Abuse to Supports

leeman45·7/26/2017, 10:29:36 PM·2 votes·386 views

I am a support main, and recently had a string of games where my teammates would harass me before the game even started due to picks, get yelled at because I would "die too much," and for "not warding." One thing, as a support, is to sacrifice yourself to save the ADC or other carries. Now, sometimes its better to not sacrifice, but there are many times where the support should take the death over the ADC. This raises the number of deaths, obviously. Also, supports are not supposed to be the ones getting all the kills, I believe that the supports should be utility, tank, sustain, etc. So with that, our KDR is bad, and other players use this as a premise to abuse the supports. Also, the support role doesn't mean "only support the ADC," but to support the team. After laning phase, I would roam mid or help in engagements in the river. One situation would be the mid, jungle, and myself (the support), trying to get the mid tower after laning phase. I will have warded the mid-river bushes as well as another bush in the river/jg, as well as having my control ward placed at bot where the ADC is farming, and having one in my inventory. If/when the ADC dies bot, they sometimes will blame me for their death because I "didn't ward." I believe this is an issue for a lot of support players, getting abused in chat. Sure you can mute players, but then you miss out on the potential of sharing information. Then there are pings, where I might get the missing ping spammed on top of me. I could mute the pings, but that just further inhibits the communication for the team, which leaves us at a disadvantage. Communication is key to the game, but when it is used to insult or abuse other players, it ruins it. I believe there should be something to give recognition to supports, because as it is now, supports don't really have anything to back themselves up with.

5 Comments

MaropaL27/26/2017, 11:17:38 PM4 votes

the moment youre out of wards as support but the adc hasnt placed a single one yet :D

AdeBug7/26/2017, 10:49:17 PM2 votes

if someone is harassing you in any way, just mute and move on. report if u think they crossed a line if they don't know the diff between k/d and k/d/a and what a k/d/a should look like on a support, they don't deserve your attention.

Imperial Pandaa7/26/2017, 11:15:55 PM2 votes

As a support you aren't looking at the kill death ratio, you go with KDA to find yours (really anyones). So if you are 0/7/7 you have a ratio of 1. You aren't negative. A 0/7/14 is a ratio of 2, positive. Keep that in mind.

I play support to and used to have a similar problem, it got better with the ping wards and everything. When my trinket is down, I ping time until I can ward again if the current one is about to die. Either my ad can ward or we back off. I ping when I run out of charges for my Sightstone (I also keep trinket until 9) if we are in a bad position and I can't safely save my carry or even if I sacrifice myself they will still die, I will leave them. I'll use shields of stuns to try and help but I won't go all in. (except maybe Rakan with a W in and then e back to carry.)