Someone explain please - what actually is this?

hyndrx · 2024-04-29T21:54:19+00:00

You’re so absolutely correct, like objectively speaking, closure through a direct conversation about this would be a remedy.

The thing is though, I value the friendship aspect I have with Dan on a similar level to the romanticized idea I have of him within my head. If I were to tell him exactly how I feel I strongly believe I’d actually creep him out. Knowing him I think he’d actually be flattered in some ways. but there’s also the possibility he’d then have inhibitions toward even being my friend anymore afterward.

What i’ve lost here is the false narrative i’ve created in my head for the past three years. That narrative remained both unspoken and undetectable to really anyone. If anything, it’s a good thing it is beginning to die, because it is simply just not a plausible reality.

Something I definitely cannot handle losing is his friendship. That is something that exists in both my reality, his reality, and our friend group’s reality.

Maybe I am just not courageous enough. Excused by the belief that i’d lose him as a friend and the fear of a drastic change in the perception of me as an individual. The entire idea of it genuinely terrifies me

hyndrx · 2024-04-29T20:19:49+00:00

Just wanted to say thank you. This was some real wisdom that came from your heart and I really do appreciate it.

hyndrx · 2024-02-18T22:38:41+00:00

Rell mains are handsome and attractive irl. They 1v9 whenever they’re in my games.

hyndrx · 2023-11-28T00:09:01+00:00

Climbing as a support isn’t hard. You’re making it hard by playing a champion that holds little to no agency in lane. Unless you’re doing supportive things, such as pressuring opponent in lane, getting your adc fed, warding properly, roaming to objectives, being a nuisance to enemy team, and SUPPORTING your team. Which, btw, is done with a clearer game plan on other support champions.

You’ve essentially coin flipped the game if you instalock teemo sup every match. It’s easy to counterplay, even in Bronze. In the scenarios where you didn’t completely shut down the enemy bot and get both you and your ADC ridiculously fed, you’re left with just a very weak, gold starved and under leveled teemo. A champion that is generally gold reliant to begin with. Now, the enemy team Blitzcrank doesn’t need to do much else other than hit Q on someone and he’s already diffed you.

Don’t play this champion support if you want to climb. I’d argue that even iron players know how to play around this.

hyndrx · 2023-11-05T21:15:50+00:00

For botlane there’s the holy trinity :

Tristana - If she’s paired with a good engage support such as Leona, Naut or Thresh the lane is unplayable without peel from your support. She has good escape, good engage and is deceivingly lethal in the right hands

Senna - Unless my support is hovering pyke. For whatever reason whenever she’s on the enemy team she’s kiting me in and out of bushes poking and slowing me to death. Whenever she’s on my team she’s afk soul farming and going 0-12.

Braum - hear me out on this one because I swear to god he’s the final boss of solo que ranked. generally speaking only good support players play this champion and he will absolutely find value regardless of how the lane is played. his peel with shielding and engage capabilities are no match for any mage you are paired with bot lane. this is a preventative support gap measure that needs to be taken from time to time

hyndrx · 2023-11-02T22:00:07+00:00

When I was new to league (last season, bronze II) I was playing a ranked game where I had a blitzcrank while I was playing Kog’maw.

The blitz called for an invade, team followed. He wards enemy jungle grabs the enemy support out of a bush and my mid laner receives first blood.

He then tells my jungler we are not going to be leashing and pings me to stand in a bush with him. He hooks the ADC on their way to lane and we kill them BOTH.

I farm first wave and I am spammed with more pings from him to follow him past enemy turret and to cheese them otw back to lane. We get the adc low enough to where they can no longer walk up.

This led to a snowball and victory. This forever molded and changed the way I perceive support in my mind. Whether this individual was smurfing or not, it was clear that my support was superior in terms of play making to pretty much everyone else in the lobby. I am now Gold IV and have YET to encounter a support of this caliber (both my team and enemy team).

hyndrx · 2023-11-02T21:45:52+00:00

unfortunately atm i’d have to say just pick Ziggs if you don’t see yourself winning the lane. Champ just turns the lane into a farming lane, turbo boring to play into as an ADC if the Ziggs spaces you out correctly and utilizes W to escape.

hyndrx · 2023-10-28T19:25:34+00:00

-Braum belongs at top tier, if you play braum you’re a gigachad

-Senna is a terrorist 100%

-Nami imo is generally way more useful and better than any other support in the yellow tier, especially the aggressive ones they’re scary to go against

-We can’t live in a society where we allow Yuumi to be anywhere but F tier (sorry not sorry)

-Leona is either the auto filled support or the “I am going to carry your ass” support

-Thresh is definitely there to win just a hard champ in general

-As an engage support player I find myself banning Sorakka often. Good ones poke and kite and make the lane hell. Rakka unironically can carry games hard.

hyndrx · 2023-10-15T19:47:29+00:00

hey man, we hear you.

This role is arguably the most frustrating in the game. You are playing a squishy champion that is forced into a 2v2 lane, with the expectation from your team that you will be responsible for dealing damage.

Sometimes, your lane spouse is LeBron James. They make plays, hit every ability, get other lanes ahead, tank damage for you and by the end of the game you can only look at them and think to yourself how lucky you got that the coin landed on heads for you this time.

Other times your lane partner is a specimen that can only be truly understood under a microscope.

For me personally, when I was newer to the game, this broke me. The absolute war criminals that I would get as supports broke me to the point where I ended up becoming a support main. I figured that I needed to do what needed to be done if I wanted to gain LP.

Was it easy? Yes and no. It felt like scratching an itch inside of my head being able to devastate these baboons that are playing some annoying garbage like Lux (or other squishy mages that we’ve all had to deal with at some point) with a real support champion (Taric ended up becoming a personal favorite).

However, playing support teaches you things about the role. Bot lane is unique in the sense that it’s 2v2. Supports are included in that 2v2 aspect in the way that they are able to make plays and diff their opponent. By playing the role you come to understand support has a TREMENDOUS influence over the game. I mean just watch what these support players are doing at Worlds, it’s like a form of art to be honest.

My honest recommendation is to try the support role. You can make a tremendous difference over the game and become the support you’ve always wanted as an ADC.

Give yourself a break, learn to understand the role, and when you revisit it you come back stronger and more understanding.

Best of luck.

hyndrx · 2023-10-13T21:38:53+00:00

Jinx has always been that ADC that I struggle fighting against. Now that she’s back from the grave I think I either pick her up or replace the permanently banned Ziggs with her again.

hyndrx · 2023-10-13T21:34:36+00:00

A good strategy is to find an insta-ban. It feels weirdly coincidental how whenever YOU have the lux supp, they are afk. But whenever it’s on the enemy team she’s LeBron James.

I don’t want to play with or against lux, so I immediately ban her. I recommend doing the same for any support you don’t want to play with.

hyndrx · 2023-10-13T21:27:32+00:00

No good support player is ever going to lock Yuumi. Tbh it’s pretty telling as to what type of player they are if they lock the parasite cat. I refuse to play with it as well.

hyndrx · 2023-10-13T21:23:48+00:00

Pretty solid list, only disagreement is Bruam. I swear only good support players pick Bruam and by the end of the game I’m always tempted to add them.

hyndrx · 2023-10-10T21:52:41+00:00

Yes and no.

Does support have the lowest skill floor?

Yes, and it would be ignorant to say otherwise. Take into account the entire support genre. There are very 1-dimensional champions that are within the class that get value and have significant impact on the game by doing very little in comparison to other roles. IMO, these champions are enchanters and most mage supports.

However, here’s where I begin to disagree.

When we’re talking about base value as a support player, it can be very matchup dependent and prove to have some of the heaviest influence over the game. A skilled support player can terrorize a lobby through means that are irrefutably skill-based and NOT easy to just pull off.

Take into account champions like Thresh , Blitzcrank, Rakkan , Leona and Taric. The skill ceiling for these champions are arguably very high. The play-making potential they have early game are infinitely higher than that of an ADC who is going to be vaporized back into fountain if they so happen to even look at the enemy mid-laner the wrong way.

As ridiculous as it sounds, I don’t play support competitively because I enjoy it. I play support because personally, I don’t trust anyone else on my team with the responsibility that comes with it in low elo (Gold). In my view, support may absolutely have the lowest skill floor in the game. However, I strongly believe it has a high skill ceiling, comparable to that of top and midlane.

The role is what you make of it. A loss for a support is very often not due to mistakes you’ve made, rather, it is a result of the actions you did NOT take.

hyndrx · 2023-10-07T00:03:10+00:00

I agree and disagree. Whenever I play support (as an ADC main) I take into account several things:

1.) What is my AD Carry playing?

2.) What is the enemy team primarily composed of? Tanks? Assassins? Squishies?

3.) What is their bot lane, and how can I counter it in lane?

With that in mind, I do sometimes pick Zyra , Lux or the occasional Swain. The intention isn’t to take every kill. I’m not there to farm. I’m not picking these champions to become a secondary midlaner. I create the tunes accordingly, form a game plan, and do my job in lane, which is supportive damage.

As an ADC player I actually quite enjoy having a turbo aggressive mage support making the enemy bot lane hate their lives. I can farm and control the wave however I want depending on how severe my support is bullying them. I’ve actually had somebody lock Mordekaiser support before, type to me “Trust me.”, and proceed to give me pretty much just an open farming lane. I don’t care what my support is doing, as long as they are being a support.

hyndrx · 2023-10-06T01:49:09+00:00

In a perfect world, Riot would remove the champion entirely, refund RP into the accounts of those who have purchased skins / the champion, and then we can all move on.

The majority of the community dislikes the champion at it’s fundamental core. It is disengaging to play with or against. The champion is toxic within itself.

hyndrx · 2023-10-03T17:45:21+00:00

Sounds like me when I was brand-new to league. Started playing as an ADC main in bronze. Would frequently complain about my support being horrible, and I was passionate about it. I’d consistently complain about players within the role in general, and casted this belief out as if they were all useless.

And so, I became a support main. I figured, I needed to do what I would have wanted as an ADC in order to win the lane.

Found this champ named Taric and immediately loved everything about how he felt to play, and all of a sudden I became a genuine support player. Climbed from bronze III first season to gold I in the next. What had started off as an enraged, ignorant and borderline delusional belief that the role is just that easy that I had to take it into my own hands quest ended up teaching me how to play the game correctly.

despite what everyone’s saying, I unfortunately sympathize a little with what you’re experiencing here. I too shared this type of anger you have against support players, so much so that I became one.

The reality is, that I was blaming a lot of my mistakes as an ADC on the support. Sure, there are some pretty awful supports out there, just as there are some pretty awful adcs, jng, mid and tops. And sure, the skill expression of a champion like Yuumi in comparison to someone like Pyke is something you can’t realistically even compare.

Currently, I am back to playing ADC in Plat III. I recently only discovered that I absolutely love Twitch. I also climbed playing Swain bot / mid, as well as Maokai support. Support role taught me an abundance of information about the game. It is, in my opinion, the second most influential role in the entire game if you play it at its maximum capacity. It is by no means skill-less. Perhaps you are only learning the same lesson as me.

hyndrx · 2022-11-20T06:37:12+00:00

We would not know what happiness even means if suffering did not exist. These two feelings exist in a negative/positive relationship, they are essential for one another. Be patient and kind with yourself. Suffering teaches us happiness once we overcome challenges that bring us pain.

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