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In LIL, positioning was an issue that everyone constantly brought up.
[The freaking junglers sure have it good these days, huh?]
[ADC’s little tools should just stay quiet during laning phase.]
[Top-laners are a different breed.]
The conflict between positions ran deep. The more one got into LIL, the harder it became. Players eventually specialized in one or two roles. Once they did, switching later was brutally difficult.
Many ended up identifying with their role. They took any attack on that role as an attack on themselves. Supporters often got beaten up like the neighborhood punching bag. They carried a lot of resentment.
[You climbed as ADC’s little tool? It doesn’t count then~]
Being called a tool was a slur for the support role. Supports, by nature, assisted the team. Most treated them like they weren’t even players, just tools. They considered it a replaceable position that anyone could do.
Unlike other lanes, supports didn’t farm minions. The barrier to entry was also low. When one taught a friend the game, they usually made their friend play support. Despite that, supports tended to talk the most in-game.
The majority treated supports as the lowest for plenty of reasons. The real reason, at its root, was simply because it wasn’t fun.
— Support is boring as hell
— Ugh, support...
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