The Importance of feeding your support (This goes out to ADC's)
So most people have probably read threads where supports get bashed by their ADC's for "Kill Stealing (KS)", and even more people are undoubtedly aware of how bitchy ADC's can be in game towards their teammates (cough
mains cough), especially towards their supports for harmless acts such as accidentally killing a single minion and "Stealing" that 15gold from the ADC in question, or god forbid landing the killing blow on a champ and making the ADC settle for an assist.
I'm here (as an ADC main myself
) to offer an alternative to my fellow ADC's who feel that acting this way is okay. My two-step solution is quite simple... 1) GET OFF YOUR SUPPORT'S ASS 2) LET THEM GET SOME KILLS. Now i know saying that will get some downvotes and negative feedback from ADC mains, but it has to be said. As an ADC i don't freak out when my support "KS" and i get an assist, and i actually encourage them to do it when it looks like the enemy might get away and i can't seem to kill them. Why? Because that support puts their life on the line constantly to save my squishy ass, sets up most of my kills, and gets no praise for it. Because as much as it might be cool to get all the bot lane kills during the early game (lets just low ball it and say 4-6), that just paints an even bigger target on my back than the one i already have for being the team's ADC in the first place. And you know who'll be trying to protect my constantly squishy ass from the counter attacks and ganks? That support i bitched at for attempting to get money to build items, who now is underpowered and can't keep my cocky/suicidal ADC ass alive no matter how hard he tries. This leads to blaming everything on the support, the breakdown of teamwork, and probably the loss of the game.
How does this change by not being a dick and "allowing" your support to get some kills? Well now the guy who's keeping you alive can actually do his job, your still getting money for every kill, and you now present a double threat in your lane, one that can push with ease. You'll still get plenty of kills in the game to call your mom up and brag about later, and you get a solid system going with your support. In the link i provided you'll see a match where as ADC
i still had easily the most kills on my team, and with the help of my
support (who i made sure was well fed early on) we not only one the lane and later the game, but also prevented almost the entirety of the enemy ADC's CS, making the poor
ADC essentially useless for the rest of the game (not even 2 full items).
Does this seem like a bad result?
As far as i see it, in bot lane KS actually stands for "Kill Secured", and that guy who's with you in the trenches at bot lane who's giving it his all to protect you should be your #1 BFF on the battlefield, not your punching bag for you to use when you have a bad game and throw a hissy fit.
If even just a single ADC reads this article and stops acting like a asshole in game, then the League just improved that much more, and i consider this article more than worth the time it took to write
Thank you and have a good night!
support, and kept taking the kills with a single auto (not even enhanced by E). So while I had 4 kills and my adc had 4 assists, I decided to go a needless.
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and the like are really designed to keep a lot of their utility even when they are getting very little gold.
I leave all creeps for the adc.
Then in lane i just concentrate on zoning and harass.
Im still gaining 3 gold from the adcs CS and when the ADC is out of lane i take the CS while im holding lane.
you still gain gold because of the coin and dont get caught in that trap most sup do of falling behind.
, this idea don't work for me.