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Great article. I'm a bot lane player myself, in that sense, I play all roles and lanes quite often but due to people always calling top/mid/jungle, I play a lot of AD Carry and Support. And it's pretty interchangeable between the two. I have my bad days but I get good days too, and the most memorable games are those when I help my entire team win while playing Support, or when I play AD Carry without a normal support at all (usually a bruiser or second AD, one of my favourite games was laning as MF with Tryndamere by my side) because then I take on some supporting duties, it slows me down sure, but saves us both in the long run (that tends to happen at low Elo) and people never expect it from the AD Carry (they see them as squishy damage dealers too often)... oh in that game Tryndamere won for us through backdoor.

Cheers to all bot lane players out there, may you get lucky match ups with good lane partners more often than not!

Hi everyone. I main support for a very long time. (before my level 30) In fact i play mostly bot lane (95% of my match).

This part of your post make me react the most : 

When you have two equal AD's, the winner will be decided by who has the better support. 

If your carry have the basis of an adc (last hit and don't make Super positionement mistake), the best supp will generally win the lan.

I see tons of example every game i play. Recently i was playing with a friend. He was adc and i was supporting him. At the end we win both adc with similar farm. And KDA pretty much equal.

So what? If  i told you know my friend was level 26 (aproximatively 130 w) and the other adc was level 30 (500 w). Like everyone i would have tell you "lol level 30 own level 26" My friend is not an hidden lol genius. I has a support made the difference. They got outplayed and they lost.

I see lot of you say : support is easy. People think the support job is to put ward and provide nice utility.

That's true but that's not all. Like in every role the moment you use your skill is important. There is time to fight and time to do nothing. People think some bot lane are passive and other are agressive. That's full wrong. If you go full agression you wil ending up feeding them because mid and jungle will camp you like hell because always aggressing will make you push all day.

Passive lane is just a lie. Every lane is aggressive. You just want to farm waiting the good occasion. Then kill them. Even if you are ashe/soraka you are just waiting the moment they will make a mistake and you will kill them for that.

I agree it's easy to be an ok support. It's hard to be a good one. But it's harder than you think because you had no feedback. People doesn't have a clue of what an amazing support is. They will never praise you for amazing play. They don't see them.

Today i was playing ranked (purple side). And i see my lee and kayle going to catch their jungle panth at his red. We at bot lane were super pushed. Quicly i had to make a decision. Do nothing and be ready to follow the blue bot lane. Or force trade even if it is not at our advantage to make sure they don't go assist panth. Lee and Kayle was a little ahead. So i choose to force fight bot. They killed panth and their mid. I doubt any of them noticed the little skirmish at bot who prevented them for going to red for fight.

So adc player. Be cool to your support, tell them what you want, praise them when they are doing good. This will make want them to continue playing supp.

Support need more recognition. Seriously no one want to play supp because other player are just jerk with you. If it's always jungle fault, support are not considered like real player.

Ps : Emeraldw can you make a post about what to do when ennemy team is ahead. I think it's the biggest weakness of mid - low elo player they don't know what to do when ennemy team is beginning to snowball.

The level of your english is very confusing.
At moments you were a fluent speaker,at others you were funny with your english.
weird.

I would actually rather play support than AD because if you are ADC and your support sucks, it's pretty much over. On the other hand, if your AD is mediocre, as support you can at least try to prevent them from feeding by warding bushes with Taric, taking a hook in the face, or helping last-hit under tower. I also harass enemy carries if I have range to show them that this lvl 1 45 armor Sona ain't no joke and they better stay behind. Overall, as support you can at least carry the exhaust and some auras and peel for your carry -- and let's face it, no one in solo q ever thinks about peeling. Most of the time bruisers and tanks just charge in and then their Ashe dies for free. It is supremely frustrating to play ADC and never get peeled for. That's why I prefer supporting -- at least I can make sure to protect the carry.

PS: Also, I noticed that playing supports a lot help me play a better ADC.

Yup, why i never go bot unless i'm actively talking to my lane partner over Vent/Mumble etc,,,

I agree with this entirely.

It's interesting, I agree with about everything in the article except I have the opposite problem.  I love playing support and only sorta like play ADC.  I mostly blame my lack of mouse hand dexterity, I lack the practice time to become excellent at last hitting. 

I'll support you whenever you want Emerald!

Add me IGN: Androssi Zahard

I am one of the players who literally can't perform some roles. At all. Not even well enough to practice them. Specifically Jungle and Support.

I've duoed with a support main friend for a while, and my ADC is decent, but he's trying to learn other roles now, and he refuses to let me support for him again, because I'm that atrocious. 

Still, if I'm not duoed, I don't play bot lane. I just don't. 90% of my games are mid lane anyway.

Please, for everyone on this site, learn to play at least one champion in Jungle and Support. At least learn to support. It's not hard. I hate getting into games with people who are level 30, playing ranked, and have absolutely no idea how to play 2/5 of the game. It's extremely frustrating. Especially when, at some point, you will be last pick and doubtlessly support and jungle are the only two roles not called.

well than you're what i hate about this game, the awfull community, if you're lvl 30 and playing ranked and you do not play support, or you do not know how to jungle, than why are you even playing ranked? so you can call mid or top? some1 in low elo is gonna say hell no that's my lane and 1 of you will start trolling? many ppl cry about elohell, most of them are ppl who didn't wanna play sup or jungle and got stuck cuz they're pricks, it's not a bad thing to support it'ds actually an amazing feeling to be 0 1 27 and knowing u'r sona ults won u that game!

if anyone is looking for a really fun support-adc combo try thresh and twitch. TT is amazing and so hilarious.