dear adc mains..

shyv··5 votes·687 views

you really should be learning support.

if you really want to improve at adc, you cannot ignore the fact that you are going to be laning with and against a support every game, and you do not know their kit as well as you should.

sure, you know what their abilities do

but what are their cooldowns? what's the range? how can you exploit missed skillshots, how safe are you if your support misses a skillshot?

can you read the enemy support's movements? can you tell when you're being heal baited vs when their healing ability is on cooldown?

just some things to consider. as a support main, transitioning into learning adc has been easier because i know these things like the back of my hand.

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Douche Draven1 votes

Gosu better get on that

shyv1 votes

mostly directed at low / mid elo. people in high elo obviously know these things.

Mimy1 votes

I know for sure a blitz pull is nearly 20 seconds give or take a few seconds so I know I can freely poke for 10 before taking cover again. <3

Plus learning support gives a bit of empathy next time you feel like raging at them..

I'm an ADC and Support main.. ADCs make amazing supports once they learn because they know what an ADC likes.

shyv1 votes

exactly why i'm learning adc. i want to master bot lane synergy, and i know what supports like. which is basically just a pat on the back every once in a while. we're easy to please. nobody ever pays attention to us :^(

Mimy1 votes

aww - hug- https://encrypted-tbn0.gstatic.com/images?q=tbn:ANd9GcQarab1_yzsW5CBDS0Z3Q-r9LnT7V9TlwRdmlbnTI4U7vLnyEMNxg

Yea I'm a guilty teemo player.. Plan to play Jhin later due to his E... Muahahah.. I'm evil.. He's a solid support if you blind the enemy ADC and provides a lot of presence pressure. and an AP bot if your team is AD heavy..

You're gold. I'm sure you got the basics of ADC down.. Sometimes I always find me asking myself.. "Where should I be right now?" and usually the answer helps the game though.. Sometimes I would find myself re-positioning without thinking about it.. kinda weird as I sit there later and think "Wait, what I just do?"

Guess sometimes I'm simply "Trying too hard" Hue o3o

Masala Chai1 votes

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Masala Chai1 votes

I think I have a general idea of Blitzcrank Nami Janna Thresh Annie Soraka Sona Zyra and Taric.

Can someone explain who goes well AGAINST Leona other than Vayne, Janna, and Morgana. Current adc lane pool is: Ashe Corki Draven Graves Kalista KogMaw MissFortune Sivir Tristana Twitch Vayne with the occasional Kennen if we lack any hard engage (ahem) or a ton of cc, and support is squishy as f, so it can't be thrown in. How does Maokai and Vel'Koz support work? and what can I do to counter those lanes as well?

Tohob1 votes

Ezreal does pretty well against leona from my experience. there's a brief period where you can blink away after she jumps on you and before the stun hits you, and you can hit it just by mashing the E key during her initiation.

i've had pretty good success with Maokai support in the past, the saplings can be used for great zone control and you can initiate and peel very well with your other abilities. against him, you can negate his poke by staying in/very close to your minion wave and using them to take sapling damage, forcing your lane to be pushed and potentially having him accidentally steal CS from his adc.

shyv1 votes

leona main here, a good lucian / graves / ezreal will be super annoying because of the instant blink / dash. though when it's on cooldown you need to play very safe. most of the time i'll throw an E in, knowing it will miss because the Lucian Graves Ezreal are just going to dash away, and then follow it up with an ult immediately.

as a support you probably want to pick alistar. morgana is good too, but you can only black shield one person. if i throw an E onto morgana players, they shield themselves, thinking im going to follow it up with a stun to them, but i actually just walk over and fuck up their adc. if you try to engage on an alistar at all though you're basically fucked lmao.

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