How not everyone has the right mindset for the support role.
Warning: Fellow support mains will smash their heads to a wall after reading this.
We who have worked to play the support role to the best of our abilities have been some of the most flamed players in the game, right along side the junglers. But, unlike a bad jungler who simply needs to learn more how to gank and follow a jungle route, when we think of a bad support, we always have the same image. Often a mage damage dealer that never buys a sightstone, sells their income item, or sometimes just start with the doran's ring since it adds more damage and kill potential.
But ladies and gentlemen, I have found the worst support player ever: He picked Ezreal. Brace yourselves.
Now after seeing Heim top, Teemo jungle, Ivern support, and even once in a pro game, Miss Fortune support, I have long accepted the idea of the most unusual champion being picked for unusual roles. But in all of those cases, they still played their role. Here's what this Ezreal did.
He helped out at top initially, which was where I was btw, then shortly after, he teleported back down. He picked teleport and flash, where as supports usually pick exhaust or sometimes even ignite. By this guy's definition, a support has to help everyone, which is only true during the mid and late game. Without any form of actual CC or slows, or even a second body, our actual ADC got killed by the enemy Draven and Nami. Meanwhile, Ezreal would go around fighting the enemy top and mid laners, getting more CS then our ADC, who was a victim of a snowballing Draven in a 1v2 lane, and our team fighting was abysmal late game since we were essentially minus a fed adc and a proper support playing support.
When there were free moments, me and the Ezreal got into some fights. Because he wasn't intentionally feeding and was getting involved in fights, I highly doubt he was just a troll. He fully believed he was doing what a support had to do, not understanding the broad umbrella term that is support. But anybody, calm or fill with rage, can tell you a support stays with their ADC throughout most of the game, build the underappreciated sightstone, don't roam alone without a purpose far in advance like warding, and not build a typical damage build, even if it's a champion that's not usually a support. This guy believed in not helping the ADC since, and he said this in the game, he didn't call bot.
ADCs often complain that people don't actually _play _support, and the truth of the matter is, we support mains make the exact same complaint. We often don't like seeing burst mage supports like Annie or Lux since they tend to make full AP, but I'll at least give them credit. They don't intentionally get 10 cs during the first 10 minutes (unless you have a relic shield), and they with their ADC at all times until one of the towers is destroyed.
If you really want to play support, you have to take the time to actually learn what it is. There are tons of guides that all pretty much tell you the same fundamentals that these bad supports ignore, and believe it or not, it can actually be harder then being a champ that's all about that flashy damage. You need the patience, you need to be selfless, you need the education, and (and I'll be a bit rude here) you need the IQ to be a successful support. Even a learning or bad ADC can become a juggernaut if the support knows how to keep them going.
It's really not enough to be a good player in the game, you need the proper behaviour to be a support.
No one wants to be an Ezreal.
