What is considered carrying?

[quote=Jvstm]Because when I play Soraka, I don't get tons of kills. My last game was 4-0-28. But what I do do is win games for my team. My team even said it was (after hating on me for picking Soraka in a ranked game). So is carrying simply getting a lot of kills and doing a lot of damage? Or is it being the anchor for your team to push, win team fights, etc?[/quote]

[quote=Atarios]I'd say, being the anchor/win teamfights.[/quote]

[quote=wRAthoFVuLK]I think what [b]IS[/b] considered and what [b]SHOULD BE[/b] considered carrying are 2 totally different things: I think what IS considered carrying by most common LoL folk is getting all the kills/dominating everyone, even if everyone else does shit. I think what SHOULD BE considered carrying is that, but also situations like yours where you whore assists and help your team without being the actual one doing all the killing.[/quote]

[quote=ShadowReign757]Carrying just means is when you are the reason for the win. It is when you do what it takes to bring your team through. If a Master Yi goes 20/0/some random number of assists, but he only did that because he just ran around all game and didn't help at all in teamfights what so ever, and a Janna goes 5/7/32 and saved her team countless times in teamfights, Janna carried more than Yi.[/quote]

[quote=Jvstm]Yet all the credit goes to whomever had the most kills. *Les sigh* I strive to make a better name for Soraka :)[/quote]

[quote=SixSonatas]Carries are defined as "weak" early game and "strong" late game. So traditional DotA style carry would be someone like Tryndamere, Caitlyn, or Ashe -- people who need their team to gank (carry the "carry" early-mid game) and then dominate late game ("carry" gets to carry entire team) Soraka isn't a "carry", traditionally speaking, and is classified under "support"; if you look at it, all roles "carry" another role at one point in the game, just the "carry" role is the end-game carry-all.[/quote]

[quote=Jvstm]But I win games as Soraka. I mean that as in I am the reason we win. Because nobody ever doies, I'm good at silencing AP nukes, every time I see three or more allies at 50% I Wish. Karthus on the other team? I ALWAYS take mid vs Karthus. Always. That's why I was wondering.[/quote]

[quote=wRAthoFVuLK]I wanna play with you sometime when you are soraka, you seem to know how to play her =] I wish upon a star...[/quote]

[quote=ExamplePrime]Mordekaiser can carry his team to victory by taking them all on at once :D[/quote]

[quote=Jebus McAzn]I agree with the point that someone who carries the team is the person responsible for victory. For example, if you're a 0/5 Shaco but backdoored 6 towers over the course of the game and forced the enemy team to split up, letting your team do Baron and win team fights, you carried the game. cough reginaid[/quote]