Talk:Lulu/@comment-50.103.5.185-20120322220357/@comment-131.156.211.13-20120323191411

"honestly she over reacted but its your job to support your team. you shouldn't needed to be thanked when you save someone."

It's just the universal attitude. I don't expect a "thanks" for every single shield or even save. But for fuck's sake, if I save someone from their own idiocy on more than one occasion I don't think it's unwarranted. They call Supports "babysitters" for a reason; only we don't get paid, nor can we watch TV while we work.

It makes me question why I should even bother with playing Support in the first place. Carries have a lot riding on them, yes, but their job is bluntly obvious: kill the enemy, break their shit. I thank carries when they do their job WITHOUT making tons of mistakes, like tower-diving in lieu of the team's assassin, or initiating ahead of the tank/combo mage. And that's whether we win or lose. I can't count how many games of DotA I've lost solely because of two teammates bitching endlessly or refusing to cooperate; it's not much different in LoL, except that I can mark for Leavers and Feeders.

If you play a Support, and the carry dies because they overcommitted well out of your reach, guess who is getting blamed for NOT feeding the enemy an obvious double-kill? YOU.

Guess who gets blamed for taking kills in a total clusterfuck of a fight? YOU. That Vayne had 11 kills to my 3. She wasn't lacking for cash or exp, and having to make decisions to halt an enemy's damage lest risking further loss of momentum is difficult.

Specifically: I DIDN'T want want Gangplank to finish Vayne with a gutzy pistol shot, so I Pix'd her to shield her pre-emptively before his pistol came off of cooldown, but it slid to him due to the close range. It nuked him and killed him instead; same result, only with an accidental killsteal. The other KS was a Glitterlance extended from Vayne; I forgot Pix fired the second burst. Minimum-AP nuke took their Warwick out; it was nothing short of a miracle that it hit; but apparantly I was some mastermind KSer now. Cripes, I WISH I could regularly make shots like that, and I play mostly skillshot champs to begin with!

Honestly, there's something wrong with a community that seems to encourage players to flip their shit when a Support gets more than 2 kills a game. It's not even a matter of "don't like it, leave/uninstall"; this mentality extends to every MOBA game I've played.