votes

People do this? ADC main here, and I've never banned a champ my support wants to play no matter how much I don't mesh with their kit. Though I really wish I had banned the "diamond smurf" Leblanc support I had in ranked once.

Ninja Jesus10/18/2016, 4:56:56 AM2 votes

As an ADC Main I feel like its not the supports duty to play a champ I like. Its my job to pick an ADC that can match with my support. Every ADC has the same fundamentals. Stay in a good position and do as much damage as you can before being focused down. ADC's may have different play styles but any ADC main worth his salt knows how to play every ADC to some effectiveness.

Kallian10/18/2016, 11:38:38 AM2 votes

as an ADC main, i approve of this.

dunkeroni10/18/2016, 2:09:09 PM2 votes

I once had a Varus that didn't say anything against my Soraka until we got into game. Then he told me he didn't want to play because he didn't like Soraka as a champion, so he ran into tower to give first blood before disconnecting. 18LP down the drain.

3tyson10/17/2016, 7:12:01 PM1 votes

heres my word as a freqent suport player

if you even fucking think about banning my pick idgaf if its an off meta pick i will make the game hell for everyone but you eepecialy i wil pick sivir/yasuo suport and keep on claiming their legit suports cause they have shields i wild also out cs you the entire laning phase and back off if the enemy is able to kil you

Earl Eulrich10/18/2016, 1:14:29 PM1 votes

you are just doing this plain wrong: adcs usually don´t have much clues of any matchups and if they do they know that the support is a more deceiding factor in early lane than they are - so it should be the other way around, you chose the adc you want to lane with, not they choose the support.

though for soloq it´s mostly the best if everyone just play a champ they feel good with most of the time.

where does this beggar mentality for supports stem from? sure, the marksmen should be supported if he´s any good, but he fankly doesn´t get much say in that, it´s just what´s most of the times best for the whole team, not for him exclusivly.