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becoming pro?

PsychoTess·10/21/2015, 4:51:01 PM·1 votes·598 views

so I've often been curious as to how to become pro, most places say high ELO, stream, create a following, go to league events, met pros, and the list goes on. but what about for people that main supports like i do? my elo isn't that great but I'm a great support i just don't get meany kills being support so getting 2 deaths a game still drops my ELO even with decent assists.... just as reference my deaths are usually higher then my kills but my assists are usually higher than anything... and i dont even want to get started on the fact that adc's think supports are some kind of gods and can always save them from their mistakes and the fact that most of the time that leads the a support death ut of no fault of the supports or when your adc is crap and as a support you cant do any damage and by the time you realize your supports crap its to late.... soooo i realize that this isnt really a major thing and good supports can handle it but no ones perfect.

either waymy question is in short, how do you main support and become pro?

4 Comments

A Small Dog10/21/2015, 4:59:51 PM3 votes

I think the same as how most other's got Pro. Make it to Challenger and do well enough for a long enough time to get a team's attention. Or be a part of a team and make it to pro through tournaments and such. Still would recommend being Challenger for that as well.

ThePartyLeader10/21/2015, 4:54:02 PM2 votes

https://youtu.be/SibIZFpwNz0

Smitemuffin10/22/2015, 12:58:29 PM1 votes

This is what I learned coaching two Challenger teams in Season 4:

First, it's way easier once you hit high elo. There's only 200 Challenger Tier slots to a region so everybody plays together pretty often. Pro teams also advertise tryouts on their pages (like TSM right now). Supports are probably the hardest to find and keep: few are really good, few are dedicated to the role and if your ADC doesn't like them, you lose them.

As for getting there: duo with an ADC and get lots of deep wards. You can win lane more easily with a guy you trust and map vision snowballs. It will also show that you can play the map like a pro when you DO try for a team.

The Sword Saint10/22/2015, 6:21:08 PM1 votes

Go join a ranked team and play games with them util you hit master/challenger. Maybe then someone will take you seriously if you want to go pro and let you into tryouts and whatnot.

Having a similarly high soloq rank won't hurt either.