User blog comment:Care Level/Solo Queue: The Bronze Adventures of Care Level/@comment-3358335-20130829152335

I read the first section and got bored with the 2nd and third so stopped. I read so many inherently "bronze" opinions in that first section that the later parts would have been pointless anyway.

Summoner spells on a Support. Exhaust - yes. Ignite no. Ok so maybe you get some kills every now and again, or help your fight be ruining healing. But how many kills do you give them because you dont' have an escape? If you go into every fight guns blazing and expect to win. . you won't. Expect to lose and get out before you die. Also, sometimes getting your exhaust on their heavy carry can make or break a fight in the first second. A lot of times end game you can win a fight by flash exhausting the adc.

AP heavy supports - This is mixed. For the most part don't do it. If you do, it's for late game. If your idea of support is to do lots of damage and then let the adc get the kills. .or not if they suck, then that's not actually "support" That's a secondary damage dealer. If you go under the philosophy that more AP means bigger heals. . again, there are better items that help your ADC. Like wards, or Aegis, and captains boots, and shurelya's. When a support is shopping they don't look through the items that will make them more effective, they look at the items that will help their team be more effective. "They are a lot faster than us on their engages, I should probably get those captains boots earlier, and rush that Shurelya's." Or "They have a Yi/Xin/Vayne that is just massive AS and destroying us, I should get a frozen heart." If there are no more items that will help your team be more effective then you can toss on an AP item. This took a while for me to learn but my support gameplay was 10 times more effective once I stopped rushing that early AP item to make ME better.

Taking minions as support - no ADC should ever complain about this if they are not in lane. But no support should ever be pushing a lane without their adc. Last hits only, and try and freeze the lane just outside your tower range. If you've got 70 cs at 20 minutes then you're doing it wrong.

"I've lost enough games from people not pushing lanes. . " - This could mean two different things. At higher elo's it generally means, "I've lost games from not securing objectives." At lower elo's it generally means. "We should be pushing their tower at all times because we can." The first one has nothing to do with pushing or not pushing during laning. It has to do with missing opportunities to take down towers when the other team's champions aren't there to defend it and/or are incredibly underpowered to defend it. The second one means. ."we have them pushed against the tower so our team can't show up and gank effectively but theirs can totally come in and wreck our shit." If you keep them pressed against their tower you might as well mail invitations to their mid as well. . .and don't expect yours to come and help just because you idiotically exposed yourself. For some reason, given your attitude, I kind of think the second one.

My last, and most important, comment is that nowhere in this blog did I see some sort of analysis on what you could have done better. Seems like you played as perfect as you could and it's definately a failure on other people. If you don't come out of every game picking up something new then you won't get better.