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Let's make a statement, your job as support is to put your team ahead, not to babysit your ADC

Royal Bard·11/16/2016, 10:58:59 AM·3 votes·1,884 views

Everybody knows how the plat ranked singed smite player got banned because of refusing to communicate with his team. https://www.reddit.com/r/leagueoflegends/comments/5cupmb/2_million_mastery_point_smite_support_singed/

So what? He is getting banned because he made too many ADCs salty? Riot, at least try to hide the fact that ADC is your favorite role.

Let's all play bot, we are free to express and use our own strategies _and _ to have a rank based on them RITO. It is Riot's fault for having queues with roles in the first place. There is no way to pick double jungle and support is actually the best definition of his strategy.
I do not want to get banned because I do not build sightstone, or play shit like veigar support. For fucks sake, ROX almost won worlds with MF support, plz ban them all. AND YES, if I want to double jungle with nunu supp with smite I am free to do it and to having to listen to my shitty ADC complaining all the time.

Free thinkers, let's spam singed/nunu/shaco smite support so that Riot understands that they fucked up. Also it sounds like fun!

See you on the rift, I am not there to sweep the ass of some random dude that believes himself Gosu.

EDIT: Added a video with more information on what is happening, I believe LoLHounds makes some valid points there, much better than whatever I wrote in the spur of the moment https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h3C4-pnMiGc

19 Comments

Ego Killer11/16/2016, 11:07:27 AM4 votes

As a support main I disagree with this thread. Mainly due to the fact that the ADC is the most vulnerable player early in the game and they NEED their supports early in the game to prevent them from getting behind. The point of the support role, and why most of them fall off later in the game, is so they can carry their ADC in the early game.

The meta exists that way whether we like it or not, the fact he is playing outside of it makes it harder for his team because they aren't used to playing with his play style. Essentially you are asking 4 random people to adapt to your specific play style in ONE game while they have been playing the game a certain way forever.

I will say that NO the support is not there to babysit the ADC. HOWEVER, supports need to understand that there are certain expectations of our role:

You build items like SIGHTSTONE, to provide vision and utility for your team.
You are the least valuable player (gold wise), this is expected of the meta and there is a reason for this, you are the sacrificial lamb whether you like it or not.
You absolutely have to know that your ADC is who needs you most at the beginning of the game. The thing is if he queued JUNGLE which is what he's actually playing then he wouldn't get near the reports he is.

Winrate doesn't matter when you're literally making the game harder for your team, especially by making it more difficult for a single player (your ADC) than everyone else.

JackMcSnipeyz11/16/2016, 11:45:33 AM2 votes

So if my strategy is to que for mid and instead take farm from toplane and jungle, would you be okay with that? Thats how i want to play after all.

Off meta isnt the problem, trolling and having your own little game at the expense of others is.

Hryna11/16/2016, 11:50:06 AM2 votes

some random dude that believes himself Gosu.

this is perfect, I loled.

JQKAndrei11/16/2016, 11:52:29 AM1 votes

You'll always get shitty adcs if you leave them 1v2.

Requiemsfire11/16/2016, 12:43:17 PM1 votes

Because putting your ADC at a disadvantage in a 1v2 lane is a viable strategy and will definitely win games ;)

Look I understand roaming and stuff, but this singed player never really helped his team in big fights or fought with them from the videos throughout the early to mid his KDA would be extremely low.

Fairyfleur11/16/2016, 1:51:46 PM1 votes

If he went any other champion he would've still gotten banned. It wasn't the pick, he just refused to cooperate with his team. Posting a paragraph doesn't justify anything, he needs his team's approval. However, he was going to go with his strategy with or without his team's permission. Which breaks the rule of refusing to communicate with your team.

Primaquarius11/16/2016, 7:03:21 PM1 votes

I main Sona

And can do both quite easily

Royal Bard11/16/2016, 7:40:47 PM1 votes

http://imgur.com/7crNai5

"Your team mates do not want you to pick singed support", you are basically getting bullied into playing in a specific way, if the strategy is really that bad he would just drop elo and that is enough punishment already. What about when Karthus mid with smite was viable? [you farmed mid and your own jungle, that must be reportable because the jungler is crying]. Or when you got roaming alistar? Proxy Singed? Proxy Udyr in enemy base stealing 3 waves at once and making your laners lose exp?

What i see there is that there are 3 problems with Singed Smite: A support cannot counterjungle, cannot roam and should buy sightstone.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h3C4-pnMiGc This video actually has some footage. he even writes his plan in chat, that should be already more than enough