Some popular Korean streamers have made comments suggesting that Support players are the least skilled players at any given rank, or that a Support player's true skill level should be considered several hundred LP lower than their actual rank.
These kinds of statements have contributed to a culture of looking down on Support players, and I've noticed a decline in the popularity of the role since this narrative became widespread.
Let me use a military analogy.
Imagine comparing frontline soldiers to communications specialists or medics, and judging all of them purely by their combat ability.
Communications specialists and medics should be evaluated based on how effectively they support their teammates and contribute to winning the battle, not simply on their individual fighting ability.
I think it's fundamentally wrong to question whether they deserve the same rank just because they aren't as strong in direct combat.
Of course, there are exceptional support personnel who can fight even better than frontline soldiers while still performing their primary duties. But those are exceptional cases, not the standard we should expect from everyone.
The same principle applies to League of Legends.
When players from other roles gang up on Supports and belittle them by applying the same standards they use to evaluate their own roles, Support players often try to defend themselves in a polite and diplomatic way rather than responding with the same hostility.
And the irony is that even in those moments, Support players are still supporting you.
I don't think they even realize that.
What people don't understand is that Drew decided to come on twitter entirely on his own, it was never a part of his job - he just wanted to try and understand the community better and give people some more knowledge into what Riot's doing/thinking about the game
His account was the only reason that for months players actually had another option besides spamming messages to Blitzcrank Bot in support, and that community problems could be voiced to Riot much more easily (take the state of FlexQ and bought accounts/boosters, which are way better than they used to be)
But as a community, what did we show him? Not too much outside of the fact that we're full of drooling losers who are willing to literally fabricate information if they can dunk on someone for a few likes. They accused Drew of dunking on people when what they were doing was infinitely worse (Riot Zac XD). Would I agree with everything Drew said/did? No, but he's also human. And when you're literally using AI to make up images to accuse them of being a pedophile, constantly bringing up their religion and use that as an insult, creating hate thread after hate thread, and so much more, you're not helping improve the situation for ANYONE, and I honestly wouldn't blame him if he just decided to dip and never come back.
I can't say much more than it's just straight up embarrassing. Every time someone from Riot steps up to be a voice to the community, someone who we can actually reach relatively easily, we fuck it up. Every. Single. Time. We let the worst in the community have the loudest voices and ruin the experience not only for us, but for the Rioters as well, giving them realistically zero reason to continue going out of their way to help, and we inevitably end up back at square one.
We keep complaining about League having so many issues (and I agree), yet for some reason every time we have a decent path toward fixing them we just nuke it for a few laughs. It's honestly disturbing to see.
Em retweeted
Riot Games opened today鈥檚 Worlds broadcast with a tribute to Lauri "Cyanide" Happonen 馃嚝馃嚠 following news of his passing.
"You will never be forgotten, please join us in a moment of silence as we honor his legacy"
I sent him pictures of all my fish tanks and told them all their names and lore and he left me on read #watdatmean
















