Anyone who wants to bitch at the support, and harass them for supposedly being the "useless" team member by definition, you won't get any boon from the support. No crowd control, no buffs, no healing, no anything.
Then you should be forced to be the support under threat of being permabanned until you learn to respect the role.
I was a support player for a long time. I enjoyed helping someone else shine. But the OP's comments are the reason I no longer play support unless autofilled to it. I came to hate playing a position where somehow EVERYTHING was my fault, but I never received any positivity for the help I gave. ADC pushes up too far, ignores your warning that the jungler is incoming and dies 1v3 when you pull back? "Sacrifice yourself for the ADC!" Try to save the ADC and die? "Quit feeding, noob!" Last hit an enemy that's out of the ADC's reach to secure the kill and get your ADC an assist? "Quit taking my kills! Toxic support!" DON'T last hit and the enemy gets away? "You could have finished him! Trash player!" ADC gets caught out while you're back at base healing and picking up items? "Where were you?"
I just got tired of it. Was the ADC always at fault? No. Of course not. I make mistakes. But I got tired of playing a role where whether I was legitimately making mistakes or the ADC was just awful and making stupid plays, somehow it was always my fault. This is why there is a shortage of support players. I used to have a LOT of support mains on my list of friends. Know how many of them still main support? Zero. Literally.
pssstttt.. just teach them to point the finger at the jungler instead.
Just keep doing your best to carry your team! Avoiding healing/buffing your teammates will only make your chances of winning slimmer, and proving their point correct. Mute, and just do your very best is my opinion!
Also; I don't think that forcing someone to play the role or be permabanned is a very viable solution. If anything it'll cause more bitterness/resentment towards Support players.
i dont play support just for that reason always gets the blame for the loss never any credit for the win
I am a support. and I have had alot of games where my adc will get a couple kills and then start turning on me. If adc tells me how "useless" I am, I will go off to help other lanes and support other teammates.
Its so funny when adcs brag about how great they are, how they dont need a "useless support" then the MOMENT they get 2v1'ed by the enemy team (remember, they are pro, they dont NEED a support) I will see "OMG Report my support, abandoned lane and refuses to support me"
Recently grew tired of dealing with children and now I wont support unless the mood hits. I am personally tired of the "ever player for themselves" mentality. So I will adapt to it and just play solo.
I weakly support this proposition to get the support of the team for supports around the Rift that don't get enough support from their not-so-supportive teammates.
On a serious note, I think it's an interesting proposition to put forced roles on accounts who are abusing someone for the role they're playing. People who harp on or blame support? Maybe make them play support a few games. Same for people who bitch at the jungle for not ganking, etc.
Well, i used to main support and now i'm kind of useless on other lanes so i kept playng it. Sometimes you have nice ADC's sometimes you don't. That's how the game works. Usually if you do something wrong ( missing skillshot, reacting a bit slower and stuff ) which causes their death be sure they're gonna flame the shit out of you for being useless and noob. When this happen I'm just like " Fine, if I'm useless you don't need me, I'm just gonna leave ya there fighting em solo" and I really do it. So if I'm Janna
or blitz
or any support with cc it will be very helpful for other lanes. The last time I did this was before 1-2 months. I used to play with my friend who was jungle and I was Thresh
so we went together on an adventure ganking mid and top, which won us the game. Sometimes you just need to ignore them and focus on the rest of the team.
Enjoy your games guys <3
If this applies to all roles then what's to stop people from ripping on their preferred roles to get "forced" to play what they want? I mainly play jungle, top, and mid so I can abuse the system be saying things like "Great job ADC and Support too bad noob Jungler doesn't gank" the system will see me being nice to bot and mean to jungler and then go into the "Ok, let's make this guy jungle" mode.
Or just let the simple minded people who think that, continue to think that. If they call you useless in game, just report em. If it's just their personal opinion, any intelligent person will see their stupidity. That's their punishment. Being a simpleton whose intelligence is no longer respected because of their shallow views.
