Why are Thresh/ Support mains so Toxic?

Charzar·11/24/2016, 7:36:22 AM·2 votes·2,536 views

I've been witnessing a lot of supports recently being EXTREMELY toxic, especially Thresh players. Why? I don't get how one person could focus on every little thing you do wrong, but never congratulate you on anything. I feel this happens most with Thresh mains. Braum mains are usually pretty chill (No Pun Intended), Bard Mains are basically non-existant, and everything else is O.K. I used to know a Thresh main and he did the same thing. I mainly just wanna know why mostly Thresh Mains are REALLY toxic.

14 Comments

Rákãñ11/24/2016, 7:58:31 AM3 votes

Overly played, and strong champions tend to see the most toxic mains. Because they thing they're playing an op champ means they're doing nothing wrong and want to blame others. While most my complaints while tanky support is that when I tank for my team, I expect my team to follow up with DPS and not just leave me when I initiate on them.

Lost R11/24/2016, 9:13:13 AM3 votes

Because I've gone through four years of maltreatment in this god-forsaken community doing an incredibly underrated and thankless job for people who will never in a hundred quintillion cycles of this universe appreciate the backbreaking effort the supports put in a wasted effort to rebalance even slightly an entire playerbase that only cares about their own opportunity to get pentakills; an attitude that has led to this climate of entire divisions being composed entirely of single target AD melee ADCs and assassins. And then they have the balls to come onto the forums and bitch about how "imbalanced" the game is.

People think that the support is the most worthless role in the entire game, only meant to make the team lose, yet at the same time, because most of the playerbase lacks an intact skull, they place overwhelming responsibility exclusively on the support, to the point that not having even the smallest item or hint of gold at x amount of time, or a ward in an unnecessary and arbitrary place is an instant lose condition. They also ignore every warning the support gives, ignore every ward they place, ignore every buff and crowd control I lay down that leaves the enemy dead to rights for minutes at a time in favor of some absolutely worthless objective, like taking another minion or teamfighting the jungle camp.

Ultimately, I find myself very often dealing more damage with a non damage build as the support than my entire assassin team, people whose job is to do nothing but damage.

On top of that, I have gone through the grinder both ways in real life for my entire life, and it's beyond a miracle that I'm not dead, arrested, or combating a drug addiction to deal with all the shit.

I am the most jaded person you will ever meet, someone who has seen these events and outcomes so often, even the tiniest fraction of the true number would make you split your own skull open with your bare hands from the sheer terror. But never once do I sabotage a game intentionally or troll or intentionally feed or any of that stupid shit. I carry myself with a level of consummate professionalism that is fucking ENVIABLE. But that doesn't mean I am a nice person, nor that I have to be. I am very fucking bitter because I have to tolerate the incompetent dumb shit the sub-human lifeforms commit every single waking second just trying to accomplish the one and only task they will ever do in their miserable lives while I juggle dozens every single goddamn game. It's gotten to the point that even the most vapid illusion of success or progress is almost equal to the greatest and most noble achievement humanity will ever witness, and it sickens me.

midnight oil2411/28/2016, 9:20:39 PM2 votes

It's rather interesting that you're calling supports out on this, when supports often deal with teammates doing the same thing to them. While I think that you're just encountering some unfortunate outliers instead of the main group of supports, please think about how what you're complaining about could be a little similar to something that these very players have had to put up with. That being said, I hope you have better luck with support teammates in the future.

Zaryelle11/24/2016, 10:38:54 PM1 votes

I'm support main and I always ward, zone, tank, give cs, heal etc, but a majority of other supports I've met are either really nice or really toxic. It's weird how many (support) Sorakas and Luxs I've seen that turn out to be huge flamers and never even attempt to heal or shield anyone, go full AP and not 1 support item.

ModPrandine11/24/2016, 10:43:01 PM1 votes

Sorry you had some bad experiences but please understand that not all thresh or support mains are like that, and it's very unfair to lump all of those players into the same category just because you happened to encounter a few bad eggs.