Roaming Support Meta has Burnt me Out of the Game
I just reached my 2-year mark of playing this game, and roaming support meta has caused me to have an identity crisis and burnout.
For context, I’m an Emerald elo player but I often play with friends in the Diamond-GM MMR. Enchanter main but over months have learnt other alternatives for options. And this roaming meta has made my question my entire League identity as a support.
The past two years I’ve been learning this game and memorizing basic concepts of the hame— laning mechanics, vision, wave control etc, and while I’m still struggling, I’m enjoying it, because I love playing enchanters.
And then this meta rolls in and suddenly Level 1 Camille jungle invades or support Poppy toplane ganks occur. And everything about early game that I’ve spent 2 years drilling into my brain is fundamentally destroyed. No more applications of wave control and lane harassment, sometimes defending jungle or counterganking mid, because it’s 24/7 running to wherever the other support is to try to perform damage control.
Playing support is no longer fun, because every advantage that an enemy roaming support gets, we lose because it’s my fault that I also don’t match the level of plays. And the game crumbles because I’m not good enough to adapt to the new meta. My choices for this are now:
- Also roam as a support to try and countergank by mind-reading where my enemy support/jungle will be (which I’m currently not experienced enough to do)
- Pressure the botlane and attempt to get an advantage for my botlaner (mage lane making this near impossible, especially for non-interactive mages like Ziggs)
- Pick a roaming support and join the bandwagon by invading everyone’s lanes and personal space. (I can technically do this but I’m not having fun as a support anymore)
Support has now become a second jungler and I don’t know how to play the role anymore. And I’m not good enough to figure out how.
My current solution for solo/duo is to… drumroll… queue as Jungle and play Ivern so I have the Enchant-At-Home enjoyment of the game while still being decent at the game.
But I love support. I love playing Milio and Soraka and Nami and be able to just be happy knowing I can defend my friends and enable them to make plays. Now in this meta I feel like a bystander watching the enemy Camille burn the world down and then I become the reason why my team loses. I don’t want to be a lower elo burden for my friends. At this point I might just go for Yuumi and pray my passive kit gives a better advantage to my ADC that the enemy support does elsewhere
Help.