Harmless Tip about Support for New Players

BlunterMonk·7/14/2015, 11:56:05 PM·2 votes·721 views

If you're new to League of Legends, or MOBA's in general, and you just start out. I urge you to play a few games as a Support in your early levels. I have seen a lot of players (some friends of mine), completely disregard the Support role and just go for the OP assassins.

I say this because playing Support gives you an immense amount of learning experience. You're not focused on practicing last hitting minions, you're not glaring at your lane opponent to get a kill, you're the Support and most of the time you're gonna be staring at, and this is the most important part, your TEAM.

I really found it painful to play games where the other members would go the whole game never saying a word. Playing support gives you these great benefits.

  • Map awareness
  • Player behavior
  • WARDING
  • Zoning
  • Communication
  • Warding

Cannot stress how important wards are. A lot of people do not ward in low my unranked elo because "It's the supports job". But the Support cant go all the way to top lane and ward the bushes. These are all crucial skills that I did not get to learn until I actually played a Support role at level 20. And afterwards I improved so much.

2 Comments

TheGrumpy17/15/2015, 12:15:45 AM1 votes

As a new player that mains support, I can vouch for this soooo much! I may not be as mechanically practiced as some of my friends that started about the same time as I did, but when it comes to game-wide mechanics, goals, and pacing I generally have more knowledge than them. I've developed more map-awareness, more understanding of the importance of vision control, and how effective objective control is because I'm in a less micro-oriented role and a more macro-oriented role.

Plus, you almost never have to argue over playing Support - almost nobody else wants it!

Aeolian Melodies7/15/2015, 2:15:41 AM1 votes

"Warding"

Yo, it's not season 1-2-3 anymore guys.

Once I have 3 wards and a pink on the map, the rest's on you, teammates.