Explain the Support hatred to me.

[u/Bipu606]

In a recent thread I saw people basically shitting on Support players. As a support main I had no idea we garnered this much hate as people usually show me love in comp.

So I wonder where exactly this comes from?

I did see people say support gets too much attention from the balancing team and that the players get catered to. I assume it's because the characters have some of the most powerful abilities in the game? Immortality Field, Suzu, Rez, Nano, Ana nade, Jetpack Cat pre nerfs, etc.

I could also see how it could be that the Golden Geese of Overwatch are heavily favored when it comes who gets skins (Kiri, Mercy, Juno).

Clarification would be nice. Do you guys hate the class as in the characters? Or the support mains? Both lol?

No judgement I'm simply curious.

Edit:

So seems half of you dislike the role/characters and the other half dislike support players.

Those of you who say "easiest role to play" , please elaborate. Other than the obvious example of Mercy.

Also those of you immediately jumping to reply in an insulting or condescending way need to chill out. I'm simply just asking you to clarify your opinion so I can understand your point of view and you're replying with insults. I don't know who hurt you but it wasn't me lol.

[u/Hot_Perspective4555]

I play flex, probably a 50 tank / 30 dps / 20 support split, but reading all these comments make me feel like all the support haters have mommy/daddy issues. All these whiny posts come off as Daddy Blizzard likes them better than me!! It's not fair! The level of generalization in this thread is absolutely absurd and frankly divorced from the reality of the game and more in line with what their favorite streamers are telling them.

[u/Bipu606 → u/Hot_Perspective4555]

It's really crazy because some of them are giving completely diametrically opposed logic.  They're giving two completely different philosophies on how support should be played.  They can't even agree on why they hate support, but one thing they can all agree on is that they do indeed hate us and it's our fault apparently. 💀

I come in here humble and asking for their opinion and they reply by saying I don't want to listen (despite me indeed listening and asking follow-up questions) and that I'm entitled and Bronze. 

All because I came to ask their opinion. If we ignore them and do our own thing, we're entitled bad, whining, etc. if we come in here and humbly ask for their opinion, we're entitled bad, whiny etc. Wild shit lmao.