Silver Supp Main Looking to Learn Mid or Jungle

Blightcäller··1 votes·229 views
Deylinna - Summoner Stats - League of Legends

I hate playing support please send help anyone who knows how to play mid (or Jungle but I'd prefer to learn Mid). Not sure if it helps cuz I play support almost exclusively but I linked my op.gg.

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Spiffy McBang1 votes

Why are you a support main if you hate it...?

For mid, find a champ you like (preferably two or three in case of bans), learn to CS consistently and avoid ganks, and you're pretty much on your way. You can figure out aspects like when to roam as you go along.

For jungle, find a few champs you like, learn their preferred jungle routes (including when your route puts you in a position to gank) and practice until you're as efficient clearing them as you can be. Bot games are fantastic for this, since the bots don't counter-jungle. Once you know your routes and back timings, you'll be good to go... in games where opponents don't steal your camps. I don't have good advice for junglers that aggressively come after you, other than keep wards up as best you can and try to track the enemy jungler so you can steal their camps right back.

If you decide to jungle, keep in mind that people who use overlay systems that tell them your stats or who op.gg the opponents during load-in will see you don't jungle much in those early games. You're more likely to get invaded and otherwise generally abused if the opposing jungler thinks s/he can take advantage of that. It's frankly why I quit trying to jungle, because it happened constantly (far higher rate than when I play support) and it tilted me off the planet. Helps to know you might face that going in.

FullmuteAll play1 votes

Answering on your question. When you start playing support and like it, you don't realize how dependent your role is. Only when you see how mid/jg (in this case) can win team a game, you realize, that you chose a wrong path. But as you played support only, it is respectively the only role you can play well, but you seek to find ways to learn a new role.

Spiffy McBang1 votes

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Answering on your question. When you start playing support and like it, you don't realize how dependent your role is. Only when you see how mid/jg (in this case) can win team a game, you realize, that you chose a wrong path. But as you played support only, it is respectively the only role you can play well, but you seek to find ways to learn a new role.

I used to feel that way as a support main. Trying to play bronze/silver with Janna or Soraka, for example, is so team-dependent that it can get frustrating. But the answer wound up being to play different champs. There's a reason why lower elos are full of tanks and mages--they're much more directly impactful on the game (although proper tanks also somewhat suffer from being team-dependent). I've gotten a lot of work done with Nami, because most players can take advantage of the CC offered by her kit.

There are champs (as you noted) who flex mid and support, and if pure champ power is the thing, playing them as support is often pretty good.

FullmuteAll play1 votes

I know I used to play team-reliant champs too. But for this season I switched to purely playing Brand and Alistar . So I came up to this solution myself. But it just becomes boring to play only Brand and occasionally popping up more team reliant Alistar . I wouldn't say Nami is a way to go, as she is also team-reliant, but as long as you cclimb with her, she probably works well. Even then, you still can't gank other lanes, without risking to have yours die (just because your adc is stupid to properly play 1x2 or doesn't leave the tower seeing incoming jungler). Unlike mid or especially jungler, who can roam 24/7, and farm their cs.

FullmuteAll play1 votes

I am not sure why your post lacked attention, but hope I can attract some "recent" board searchers. This is not the exact answer to your question, but these things are important https://boards.na.leagueoflegends.com/en/c/gameplay-balance/AX9MoOxN-i-suck-so-much-and-i-have-no-idea-what-to-do-to-improve?comment=0001 However they can be applied to sup as well with a bit less extend, so not sure if you know this. In general I am not sure why you hate support exactly, because if you hate being adc utility bitch, then some midlaners like Karma, tank Galio, Morgana should not be the way to go, as you end up being mid sup. However if you just hate lane phase and assumpton of being adc bitch, but in overall still like being support, these champions are the way to go. Some other stuff was covered in a previous answer, so I am not repeating. Thoughts of sup main, occasionally playing mid and performing decently.

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