Glacial Augment Ziggs Support (a mini-guide)
Pros:
- scales extremely well
- fantastic siege
- cheesy tower damage (build maxes W first)
- great peel
- hilariously annoying for most tanks to deal with
- can catch ranged out of place and interrupt them with W
Cons:
- sacrifices damage for resistances
- can run out of mana and become a W and on-hit slow bot until he recalls
- not that squishy but not particularly tanky either despite the resistances
Build:
1.) Rush Eye of the Watchers, Sorc's Shoes and Glacial Shroud
1a.) Buy Refillable/Corrupting and multiple Control Wards; after getting EotW change wards to Scanner and use it often!
2.) Get FH and GLP-800 if the team has no tanks; Gauntlet and Protobelt otherwise
3.) Get Banshee's, Randuin's, Abyssal Mask or DMP (lol)
4.) Get Void Staff or Liandry's, depending on how tanky the other team is
Runes:
Glacial Augment, Hexflash/biscuits, booties, 5% CDR, Font of Life and Iron Skin
Early game:
Level R->W->Q->E but level everything equally until level 4. Start with 3 pots every time; Refillables are very risky to start with. Don't force autoattack harass; just stay close to the wave, protect your carry and poke with Q starting at level 1. Use W very generously but be careful when it's on cooldown. Maxing it will reduce its cooldown dramatically without increasing its mana cost.
Midgame:
Upgrade booties to Sorc's when you have boots and the money. If you don't immediately, get cloth armor and potions/Refillables. Keep an eye out for towers you can finish off with W or auto+W. Ward often. Focus on initiating or following up for your carry and jungler; your W has a ~10s cooldown by now.
Lategame:
Group often and ward while traveling. Use Sweeping Lens and abilities to check hostile bushes before running through them. Use W on any champions you see; it has under a 7-second cooldown once you have 45% CDR. Try to catch people with mines if you're not quite close enough to autoattack; otherwise proccing Augment is amazing with your team as it triggers Font of Life. You can hold lanes well with R when necessary. The bare-minimum goal is to stretch the game to endgame if your team doesn't have a big lead so play conservatively if that's the case.
Endgame:
You're a little ball of terror for most everybody on the enemy team now. You do very relevant damage and your slows are very relevant as well. You can catch people out of place for your team easily yet you're tough to catch and kill. Almost all of your damage is AoE. You're a walking Chinese finger trap. Win the game!
