I always have the lowest level of everyone in the beginning. Sup main, and the enemy supp is always quicker at level 6 than me.
Even though I poke the enemy a lot and engage where its needed. When the adc is away I try to farm what otherwise would be lost. What can I do about it?
OneMustFall5 votesI mean naturally bot lane will be at the lowest levels in the game because you're sharing XP. Make sure you're always around when creeps are dying and when there are kills happening. Having good wave management is also really important, try to push waves when the enemy laners aren't there so they lose gold and XP and let the wave push to you and freeze it so they have to expose themselves to being ganked if they push up too far. Some of that is on your ADC but helping manage the wave as a support is another really critical aspect some players overlook.
Skullgetti3 votesAs support it's okay to be a little bit underleveled as your most important aspects are providing vision for your team, controlling teamfights and applying pressure, which will lead to you missing out on some exp every now and then. I suggest trying to keep vision on objectives, trying to stay around big enemy minion waves being farmed and never leaving lane on a cannon wave where the enemy cannon is alive, those give you tons of exp as well as gold if you use targon's or a guaranteed coin if you use Ancient's. Try to have your kill participation as high as possible, always being at fights, as kills will also give you big exp boosts.
Hemulen Magi3 votesDo you roam or recall more often than the enemy support? Do you leave the lane to ward at the wrong times, so that you lose too much xp when a big minion wave is cleared?
I see you play a lot of Vel'koz and Fiddlesticks. I know from experience that it's easy to lose xp as Fiddlesticks if you cause the waves to push forward and then sit back too far or get zoned away from the waves. Also if you damage an enemy wave with some poke, but don't fully reset the wave, you might accidentally start a slow push towards the enemy which can cause you to lose a lot of xp. If you aren't intentionally starting a slow push to setup for a dive or to take a turret, then you will probably want to shove hard and reset waves frequently with your champion picks. I know from playing a lot of Fiddlesticks support that spamming E poke will pretty inevitably push the lane, so I find it's best to just play aggressively and keep your minions shoved into the enemy turret while tracking the enemy jungler and mid laner via the minimap.
This is usually difficult for the enemy laners to retaliate against on their own and leaves you in a position to reset the wave if you feel the enemy mid or jungler are coming to gank you. If the enemy mid or jungler come, then you need to stop poking with E and let the wave reset towards your turret so that you and your partner can back up to a safer position without getting zoned from a ton of xp. Also communicate with your partner and ping danger when you see the enemies mia or the gank coming and ping them away from the enemy turret so that they stop pushing and let the wave reset too. If the enemy mid and jungler spend a lot of time in your lane to respond to your pressure, your opponents will hopefully lose levels due to xp sharing. Hopefully, it will also help your allies win their lanes by getting the enemies to camp you. If the enemy team doesn't camp you, then take the bottom lane turret early with your aggressive pushing and then you may want to go to mid lane early.
I don't play a ton of ranked, but I have gotten to gold with Fiddlesticks support, so I hope this advice is useful to you if that's your goal.
Linda de Mol1 votes[{quoted}](name=Hemulen Magi,realm=NA,application-id=3ErqAdtq,discussion-id=1vwy2WAT,comment-id=0002,timestamp=2019-07-26T23:33:37.139+0000)
Do you roam or recall more often than the enemy support? Do you leave the lane to ward at the wrong times, so that you lose too much xp when a big minion wave is cleared?
I see you play a lot of Vel'koz and Fiddlesticks. I know from experience that it's easy to lose xp as Fiddlesticks if you cause the waves to push forward and then sit back too far or get zoned away from the waves. Also if you damage an enemy wave with some poke, but don't fully reset the wave, you might accidentally start a slow push towards the enemy which can cause you to lose a lot of xp. If you aren't intentionally starting a slow push to setup for a dive or to take a turret, then you will probably want to shove hard and reset waves frequently with your champion picks. I know from playing a lot of Fiddlesticks support that spamming E poke will pretty inevitably push the lane, so I find it's best to just play aggressively and keep your minions shoved into the enemy turret while tracking the enemy jungler and mid laner via the minimap.
This is usually difficult for the enemy laners to retaliate against on their own and leaves you in a position to reset the wave if you feel the enemy mid or jungler are coming to gank you. If the enemy mid or jungler come, then you need to stop poking with E and let the wave reset towards your turret so that you and your partner can back up to a safer position without getting zoned from a ton of xp. Also communicate with your partner and ping danger when you see the enemies mia or the gank coming and ping them away from the enemy turret so that they stop pushing and let the wave reset too. If the enemy mid and jungler spend a lot of time in your lane to respond to your pressure, your opponents will hopefully lose levels due to xp sharing. Hopefully, it will also help your allies win their lanes by getting the enemies to camp you. If the enemy team doesn't camp you, then take the bottom lane turret early with your aggressive pushing and then you may want to go to mid lane early.
I don't play a ton of ranked, but I have gotten to gold with Fiddlesticks support, so I hope this advice is useful to you if that's your goal.
Thanks for advice. I dont actually play fiddle tho. I played him 1 game in my entire life and it was a nornal game xD
Hemulen Magi1 votesAh, okay. I just saw him in your recent match history. I see now you play almost all Vel'Koz with just a little bit of a few others like Lux. In theory, those three champions have similar pre-6 gameplay patterns as supports on account that many of your opportunities to poke the enemy laners will cause the lane to push. You have a little bit more control than Fiddlesticks' E, but it's still likely that a stray Vel'Koz Q will eventually start an unintentional push for example. I don't play much if any Vel'Koz or Lux but hopefully some of the Fiddlesticks advice helps for where the champions overlap.
General Esdeath 1 votesHard to say without spectating a game and knowing your rank/playstyle
Nea1041 votesWhat matters is that the other support is not 6 yet either.
MaFyO21541 votesexp gains are messed up anyway tho
preternatural1 votesstop roaming and stay in the lane.