User blog comment:Derpinator Power/Being Nice To Your Support/@comment-25055281-20140808135120/@comment-25003900-20140808144141

TLDR: There's problems from both sides of the fences. Anyone's mistake, anywhere on the map, can cause you to die, it's not always your lane partner's fault. The vast majority of your deaths are your fault, the same is true for other people's deaths. Take responsibility for your mistakes, it helps the rest of your team respect you and gives them more desire to help out if they know you'll take responsibility when it's actually your fault.

I partially agree with you, but at the same time muting your ADC, while it's great to stop their complaining every 2 seconds about literally every single thing that couple possibly go wrong even if it hasn't yet, I think it ends up being very much detrimental to your point as support. If you need to support a team member, and mute then inherantly being incapable of communicating with that team member, how do you really expect to even attempt to coordinate anything with them?

Yes ADCs are toxic as hell, but I don't argue the fact that Supports are as well at the same time. Don't get me wrong I deserve to make a comment towards my ADC when they miss last hits on 5 minions to tower dive, take 3 tower hits, and only have hit one basic attacked the opposing support. This causes them to have to back and miss even more cs. That kind of ADC in bot lane with me caused me to stop playing ranked supports. Everytime I try it I get an ADC that decides they can all in at lv 1, with no damage blame me for not mystically teleporting him out of the level 1 tower dive idiocy he put himself in, then proceed to repeatedly feed the enemy ADC 6 kills and AFK the rest of the game. Apparently there's no such thing as play passively in low elo ADC brains.

My favorite one is when I as a support have to sacrifice myself to try and prevent my ADC from dying because he overcommitted to an impossible kill and ended up balls deep in the enemy jungle, yell at them to leave because I just stalled 3 members of the enemy team with a thresh box/flay/hook combo, and they decide it's the optimal time to vayne roll straight in and feed a second kill to the enemy ADC instead of the one that I gave up because it was the only way my ADC wouldn't get shut down.

The inability of ADCs to last hit half the time results in me exclusively playing FoTM based supports, so that I can at least force feed them the extra few cs. What do I get when I do that? ADCs who have no idea what the passive on those items is resulting in "OMG REPORT NOOB SUPPORT STEALING ALL MY CS." "GLAD GAME IS GLITCHING AND I'M STILL GETTING CS SINCE SUPPORT STEALS GG." <-Yes someone actually said that.

I think the issues in the ADC/Support relationship stem from the fact that Supports are laneslaved getting not attention for how well they babysit their ADC and angry about it, while ADCs are cracking the whip, angry that they can't always go 30/0/0 every game, and getting praised by the entire team for carrying. Sometimes the opposing ADC and Support just have better synergy. Maybe they duo queued and are talking to one another on skype? Maybe their jungler pitched a tent and started roasting marshmallows by bot lane? Maybe your jungler is trying to get that mid lane Katarina fed super early for roaming potential and giving you no attention? There's a billion other issues that could come up that don't have anything to do with your lane partner, 90% of the time when a death happens, it's that person's fault, not their lane partner, not the jungler, not the other laners for not calling MIA (These are more like 50% instead of 90%), but that person's own fault. The faster people realize that and take responsibility for their mistakes the better off the league community will be.