Don't Bash Your Supports

To begin, until recently I was an Ashe main. She was fun, it was usually easy unless I got a particularly bad match up, and I was always polite to my support (doing emotes or whatnot in response to saves). So when I started doing support, I was pretty annoyed at how bad other ADCs treat their supports.

I got into Morgana support, which is pretty fun. She can get mana hungry in prolonged fights, so having items can help tremendously.

What isn't fun is when the ADCs (who seem to mostly be Miss Fortunes who do this) spam ping ? and ! whenever I take a few CS. Contrary to popular belief, supports do need gold too. It's not like I was last hitting minions they were bringing down, I just auto attack or drop soil to clear the waves ASAP (I keep soil at its level 1 state mainly to take down minions and trigger Manaflow Rune and Frostfang, so if you cant beat that low damage you need to work on your timing anyway).

I've had an Akali say "I can't work with this Morg" because I took 2 kills, neither of which she was close to (nor that she had marked). This was after I helped her secure 3 kills with skillshot Dark Bindings. She kept constantly pushing for surrender and talking in chat, instead of helping, leaving me to defend bot with 2, sometimes 3 if jungler came in, against me.

~~To the surrender happy ADCs, just because you can't faceroll all the time doesn't mean we lose. Calm down. ~~

Of course, near the end of the game, I had already saved their butts 3+ times (usually more if they intend to charge headfirst into death), gotta love that shield anti-CC, they tell me "gg morg!" or "ty morg!" when earlier they tell me to uninstall. I've even had a few friend requests from the people who tell me to shred my computer because I'll never be any good just a few minutes earlier.

Anyway, the point of the post is to spread awareness, in an attempt to reduce some of the rampant toxicity.

Just because your supports occasionally take CS or a kill, it doesn't mean they're trying to spike you out and leave you to starve. We are literally building our sets to support you. Don't get all melodramatic because you can't build your super duper awesome set 10 seconds earlier, when we continually save you, and give you kills you wouldn't otherwise be able to get.

League is a team game. We're in it together and the goal is to take out the Nexus, not to get the best KD ratio (since no one seems to care about Assists, and will flame a Sona for going 2/3 when she went 2/3/27).

What are your thoughts on this? Do you get mad at your supports, or do you try to understand? Do you deal with ADCs constantly acting like you're only there to be a ward-slave, or do you meet some cool Ashes and Fortunes? Any interesting stories?

(P.S. I know not every support who takes CS is trying their best to help you, but you get trolls in every lane at some point. It's not like we're . If they are farming out from under you, that's not cool. If they're autoattacking and you can't beat them to it, you need to work on your timing.)