EPTFor a while now I had been thinking about actually getting some serious sessions of solo queue in LoL, mostly for the self satisfaction of getting out of stupid ol' bronze league. I always feel like I'm better than being in bronze, but the way picking and "calling" and all that works made it very difficult for me to ever preform well in ranked games. I contemplated always trying to get those "carry" roles so that I could carry... but then it turned out that I can get fucked over pretty hard because I'm not experienced enough with the various matchups in the mid lane and such.
Over the past couple of days I've decided that the role that I can use the best (and quite frankly fits my personality) is support.
Support, from most of my experiences at my level, is really the role that is left for the person at the lowest pick or latest "call", and they end up doing so only because they really have no other choice. Supports are always so unappreciated because all of the glory goes to the carry that they feed... However, without a good support, many carries will simply get shit on in their lane because they can't trade well against the other carry.
I've ended up in the situation where I'm simply "left" with support many a time, and thus I probably had the most experience going support. I'm really not some player that needs everyone on the team praising me like "hurr durr ezreal will carreee ussssss thx god". In real life I often do a ton of shit but I really don't need everybody to know how I contributed soo much and such (yes I want recognition for it if anyone asks, but I'm fine if others get the attention for it). If I may throw out a little metaphor, I'm the kind of guy that will gladly the be soil that houses a beautiful flower. That flower's gonna turn into all sorts of shades of grey and wither till it's dead if it doesn't have soil. Unless it's one of those stupid flowers you just put into water, but that shit's different. No one appreciates the soil, it's all about how beautiful the flower is. But I'm ok with being the soil. If I'm doing something that no one else can do and what I'm doing is necessary to make the group as a whole achieve their goal, I'm happy.
I AM ZE SOIL!!!
Anyways I went way off topic on that tangent. I've decided that from now on I'm going to main Sona support. Sona is a very versatile champion, with both some poke and a useful heal, and makes her fit my playstyle very well. I always like to be able to poke the enemy a bit while supporting, and Sona's poke is very strong. Also Sona has the most kickass skin ever, Arcade Sona (which a friend graciously gifted me today
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Thus far I've been able to do extremely well with sona as a support, with a very high win rate (very small sample size too). I actually basically carries a team once, and after the surrender at 20 minutes I found out that I did the most damage on my team to enemy champions. Supporting is also a little bit easier to deal with mentally because the team isn't necessarily relying on me. I've played adc with some bad supports in the past though, and I do want to make sure that other ADCs don't have to experience that.
Anyhow, it was a good day of playing League today. I managed to get 2 promotions within 24 hours (1 last night then another promotion just an hour or so ago) and I'm finally up to bronze 1... so close to escaping bronze!!! Tomorrow may be another day of playing League for me as well if I can't get to silver this night. I'll see if I can aid the carry to carry my way to silver. I SHALL USE THE SILLY CARRIERS! Carriers are my favorite in both League and SC2 now. What a twist.
