I've been playing Supporick lately and I wanted to talk about it, its hella fun.

Hello, I am a now mastery 7 Yorick main and I wanted to talk about a special build I came up with for it, you may leave thoughts down below if you so wish.

So originally I just wanted to play support, or supporick, to get easy S's for mastery 7. I mean that worked and all, but thats not the point of this post. I didn't wanna just lock in as support and leave it at that, I wanted to actually adapt to a supportive playstyle, and I think it works REALLY well, surprisingly.

The runes are Glacial Augment for keystone, then take slightly magical boots, futures market, and celestial body. Take resolve secondary and take demolish and second wind.

The build is first, then , whatever boots would fit best for the situation, , , and .

Skill order is to get q at level 1, e second, and max w first, then e.

For a this all sounds hella strange, but allow me to explain, the way you play and the goals in mind are somewhat different from regular Yorick.

Damage is not your focus here.

You are more of a distruptor, being able to slow and trap multiple members of the enemy team with E, W, your autos with Glacial Augment, , while peeling and protecting your team with w and , but why the then?

Let me get to that after I explain the playstyle.

Early game you take Q level 1. With the timer on , you should be able to have just enough time to Q 3 minions for the amount of graves for a summon by the time you hit level 2. Take E level 2, and throw your ghouls on the enemy, basic stuff. After you hit level 3, W is your main ability. As supporick your damage is not your main focus, its messing with the enemy team. By maxing W first in lane that not only means you can use it more often, but the higher health on it early game means it is much harder to take out when people lack attack speed this early on. Normally you max W last, but for a supportive playstyle, W is the most important ability. Trapping the enemy adc or support in your W will almost certainly get a sum or two, however your e and autos applying slows on top of that makes it increasingly harder for the enemy bot laners to escape with their lives. You are getting your adc fed early by using lots of CC on the enemy, but instead of lots of hard cc like a for example, you are limiting their options by trapping them in a wall that they can't walk out of, and if they DO get out, they will be slowed right away.

Also with bot lane towers not having fortification, Supporick is great as well. With demolish and maiden, and Q dealing extra to towers, once the enemy bot lane is dead just use R and spam Q and all that combined with your adc autoing the tower as well is a much easier first tower then most bot lane combos.

After that try your best to roam and help other lanes, normal support stuff.

While maxing Q last sounds strange as hell, I must repeat, for supporick, your damage is not whats important. Putting more points into Q doesn't fit support as much when you could opt for a bigger slow on the enemy by maxing E second.

Once you get , then the true power of Supporick will shine.

With normal , you are very vurnerable without the maiden. Without the maiden, mid to late game, you can't win fights against people. It makes it so leaving the maiden to push the lane while you do something else isn't as great as it sounds, as you are severely limiting your ability to impact fights.

Not with supporick.

With supporick, your damage is not whats important. You are more of a disruptor of sorts.

Which means that you aren't as reliant on the maiden, having her with you isn't as necessary.

So, this opens up the playing field.

Once you have , try every opportunity you can to let both maiden and a bannered minion in a single lane together.

Those two will push lanes on their own, and while they do, you help out your team with constant W's, slows on autos, E, and , and using to shield your allies in fights. You won't be doing much damage anyway, not without maiden, and not without building like a normal does. But luckily supporick doesn't care.

Since you aren't as reliant on your maiden, leaving her to push a lane on her own allows you to teamfight with your team, while creating constant map pressure. The maiden and bannered minion will push on their own, and they won't stop regardless of range. This will practically force the enemy to send somebody to stop them from pushing, meaning since is with his team, it forces the enemy to 4v5 essentially. While they are outnumbered, when your team wins the fight, your Q and demolish will help destroy towers really quick already.

By building supportive and planning on doing no damage anyway, isn't forced to have his maiden with him to be a relevant threat in fights, he is just a threat in a different kind of way.

honestly I played Supporick just to get an easy S, but after playing it, it was so fun, I might just wanna keep playing this way.

Some final notes about supporick.

I do not recommend over , as ZZ has a limited range, it can only go so far. Meanwhile both maiden and have infinite range and duration until they die. If you use maiden on her own to push, she will push too slowly. If you use maiden and , the zz range will eventually run out, so the consistency of the push isn't as strong, and they won't be able to tank towers as long without both maiden and a bannered minion to tank several shots.

With the banner and maiden combination, there was one moment in one of my games where all 5 of the enemy was pushing mid, and we were about to lose our mid tower and inhib. But as they were pushing and taking us out, the maiden and banner combo took out 2 of their top towers, so they all panicked and backed to save their inhib, basically saving our asses. While that bit isn't exclusive to supporick so to say, normal Yorick would have most likely either A: had maiden sent out to help him fight with his team to fend off the push, or B: Yorick himself and the maiden would have been pushing top, which left his team to 4v5, and while thats a given for splitpushing champs, in this situation, if I wasn't both with my team, AND maiden was pushing with banner, we would have lost our mid lane.

Here are my two best matches with Supporick in case you are curious.

https://matchhistory.na.leagueoflegends.com/en/#match-details/NA1/2714675802/235221580?tab=overview

https://matchhistory.na.leagueoflegends.com/en/#match-details/NA1/2714622429/235221580?tab=overview

FINAL NOTE BEFORE YOU COMMENT.

In those links you will see I have an unusually LARGE amount of farm for a support, but I did NOT deliberetly take farm from my laners without any stacks.

Most of that farm was gotten through the maiden and combo pushing, as whatever minions maiden or a bannered minion kills I'd still get the gold for it. However, those two were pushing on their own, with no other teammates nearby, so I was NOT stealing that much cs from my team, as they weren't around to get that cs anyway.

From sending out the maiden and Banner combo so much, thats alot of minion waves. However I did not take out any creeps my laners could have gotten themselves at the time.

Anyway I hope you all had a wonderful day. I had to get somewhat creative for a supporick to work, but I'm happy with the results.

TLDR: This was an in deph analysis on how supporick works and why he builds and plays the way he does, if you did not read it supporick sounds way stranger than it is, so I don't like TLDRs for that reason.

Anyway have a great weekend! Best of luck on the rift.

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