User blog comment:TheHellDoIPutHere/Supports and You/@comment-3358335-20130718174022

People blame supports because supports will always have a negative score. They're supposed to, but that gets overlooked when someone is losing. As a support how do you defend yourself if you are 0-5. "I'm not supposed to get kills I am supposed to feed my adc, but my adc sucks." It's usually your adc that is tossing the blame because everytime they get caught, its somehow your fault. You didn't do enough, you didn't poke enough, you didn't heal enough, you didn't disable enough. . . nevermind that their adc wasn't out of position as much in order to get poked/disabled.

So how do you be successful? Well one of the best ways is learn a few different supports. Range from the healers to the disablers. Does your ADC want a support that is going to heal them or do they want one that is going to poke the enemy for them.

Another thing is, don't be the one to get caught. Sometimes you think you can jump on a grenade and save your adc. But it doesn't help. Unless your ADC is really kicking the other team in the pants, and is on a kill streak that will pay out big. Just don't be the one that gets caught out of position.

Be the master of pings. Ping if you are leaving to place a ward. Ping if you see your jungler in trouble and are rushing to help him. Ping MIA when your lane is missing. Ping MIA when you see other lane's missing. Ping when you see the enemy jungler on the map. Ping if you notice something wierd and suspect a trap. Ping if you want to place a ward but you're too scared to go there. I don't spam pings, but when I am playing support 9 out of 10 pings are from me.

Lastly, recognize if your adc sucks but don't be toxic about it. In fact, I usually don't even make a comment I just adjust my gameplay. Sometimes you'll get an adc that knows what they are doing, and can just follow their lead and do your job. Sometimes you'll get an adc that will take advantage of every opportunity you create for them. And sometimes you'll get an adc that will run away with full health after you just drew every summoner spell and ability out of them and still managed to disable their damage. Or an adc that will farm after you disabled their adc for 3-4 seconds. Recognize what yours does and just adjust your gameplay. Sometimes I'll adjust it far enough that I'll even start taking last hits from mine, especcially if I notice they suck nuts at last hitting. You can lose your lane hard by having to support a terrible adc, but that doesn't necessarily mean that you fall so far behind you can't support the other 3 members of the team mid-late game.