What the hell is wrong with half the people that play this game?! Made the mistake of trying a solo game last night thinking i might get an OK team. How wrong I was.
First issue was team selection. The randoms picked malphite, jungle rammus, twitch
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and Fizz. I figured I'd support Twitch so I went bottom with him and spent the entire time warding and healing him while letting him farm. End result was that this guy started feeding anyway despite my best efforts. It was still going ok though since our Fizz was on 7/1.
So the team fights start which is where out team selection falls completely dead. We have no form of DPS except Fizz and I'm spending half the time trying to avoid getting killed by Pantheon and Xin Zhao who keep focusing me. I'm still managing to not feed at the point but we're just not killing anything.
This is where it gets pants on head retarded. Our Malphite states that we need to play more defensively which everyone seems to agree on. Literally 5 seconds later he's chasing the enemy team down the river for no reason (Dragon was already dead) and engaging them. I don't know why. There was no tower to defend and no-one was being attacked. I tried to help but it was obvious that we were going to lose the fight so two of us ran. That was it. It's now 100% my fault that we've lost.
They had a go at me for "running away and not doing anything" when what actually happened was Pantheon and Xin Zhao both did their jumping attacks on me and I had to run away to avoid dying. I think the lowest point was someone having a go at me for not having creep kills as a support.
If you want to be a useful support that is powerful mid game then level W when you can and E as 2nd priority, you only get 1 level of Q at the start of the game for poking in lane, your E is unbelievably strong if used right. Also health potions at the start are really pointless, sometimes i start with 3 wards and 1 hp 1 mana, but lately its just 2 mana instead, your W can heal for plenty as its a short cooldown.
Aggressive players play differently. I'm overcautious in my playstyle, so I'd rather have a good base of mana and regen so I know I'm ok to spam heal and speed buff in case of a gank attempt. Other people will make do with pots and stuff to get them through... It's a case of whatever does it for you.
