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So far I've definitely have firmly planted my flag in liking to be the support whenever I am doing PvP. It feels easier, probably because I get to worry less abt being flashy & getting the kills in which I am just awful @. Perhaps it's just that support naturally plays to my strengths or I am a very poor support that is completely missing some very important aspect of it because it feels like an easy enough a role.
Part of me always feels bad abt whoever gets stuck w/ me on their team because I still never feel like I quite know what I'm doing. It doesn't help that trying to manage **** like chat during the game feels overwhelming so once the match begins I rarely communicate beyond my emotes. Though since I tend to main Sona I like to think to myself I am just being very in character!
I've @ least done the work of looking over guides & properly setting up Rune & Item lay-outs but I still feel like a mess whenever not being support. I really want to get better @ Jungling, specifically w/ my boy Nunu & I even feel like I'm kinda okay @ him on Wild Rift but I feel like mostly dead weight as him on pc proper. I tend to be good enough to remember not to waste time on small fries & to try to gank or @ least **** with the other team's situation by kicking off my biggest snowball when the situation calls for it but I find my lvling usually trails behind the rest of my team. I think I need to try to take on the dragon more often or smth? I usually avoided the dragon entirely to focus on the rift herald since I liked the ability to summon it in a lane & was a bit daunted by the perspective of learning abt each elemental buff. Not to say I've like completely neglected the dragons but certainly jumped for the rift herald/Nash first usually.
As for Bot/Duo/Dragon/Bottom Lane or whatever the hell you call them, I certainly have liked my Zeri thus far & do not regret semi-impulse buying her with BE since she is very satisfying to play as with her parkour, q basic attack, & how insanely powerful she can get in her R ult. I also want to get better w/ my Caitlyn since I like the idea of being a tricksy trap master but I almost never feel like I am really carrying like I thought I'm supposed to in that kind of role.
Then there are Top & Mid Lane. I think because Top & Mid lane give me the impression they are the ones you go it alone in because you know what you're doing or you're in to get a lot of kills, neither have appealed to me. Top especially just seems not my thing, I think most of the champs that dominate that space are guy characters probably isn't helping. With Mid, I've liked the idea of it a bit more but also can tell it's likely a huge linchpin that my very amateurish *** is not ready for. If I were to pursue the top lane I'd definitely go Riven since I love the idea of swinging her rune sword around(or even if they become more competitive Gwen & Illaoi). For mid I'd go probably almost always Vex because I have her, want to play her, & mid is really the only role she's suited for it seems.
For now though, I'll experiment in co-op vs ai & stick to support, usually Sona, for pvp. I like Sona, her "voice"(does it count as her voice if she's mute??) makes me feel relaxed & happy. I wish more players would do the joke command around me when I'm Sona because her reaction to when other champions joke is the funniest **** to me.
Part of me always feels bad abt whoever gets stuck w/ me on their team because I still never feel like I quite know what I'm doing. It doesn't help that trying to manage **** like chat during the game feels overwhelming so once the match begins I rarely communicate beyond my emotes. Though since I tend to main Sona I like to think to myself I am just being very in character!
I've @ least done the work of looking over guides & properly setting up Rune & Item lay-outs but I still feel like a mess whenever not being support. I really want to get better @ Jungling, specifically w/ my boy Nunu & I even feel like I'm kinda okay @ him on Wild Rift but I feel like mostly dead weight as him on pc proper. I tend to be good enough to remember not to waste time on small fries & to try to gank or @ least **** with the other team's situation by kicking off my biggest snowball when the situation calls for it but I find my lvling usually trails behind the rest of my team. I think I need to try to take on the dragon more often or smth? I usually avoided the dragon entirely to focus on the rift herald since I liked the ability to summon it in a lane & was a bit daunted by the perspective of learning abt each elemental buff. Not to say I've like completely neglected the dragons but certainly jumped for the rift herald/Nash first usually.
As for Bot/Duo/Dragon/Bottom Lane or whatever the hell you call them, I certainly have liked my Zeri thus far & do not regret semi-impulse buying her with BE since she is very satisfying to play as with her parkour, q basic attack, & how insanely powerful she can get in her R ult. I also want to get better w/ my Caitlyn since I like the idea of being a tricksy trap master but I almost never feel like I am really carrying like I thought I'm supposed to in that kind of role.
Then there are Top & Mid Lane. I think because Top & Mid lane give me the impression they are the ones you go it alone in because you know what you're doing or you're in to get a lot of kills, neither have appealed to me. Top especially just seems not my thing, I think most of the champs that dominate that space are guy characters probably isn't helping. With Mid, I've liked the idea of it a bit more but also can tell it's likely a huge linchpin that my very amateurish *** is not ready for. If I were to pursue the top lane I'd definitely go Riven since I love the idea of swinging her rune sword around(or even if they become more competitive Gwen & Illaoi). For mid I'd go probably almost always Vex because I have her, want to play her, & mid is really the only role she's suited for it seems.
For now though, I'll experiment in co-op vs ai & stick to support, usually Sona, for pvp. I like Sona, her "voice"(does it count as her voice if she's mute??) makes me feel relaxed & happy. I wish more players would do the joke command around me when I'm Sona because her reaction to when other champions joke is the funniest **** to me.
I'm a support main myself and it is to some extent easier than the other roles. It has its own difficulties though and putting time and effort into the role yields considerable results. It's not hard to be a solid support, but being a great support takes a lot of practice and can be very rewarding. Plus the support role is very fun and has some of the most interesting and diverse champion pools.
I would suggest not ooooonly playing support though, which was a mistake I made way back when. It took me many years to learn how to properly last-hit since I was used to not having to worry about that at all in the support role. If you can't last-hit, you're locked out of 3 of the 5 roles in League which is pretty limiting. I'm glad you're tryin out all the roles and finding what you like!
I think you really hit the nail on the head w/ the "easy to learn, difficult to master" point! I think it's the fact that there is a low barrier to feeling useful & an asset to your team that makes it so appealing from the get-go, both in terms of early in an individual match & in one's overall experience of the game. It gives immediate satisfaction to just help make sure your teammates are alive to do their thing where if you're not as strong of a player overall, getting in kills can seem little out of reach.
Luckily, the inclusion of CO-OP v AI has been an invaluable asset to me in terms of having an effective playground of testing out my champs in something close enough to the real deal that it is useful without feeling quite as unforgiving as say ranked draft pick. That's where I've been really cutting my teeth with Duo characters, specifically Zeri because for someone coming out of a context where usually my move command is not tied to my mouse clicks she controls a bit closer to the kind of mechanics I'm familiar with.